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We're doing what we can! We only had 50-odd last year.
Because, after all, as Cristina Kirchner's own former vice-president, convicted embezzler, fraudster and bribe-taker Amado Boudou, stated yesterday, the economy must be subordinated to party politics.
We'll also have a smaller harvest next year because this year we are planting less.
It's telling that businesses are simply not open today, as I myself verified, simply because the government's Pavlovian response was to freeze all outgoing payments in foreign currency so nobody knows at what price to sell. We went from 215-1 last month, to 237 last Friday, a peak of over 280 today, and a ‘stable’ position at about 260.
The governor of Buenos Aires province has done his best to add to the confusion by telling a journalist that he doesn't know what his government does.
Also we do what we can to co-operate with international terrorism by receiving a plane that followed the curious Iran-Cuba-Venezuela route and carries actual members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Argentina tried to copy Russia by stating that they just happened to be people with the same name and same faces but the public uproar has resulted in the plane being grounded and the thirty alleged flight instructors/flight students being detained.
It was weird that the new intelligence chief, a Trump-level party hack and sycophant, said that he ‘guessed’ there wasn't anything wrong with letting them go. Since the man doesn't have the formal authority to order their release or have the case dismissed we are safe-ish: Kirchnerism is still covering up the murder of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the terror strikes in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 in 2015 (the police themselves have already testified that they were ordered to leave the man's dwelling for reinforcements that were never sent).
Lima and other cities are again on strike while the country has its highest inflation since 1994. Castillo has disguised his ineptitude as inexperience disguised as freshness and outsiderness and thus he's averaged, so far, one ministerial change a week, as well as his own party kicking him out last week.
Of course this didn't stop a lot of Castillos and their friends from being given government sinecures along the way, as well as a sister-in-law being mixed up in public works embezzlement schemes.
(Chile is also ruled by a group who parade their incompetence as well-intentioned unfamiliarity, and, just like Castillo facing Keiko Fujimori, Borić faced the Nazi Kast, so they really had a ridiculous choice)
In Ecuador, a couple of weeks of protests by indigenous grous have finished with over a dozen dead and the economy minister resigning, but an actual peace deal has been made and signed with the government nonetheless. The curfew has been lifted. Maybe it helps that the country's oil production continues to recover so there's more money to splash around.
In El Salvador, the self-proclaimed dictator of the country is now putting into practice a total ban on abortion that means 50-year prison sentences for ‘murder of a relative’ being imposed on the poor who appear to suffer miscarriages or bad births without being allowed to submit evidence for the defence. Oh, well.
In Nicaragua the central government has used the police to eject all remaining opposition mayors from office to further entrench its territorial power -at least one of the mayors remains missing. This comes on the back of the government expelling the Sisters of Charity, accusing them of gunrunning and money laundering, as well as a full hundred other NGOs, and continuing to prosecute all former (attempted) presidential candidates for treason.
In Venezuela, figures of the local dictatorship, including the divinely-guided figurehead, continue to uphold macho heterosexuality as a moral value and explicitly stating homosexuality to be as bad as drug addiction, which is why, apparently, gay marriage is ruled out again.
I think that's enough depression for one Monday.
Because, after all, as Cristina Kirchner's own former vice-president, convicted embezzler, fraudster and bribe-taker Amado Boudou, stated yesterday, the economy must be subordinated to party politics.
We'll also have a smaller harvest next year because this year we are planting less.
It's telling that businesses are simply not open today, as I myself verified, simply because the government's Pavlovian response was to freeze all outgoing payments in foreign currency so nobody knows at what price to sell. We went from 215-1 last month, to 237 last Friday, a peak of over 280 today, and a ‘stable’ position at about 260.
The governor of Buenos Aires province has done his best to add to the confusion by telling a journalist that he doesn't know what his government does.
Also we do what we can to co-operate with international terrorism by receiving a plane that followed the curious Iran-Cuba-Venezuela route and carries actual members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Argentina tried to copy Russia by stating that they just happened to be people with the same name and same faces but the public uproar has resulted in the plane being grounded and the thirty alleged flight instructors/flight students being detained.
It was weird that the new intelligence chief, a Trump-level party hack and sycophant, said that he ‘guessed’ there wasn't anything wrong with letting them go. Since the man doesn't have the formal authority to order their release or have the case dismissed we are safe-ish: Kirchnerism is still covering up the murder of prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was investigating the terror strikes in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 in 2015 (the police themselves have already testified that they were ordered to leave the man's dwelling for reinforcements that were never sent).
Lima and other cities are again on strike while the country has its highest inflation since 1994. Castillo has disguised his ineptitude as inexperience disguised as freshness and outsiderness and thus he's averaged, so far, one ministerial change a week, as well as his own party kicking him out last week.
Of course this didn't stop a lot of Castillos and their friends from being given government sinecures along the way, as well as a sister-in-law being mixed up in public works embezzlement schemes.
(Chile is also ruled by a group who parade their incompetence as well-intentioned unfamiliarity, and, just like Castillo facing Keiko Fujimori, Borić faced the Nazi Kast, so they really had a ridiculous choice)
In Ecuador, a couple of weeks of protests by indigenous grous have finished with over a dozen dead and the economy minister resigning, but an actual peace deal has been made and signed with the government nonetheless. The curfew has been lifted. Maybe it helps that the country's oil production continues to recover so there's more money to splash around.
In El Salvador, the self-proclaimed dictator of the country is now putting into practice a total ban on abortion that means 50-year prison sentences for ‘murder of a relative’ being imposed on the poor who appear to suffer miscarriages or bad births without being allowed to submit evidence for the defence. Oh, well.
In Nicaragua the central government has used the police to eject all remaining opposition mayors from office to further entrench its territorial power -at least one of the mayors remains missing. This comes on the back of the government expelling the Sisters of Charity, accusing them of gunrunning and money laundering, as well as a full hundred other NGOs, and continuing to prosecute all former (attempted) presidential candidates for treason.
In Venezuela, figures of the local dictatorship, including the divinely-guided figurehead, continue to uphold macho heterosexuality as a moral value and explicitly stating homosexuality to be as bad as drug addiction, which is why, apparently, gay marriage is ruled out again.
I think that's enough depression for one Monday.
Our beloved misgovernment has turned out to be incapable of controlling even its own verborrhea.
‘Our plan is to do more of the same but harder’, strangely enough, doesn't incite confidence.
Now they're trying to reinstate controls on travelling abroad because it's contrary to work and production. I'd say that, in an economy utterly dependent on exporting raw materials, undertaking a major continuous effort to keep the peso overvalued, while, at the same time, printing more money to deal with inflation, well… won't work.
The fact that the new minister's son is currently travelling abroad with his schoolmates doesn't contribute. As former economy minister and central bank president Pray-Gay has said, the right to wipe our bottoms also contributes with ‘work and production’™, because we depend on imports for toilet paper, but also fuel, and basic medicines.
As a sample of Argentina's political class, a mayor who simply ordered the pipeline under construction to be carted off and sold (pocketing the value of a crapton of quality metal and leaving his entire town without access to gas) has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
‘Our plan is to do more of the same but harder’, strangely enough, doesn't incite confidence.
Now they're trying to reinstate controls on travelling abroad because it's contrary to work and production. I'd say that, in an economy utterly dependent on exporting raw materials, undertaking a major continuous effort to keep the peso overvalued, while, at the same time, printing more money to deal with inflation, well… won't work.
The fact that the new minister's son is currently travelling abroad with his schoolmates doesn't contribute. As former economy minister and central bank president Pray-Gay has said, the right to wipe our bottoms also contributes with ‘work and production’™, because we depend on imports for toilet paper, but also fuel, and basic medicines.
As a sample of Argentina's political class, a mayor who simply ordered the pipeline under construction to be carted off and sold (pocketing the value of a crapton of quality metal and leaving his entire town without access to gas) has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
An interesting tidbit:
It's interesting because back in the day Brazil would raid its southern neighbours in what are now Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina for slaves to capture, and indeed the war of the triple alliance was not only a land grab but, for Brazil, a slave-capturing operation. Since Bolsonaro's ideological stance is pretty much imperial at all levels his support for a fellow landgrabber is sad but unsurprising.
I suppose that Bolsonaro's plan to have Brazil be Russia's beachhead into South America is a revival of the House of Bragança's old policies regarding England and later Britain.
Incidentally, ‘Amazon sovereignty’ seems to be about pesky internationals trying to impede the killing of the local indigenous peoples and the burning of the Amazon forest for agricultural and other commercial ventures better known as get-rich-quick schemes or also as environmental disasters.
Nothing to worry about, folks.
Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has said the economic sanctions imposed by the west against Russia have not worked.
“The economic barriers that the United States and Europe imposed against Russia did not work,” Bolsonaro told supporters on Thursday, adding that his position towards Putin and the war “was one of balance.”
Bolsonaro said that stance had allowed him to acquire fertilisers, a key input for Brazil’s vast agricultural sector, from Russia. He also said Russia shared Brazil’s concerns over “sovereignty” of the Amazon.
Earlier on Thursday, Putin said it was obvious that western sanctions were creating difficulties, “but not at all what the initiators of the economic blitzkrieg against Russia were counting on.”
“The economic barriers that the United States and Europe imposed against Russia did not work,” Bolsonaro told supporters on Thursday, adding that his position towards Putin and the war “was one of balance.”
Bolsonaro said that stance had allowed him to acquire fertilisers, a key input for Brazil’s vast agricultural sector, from Russia. He also said Russia shared Brazil’s concerns over “sovereignty” of the Amazon.
Earlier on Thursday, Putin said it was obvious that western sanctions were creating difficulties, “but not at all what the initiators of the economic blitzkrieg against Russia were counting on.”
It's interesting because back in the day Brazil would raid its southern neighbours in what are now Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina for slaves to capture, and indeed the war of the triple alliance was not only a land grab but, for Brazil, a slave-capturing operation. Since Bolsonaro's ideological stance is pretty much imperial at all levels his support for a fellow landgrabber is sad but unsurprising.
I suppose that Bolsonaro's plan to have Brazil be Russia's beachhead into South America is a revival of the House of Bragança's old policies regarding England and later Britain.
Incidentally, ‘Amazon sovereignty’ seems to be about pesky internationals trying to impede the killing of the local indigenous peoples and the burning of the Amazon forest for agricultural and other commercial ventures better known as get-rich-quick schemes or also as environmental disasters.
Nothing to worry about, folks.
If nothing else, the free flow of fertilizer from Russia to Brazil should help keep the world from starving in a horrifying manner.
innonimatu
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What went on to become Argentina and what went on to become Brasil collaborated on slave raids, if anything. But whatever. South America will not be held back by people clinging to revivalism of old divisions for the sake of continued anglo control. You're on the wrong side of history @Takhisis . And Bolsonaro like a broken clock and occasionally be correct.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Is Russia actually in a position to exert hegemony in South America? I think that we're falling back into a Cold War logic when we conflate the rejection of US hegemony with the embrace of a rival hegemon where, realistically, no such rival exists.
EnglishEdward
Deity
It would probably want it spelt in alphabetical order with "A" for Argentina at the front:
ABCIRS
ABCIRS
Barics is a term, though (well, related to Barium, as baric), and with a larger expansion they can become bariatrics.
Besides, any group with China, Russia and India, already is the heaviest around.
(both the element and the medicinal/nosocomial branch linguistically come from the civilized word for "heavy")
After three weeks of absolute mayhem, indecision and equivocation the economy minister went off to the US to make deals with investors and creditors and what amounts to a palace coup saw her being ejected from the ministry shortly before her flight was due to land.
The exchange rate went from 237-1 to closing at 338-1, had brief peaks of panic at 340-1 and the forced resignation of Minister Batakis and the empowerment of Sergio Massa as new ‘Superminister’ (he holds three ministries at once) has seen the exchange rate climb down to a more reasonable 300. We've reached the point where any decision is better than no decision for the market. Any set of rules is better than no rules, it seems, so there is some calm.
The problem is that Massa is a lifelong public relations specialist later promoted to political fixer, who has mismanaged most entities that he's ever been in charge of and has always relied on getting money somewhence, which you cannot do when you're finally the top guy because there's nobody to borrow, beg or steal from.
Also he has the problem of being a notorious compulsive backstabber and he, like the now ‘president’, was one of CFK's sworn enemies and she's spared nothing to pay her puppet president back, so I wonder how much rope she'll give Massa.He did campaign promising on jailing her.
In the meantime we had things like government officials threatening to use their private armies of unemployed-on-the-dole (like Rome's old capite censi) to ‘pour blood on the streets’ (a literal quote, which proves that reality can outdo the imagination); last night a demonstration that was almost certain to end in clashes was called off thankfully.
Given how the Castilian language is betacistic, I can both say vae nobis and vae novis. Who's gonna tell?
I need to catch up on this thread, I'm getting too old for this ship.
The exchange rate went from 237-1 to closing at 338-1, had brief peaks of panic at 340-1 and the forced resignation of Minister Batakis and the empowerment of Sergio Massa as new ‘Superminister’ (he holds three ministries at once) has seen the exchange rate climb down to a more reasonable 300. We've reached the point where any decision is better than no decision for the market. Any set of rules is better than no rules, it seems, so there is some calm.
The problem is that Massa is a lifelong public relations specialist later promoted to political fixer, who has mismanaged most entities that he's ever been in charge of and has always relied on getting money somewhence, which you cannot do when you're finally the top guy because there's nobody to borrow, beg or steal from.
Also he has the problem of being a notorious compulsive backstabber and he, like the now ‘president’, was one of CFK's sworn enemies and she's spared nothing to pay her puppet president back, so I wonder how much rope she'll give Massa.He did campaign promising on jailing her.
In the meantime we had things like government officials threatening to use their private armies of unemployed-on-the-dole (like Rome's old capite censi) to ‘pour blood on the streets’ (a literal quote, which proves that reality can outdo the imagination); last night a demonstration that was almost certain to end in clashes was called off thankfully.
Given how the Castilian language is betacistic, I can both say vae nobis and vae novis. Who's gonna tell?
I need to catch up on this thread, I'm getting too old for this ship.
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Indeed. So far the measures have not amounted to much except euphoria. Since people try to gamble on the dollar as if it were just a regular asset then they sold in the last week of July because they have to pay their debts in pesos, and so after a ‘low’ 280 it's now at 293.
What the government has done is impose austerity and utility hikes that are far higher than those for which the current misgovernment tried to topple the then government in 2018-19. For everyone except its friends, of course.
The friends return the favour in kind, e.g. by censoring the media from reporting negatively on the massive corruption and incompetence. Which has already resulted in one massive media scandal with a programme being taken off the air altogether only two days after the new head honcho's triumphal inauguration.
In any event, what's already more interesting is that the public trial of Cristina Kirchner and several others has begun. Every day the prosecutor launches another tirade and a cataract of facts and CFK just refuses to be present or comment at all.
Strictly in terms of legalities there's no way that the judges can do anything but sentence her, but procedural hurdles will lead to this being protracted. Meanwhile, all she does is claim that it is political persecution; meanwhile, the prosecutors have been explicitly compared to Nisman –who also prosecuted CFK and was murdered for it in 2015– by party mouthpieces and one of them has just happened to have one of his bodyguards attacked by some gunmen in the street. Pure coincidence, of course.
What the government has done is impose austerity and utility hikes that are far higher than those for which the current misgovernment tried to topple the then government in 2018-19. For everyone except its friends, of course.
The friends return the favour in kind, e.g. by censoring the media from reporting negatively on the massive corruption and incompetence. Which has already resulted in one massive media scandal with a programme being taken off the air altogether only two days after the new head honcho's triumphal inauguration.
In any event, what's already more interesting is that the public trial of Cristina Kirchner and several others has begun. Every day the prosecutor launches another tirade and a cataract of facts and CFK just refuses to be present or comment at all.
Strictly in terms of legalities there's no way that the judges can do anything but sentence her, but procedural hurdles will lead to this being protracted. Meanwhile, all she does is claim that it is political persecution; meanwhile, the prosecutors have been explicitly compared to Nisman –who also prosecuted CFK and was murdered for it in 2015– by party mouthpieces and one of them has just happened to have one of his bodyguards attacked by some gunmen in the street. Pure coincidence, of course.
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Henri Christophe
L'empereur
No Argentina in Brics, Brazil is enouth to represent South America
I know, Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Buenos Aires!
Amid ongoing economic mayhem, the last two weeks have seen the prosecution finally complete its case and request the court to sentence the ‘vice’presidentess Cristina Kirchner, as well as some of her sock puppets and former officials (a few already sentenced for corruption) to 12 years in prison plus paying all the court expenses plus giving a few thousand million back.
Amid ongoing economic mayhem, the last two weeks have seen the prosecution finally complete its case and request the court to sentence the ‘vice’presidentess Cristina Kirchner, as well as some of her sock puppets and former officials (a few already sentenced for corruption) to 12 years in prison plus paying all the court expenses plus giving a few thousand million back.
Henri Christophe
L'empereur
I hope you are just kitting. But both are cities and can't be the capital city of each other.
Rio de Janeiro is the former capital of Brazil, nowadays is Brasilia. And Buenos Aires is the current capital of Argentina.
Henri Christophe
L'empereur
I guess you mean Cisplatina, the former name of Uruguay under Brazilian rule.
There is a joke in Desciclopédia who describes Uruguay as a rebeld province (similar what China does to Taiwan), and just called the country as Cisplatina.
But now Transplatina is this:
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