Latam “progressive” countries openly supported tyrants despised by ”Arab Spring”
The so called ‘progressive’ Latin American governments not only did they not support the revolution wave later known as the “Arab Spring” but openly and repeatedly backed the regimes against which the peoples of those countries rebelled.
Venezuela and Nicaragua were the most explicit in defending first Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and later Syrian president Bachar el Asad together with Cuba, Ecuador and Bolivia in a similar position maybe less intense, while Brazil kept a clear more moderate profile.
Last February Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called Gaddafi on the phone to express “the solidarity from the people of Nicaragua to all the people of Libya” and to him personally “the solidarity from the Sandinista Nicaraguans” wishing that “may God want the situation to be solved and over the soonest possible”.
“He is again fighting a great battle, how many battles has Gaddafi had to face? Said Ortega who said the Libyan leader was looking for a ‘dialogue solution’ so as to defend the unity of the nation and the country does not disintegrate, and the country does not fall into anarchy”.
Ten months later in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, CELAC, summit in Caracas, Venezuela, Ortega condemned the “brutal attacks” from the empires that are tyrants of the planet”, which ganged together and went after Libya, the north of Africa, with all their might, simply trying to destroy a project of African unity”.
Fidel Castro last February said that “any honest person will always be against any form of injustice that is committed with any people of the world, and the worst of all at this moment, would be to keep silent before the horrendous crime that NATO is preparing to commit against the Libyan people”.
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UK special relations with Lybia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya%E2%80%93United_Kingdom_relations
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/10/25/gaddafi-prince-charles-praised-ex-libya-dicatator-in-letter-over-uk-relations-115875-23513907/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Libya_under_Muammar_Gaddafi
www.oil-price.net/en/articles/gaddafi-legacy-of-libya-oil-deals.php
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14774533
ah, friendship, what would our lives be without our very special friends???
news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55140000/jpg/_55140255_004078953.jpg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw5Ij_RFJ1Q
Hardly surprising that they ally themselves with other tin pot dictatorships !
who chooses your lords and for how long????
you choose indirectly for president and we directly from peoples vote
and for libya, solo se puede esperar lo que sembraron los extranjeros con violencia, más violencia, they are in chaos and civil war, not better with invasions nobody gets better,desintegration, chaos, violence, etc
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28195
allafrica.com/stories/201112131726.html
What Invasion, shit for brains?
Argentina is listed as a Flawed Democracy - Flawed !
You want to do some research Mad'un !
and about the royal decree, that is above your prime minister (its not president)and commons cammara decission
who says we are a flawed democracy, western nations makes the rank??
you also dont have a constitution
and if its unwritten, it means its like the time of juglars sth that people pass talking form generation to generation.........?? if its unwritten doesnt exist.
The Royal family are figureheads only. The prime Minister is the political head of the country. Has the same powers of your President, but we try not to let them get too cocky with fancy titles.
The House of Lords is full of appointees who are supposed to get the job because they are useful in some way. Not many heredities now, but probably too many political appointments. Well it's a way of Prime Ministers ditching the older pain in the necks from their parties, and putting them somewhere that they cannot cause any grief.
The system works too. Has done for a while now.
I won't vote for an elected 2nd Chamber ... one lot of politicians is enough. The Lords ultimately have to do as they are told - although I sometimes wonder if we didn't get that the wrong way around :-)
Im not saying whether it works or not, just why you would be considered a better democracy?? There are three kinds of lords, the lords pear of the realm (hereditated) life peers (for the term of theirs lifes) and the spiritual pairs.
the royal family are figureheads only. The prime minister is the political head of the country. Well, well, no.
the political gov. and the house of commons both elective, excercises a limited power, since they can be dissolved by letters patents (royal decree) and also its decissions can be vetoes by the Crown, who by this means vetoes bugs of the same court supreme of justice. The crown can declare war, peace, or negotiate alliances whithout prior consultation with another agency. The unilateral desire real is the highest law in the nation.
and the historical collections of the patent letters is intended to be shown like your constitution (but not emanates from a congress or assembly).
according to my research.
How long did the Brits & others support the Arab regimes. A long time.And why did they bring them down.They didn't.Not in tunisia not in Egypt,not in Yemen.They only entered the arena to protect their own interests and prevent Islamic governments.That issue,Islamic gvt's , is still at issue.human rights includes religious freedom.
Envy and jealousy, that’s all it is,
Actually im surprised the argentine government has not protested to the British government, for restoring HMS VICTORY, as a provocative act.
Another victorious thought .
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There is much right-leaning done in the Continent masquerading as left-wing governments; and, frankly, no ruling party/coalition wants to encourage by support elsewhere, a Spring on their national streets.
#13 you sound very repetitive at times.Just an idea.
ive been on board a few times, a very nice ship,
and its still on the active service list.
[do you have any ships that are over two hundred years old, ]
But you idiots will never understand it - which coming from a country listed as a flawed democracy while the UK has full democracy status is quite funny.
I suggest you start here - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom
Agree with your main proposition:
“No more hopelessly enslaved is the population that believes it is free” Zeitgeist site.
. . . . .
But:
Democratic ideas can be expressed on the street, anarchistic ideas also, support for democratic dictators and support for autocratic dictators.
'True democracy' is one of those things that require a democratic structure to facilitate its 'true democratic expression'.
This is not a street thing because it is defined by the types of organisation not found in the loose street structures.
Happy to think about this further if you think I am wrong.
1 True democracy(I think is unobtainable)is not found anywhere that I know of currently.
2 Some posters here are very rigid and will attack Argentina on every issue(mercosur appear to know that and it is reflected in the posts) and defend the UK on every issue.Now,the history of the UK is a relatively long one.They had a Protestant spring in the 17th century that established the political system currently in use.Of course there have been amendments but I dont I think it is the model of democracy.As was pointed out,there is an unelected assembly which needs to be adequately(!) explained.
who
2) The crown according to your source can declare a war (see the functions) allies, etc. Thinking (not repeating like parrot) a little I find the crown has the same power 500 years ago and isnt reduce to ceremonial.
Any way im not questioning your form of government, its not better. Republicas i find more representative.
the answers will get better,
19@ Why do you think that there is a plot against Argentina ??? Maybe it's what you deserve considering your behaviour within LATAM and world context ......Think about......Sometimes the majority can be right !!!!
On balance they would be 'static', 'neutral' or 'scenescent'.
Big Brasil, for instance, is a patchwork of static, developed, and 'progressive'.
But for the 'Bolivarian'/Chavezian nations, it would be churlish, but true, to call them scenescent.
Have you read my comment with that kind of rigidity or perhaps you can point out from where you inferred it.
Geoff you are being humorous,aren't you?
. . . a bit humerous, a bit offensive, a bit self-evident
- it all depends on where your predjudices are located ;-)
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