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Yes, we've pushed the

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:09:00 +0000

In reply to I think DeSantis is pandering

Yes, we've pushed the "socialism bad" angle to take in Venezuela's unhappy capitalist class. Tho Chavez was much better for his people than his replacement Maduro. This Colombian pair is interesting however - never have populist leftists been this well trained in assuming power - may actually get decent thoughtful legislation passed. (Chavez's good stuff was still ruling by decree). Hopefully Biden doesn't shun them and push them into the arms of Russia/China (Allende actively wooed Moscow - not a career move in 1972, Maduro seems like an ass but part of his response has been from the usual knee-jerk hyperbole out of Washington in response to lobbyists for the disenchanted & hard-nosed right wing that no one could live up to)

I think DeSantis is pandering

artappraiser — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 18:36:34 +0000

In reply to The BBC used the term

I think DeSantis is pandering to a Floridian constituency of immigrant background who became U.S. citizens because they believe in stable capitalist societies rather than vacillating between socialist pandering to the poor and fascist dictator types. Miami denizens, while liberal in other ways, especially really don't like any kind of socialism.

The BBC used the term

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:12:53 +0000

In reply to The election in Colombia of a

The BBC used the term "radical" to describe some of the Petro government's plan to address poverty.

Yet they would never call "radical" an economic system that impoverishes its own people & concentrates wealth in the hands of a few.
— Elyse Semerdjian (@ElyseSemerdjian) June 20, 2022

BBC News - Gustavo Petro: Colombia elects ex-rebel as first left-wing presidenthttps://t.co/Rfbsx2eUq6
— Garry (@Garry40100013) June 22, 2022

I guess DeSantis thinks it better that Colombia to return to its traditional values of Medellin-run drug cartel.
(Petro adapted to mainstream Congressional politics after a radical youth starting at 17).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-61863885

The election in Colombia of a

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:06:00 +0000

In reply to Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian election, becoming the country’s first leftist president.

The election in Colombia of a former narco-terrorist Marxist is troubling and disappointing. The spread of left-wing totalitarian ideology in the Western Hemisphere is a growing threat. Florida stands with Colombian Americans on the side of freedom. pic.twitter.com/0O7UVccH6M
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 20, 2022

Francia Márquez, an

artappraiser — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 01:04:34 +0000

In reply to Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian election, becoming the country’s first leftist president.

Francia Márquez, an environmental activist, became a phenomenon in Colombia, mobilizing decades of voter frustration. She became the country’s first Black vice president on Sunday.

Photo: Federico Rios for The New York Timeshttps://t.co/KbxQ2O87Wp pic.twitter.com/sgCRSX0Usu
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 20, 2022

Francia Márquez Mina, a prominent Afro-Colombian activist, has been elected as Colombia's first Black female vice president. She won the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize, faced numerous death threats for her activism, and survived an assassination attempt in 2019 pic.twitter.com/Qf8v6juiG0
— National Geographic (@NatGeo) June 20, 2022