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Chile Heads to the Polls with 'Two Models of the Nation' at Stake
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/chile-presidential-election-kast/2021/12/19/id/1049230/ ^

Posted on 12/19/2021 6:06:12 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to vote in the Andean nation's most divisive presidential election in decades, with two candidates offering starkly different visions for the future from pensions and privatization to human rights. On one side is Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader promising social change, who has edged ahead in pre-election polls, versus ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Kast, 55, a lawyer who has won support for a hard law-and-order line.

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I do believe this is more important than the Va. election was here. We're talking a whole nation with recent history everyone can see. The law and order candidate(Cast) sounds like the adult in the race so we'll see if Chile is a nation of adolescents.

*Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader* Sounds like a community organize.

1 posted on 12/19/2021 6:06:12 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Are the helicopters ready?


2 posted on 12/19/2021 6:07:53 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

whatca bet soros and bammy are helping in some way...along with the WEF.


3 posted on 12/19/2021 6:12:49 AM PST by ealgeone
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“whatca bet soros and bammy are helping in some way...along with the WEF.”

Sucker bet — Soros is the Potter/Scrooge of the current day.


4 posted on 12/19/2021 6:25:08 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Sounds like a community organize.

He's been nabbed twice for shoplifting. I believe once it was for walking out of a Lider with a case of beer. He refuses to take a proctored drug test. He doesn't make child support payments. There's a video of him jumping the turnstile of the Metro to avoid paying the fare. He's never held a full time time, outside of the Chamber of Deputies. His academic resume is a record of failure. The infamous "Viveza Criolla" of Argentina has arrived in Chile.

5 posted on 12/19/2021 6:26:27 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Apparently being a student protest leader is qualification is sufficient to lead / govern a nation. No way this punk politician is pulling his own strings. He’s a puppet for the international marxists and internationalists/globalists.


6 posted on 12/19/2021 6:29:16 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Chile is on the brink of Venezuelan socialism.

” 35 year old protest leader “? Please !!! Not another Hugo Chavez.


7 posted on 12/19/2021 6:29:22 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: T-Bird45

Oh I included others as well.


8 posted on 12/19/2021 6:32:09 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: LuxAerterna
The infamous "Viveza Criolla" of Argentina has arrived in Chile.

I had heard of the idea but not the phrase:

Viveza criolla is a Spanish language phrase literally meaning "creoles' cleverness" and may be translated as "creoles' cunning",[citation needed] describing a way of life in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay,[1] Colombia and Venezuela, among other Latin American countries.

It is a philosophy of progress along the line of least resistance and ignoring rules, a lack of sense of responsibility and consideration for others, and it extends to all social groups and throughout the whole country, although it predominates in Buenos Aires.[2] Viveza criolla has been called "the principal cause of a moral, cultural, economic, social and political crisis".[2] It is a similar concept to jeitinho brasileiro in Brazil.

Already imported into Europe and the US, and living large on college campuses everywhere.

9 posted on 12/19/2021 6:33:03 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster
More from the Wiki:

Phrases:

Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa. -- "Made the law, made the loophole."
Total, si no robo yo, robará otro. -- "In the end, if I do not steal, someone else will."
El vivo vive del zonzo y el zonzo de su trabajo. -- "The cunning lives off the sucker, and the sucker lives off his job"
Todos los políticos roban. Él/ella roba pero hace. -- "All politicians steal. He/she steals but delivers [social welfare, public works, infrastructure]."

Yeah, this too has been imported to the US.

And there is nothing new under the sun.

10 posted on 12/19/2021 6:35:54 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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We’re going to need a bigger wall at the southern border.

One these leftists destroy these impoverished nations, they will flood north in a way we’ve had nightmares about.


11 posted on 12/19/2021 6:49:59 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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12 posted on 12/19/2021 7:12:21 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: texas booster

Viveza criolla explains the appeal of socialism. We see that with the Democrats - they make laws, then they provide loopholes for themselves.


13 posted on 12/19/2021 7:14:52 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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Viveza criolla explains the appeal of socialism...

I agree, and this was my real point. Such a character as Gabriel Boric should be a fringe laughingstock. He's not because, to a great extent, he appeals to people who have come to share his own vices.

14 posted on 12/19/2021 7:35:38 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“It has been credited for driving economic growth, but attacked for creating sharp divides between rich and poor.”

Yes, much better to have everyone equally poor.

Here comes Venezuela 2.0.


15 posted on 12/19/2021 7:37:01 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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“Businessman Jorge Valdivia, 54, a Boric supporter...”

They fotgot to add, “and an idiot”, because that’s what any businessman supporting socialism is.


16 posted on 12/19/2021 7:40:24 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: HighSierra5

Viva Pinochet!


17 posted on 12/19/2021 11:46:16 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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