you take sally, i'll take sue, ain't no difference between the two, might be the way this article could have been titled;
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You can’t help but feel sorry for Latin Americans. They inevitably end up with either a right-wing
“capitalist” dictator or a left-wing socialist dictator. The right-wing
dictator tends to favor conservative economic policies while, at the
same time, using his military and intelligence goons to round up and
incarcerate unpatriotic critics and socialists, torture them, and even
execute or disappear them. The left-wing dictator tends to favor
socialist economic policies, which bring nothing but chaos, crisis,
impoverishment, economic misery, and even starvation to the citizenry,
while oftentimes also engaging in things like indefinite detention,
torture, and disappearances.
A good example of this phenomenon is what just happened in Brazil.
After several years of suffering under the socialist regimes of Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva and his successor Dima Rousseff, Brazilians now get
to suffer under the regime of a right-wing dictator, Jair Bolsonaro,
who has just been elected president. He’s a former Army captain who
sings the praises of the military coup that ousted Brazil’s
democratically elected left-wing government in the 1960s and installed a
brutal military dictatorship in its stead. Like other right-wing
military dictators, Bolsonaro endorses torture and a fierce
“law-and-order” crackdown in the country.
To get a good sense of how Brazilian left-wingers are viewing what life will be like under a Bolsinaro presidency, read this article by the Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald or watch this short video
by Greenwald. To get a good sense of why Brazilian right-wingers are
happy that Bolsonaro won the election, see this article published last
week by The Foundation for Economic Education entitled “Why Bolsonaro Won Brazil’s Presidency in a Landslide” by Mauricio F. Bento, an analyst at Instituto Mercado Popular in Brazil............https://www.fff.org/2018/11/08/pity-latin-americans-and-us-too/
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