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Author Topic: Latin American Politics: Moralism  (Read 92555 times)

ChairmanPoo

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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #270 on: July 20, 2017, 03:10:06 pm »

Dastis is the Spanish foreign minister, and in that news item he's against sanctions as well.

Particularily notable because his goverment is at odds with Maduro's
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #271 on: July 20, 2017, 06:11:46 pm »

The WH position on Venezuela isn't anything new. Also, the article doesn't mention Portugal anywhere. As Chairmanpoo said, Dastis is the Spanish Foriegn Minister, the article even mentions that.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #272 on: July 20, 2017, 07:37:52 pm »

There are two articles. Click the word "Portugal".
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #273 on: July 20, 2017, 07:49:29 pm »

I completely missed that, whoops.

Did Portugal give any specific reason? The article doesn't give one, other than stating 'Portugal clearly opposes it'.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #274 on: July 20, 2017, 10:57:45 pm »

I completely missed that, whoops.

Did Portugal give any specific reason? The article doesn't give one, other than stating 'Portugal clearly opposes it'.
Dunno  However, Portugal says El Pais is "not truthful," EU member states have yet to address the matter collectively, they don't oppose sanctions, and they'll follow the EU lead.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #275 on: July 21, 2017, 03:59:21 am »

El Pais used to be a pretty decent newspaper, but in the last 6-7 years (particularily the last two) it has become progressively worse.  Nowadays it's pretty bullshitty. It's not unlikely that it's a spin on some minor news item
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #276 on: July 21, 2017, 07:27:32 am »

It's hard to find anything on Venezuela, sadly. Which is why I went with them.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #277 on: July 29, 2017, 01:22:23 pm »

The President of Colombia, Venezuela's neighbor, has upped the ante by saying that he and his government won't recognize tomorrow's vote as it 'lacks legitimacy'. I assume that this applies to a yes vote as not recognizing a no vote seems a bit silly.

It'll definetly be something closely watched to see what happens.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Et tu, Portugal?
« Reply #278 on: July 29, 2017, 04:06:04 pm »

The President of Columbia, Venezuela's neighbor, has upped the ante by saying that he and his government won't recognize tomorrow's vote as it 'lacks legitimacy'. I assume that this applies to a yes vote as not recognizing a no vote seems a bit silly.

It'll definetly be something closely watched to see what happens.
It's Colombia, you savage. This was pretty much expected since both countries hate each other for a ton of reasons.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Columbian Cartels
« Reply #279 on: July 29, 2017, 04:14:53 pm »

The President of Columbia, Venezuela's neighbor, has upped the ante by saying that he and his government won't recognize tomorrow's vote as it 'lacks legitimacy'. I assume that this applies to a yes vote as not recognizing a no vote seems a bit silly.

It'll definetly be something closely watched to see what happens.
It's Colombia, you savage.

Sorry, fixed now. And I guess the new thread title is poking fun at that? heh.

This was pretty much expected since both countries hate each other for a ton of reasons.

More of a 'jumping on the 'the maduro referendum is bad' bandwagon' in their case then.
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« Reply #280 on: August 01, 2017, 02:58:29 am »

The situation is only escalating further.

2 Opposition leaders with house arrest made calls for protests against the government and were subsequently arrested.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Columbian Cartels
« Reply #281 on: August 01, 2017, 04:03:36 am »

Yeah, and a pro-government candidate was murdered in his own house 2 days ago. Things not going in the right direction there.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Columbian Cartels
« Reply #282 on: August 01, 2017, 06:49:48 am »

I have family in Colombia, they are embracing themselves for a Venezuelan Refugee wave. Also Maduro is supporting terrorist attacks in the north in an attempt to try and force a military intervention from Colombia into Venezuela as a distraction from the economic collapse.
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« Reply #283 on: August 06, 2017, 08:05:55 pm »

I have family in Colombia, they are embracing themselves for a Venezuelan Refugee wave. Also Maduro is supporting terrorist attacks in the north in an attempt to try and force a military intervention from Colombia into Venezuela as a distraction from the economic collapse.

Does he think that Colombia would use the US's playbook? Probably more likely that the US would intervene militarily than Colombia.

In further Venezuela news, some army officers did a bit of a rebellion and attacked a base in the northwestern part of Venezuela

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/06/americas/venezuela-unrest/index.html

https://apnews.com/09c4b2d04da7419699ec268b3bdceea9/Venezuelans-watch-the-military-for-signs-of-fraying-loyalty

It hasn't escalated from there yet, but tensions sound like they're rising.

Also, there are some videos floating around on social media of some army guys saying that they are launching a resistance movement and said: "The move, Caguaripano said in the video, was not a "coup."
"It is a civic and military action meant to reestablish the constitutional order and, more importantly, to save the country from its total destruction and to keep our young people and families from being murdered," he said." When you say it that way, it sounds like an euphenism for a coup.
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Re: Latin American Politics: Columbian Cartels
« Reply #284 on: August 06, 2017, 08:08:32 pm »

It reminds me a bit of ~2011 when there were a ton of uprising in the middle east. Depending on how things go, we could see results like Egypt (iirc not much of a change in the end) or Syria (massive civil war) or Libya (the country fell apart).
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