Good to hear Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro warn the reds that his country will not be about to emulate Chile’s appeasement of the riotous rabble.
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Jair Bolsonaro
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“A protest is one thing,” he said. “Vandalism, terrorism is another thing entirely. If you set fire to buses, kill innocent people, set fire to banks, invade ministries, that is no protest,” he said.
Most people who followed recent events in Chile were shocked at the speed and malevolence with which subversives transformed protests about a rise public transport fares…
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….into an insurrection.
Most people who know anything about Chilean history, however, remember that many on the Left there have always had a contempt for democracy.
There was the unforgettable headline in a leftist publication during the chaotic Allende regime, which, if I remember right, reported a narrow election win for the anti-communist parties as –
‘The Reactionaries 51%, The People 49%’
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The true face of Latin American marxism
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Seriously!
There has always been a large chunk of the electorate there wedded to leftism…
…far-leftism, indeed, exemplified by Old Bat Bachelet…
….but since Pinochet retired after losing a democratic contest to the left, 30 something years ago…
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.You can find the ‘Reactionary’ shocker described above in this excellent book!
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…reasonably ‘moderate’ left and right governments have alternated in power, much as left and right governments come and go in European countries.
Democratic channels existed for the Chilean electorate to change governments and change parties.
Yet if you read some ‘mainstream media’ coverage of the situation, it’s like peering through a very opaque looking-glass.
Take this laughable shrilling from the tax-funded bias channel in France.
For the past month, Chile has witnessed unprecedented mass protests. Demonstrators are angry at the ultra free-market model established during the Pinochet dictatorship, which remains in force today and has turned the country into one of the most unequal in the world.
In response to the rallies, President Sebastián Piñera and his government have resorted to a violent crackdown: a return to the methods of dictatorship. FRANCE 24’s team reports from the ground.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20191115-reporters-chile-protest-movement-pinochet-pinera-dictatorship-crackdown
Nothing new about France24’s hatred of the anti-communist cause, of course.
Of course there’s inequality, as there is everywhere. But if you skip France24’s fatuous rhetoric, if you look at factual reporting, get this.
In a region where GDP growth can often fortify the rich and leave the poor behind, Chile’s economic policies, through both center-right and center-left administrations, have slashed the poverty rate from 40 percent in 1990 to less than 10 percent now, boosting the ranks of the middle class.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28290/if-chile-can-erupt-over-inequality-anywhere-can
That article levels serious criticism against Chile, but nothing remotely sufficient to justify the violent havoc seen in the past month.
And importantly, even the poorest Chilean is better off than the average Cuban, for example, in that the poor in Chile have the right to vote for whomsoever they wish, from far-left through the entire spectrum to far-right.
Some Chileans understand the true nature of the menace, like former Foreign Minister Luis Gonzales Posada, who has ‘warned that there is an international conspiracy, apparently from the Venezuelan government…
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….to destabilize democracy in different countries of South America, and thus establish a regime of the radical left…’
We have now witnessed the rage of the reds in Colombia too, another country long governed by democratic parties taking turns as decreed by the electorate.
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But again a land where evil marxists made war on democracy, Sinn Fein/IRA’s narco-gang comrades of FARC.
A perfectly legitimate election a year ago gave power to President Duque…
….but street-mobs are trying to bully him down as their counterparts did to Pinera in Chile.
So three cheers for Brazil’s Bolsonaro.
If the marxists there seek to stir up strife against the elected government, which was chosen freely in preference to a clique in which Communists played a key role…
Manuela D’Avila, Communist wannabe VP
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….and whose candidate ran in tandem with a notorious Brazilian Communist Party activist…
….then the security forces should be ordered to smash the swine!
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