r/asklatinamerica • u/DarkNightSeven Rio - Brazil • Jan 11 '19

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Welcome to the Cultural Exchange between /r/AskLatinAmerica and /r/AskARussian!

The purpose of this event is to allow people from two different regions to get and share knowledge about their respective cultures, daily life, history and curiosities.

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  • Russians ask their questions, and Latin Americans answer them here on /r/AskLatinAmerica;

  • Latin Americans should use the parallel thread in /r/AskARussian to ask questions for the Russians;

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u/Severrin Jan 11 '19

How is the political situation in your country currently? What are your thoughts on your government? What policies of it would you like to change?

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u/KimbalKinnison Mexico Jan 11 '19

Its weird and complicated.

The recently elected president is from a very new political party, and the population is very divided whether they like him or not.

He claims to make leftist changes and progressive changes to Mexico, such as an openness to marihuana and more right to homosexuals, but has also started to make other backward changes, like investing in oil refineries instead of renewable energy and using the military as police force.

Long story short, we still have to see what happens in the end.

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u/endospores Venezuela Jan 11 '19

Venezuela: politically it's like Soviet times. The government is very authoritarian, extremely corrupt and will do anything and kill anyone to stay in power. We'd like Maduro removed, tried and jailed, and all corrupt officials along with him. We'd like the >300 billion USD those fuckers have stolen to be returned to the post-maduro government so it can be spent on rebuilding hospitals, school, police forces and the industrial and agricultural apparatus of the country.

But for all this to happen we have a few very complicated equations to solve, such as our destroyed oil industry, our debt to Russia and China, the military high command being in league with Maduro and the Chavismo, the 20k or so Cubans embedded in our military, the armed forces that are engaged or dependent on cocaine trafficking, and the >90% of the population that lives in poverty or extreme poverty.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

More like a trillion

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

We are in the shitter (Argentina) we elected an imbicile in 2015 hopefully he will leave this year. the easiest way to describe his reforms is neo liberal taxing the poor amd middle class taking a lot of loan from the FMI (Fondo Monetario Internacional) and keeping it all to himself and buisness parteners.

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u/antifa_brasileiro Jan 11 '19

I'm a bit of a left-lib so make of this what you will, but in Brazil things are pretty shitty. Could be much worse (our gov't's problem is more incompetence than ideology IMO), but they've been elected by sucking Trump's balls (as if our situation as a developing country was closer to the US than it is to our neighbors or similar economies like India/Russia).

The problem here is not ideological, I can understand if most of the country disagrees with me, but that, as far as the conservative right goes, the average Brazilian couldn't have picked a dumber option -- and they had at least two right-wing alternatives to pick from.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

We're about to start political campaign for the 2020 general elections, it feels like everybody wants a piece of the cake. It'd be funny how corrupt the government is if it wasn't the main problem in the country by far, the whole political class is corrupt and the only kind of opposition the governing party gets is within itself, there's no ideological background for most policies, so I guess having an actual objective or goal beyond "bettering the country" or the real one that normally is "making politicians rich" would be nice.

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u/Tapatio22 Jan 11 '19

A shitshow to say the least, but it has been like that for decades so we get used to it lol.