Pope Francis, Bachelet, Maduro and Mujica, in Time's 100 most influential people

Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:54 UTC

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Pope Francis, presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and José Mujica of Uruguay, and Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón are the Latin Americans named by TIME magazine to its list of the “100 most influential people in the world.” Read full article

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Mendoza Canadian
Why would Time be feeding propaganda to the dictator in VeneCuba???
Apr 28th, 2014 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
'Uruguay's Mujica .. is “the (ex)revolutionary who legalized pot.” '

Oh, so that's why the Time magazine's 'distinguished person' thinks that he is one of the top 100 most influential people in the world!

Silly of me for thinking that 'influential people' do good things.
Pol Pot must have been on the Time list in 1975, he was certainly 'influential'.
Apr 28th, 2014 - 04:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this nonsense.

He is so “popular” in Uruguay that the majority of people are against this law but are prepared, now it has passed, to see if it works.

So we now have a “President” (I still can’t believe I am typing that word) who is not only illiterate and innumerate but a murdering commie bastard who now wants to be the biggest drug lord in Uruguay.

But “No Free Energy Stevie” will be ecstatic.

You really, really, couldn’t make this up.
Apr 28th, 2014 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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nololly
The whole of South America has just three and two are idiots, one is a dictator, thank goodness for the lady.

Little Britain (population 61 million) has three, all wonderful artists!
Apr 28th, 2014 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sergio Vega
All of them are negative “popular” leaders (three of them are leftist and the other religious).....Time didn´t say if they are good or bad ones, just they are “popular”......normally it means “too bad” leaders.....
Apr 29th, 2014 - 01:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Perhaps, Sergio, Time should add a spectrum-position against each name in its Top 100.

'Lifetime Ranking':
0 = 100% Bad
100 = 100% Good
Then rank them, with The Pope near the top and Mujica near the Bottom.

But no ... a litigation and lawyers field day.

As it stands the top 100 would really be all 'drug lords'.
Apr 29th, 2014 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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