If I had a nickel for every time Shining Path allowed a fascist dictator named Fujimori to rise to power, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
You can’t even buy a gum ball from a vending machine with two nickels. Thanks Biden for the inflation
This would be the second time this year that a vote boycott would cost the left the election. Same thing happened in Ecuador, tho there for more understandable reasons maybe. Oh well, hope he still clinches it
ecuador was rough because the "indigenous cause" has been split (mostly usurped tbh) by a CIA plant (yaku pérez)
of course that split wouldn't have been possible without the terrible relationship between correa's party/development decisions and indigenous populations
Are there more than idk 1000 shinning path members in Peru that are committed to the party line? Back then when they were an actual% of the population sure, but now? This smells much more like classic election book cooking
It’s kinda of insane how the Peruvian bourgeoisie have basically said it’s “democracy vs communism” and everyone older than 35 buys that framing
people at the age of 20 also believe it. a guy from peru in a gaming discord server is saying he's going to move to america if the commie wins and whenever he talks about the election i just feel weird and stop talking for like 10 minutes (not cool enough/too lib to actually debate people's positions, especially those i don't know very well)
English speaker gamer from non english speaking third world country and active in discord. Almost all of those people are almost certainly reactionary.
To think I was so optimistic about Latin America last year. Thank you Biden. Things are really back to normal :doomjak:
Chile is looking good still. Brazil might get Lula back. So it’s not all gloom and doom.
Even this one isn’t final yet.
I sometimes get shit for this but imo Bernie is cooler than Lula, especially considering how much power each wields and the political climate that surrounds them.
There seems to be like 3-5 based Latin American governments at any one time, and always moving around (except for Cuba they're an immovable diamond)
Is this the gamethread? New exit poll says Castillo up 50.2 - 49.8 still in margin of error but we did it reddit we won :lets-fucking-go:
83% counted:
PEDRO 48.5% :sweat: :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:follow here
https://www.resultadossep.eleccionesgenerales2021.pe/SEP2021/EleccionesPresidenciales/RePres/P100% in 30 years time it will be declassified that the random Shining Path massacre leading up to the election was in some way influenced by the CIA.
That was so fucking convenient
It turned out exactly as I predicted. Peru is still a fairly conservative country with a fear towards leftism thanks to Shining Path being dumbfucks. The fact that it close is a good sign, but we're not even sure how long Keiko will last. Peru has also been pretty unstable lately so who really knows
Michael Roberts in his latest blog says they're poised to have a stable, moderate recovery as their mineral export economy benefits from the developed world's economic recovery over the next year or so. So whoever wins is going to get credit for it despite it being almost entirely external because the national bourgeoise have hollowed out their economy.
Eh capitalism will lead to another fucking big crisis eventually
I guess we'll see. Can't recall how many times I've seen that headline, only for government corruption to either completely fumble it or kick out the politician who took credit for said recovery over a scandal.
"Peru’s Castillo calls supporters onto streets as exit poll points to razor-thin lead for rival Fujimori"
Good. He might win but if not, not gonna go down without a fight
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peruvians-head-polls-elect-president-divided-by-class-geography-2021-06-06/
Calling for your supporters to take the streets? That sounds authoritarian, not a good look sweaty
You know what y'all I'm gonna say it-
Electoral politics is starting to piss me off.
Fujimori has lost the last 3 elections by the same margin, it's going to be close.
I hate that its so close. In coin flips, evil turds always have an advantage. Here's hoping good prevails and also that Fujimori fucking dies.
It would be cool if the Marxist-Leninist party actually did like, Leninist stuff if they lost, instead of just accepting defeat.
Bolsheveks didn't let no lost vote stop them from building the first socialist state
The East Germans were majority against reunification, but it was forced on them anyway. Here's an article about it from 1989.
Decommunization really fucked the memory of East Germany, but even so a majority of those who were alive to remember it prefer it over the current system.
the left wasn't in power there anyway but yea Linke is just dying
That nice school teacher got very close to winning, he should be proud!
