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He's also a communist, may we add that to the headline? Poor Chile.

revolvingocelot 5y ago
Indeed, the psychopathic attention of the three-letter agencies of the Pax Americana, both governmental and financial, tends to fall upon South American leftism in all its forms. I'm sure this time will be no different.
- jonnybgood 5y ago
  These days not really. US government doesn't care about ideologies. US government cares about its interests. Socialist and communist governments are not an issue to the US. These governments know they need the US economically. The extent the US cares is them playing ball with Russia and China.
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  - revolvingocelot 5y ago
    Why bring up the US government as a whole? History repeatedly shows that "US" intervention in South America need not involve the entire governmental edifice; in fact, the most famous and effective examples involve only three-letter agencies (eg, the CIA) and their financial hegemonic counterparts (eg, the IMF). If ideological differences threaten international resource extraction -- and Boric's stance against Kast's plan of "empowering the security forces to more forcefully crack down on Indigenous challenges to land rights in the south of the country" certainly suggests such a threat to me -- then Something Will Happen, mark my words.
  - vintermann 5y ago
    Everyone thinks they only care about their interests. It's just that as they see it, it's not in their interest to do such things as admit they were ever wrong, and rarely in their interest to risk losing nebulous prestige from abandoning costly but disastrous policies, etc.
vintermann 5y ago
Let's not add partisan lies to the headline. He has support of the communists (which isn't surprising since the main opponent was praising Pinochet's sadistic dictatorship), but he's a social democrat associated with the Progressive International, not any of the many communist internationals.
qsogtmjm 5y ago
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Indeed, the psychopathic attention of the three-letter agencies of the Pax Americana, both governmental and financial, tends to fall upon South American leftism in all its forms. I'm sure this time will be no different.

jonnybgood 5y ago
These days not really. US government doesn't care about ideologies. US government cares about its interests. Socialist and communist governments are not an issue to the US. These governments know they need the US economically. The extent the US cares is them playing ball with Russia and China.
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- revolvingocelot 5y ago
  Why bring up the US government as a whole? History repeatedly shows that "US" intervention in South America need not involve the entire governmental edifice; in fact, the most famous and effective examples involve only three-letter agencies (eg, the CIA) and their financial hegemonic counterparts (eg, the IMF). If ideological differences threaten international resource extraction -- and Boric's stance against Kast's plan of "empowering the security forces to more forcefully crack down on Indigenous challenges to land rights in the south of the country" certainly suggests such a threat to me -- then Something Will Happen, mark my words.
- vintermann 5y ago
  Everyone thinks they only care about their interests. It's just that as they see it, it's not in their interest to do such things as admit they were ever wrong, and rarely in their interest to risk losing nebulous prestige from abandoning costly but disastrous policies, etc.

vintermann 5y ago

Let's not add partisan lies to the headline. He has support of the communists (which isn't surprising since the main opponent was praising Pinochet's sadistic dictatorship), but he's a social democrat associated with the Progressive International, not any of the many communist internationals.

qsogtmjm 5y ago

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