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Uruguay combats inflation with price agreements and reducing taxes on public utilities rates
The Uruguayan government finalized on Friday a prices agreement with commerce and trade organizations to help bring down the third highest inflation of the region which is advancing at an almost two-digit pace. The package is to be completed with government fiscal 'sacrifice' such as the elimination of taxes on some public utilities rates. Read full article
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Mar 15th, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Price fixing is always the case in Uruguay and the culprit is easy to find: THE SO CALLED GOVERNMENT. Taxes are placed on everything without the people realising they are taxes. Permits to paint your house (a tax, you get no benefit), the same to alter it to make it more comfortable as well as planning consent (which at least is sensible) and a whole raft of other little bites that you only come across as you learn what goes on. The dead hand of government is what is destroying the country.
The present bunch of cunts have ably demonstrated that graft and corruption is alive in communism aka the Tupamaros and they are taking us all on a ride to hell in a hand cart.
Their stupidity is evident everywhere you look and we are in for a similar experience under Vasquez as he will be on the handcart with us.
And guess what happens when the monopolies have the restrictions taken off? YES, they claim back their “losses” by putting their prices up to account for them in the next financial year so we all have a double hit.
The people round near I live have all resigned themselves to another 5 years of idiocy and are convinced that at the end of that the economy will be so bad things will HAVE to change for the better. I wish I were convinced.
If “No money Pepe” is so concerned why did he raise the price of fuel by 10% recently without any discussion with his peers? He is so stupid he does not realise that everybody will be hit by multiple 10% or elements of it because everything comes by road. WAF idiot he has turned out to be.
During the Pacheco Areco administration in the 1970s similar steps were taken, with utter lack of success. They even created a designated bureaucracy, COPRIN, to control prices and salaries. At the time the Tupamaros were busy kidnapping or murdering members of the elected gov't, diplomats, businessmen and bankers while the Communists were organising strikes against Coprin and the gov't.. Funny to see how these people have come full circle.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 02:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody is controlling prices by imposing nothing, ynsere.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 05:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's not like under your mates.
This is an agreement.
@ 3 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0“This is an agreement”
Are you sure? Like the usual commie agreements: do it or else.
You used to have a modicum of intellect but the poison your Tupamaro parents have poured into your ears is simply overcome any sense you once had.
@ 2 ynsere
Don’t forget the brave Tupamaros who ganged up and murdered policia walking on their own. And these are the murdering thugs that “Free energy” Stevie adores. Pathetic little man.
Yes Chris, or else Pepe will send Manuela after the producers and vendors...
Mar 16th, 2014 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0What policia did the Tupas murder, Chris?
What are you talking about?
Be careful now.... ;)
@ 5 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 16th, 2014 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From a reply by me to you in September 2013:
“A third tactic was intimidation of the security forces. Because the police were doing almost all of the fighting against the guerrillas, the Tupamaros began to select individual policemen for assassination in late 1969. Although only a few policemen were killed this way, the moral of the force was shaken. In June 1970 there was a general police strike for higher pay and the right to work in civilian clothes in order to make them less conspicuous.”
This was the start of the end for the Tupas and when the army were let loose many Tupas, including your own mother and father, RAN AWAY to escape justice.
And the rest as they say, is history.
That's a(nother) lie, Chris.
Mar 16th, 2014 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The reason I know you are lying is because what you are posting simply isn't true, you got the wrong facts, and I DO hae insider info on the matter.
The Tupas didn't kill any police officers (except some random encounter, 1 where a police officer shot and killed another while trying to hit an unarmed Tupa). The killings you [might be] talking about didn't happen until '71 and there were no random police officers walking the streets, they were members of the Comando Caza Tupamaros, a death squad, the ones responsible of the torturing and murder of Ibero Gutierrez, a student and poet.
You REALLY need to read up on the country you call your home...
@ 7 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 16th, 2014 - 09:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now who should I believe?
The reviews of this disgraceful business by independent writers, OR the LYING son of a man and woman who took part in these murders (perhaps not directly but most certainly by association)?
Mmmm. Difficult one that!
Ha, ha, ha.
I just love the mental picture that “where a police officer shot and killed another while trying to hit an unarmed Tupa”. Was the Tupa carrying a bible and a “peace” banner?
HA, HA, HA.
But I bet you will pour the same poisonous crap your parents poured down your ears into those of your kids. Have to keep the “dream” alive, don’t we?
It must be a laugh a minute in your family.
Uruguayan police killed by the Tupamaros:
Mar 16th, 2014 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 04. Antonio Silveira Regalado - 27/12/66
5. Sgto. Enrique Fernández Díaz – 19/01/69
6. Agente Juan Francisco Garay Lamas, para robarle su arma. –08/07/69
7. Agente (Rdo.) Manuel Tejera – 29/07/69
8. Carlos Burgueño Rodríguez, en la Toma de Pando. – 08/10/69
9. Agente Juan Antonio Viera Piazza – 12/11/69
10. Agente Carlos Ruben Zembrano Rivero – 15/11/69
11. Agente Juan Manuel Tejera Bobadilla – 29/12/69
12. Agente Alfredo Pallas Cardozo – 13/02/70
13. Inspector de policia Héctor Morán Charquero – 13/04/70
14. Aidiz Asunción Pérez Mello – 3/06/70
15. Agente Armando Lesses Álvarez – 05/07/70
16. Dan Anthony Mitrione – 10/08/70 (Ciudadano estadounidense secuestrado el 31/07/70)
17. Agente Nelson Esteban Machado Carreño – 19/08/70
18. Hilaria Hermida Ibarra Benítez, empleada del Bowling de Carrasco que sufriera una explosión por bombas. – 29/09/70
19. Cabo José Leandro Villalba – 11/01/71
20. Agente Nelson Simbad Sosa Fernández – 1/02/71
21. Richard George Brown Olaondo – 5/02/71
22. Agente Gilberto Carballo González – 21/04/71
23. Guardia Metropolitana Aidis Perez Melo asesinado por un comando tupamaro desde otro automóvil – 03/06/71
24. Guardia Metropolitana Walter Custodio Rodríguez – 22/06/71
25. Juan Andrés Bentancur Carrión, sereno de Niboplast, asesinado al dar aviso a la policía del robo en dicha empresa. – 22/06/71
26. Guardia Metropolitana Miguel Zubiri – 27/07/71
27. Idelfonso Kaulaukas Markevisutte, ejecutado en Parque del Cerro. – 30/07/71
28. Alfonso Zapicán Arhancet Garcés, chico de 15 años que tras tirar pintura a un local del Frente Amplio fue perseguido, brutalmente golpeado y muerto de un disparo.– 7/08/71
29. Agente Juan Fco. Álvarez Álvez, en el asalto al comercio Manzanarez. – 11/08/71
30. Guardia Republicana Wilder Daniel Soto Romero asesinado en custodia del Hospital Pedro Visca – 02/09/71
31. Guardia Republicana Nelson Lima Gutiérrez asesinado en custodia del Hospital Pedro
Chris
Mar 16th, 2014 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0While you laugh, read the official story, even the mans father agrees the bullet came from one of his mates, as the autopsy showed...
ynsere
You got that list from the very same people that tries to avoid prison for crimes against humanity.
Yes, the Tupas killed those responsible for upholding a state of torture and sacking of our peoples lives and country.
Those mentioned wont torture again.
You want me to put up the list of the many thousand student and civilians killed and tortured by those fascists?`
Would you feel ashamed for all those Nazis killed during the World war?
No?
Neither are we. That lot weren't “police officers walking the streets” as you two seem to think...
These measures do nothing to address inflation. All they do is fiddle the inflation statistics in the short term.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Totally mindless.
So like every Nationalistic Socialist killing is okay as long as it supports your side of the argument?
Mar 17th, 2014 - 02:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are brain damaged.
Not at all yanqui, but those who torture in order to impose their will, have simply depleted their right to live.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 03:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So it is okay to murder the people you disagree with?
Mar 17th, 2014 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is the same as you supporting the ongoing murder in Venezuela.
You are sick
No, not those who disagree with me, but those who torture their ideological opponents.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not quite the same, is it?
Same as Maduro killing the kids in the streets of Caracas.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are sick.
Maduro a la Rambo specifically aiming at kids...
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA3Dn1ZqvGg
Half a million of them...
Let's contiue to talk about your support for a gov't that beat up and kills kids protesting in the streets.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just google venezuela protest horror
You'll get plenty of videos to watch.
You are sick.
500.000 kids yanqui. And no regrets.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe you should just shut up and let somebody else talk.
That, or you could always try bending the conversation towards something more convenient for you, like the beautiful art of descular hormigas...
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26608432
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Guzz... er... Stevie said at Nº 7 above: “The Tupas didn't kill any police officers”.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When confronted with a list , at Nº 10 he admits they did kill.
His lies carry on unravelling. He can't keep track of them.
No ynsere, I said that up until 71, no planned killings on police officers were made, but all were random encounters.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 09:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Furthermore, the killed police officers all were upholding a regime of state terrorism, torturing poeple of different ideologies and therefor can't be regarded as “random police officers walking the streets”.
Read #7 again.
19. Oh poor little brain damaged Stevie you just can't reconcile the lies your parents told you with the grim reality of who they were and who you are.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My gosh I hope you don't really have kids.
What a shame to do that to another generation.
But yanqui, I know perfectly well who I am.
Mar 17th, 2014 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The son of a man that got a public and official apology for being victim of state terrorism, together with a pension for having done what he could to rid his nation from fascism.
That's a lot more than a little keyboard warrior such as yourself...
The son of a man who. ...
Mar 18th, 2014 - 12:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0so what have you done?
I guess a lot less in life than yankeeboy or ChrisR going my your immature ranting.
Chew on that biscuit. Pavlovian doggy of Fat Max and MasBurro !!
Why do you want to know, ilsen?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 07:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because I like laughingly at you Stevie!
Mar 18th, 2014 - 09:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0You like laughingly?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Try learningly how to spellingly and then we talkingly...
You need to use a typo as a comeback?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Weak, so very weak. You should ask yankeeboy to send you s catfood and sugar. .
Comeback to what ilsen?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That you like to laughingly?
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hmm....
What do you want me to say?
@ 24 “Free energy” Stevie
Mar 18th, 2014 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The son of a man that got a public and official apology for “being victim of state terrorism”, together with a pension for having done what he could to rid his nation from fascism.”
What a load of bollocks that is. The Colorado’s and Blanco’s are fascists? Since when?
I can tell you who the fucking fascists are: the same arseholes who “apologised” to the murdering commie bastard you call your father – the Tupamaros, he was after all a member of them.
“being victim of state terrorism”! It’s the state now who are the terrorists. I have told you before I would have solved the problem before all the arseholes like your father ran away: I would have shot the bastards. The Colorado’s and Blanco’s let “your lot” off scot free.
No wonder you have got “boulders on your shoulders”. But they are balanced by the size of your gigantic head: it’s a pity that it’s empty.
Hahahaha Chris!
Mar 18th, 2014 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An official apology, for state terrorism.
And you... you would be screaming like the pig you are in la cárcel del Pueblo, stating names to right and left before anybody even interrogated you...
Another Jackson-hero (yes, the UK embassabor)
Hahahahaha!!!
Can ANYONE (except “Free energy” Stevie) explain, apart from the febrile attempt at belittling me, WTF this rant means?
Mar 18th, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19710916&id=67kqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f2YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7341,642576
Mar 18th, 2014 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Chris @ 33
Mar 18th, 2014 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Cárcel del Pueblo” was the name the Tupamaros gave to the places where they imprisoned people they'd kidnapped. The British ambassador at the time, Geoffrey Jackson, was one of those kidnapped. He subsequently wrote a book on his experience, I forget the title.
There is an unconfirmed rumour that the Tupas imprisoned in the old Punta Carretas jail (where the Shopping Centre is now) were allowed to escape in return for Jackson's release.
I really think it's better to ignore certain posts, however irritating or untrue.
There's another rumour a sign was left after that great escape (104 Tupas, 6 commons), reading:
Mar 18th, 2014 - 10:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Nos fuimos, por la tierra y con Sendic”
oh the irony :)
Torres, the only Tupa who didn't escape because of being an inch too big around the waist, became prisoner no1 in the new prison made, “Libertad”.
Useless, pointless, bed-wetting Stevie.
Mar 19th, 2014 - 01:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0What have you achieved today?
You are nothing but a leech.
A leech on your parents.
A leech on your European hosts.
A leech on other people's history.
And now getting really boring.
Stevie: what an utter waste of time. ..
I'm glad you choose to waste your time on me....
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