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Colombia just elected a leftist, former guerilla for president. Some ideas: he will make everybody's pay equal, and oil and gas will disappear from Colombia (a country with NO train system).
So, next time somebody comes and tells me that we (L. America) are in the state we are in due to the "Imperialistic oppressors" or the machinations of "The IMF, the World Bank and the Multinational corporations", can it. We do this (expletive) to ourselves, over and over.
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I can't wait for Texas to apply to the IMF, World Bank, etc.
Maybe they envision a future like the one imposed by Larry Ellison on Lan'ai which is feudalism?
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ti-amie wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 5:49 pm I can't wait for Texas to apply to the IMF, World Bank, etc.
Maybe they envision a future like the one imposed by Larry Ellison on Lan'ai which is feudalism?
Wasn't aware of this Larry Ellison Hawaii story, thanks!
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mmmm8 wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 4:02 am
ti-amie wrote: Mon Jun 20, 2022 5:49 pm I can't wait for Texas to apply to the IMF, World Bank, etc.
Maybe they envision a future like the one imposed by Larry Ellison on Lan'ai which is feudalism?
Wasn't aware of this Larry Ellison Hawaii story, thanks!
Ditto.
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Ecuador facing food and fuel shortages as country rocked by violent protests
Government rejects conditions for dialogue to end 10 days of Indigenous-led demonstrations against economic policy

Reuters in Quito
Wed 22 Jun 2022 21.48 BST

Violent protests against the economic policies of Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso have paralysed the country’s capital and other regions, but the government on Wednesday rejected their conditions for dialogue.

Quito is experiencing food and fuel shortages after 10 days of demonstrations in which protesters at times have clashed with police. After officials rejected the conditions for negotiations, the United States government issued an advisory urging travellers to reconsider visiting the country due to “civil unrest and crime”.

The demonstrations led primarily by the Indigenous organization Conaie, began on 14 June to demand that gasoline prices be cut by 45 cents a gallon to $2.10, price controls for agricultural products and a larger budget for education. The protests began with peaceful roadblocks but levels of violence have escalated in parts of the country, including the capital, Quito, prompting conservative ex-banker Lasso to decree a state of exception in six provinces.

The Indigenous leader Leonidas Iza on Tuesday demanded – among other things – that the government eliminate the emergency decree and remove the military and police presence around places where protesters have gathered in Quito.

But the minister of government on Wednesday said the government could not lift the state of emergency because it would leave “the capital defenseless”.

“This is not the time to put more conditions, it is not the time to demand greater demands, it is the time to sit down and talk, we are on the 10th day of the strike,” Francisco Jiménez told a television network. “And we can’t keep waiting, the capital can’t keep waiting, the country can’t keep waiting.”

The protests – longer-lasting and larger than marches over fuel prices in October last year – are testing Lasso’s ability to restart the country’s economy and kickstart employment.

Lasso has an adversarial relationship with the national assembly, where lawmakers have blocked his proposals, and he has struggled to contain rising violence he blames on drug gangs.

Demonstrators armed with guns, ancestral spears and explosives clashed with soldiers in the city of Puyo, in Pastaza province, on Tuesday night, the interior minister, Patricio Carrillo, said.

The protesters burned a police station and patrol cars, tried to loot a bank and attacked civilians, Carrillo told journalists, blaming the incidents on radical groups.

“We cannot guarantee public safety in Puyo right now – they have burned the entire police infrastructure and the entrance to the city is under siege,” he said.

Leaders from Indigenous Amazonian communities said in a statement they rejected vandalism in Puyo and accused security forces of worsening violence in the city.

One protester died amid the incidents and six police officers were seriously injured, while 18 are missing, the government said.

The protester was killed after being struck in the head by a police teargas canister, according to human rights groups.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... r-protests
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Ecuador government, protesters set to restart talks amid state of emergency
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The Ecuadoran government said late Wednesday it would restart talks with Indigenous-led protesters, mediated by the Catholic Church, as a fresh state of emergency was issued more than two weeks into disruptive and often violent daily rallies against rising living costs.

To "return peace to the Ecuadoran people, we have decided to accept the mediation now offered by the Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (CEE)," government minister Francisco Jimenez said.

Without revealing when the talks might begin, Jimenez said the CEE would arrange the details of the negotiations, "so that we can arrive at a final solution in this conflict."

Discussions to end the protests that have rocked the South American country were suspended Tuesday -- on what would have been their second day -- after the government blamed the death of a soldier on demonstrators.

And as protesters took to the streets again Wednesday, President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency in four of the 24 provinces where the "most violence is concentrated."

The state of emergency did not include the capital, where most of an estimated 14,000 protesters have congregated.

Chanting "We don't want 10 cents, we want results," a reference to fuel price concessions offered by the government, several hundred people demonstrated in the city center, which was blocked off by police, metal fencing and razor wire.

A protester with a traditional red poncho leading a group of men with makeshift shields addressed the rest by megaphone: "If we need to sleep here... we will."

Lasso has imposed a month-long state of emergency on the provinces of Azuay, Imbabura, Sucumbios and Orellana, the general secretary of presidential communication said.

The aim is to create a "security zone" -- enforced by military and police and where demonstrations are banned -- around the country's oil wells and to protect food, medicine and fuel supplies in those provinces as well as oxygen used in hospitals.

Lasso on Saturday lifted a previous state of emergency in six other provinces -- including Pichincha, where the capital lies -- in one of several concessions to protesters.

Country held 'hostage'
The government had called off talks after the military said Tuesday that a soldier died and five police and seven soldiers were injured in an attack by demonstrators on a tanker truck escort in the country's east.

Lasso, hours before surviving an impeachment vote, then accused Conaie leader Leonidas Iza of self-serving politics and vowed "we will not negotiate with those who hold Ecuador hostage."

It was the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) -- credited with unseating three presidents between 1997 and 2005 -- that called the protests.

But government minister Jimenez struck a different tone Wednesday evening in announcing a return to negotiations.

"The goal of the national government is firstly to guarantee peace to Ecuadorans, and in pursuit of that standard, we will not abandon efforts that allow us to arrive at that long-awaited peace," he said.

The protests, which began on June 13, have been costly, with losses of some $50 million per day to the economy, according to the government, which has warned oil production -- already halved -- could come to a complete halt soon.

The nationwide show of discontent over deepening hardship comes in an economy dealt a serious blow by the coronavirus pandemic.

Indigenous people make up more than a million of the South American nation's 17.7 million inhabitants.

The protesters want fuel price cuts, jobs, food price controls and more public spending on health care and education.

Over the weekend, Lasso announced other concessions in a bid to unlock talks, including a 10-cents-per-gallon cut in diesel and gasoline prices to $1.80 and $2.45, respectively.

That received short shrift from protesters, who want a reduction to $1.50 for diesel and $2.10 for gasoline.

Five demonstrators have died and hundreds on both sides have been wounded in clashes between the security forces and protesters blockading roads and disrupting supply lines.

Some 150 people have been arrested, according to observers.

(AFP)

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This is tragic. And please, I do not want to be callous about what has happened.
But I want to see what Denmark does as a response. And I hope this never happens again.
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There is also talk of invoking something called the Lascelles Principles





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Surprise-meter reading, after checking about Boris Johnson unsuitability to be the UK's PM: Zero.
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BoJo standing down as Conservative Party Leader today, but is going to try to stay on as caretaker PM until the Autumn. I don't see that happening. He needs to go. Full stop. End of.
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the Moz wrote: Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:28 am BoJo standing down as Conservative Party Leader today, but is going to try to stay on as caretaker PM until the Autumn. I don't see that happening. He needs to go. Full stop. End of.
There is no clear successor, so I don't see anyone taking over without some messy competition, and that is likely to last the summer.
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