I don’t get why people wanted the movie to be a documentary on the Black Panthers’ activities. It’s not even a biopic. It’s a crime/snitch movie about Hampton’s betrayal by O’Neal. It tells that story and it tells it well. How much Marx or Mao were mentioned didn’t really factor into the movie’s quality, and even then, the BPP’s political inclinations are made abundantly clear. I guess it’s too bad they didn’t use the word “communism” so all the criticism could be directed at other aspects of the movie.
Thank you so much! I got the first two you mention, and I'd already acquired Menchú's and Asturias' before (the only one I've read so far is El Señor Presidente... I really loved it).
Maybe I should've mentioned in my post that I'm a native Spanish speaker so I also take recommendations in Spanish. So in addition to these I recently ordered Cardoza y Aragón's "Guatemala. Las líneas de su mano" which I had been recommended before.
I’m still really confused about the pickle thing and how it indicates that was Beatnik’s name at all. I figure if the allegation is false the name has to be somewhere else in his digital footprint, right? Because deducing his name from the pickle post doesn’t make any sense to me.
Yeah I mean that’s fine, we have different reads on this and maybe I’m not expressing myself very well. To be clear I do not think most of the organizations where NED has money are “NED operations” in and of themselves. They opportunistically and parasitically extends their claws everywhere, yeah, but receiving some NED money (note: some money, not being entirely funded that way) in itself doesn’t tell me that the organization is what the CIA needs them to be.
Whether that’s the case with this specific Thai group, I have no idea, I had never heard of them before this thread and I think it’s fine to be suspicious.
a loot of things changed between the missile crisis and his assassination. i’m not saying he was a good dude and he should go to heaven. i’m saying that he was killed for a reason and the world is worse for it
lib fellating here. he loathed the cia and wanted to abolish it, and before he died he was working towards ending the cold war. for all the awful shit he’d been involved with, it is very bad and terrible for the world that the cia killed him
I don’t have a side on this argument but I do not think a lot of people here realize that NED has money in pretty much everything in the third world, whether they’re direct assets or just vague humanitarianism. I happen to know of a Mexican org that gets legal help to indigenous prisoners who don’t speak Spanish. They get NED funding. It’s not a CIA regime change operation, it has no political pretensions that way. Just like that there’s a billion different things that NED has its hands on. Yes, of course there’s an overall bent towards liberal imperialist bullshit, and it is their job ultimately to secure the US’ sphere of control, but not everything that receives or has received money from NED is owned by the CIA.
his party is good, they rightfully got a massive popularity boost out of leading the protest movement of the last few years. the dude is a serious right wing stooge though who the powers that be forced as their candidate
the crazy thing is that correismo never actually lost! lenin moreno changed colors the second he was president, but he was elected as a correista. just as with evo and bolivia where the opposition didnt actually win an election. and in the places where they DID win and beat back the pink tide a little (argentina, brazil, honduras, paraguay) it was usually accompanied by phony criminal investigations, and at least in argentina fernandez/peronismo made it back to power as soon as they were cleared (and in honduras of course they were robbed in the 2017 election)
uruguay and el salvador were also lost recently but circumstances are a bit different. chile’s been doing a sad back and forth between piñera and bachelet but hopefully jadue will break them out of that
how do you think you collect the money without campaigning.
do you think he would’ve collected so much if he wasn’t trying to win and if people didn’t want to make him president.
i don’t think your idea really makes sense tbh
but like, who cares what she thinks, why do you have to come here and be so pissed about a month old joke. you may or may not like or dislike the joke (i think its a funny tweet - it is funny to me), you may or may not agree with her opinions on this or other subjects (personally i’d never heard of her so idk what those are, i really dislike sean mccarthy who these comments mention a lot so maybe i wouldnt like her), but jeez man this just doesnt seem worth the bad vibes
he’s not an ecosocialist nor does he call himself that. he represents the right wing of the party and was antidemocratically nominated, so there’s been a lot of infighting about whether to support him.
the results aren’t looking too bad... lasso passed yaku for second place, which makes an arauz victory likelier, while pachakutik is getting a legislative plurality (in a huge leap since the last election!) and the right is eating shit
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I don’t get why people wanted the movie to be a documentary on the Black Panthers’ activities. It’s not even a biopic. It’s a crime/snitch movie about Hampton’s betrayal by O’Neal. It tells that story and it tells it well. How much Marx or Mao were mentioned didn’t really factor into the movie’s quality, and even then, the BPP’s political inclinations are made abundantly clear. I guess it’s too bad they didn’t use the word “communism” so all the criticism could be directed at other aspects of the movie.