The Latin America thread

[TheHowieLama]

5 hours ago, Strontium said:

It's taken me a while to realise that I have a major issue with the term "Latin America". Maybe I'm weird, but it's a bit imperialist, isn't it? These are regions that were colonialised and subjugated by the Spanish, Portuguese and to a lesser extent French, usually brutally. 

 

At the very least I'd like to hear how the indigenous American peoples whose land was stolen and people killed by the Latins feel about their lands being referred to that way.

Go to Canada.

[Kepler-186]

A compelling appraisal of Thatcher’s mate Pinochet and Chile being the testing ground for neo liberalism. 
 

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/pinochets-economic-policy-is-vastly?r=7i95q&utm_medium=ios

 

Never mind the human rights abuse, feel the economic growth. 
 

 

[Strontium]

Positive steps.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-63035426

 

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Cuba Family Code: Country votes to legalise same-sex marriage

Cuba has voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a national referendum.

About two-thirds of the population voted to approve reforms in a new Family Code, which will also allow surrogate pregnancies and give gay couples the right to adopt children.

It marks a big moment for Cuba, which saw gay people persecuted and sent to work camps in the 1960s and 70s.

However, there was significant opposition to the reforms among religious groups and conservatives.

The referendum on Sunday was for a new Family Code - a 100-page document which went through more than two dozen drafts and hours of debate in community-level meetings.

Cuba's government had backed the law change and ran a nationwide campaign urging people to approve it.

Speaking as he voted on Sunday, the country's President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, said he expected most of the population would vote yes and that the new code reflected the diversity of people, families and beliefs.

On Monday, preliminary results indicated an "irreversible trend", with 66% of votes counted so far in favour of the reform, electoral council president Alina Balseiro said on state television, according to AFP news agency. The law required 50% of voters' approval to be adopted.

The reforms were the culmination of efforts by gay rights activists in Cuba.

Official attitudes towards homosexuality on the Communist-run island have changed over the past decades, partly thanks to the efforts of former leader Raúl Castro's daughter Mariela.

In the early part of communist leader Fidel Castro's rule after the 1959 revolution, homosexual men and women were sent to work camps for supposed "re-education".

However, many in Cuba still oppose the step, including evangelical churches and other non-religious conservatives.

Parts of the opposition also campaigned for a "no" vote, urging Cubans to seize a unique opportunity to hand the country's communist government a defeat in the polls.

Some anti-government activists consider the referendum an effort by the state to improve its human rights image following a brutal crackdown on all forms of dissent in recent years.

The referendum also comes during a serious energy crisis, which has led to daily power cuts affecting millions of people across the island.

[Rico1304]

People protesting against the government, internet shut down.  Not Iran, Cuba!   

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Neymar has released a video publicly backing Bolsonaro in the upcoming Brazilian election.

 

Bolsonaro is trailing badly in the polls, apparently. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the coming days. If anybody watched the Bolsonaro documentary recently on the BBC, he’s historically romanticised the Brazilian military dictatorship and spoke at rallies where he’s proclaimed that he’d be “going nowhere” if he was voted out of power. 
 

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

Neymar has the intellectual prowess of a newt except when it comes to money 

[polymerpunkah]

Election today in Brazil.

 

Polls, for what they're worth, have Lula in with a chance to win it outright on this first ballot.

 

Hopefully so; Bolsonaro is a carbuncle.

[Jack the Sipper]

 

 

A certain sportsman's wife digging herself a hole on Twitter. Interesting comment on democracy too. She seems to think that people who take expectation to other people who express support for far-right would-be dictators don't know what democracy means. 

 

 

[Johnny Utah]

Looking like Lula will win this thankfully. Can’t see Bolsonaro going quietly though. What a complete shitbag of a human being he is. 

[Creator Supreme]

8 hours ago, Jack the Sipper said:

 

 

A certain sportsman's wife digging herself a hole on Twitter. Interesting comment on democracy too. She seems to think that people who take expectation to other people who express support for far-right would-be dictators don't know what democracy means. 

 

 

Fuck off back to Brazil Rebecca, and take your husband with you.

[Section_31]

Have never seen Bolsonaro and Rotheram in the same room.

[Em City]

I went to a pub in Dublin tonight and it was full of Brazilians wearing red (in support of Lula) having a big party. Hopefully, the utter shitbag that is Bolsanaro is tossed out.

[Section_31]

4 minutes ago, Em City said:

I went to a pub in Dublin tonight and it was full of Brazilians wearing red (in support of Lula) having a big party. Hopefully, the utter shitbag that is Bolsanaro is tossed out.

Pics or GTFO.

[Em City]

3 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Pics or GTFO.

 

Haha. Full of talent to be fair, Brazilians make us Western Europeans look like warlocks.

[polymerpunkah]

Lula now ahead, but looks like a run-off.

 

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Just now, polymerpunkah said:

Lula now ahead, but looks like a run-off.

 

 

Yep. Polling company, Datafolha, are saying that their polling suggests a run off. 

[polymerpunkah]

Looks like Lula will get to 48% and Bolsonaro will be at 44%, so the numbers would really have to skew towards Bolsonaro if he's going to pick up 6 of the 8% who voted for other candidates.

 

 

[PestiRed]

Brazil is going to be a shitshow for the next 4 weeks. Hopefully not a violent one

[ZonkoVille77]

7 hours ago, Em City said:

I went to a pub in Dublin tonight and it was full of Brazilians wearing red (in support of Lula) having a big party. Hopefully, the utter shitbag that is Bolsanaro is tossed out.

 

Where did you go, Em?

Sounds like I need to get there...

[Creator Supreme]

Even if he loses that right wing evangelist proto-cunt Bolsonaro says he's going nowhere. Hes going to try and get his boys to storm the Brazilian capital, you can just see it.

 

Horrible bastard, one of many evil shits that somehow seem to get their crack at power these days. Fuck me humans are stupid!

[Em City]

42 minutes ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

Where did you go, Em?

Sounds like I need to get there...

 

Lucky's on Meath Street. There'll probably be another party on 30th October for the run off election...

[Anubis]

Anyone else think Lula’s about to get locked up on a spurious charge?

 

 

[Jose Jones]

26 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Anyone else think Lula’s about to get locked up on a spurious charge?

 

 

It’s already happened once, might be a bit too obvious.

[SasaS]

Melwood is firmly Bolsonaro territory. 

[Red Phoenix]

Glad he made it back.