There are riots in Colombia - they're mad about taxes or something..here are some videos
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Honestly, it's kinda expected.
South America is basically dry kindling ready to go up on a good day. A year of Covid restrictions and other economic problems compounding already existing economic issues will have things get hot quickly. Remember, we are basically talking about an entire continent where radical socialism revolutions are a normal part of the last 90+ years. Corruption is massive and everywhere. You can literally buy yourself anything and out of anything if you have enough money and know how to grease palms.
It's actually kinda a small miracle places like Venezuela haven't faced outright mass starvation and population die-offs this last year. Things are already hanging by a thread in a lot of places.
South America is basically dry kindling ready to go up on a good day. A year of Covid restrictions and other economic problems compounding already existing economic issues will have things get hot quickly. Remember, we are basically talking about an entire continent where radical socialism revolutions are a normal part of the last 90+ years. Corruption is massive and everywhere. You can literally buy yourself anything and out of anything if you have enough money and know how to grease palms.
It's actually kinda a small miracle places like Venezuela haven't faced outright mass starvation and population die-offs this last year. Things are already hanging by a thread in a lot of places.
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Jokes on you; Columbia has no living standards. People just take drugs to escape from the nightmare of being a hispanic who doesn't live in the USA.
JULAY
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Ah, I see Paro Nacional is back... Not too surprising, Claudia Lopez has had all of fucking Bogota basically locked down since March 19, 2020. There are over ten million people in the metro area most of whom were poor as fuck before the lockdown, and are God knows how much poorer now. President Ivan Duque is a hopelessly corrupt retard, which also doesn't help. But not to worry, Colombia has dealt with way worse shit than this over its history.
Super-Chevy454
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I won't be surprised if Venezuela had learned some tricks from China about hiding some infos about mass starvation and all.
Usually they can look up to a life of prostitution (with the added risk of death) or informal jobs such as selling snacks in buses. They are still "accepted" though.
I just hope these protests don't end in violent riots and looting like the start of the 2019 strike did.
Apologies for the double-post, but I can't edit my latest one and damn not even two weeks in and shit is looking worse than 2019:
-Army webpage hacked
-Rampant riots and lootings (all in just one city, a cop even got stabbed to death for trying to stop one).
-Kids involved in looting, rioting and protesting
-At least22 30 dead just in one city (Cali)
-Army deployed
-Doxing of people who disagree with the rioters/protesters
-People calling for the doxing of cops in social media
-Farms sacked
-Trash everywhere
-Monuments torn down
-Checkpoints set up where you have to pay illegal tolls to the rioters to pass through.
-Colombians bitching in social media about how "WE ARE BEING KILLED" and "MUH EVIL GOVERNMENT" even though it is as likely someone "on their side" shot them
-There is talk about civilian death squads to deal with looters and vandals
The path is paved for Petro to come in and finish off the country.
-Army webpage hacked
-Rampant riots and lootings (all in just one city, a cop even got stabbed to death for trying to stop one).
-Kids involved in looting, rioting and protesting
-At least
-Army deployed
-Doxing of people who disagree with the rioters/protesters
-People calling for the doxing of cops in social media
-Farms sacked
-Trash everywhere
-Monuments torn down
-Checkpoints set up where you have to pay illegal tolls to the rioters to pass through.
-Colombians bitching in social media about how "WE ARE BEING KILLED" and "MUH EVIL GOVERNMENT" even though it is as likely someone "on their side" shot them
-There is talk about civilian death squads to deal with looters and vandals
The path is paved for Petro to come in and finish off the country.
Clint Torez
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Was latin america ever not rioting
Yeah, these days it seems there's always a chimpout happening in some South America country, except for Brazil.
See you say you're protesting over tax hikes and covid lockdowns, which sounds based; but really its more globohomo shit trying to bring back the good old days of the Colombian Civil Conflict...
Damn dude check out those robo-cops when they get close enough to the camera in this one. Columbian Riot cops are fucking decked.
throwaway542
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The situation in several Colombian cities has now deteriorated to the point where residents of some neighbourhoods have banded together to form vigilante defence groups, some of them armed. And the far-left are denouncing these groups as "white supremacists" who want to genocide the "peaceful indigenous protesters", because of course they are.
This is easily the most moronic take on the Colombian crisis I have read up to this point, a desperate attempt to shoehorn woke US identity politics into a foreign conflict where race is pretty much irrelevant. Hoards of criminals backed by far-left Marxist narco thugs are burning down your neighbourhood and you want to band together with your neighbours to try and stop them from doing that? Why, you must be one of those Nazi White Supremacists, of course!
This is easily the most moronic take on the Colombian crisis I have read up to this point, a desperate attempt to shoehorn woke US identity politics into a foreign conflict where race is pretty much irrelevant. Hoards of criminals backed by far-left Marxist narco thugs are burning down your neighbourhood and you want to band together with your neighbours to try and stop them from doing that? Why, you must be one of those Nazi White Supremacists, of course!
Bolsonaro is up for re-election next year so expect shit to start popping off in a couple months.
Someone made this as a tribute. (For some reason)
someone took potshots at the president while he was in a helicopter
