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"But what about that latin american kid I've met in college who said that all the left has ever done in latin america has been bad?"

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Thoughts on these guys? I don't know what is going on in Chile lately. Hype me up if possible

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[–] iie@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

If she wins she should throw the pro-Pinochet candidates out of a helicopter

[–] HorikBrun@kbin.earth 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

How? How is there possibly any "pro Pinochet" candidate? It would be like if there were some descendant of Mussolini running for office and getting ...votes...

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[–] determinism2@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

If button-mashing political views were a person

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

a lot of the far right in latin america throws back to the old glorious days of... us-sponsored military dictatorship. meaning freedom, of course.

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

How do we tell him

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Literally every presidential candidate from the right is pro or neutral on pinochet

Jara

apparently she's not related to victor jara, so that's a pretty cool coincidence