[RD] News Thread of the Americas

[W|M]

Argentina isn't currently run by fascists and Macri is no Videla, but it's undeniable that the Argentine state is being particularly terrible right now

 

[Takhisis]

Have you tried living in it?

26 ½ years of Peronism have destroyed the country. Ibar Pérez Corradi, a hitman for the Kirchner administration, is now being transferred from Paraguay. Who knows how many people he can implicate? When your government devotes itself to cooking books, awarding subsidies and contracts to its own members and setting up a narco-state it's not that easy to undo in a fortnight or two.

Also, Russia Today and Telesur…? Well shot of them. Telesur was used by Maduro to broadcast him live several times, urging the Argentine masses (or those he thinks are the masses) to rise up in armed revolt against a democratically elected government.
Telesur are still broadcasting in Argentina. All Macri has done is refuse to give them any further funding, which is not that insensible since Venezuela refuses to share editorial control with any of the countries providing funding. Venezuela gave out a lot of cheap oil to countries in the region but then had these ‘deals’ for Telesur and other simialr schemes with which they gained their money back.
Russia Today… if I want to watch conspiracy theorists I have Al-Jazeera, Faux News and CFC's crimson contingent, the members of which once decided I was a Trotskyist.

 

[W|M]

I never said I had any love for Peronism, either

CFC's crimson contingent, the members of which once decided I was a Trotskyist.

Trotskyists do nothing and believe just about anything anyway so you might as well be

 

[ReindeerThistle]

@Takhisis: so, censorship is only bad when the media sources are conservative?

 

[chijohnaok]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-kimberlyclark-idUSKCN0ZP0VJ

Kimberly-Clark halts Venezuela operations on deteriorating economy


Personal care products maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KMB.N) on Saturday said it was halting its Venezuela operations due to the deteriorating economic situation that includes soaring consumer prices and shortages of basic goods.

Irving, Texas-based Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, said that over the last two months it had already halted most of its production lines. It said it had been unable to obtain raw materials or hard currency and had been adversely affected by high inflation.

"The combination of these factors makes it impossible to continue our business at this time," Kimberly-Clark said in a statement.

"Kimberly-Clark will not continue producing, distributing or selling its product lines for institutional or mass consumption while this suspension is in effect."

Continued at above link

No diapers, no tissues, no toilet paper....seems as if Venezuela is going down the crapper.

Maybe the Venezuelan government can print more political pronouncements from President Maduro for the people to use...I mean read.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

No, no, no. Let him explain it to us. It will probably be a rehash of the time when RT and Cheezy explained to us that all political assassinations in Cuba are actually the actions of the US government who then proceed to pin them on the Communist Party in order to demonise the best government in the world.

I doubt I said that? I probably would have shrugged because I don't care about how the proletariat destroys its enemies.

 

[plarq]

Cuban government does not need to assassinate opponents domestically, the jail is big enough for everyone!

Internationally, given Castro allowed so many people to leave Cuba, I don't think he has a lot of interest in murdering emigrants.

 

[Takhisis]

@Takhisis: so, censorship is only bad when the media sources are conservative?

I am not saying that.

ReindeerThistle claims that the Argentine government is ‘censoring’ Telesur.
First of all, Telesur is still broadcasting in Argentina, unimpeded.
Telesur had an agreement with several countries from the continent whereby it received money and allowed the others to contribute. Nicolás Maduro's government decided that Argentina would not be allowed any input in Telesur whatsoever. Venezuela's nonperformance releases Argentina from the contract.

Beside that, Telesur has broadcast idiotic messages from Maduro in which he called for an overthrow of Argentina's democratically elected government. Frankly, he is as dishonest as he is stupid.

I doubt I said that? I probably would have shrugged because I don't care about how the proletariat destroys its enemies.

On Ask a Red 2 IIRC.

 

[Takhisis]

And more Argentine news! Presidentess Cristina Kirchner's daughter Florencia has had some bank accounts and vaults opened by federal investigators, who have found over four million dollars (in US currency!) the possession of which she will have to justify.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1918534-...a-kirchner-habia-mas-de-4-millones-de-dolares

Also, today there was a demonstration against the sudden idiotic increase in utility rates announced by the government for the hitherto subsidized urban areas.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1918519-...-el-tarifazo-en-distintos-puntos-de-la-ciudad

 

[Agent327]

Is it too much to ask to actually link to news? Just wondering.

 

[Takhisis]

Epf… redacted in readable English? Mostly no. In Spanish, let me see… just added two.

 

[chijohnaok]

And more Argentine news! Presidentess Cristina Kirchner's daughter Florencia has had some bank accounts and vaults opened by federal investigators, who have found over four million dollars (in US currency!) the possession of which she will have to justify.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1918534-...a-kirchner-habia-mas-de-4-millones-de-dolares

Also, today there was a demonstration against the sudden idiotic increase in utility rates announced by the government for the hitherto subsidized urban areas.

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1918519-...-el-tarifazo-en-distintos-puntos-de-la-ciudad

Maybe she ran a lemonade stand or did some babysitting when she was younger?

 

[Agent327]

Epf… redacted in readable English? Mostly no. In Spanish, let me see… just added two.

Oh, this is the Latino news for Latinos only thread? My bad.

 

[chijohnaok]

El Presidente Maduro has now decreed that citizens may be forced out into the farm fields to help solve the country's food shortages.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/news/economy/venezuela-decree-farm-labor/

Venezuela's new decree: Forced farm work for citizens

by Patrick Gillespie, Rafael Romo and Osmary Hernandez @CNNMoney
July 29, 2016: 3:31 PM ET

A new decree by Venezuela's government could make its citizens work on farms to tackle the country's severe food shortages.

That "effectively amounts to forced labor," according to Amnesty International, which derided the decree as "unlawful."

In a vaguely-worded decree, Venezuelan officials indicated that public and private sector employees could be forced to work in the country's fields for at least 60-day periods, which may be extended "if circumstances merit."

Venezuela is the world's worst economy, according to the IMF. It's expected to shrink 10% this year and inflation is projected to rise over 700%. Beyond food shortages, hospitals are low on supplies, causing many patients to go untreated and some to die.

The country's electoral authorities are still reviewing the petition, which Maduro strongly opposes.

Article continued at above link.

 

[BirraImperial]

So Maduro has efectively succeeded in turning the country into another North Korea...Long live El Presidente!


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[Takhisis]

Oh, this is the Latino news for Latinos only thread? My bad.

No, by all means not… but there're some relatively new restrictions on posting in other languages or linking to articles in such, and most of my sources are in Spanish, which offers far more depth of analysis and comprehension than msot international English-language media.
I'll try to provide more sources in English in the future, even if I have to read the same news twice.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

El Presidente Maduro has now decreed that citizens may be forced out into the farm fields to help solve the country's food shortages.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/news/economy/venezuela-decree-farm-labor/

Hahahahahahahahaha!

Try again...

Did Venezuela Reinstate Slavery—Or Find How to Grow More Food?

Did Venezuela Reinstate Slavery—Or Find How to Grow More Food?

Published 4 August 2016

Mainstream outlets in the U.S. were quick to jump on Venezuela's new workers's program to exploit uncultivated farms, calling it "forced labor."

The U.S. press’s latest offensive against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro targets a new sustainability program transplanting urban workers to farmland, which some quarters of the mainstream media are equating to slave labor.

Passed July 22, the decree sets up a voluntary program for public and private workers to cultivate organic food for 60 days on their normal salary before returning to their jobs.

Venezuela is suffering from a food shortage, largely caused by businesses hoarding food while stashing away government money reserved for imports. While the Venezuelan economy largely relies on oil, the price of which has dropped dramatically, Maduro has passed several measures to develop agricultural production.

According to the head of the Bolivarian Socialist Worker's Center Carlos Lopez, the new program was planned alongside community organizers.

“The workers that want to move to reactive (agricultural) businesses can move and will have their rights guaranteed,” Lopez told Union Radio last week.

Never trust CNN to tell the truth. According to a CNN interview with the head of the FBI's NY bureau chief, my organizations represent the most dangerous threat to the US system.

Well, that's probably true.

But Maduro is not force-marching people into the fields a la Pol Pot.

Read the rest of the article, btw.

 

[plarq]

Your organization is less threatening than the Islamic terrorists and far-right white supremacists.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Not according to the FBI.

However, the threats you describe are miniscule. More Americans were killed by toddlers than ISIS militants this year.

China, btw, is considered the US' biggest military threat.

To be attacked by the enemy is a good thing.

#socialismo o muerte!

 

[plarq]

Not according to the FBI.

However, the threats you describe are miniscule. More Americans were killed by toddlers than ISIS militants this year.

China, btw, is considered the US' biggest military threat.

To be attacked by the enemy is a good thing.

#socialismo o muerte!

FBI did have dossiers for those white supremacist and other homeland based extremism. The major reason why FBI cares about it because of large following and high potential followers. KKK>Communists.