Ballot test this year in Latam: Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica and El Salvador

Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:57 UTC

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Seven out of 19 Latin-American countries will be holding elections this year and in four of them, Brazil, Bolivia, El Salvador and Uruguay, left leaning catch-all coalitions will try to hold on to power. Likewise with two conservative governments, Colombia and Panama. Read full article

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BOTINHO
Another chance ?

No, no, it must be a set period of four years maximum for all higher offices.

This allows the next person to take office and steal everything he can too.

Be fair please to the others waiting in line.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 08:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
Tell me is it a prerequisite to be a former guerrilla to be in politics in SA? No, but it helps I hear you say.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 11:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Britworker
High time they had a damn good clear out, although in most cases the replacements are as crazy as the predecessor, just look at Venezuela.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@2 I find SA politics to be amazing. There can't be anywhere else in the world that there are so many amnesties so that “former” gorillas can be allowed to walk the streets and pretend to be human. Look at Mujica. Paid £7,500 a month, he is said to give 90% to charity. But he has a farm on which he grows chrysanthemums for sale. Nobody mentions whether he pays tax. Isn't he supposed to devote all his time to being presidential? Morales is a drug lord. He's also put “the fix” in so that he gets an unconstitutional third term. Rousseff is another terrorist. What a pity argieland isn't included! A current terrorist, tax evader, oppressor, criminal and psycopath. Still working on the amnesty. And we shouldn't get started on venezuela. Few stories about venezuela at present. Bus driver, psycopath, congenital idiot and why wouldn't someone assassinate him? Here, in progressive Europe, we have the perfect solution. Select Nick Clegg. That's right, select. He doesn't need votes. Just as well as he can't get any. His “share” of the British vote has “swung” from 23% to a massive 8%. Perfect for SA where “voting” doesn't depend on “policies” but on the ability to provide 50-dollar baskets of groceries. Paid for with taxpayers' money. How do you use people's own money to bribe them? In Europe it's called the European Union. In SA it would be mercosur. The important thing is to find somewhere that he'd be really useful. SA would be perfect. He could start a war in weeks. Then we'd be justified in nuking the place. Wait, that's already justifiable. The “War on Terror” is too restrictive. If there was a REAL War on Terror most of SA would no longer exist. There have been many important and relevant “Stevies” in the world. Stevie Nicks, Stevie Winwood, Stevie Wonder. NO Stevie Uruguay. Could it be an alias? Criminals, gorillas, scumbags, terrorists, excrements commonly use aliases? We should ponder.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pugol-H
Easy to understand the “left leanings” of many S. American voters in a place where such poverty and depravation, exists side by side with such wealth and privilege.

Must be hard to bear if you’re the one with the shit end of the stick.

However the situation in Venezuela, and now increasingly Argentina, should serve as a salutary lesson of what happens when the “loony left” come to power.
Jan 06th, 2014 - 05:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
It is irrelevant who wins,

CFK will still thank them for their full support over the Falklands,

Even if they do laugh behind her back lol.
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Jan 06th, 2014 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Jack Bauer
the great majority of the presidential candidates have already held the job and have proven they have no friggin' idea how to run a country...all they want is power for the sake of power, so that they can steal. The last thing on their shitty liitle minds is the well-being of the people...but true to tradition, it's always the idiots who are in the worst situation that guarantee their re-election.
Jan 08th, 2014 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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