The World is Burning...At Least Latin America is

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Quote:Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity prescription, which deploys weapons of mass economic destruction to smash national sovereignty and foster social inequality, South America finally seems poised to reclaim the power to forge its own history.

Three presidential elections are in play. Bolivia’s seem to have been settled this past Sunday – even as the usual suspects are yelling “Fraud!” Argentina and Uruguay are on next Sunday.

Blowback against what David Harvey has splendidly conceptualized as accumulation by dispossession is, and will continue to be, a bitch. It will eventually reach Brazil – which as it stands continues to be torn to pieces by Pinochetist ghosts. Brazil, eventually, after immense pain, will rise up again. After all, the excluded and humiliated all across South America are finally discovering they carry a Joker inside themselves.

Quote:The question posed by the Chilean street is stark: “What’s worse, to evade taxes or to invade the subway?” It’s all a matter of doing the class struggle math. Chile’s GDP grew 1,1% last year while the profits of the largest corporations grew ten times more. It’s not hard to find from where the huge gap was extracted. The Chilean street stresses how water, electricity, gas, health, medicine, transportation, education, the salar (salt flats) in Atacama, even the glaciers were privatized.

That’s classic accumulation by dispossession, as the cost of living has become unbearable for the overwhelming majority of 19 million Chileans, whose average monthly income does not exceed $500.

Paul Walder, director of the Politika portal and an analyst for the Latin-American Center of Strategic Analysis (CLAE) notes how less than a week after the end of protests in Ecuador – which forced neoliberal vulture Lenin Moreno to ditch a gas price hike – Chile entered a very similar cycle of protests.

Walder correctly defines Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera as the turkey in a long-running banquet that involves the whole Chilean political class. No wonder the mad as hell Chilean street now makes no difference between the government, the political parties and the police. Piñera, predictably, criminalized all social movements; sent the army to the streets for unmitigated repression; and installed a curfew.

Quote:Piñera is Chile’s 7th wealthiest billionaire, with assets valued at $2.7 billion, spread out in airlines, supermarkets, TV, credit cards and football. He’s a sort of turbo-charged Moreno, a neoliberal Pinochetist. Piñera’s brother, Jose, was actually a minister under Pinochet, and the man who implemented Chile’s privatized welfare system – a key source of social disintegration and despair. And it’s all interlinked: current Brazilian Finance Minister Paulo Guedes, a Chicago boy, lived and worked in Chile at the time, and now wants to repeat the absolutely disastrous experiment in Brazil.

The bottom line is that the economic “model” that Guedes wants to impose in Brazil has totally collapsed in Chile.

Chile’s top resource is copper. Copper mines, historically, were owned by the US, but then were nationalized by President Salvador Allende in 1971; thus war criminal Henry Kissinger’s plan to eliminate Allende, which culminated in the original 9/11, in 1973.

Pinochet’s dictatorship later re-privatized the mines. The largest of them all, Escondida, in the Atacama desert – which accounts for 9% of the world’s copper – belongs to Anglo-Australian giant Bhp Billiton. The biggest copper buyer in world markets is China. At least two-thirds of income generated by Chilean copper goes not to the Chilean people, but to foreign multinationals.

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A COMMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE ARCTICLE

Quote:Mulga Mumblebrain on October 25, 2019 · at 6:26 pm EST/EDT

What is occurring in Latin America, and which will spread, is, in my opinion, just humanity at the end of its tether.

Certain traits of the species H.sapiens sapiens were always antithetical to Life, and we had a few millennia to work out some sort of operating system for how to live at peace with one another, and other life forms, into an extended future-and we seem, definitively, to have blown it.

The apotheosis of the failure to construct a Life-affirming, sustainable, human system is capitalism, particularly the neo-liberal Market Fundamentalist type now afflicting the world. This system, enforced by ‘men with guns’ ie the Pentagon and the economic hit-men of the Washington Consensus of the IMF, World Bank, WTO etc, and the private bankster oligarchies, is absolutely totalitarian, despite the ludicrous assertions that it produces ‘freedom’.

Only ‘freedom’ as defined as the freedom to steal, loot, sanction, subvert, lie, exploit and generally act as a psychopath, the ideal capitalist type and the very epitome of the Rightwing Authoritarian Personality.

The total global dominance of capitalism has produced, as Marx foresaw, massive inequality, gargantuan private wealth, growing poverty and ecological devastation.

In the next few decades the collapse of the US petrodollar and neo-liberalism, under the weight of debt and inequality, and the ecological collapse driven primarily, but not solely, by anthropogenic climate destabilisation, and the geo-political conflict caused by Western racists and supremacists dedicated to destroying the world if they can no longer control it totally, which is their response to China’s rise (daily growing into a real frenzy of racist hatred)will all combine to end human civilization, perhaps forever, but certainly for millennia. If things go as I expect, ie that the rich Western

ubermenschen and various self-Chosen Peoples will destroy humanity in a delirium of perverted End Times religious eschatology, and sheer hatred in response to the eclipse of their power over humanity, through biowarfare and other techniques ot mass and total destruction, we will at least have resolved the Fermi Paradox.

No doubt, at the end, Pence, Bolsanaro and Morrison’s psychotic ‘God’ will smile on them as they reach their hearts’ desire-non-existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Venezvuela and Suriname may go to WAR

with neighbour, Guyana

over OIL and watermarked Boundaries.....

fuget about Chile : just eat a hot spicy Chili con Carne ~

and do not be diverted by the REAL issue in South America !!!

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Quote:and do not be diverted by the REAL issue in South America !!!

which is ? :dry: :dry:

GUYANA : as the richest country in the world (in process/ work in progress)

we gonna buy out Chile :whistle:

and a special rendition of Eva Peron by my gyal !

Dont Cry For Me, Argentina :

ketchim post=256810 Wrote:Some OPERA genre from the GUYANA genetic :

Enjoy all you Fans of the Opera ! 8)

Guyana will burn too..sooner than you think

the bankers own the BG dollar..like they own the money almost everywhere . that means they robbing BG bline..and will do so even more as the oil comes on stream

wat! you tink deh go leave dat oil fuh Bg to profit? :blink: :blink: :blink:

you mus' be dreamin' :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Guyana will Rule the South America CONTINENT.

put dat in yuh pipe .......