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Uruguay’s Quiet Democratic Miracle
By Uki Goñi -
”Because here nobody is better than anybody else.” The phrase, one of this small South American country’s most cherished sayings, dates back to the 19th century and is often repeated by its thinkers, presidents and everyday citizens. As a simple expression of the democratic spirit, it sums up how Uruguayans feel about their homeland. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAs expected, this article has NOTHING to do with Uruguay, and it is just another veneer to expand the “Argentina and Argentines are inferior sub-humans” narrative.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0If it was up to Mercopress and most of the posters here, all Argentines would have the “Star of Juan Domingo”, tatooed to their arms.
I will continue to point out the NAZI ideology that pervades in most people's minds here. That Argentina is inferior in everything, and that everyone else just by birth is superior as long as they are not Argentine. That is the definition of racial supremacism.
Argentina will continue to build nuclear plants, thank you very much. Wind farms are an absolutely joke and destroy the environment by killing all the birdlife. They are also a massive eye-sore. Until they can generate much more energy per turbine, can me made far smaller or thinner, they are pointless. Thank GOD Uruguay, or the UK, or Chile, or Brazil, or the USA, or any European nation controls Patagonia, it would have been destroyed by utter environmental mismanagement long ago it would seem.
@1
Feb 12th, 2016 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Apparently Tobi once came second in the World Hyperbole Championships
I have Uruguay, and Uruguayan people in my high steeme, but we also must be fair and balanced. The income per capita is low in Uruguay and the crime rate is very high in Montevideo. Uruguay, as Argentina, was not able to keep on economically growing during the last 4-5 decades. This must be changed.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0An Argentine journalist wrote a couple of years ago: “Uruguay has quite an advantage against Argentina: Uruguay has no peronism at all. Let's imagine an Argentine where peronism has never appeared: Argentine would be a sort of big and large Uruguay,”
“The passionate nationalism prevalent elsewhere, often whipped up by populist leaders intent on clinging to power beyond their allotted presidential terms, is refreshingly absent in Uruguay.”
Feb 12th, 2016 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is arrant nonsense and betrays the author as someone who has not spoken to the people he purports to describe.
The harridan wife of 'No Money Pepe' who, on hearing that The Broad Fraud was likely to lose the last election warned 'we will bring the people out on the street and have it corrected'. Presumably 'corrected' meant the result would be ignored and The Broad Fraud illegally put in power, just like the seditious Tupas tried with her husband as a murderous commie bastard trying to overcome the legal government.
As for corruption! THAT is just laughable and this “author” must have gone round with his head in the sand. I wont even bother mentioning the BILLIONS of USD gone missing or wasted under this pitiful example of a president.
O German. Yes, crime is on the rise and where has it come from?
Have a guess, you know don't you: fucking BsAs with all the mafia drug gangs that infest the capital and are spreading down the east, holiday, coast.
And yes, Uruguay has many, many laws on statute BUT very little, if any in certain sections, of ENFORCEMENT, except for traffic violations. The investigative side follows the usual pathetic Latam cock-up familiar in Argentina where the use of 'judges' takes over once the police have 'found' a suspect.
The system does not work: the poor murdered female teenager from Argentina who was murdered in a coastal resort more than a year ago has still to be 'solved' despite her family, most of the local deadbeats and anybody else the policia could rake in being 'interrogated' by the judge.
As for 'high income' I nearly wet myself at that. The Policia Caminera (highway police) are paid 13,500 per month (U$D 435) and for that they have to carry a pistol and are fair game for the argie thugs who now shoot first before they rob.
@1. Touchy, aren't we? And “the shithole” is only mentioned, in passing, twice. We can see your underlying problem. You are, basically, dysfunctional. You attempt to “build” relationships with other countries, such as China, Iran, Russia that have similar forms of paranoia. How difficult is flying for you? First, the blast of noxious, superheated fumes from the lower end to get you in the air. Then the equally noxious, superheated fumes from the “mouth”. And, as with everything from argieland, it drives you backwards. I have no problems with nuclear power. In fact, I now see that it could destroy argieland and is, therefore, a good thing.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 01:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amazingly, the UK established the world’s first civil nuclear programme, opening a nuclear power station, Calder Hall at Windscale, England, in 1956. It appears that EIGHT of argieland's provinces ban the building of nuclear plants. (Note that province is a term related to imperialism and colonialism). Isn't that a third of the country? Incredibly, the British Isles are still here. Still strong. And still willing to poke something sharp into argieland's bumptiousness. But it's nice to see that you are concerned over the birdlife. If only you could increase your concern over human life.
This is a wildly optimistic description of Uruguay. When I was thinking of moving there I was looking for a house in Carrasco and the real estate agent was pointing out the drug dealers houses.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It gets most of its money from Brazil and Argentina crooks sending it there thinking its safer than in their own country.
They also buy and develop property with the ill-gotten gains.
Its a nice small country but there's absolutely nothing to do.
@ 6 yankeeboy
Feb 12th, 2016 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah! You missed your chance, you should see Carrasco now: completely refurbished casino, and the houses are very good indeed but they are houses with two or more floors.
We did look there but decided where we are now is better.
“but there's absolutely nothing to do” ??? You were asking the wrong people.
But as you couldn't stay the course in Argentina it's perhaps better to didn't come to Uruguay.
And you are asking us to believe that there are NO drug dealers near to where you live? You live in the USA, drug dealer heaven.
7. There may be drug dealers but I doubt they live next to Ambassador residents and if they did real estate agents certainly wouldn't be pointed them out like its a selling point.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0:)
Hahaha. I did a similar 'drug dealer homes' tour in Miami a few years ago. Of course, drugs is a huge problem in the U.S. and across all economic classes. How could anyone par-tay for five years without it?
Feb 12th, 2016 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Don't be so paranoid. There are very few posters on here that think Argentines are 'filthy animals' and should starve to teach them a lesson. Or think they are responsible for all the crime in neighbouring countries. Such narrow-mindedness is not the general opinion, just the prejudice of a few. Just as you are prejudiced against anyone not Argentine.
There's more people that think like I do than like you do.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe screeching some more will turn them over to your side...
Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa
Stupid Prog.
So envious of your betters...
so envious it hurts
If there are flights between Cisplatina and the Falkland Islands I turn a terrorist and blow up the airplanes.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLqwEFGpVyc&index=68&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
Viva BRICS!
#6 You're right , there is nothing to do in Uruguay as happens with Paraguay and Bolivia, are satellite countries of Argentina . All Uruguayan with ambition, you want success must cross the pond , go to Buenos Aires. For example, now they dance songs of two Uruguayan groups MARAMA And ROMBAI , but practically living in Argentina giving his concerts , they know that success in Argentina , means that his music was heard throughout Latin America.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because here nobody is better than anybody else.”
Feb 12th, 2016 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that's what aliens say,
only in space, no one can hear you scream either....lol
12. Nobody goes to Argentina if they are smart and ambitious.
Feb 12th, 2016 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They go to UK or USA.
Even the Rgs don't want to be there.
#12 So nobody wants to come to Argentina ?
Feb 12th, 2016 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 01 million Uruguayans living in Argentina , almost a quarter of the population.
http://www.elobservador.com.uy/es-imposible-que-haya-un-millon-uruguayos-argentina-n218539
350k Bolivians living in Argentina
http://www.elobservador.com.uy/es-imposible-que-haya-un-millon-uruguayos-argentina-n218539
500k Paraguayans living in Argentina , in the introduction to this work can be read , which I say : “ ..It theoretical construct part of a historical analysis of migratory flows leading to characterize Bolivia , Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay as countries , experiencing emigratorios processes certain significance , its axis being Argentina reception .. ”
http://www.elobservador.com.uy/es-imposible-que-haya-un-millon-uruguayos-argentina-n218539
Better grab a book that does not bite , donkey .
the author is very kind with my country but unfortunately its not true, 55% of the people are retarded and voted for Pepe Mujica a totally incompetent former tupamaro, public education has been destroyed by the left, we has a very high homicide rate and only 50% of the homicides are resolved, ANCAP the oil company state monopoly was bankrupted by Raul Sendic the incompetent son of a tupamaro trained in Cuba etc
Feb 13th, 2016 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0So we all agree, the article's purpose is to whack Argentina. As is the purpose of everyone and everything here. And of a good part of the world to be frank.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amazing how much reverse devotion we garner. Anti-Semiargieism is really on a massive upswing all around the world.
15. Try reading my post again.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody goes to Argentina if they are smart and ambitious.
They go to UK or USA.
Even the Rgs don't want to be there.
Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela have a brain drain, for generations the smart and ambitious leave to a developed country. Every year, every decade, every generation the stupid lazy people breed and create stupider and lazier people. I don't see that ever changing. It will only get worse.
idiocracy
@16 no country is Utopia and agree with your comments on el paisito. But for all its faults it's a great place to live in as I have for more than half my lifetime.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's a pity Uruguay has been able to leverage these benefits/advances into something resembling a developed country.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Though I guess, along with Chile, that it still has the best chance to get there first.
@ 10 Spankingboy tells us: “There's more people that think like I do than like you do.”
Feb 15th, 2016 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why not?
There are more idiots in the world than intelligent people.
If you are not aware, that the US is THE country of illegal drugs, you either have no knowledge of the country, or you are in denial of simple facts.
Hi, BM!
Feb 17th, 2016 - 09:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0REF: “the author is very kind with my country but unfortunately its not true”:
By any chance you have described Brazil as “My Country”?
If not, from your comments, I don't see much difference between Uruguay & Brazil!
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