11-22-2019, 03:09 PM
** 22-Nov-2019 World View: Uprisings in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Venezuela
The continuing chaos in Bolivia has resulted in a mainstream media
spate of stories about demonstrations, populism and uprising in
several Latin American countries, particularly: Bolivia, Brazil,
Ecuador, Chile, and Venezuela.
These stories are sometimes extended to Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon,
Sudan, Haiti, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and of course Hong Kong.
The stories all give the same core reason: poverty. A lazy or
ignorant reporter assigned to write a story about demonstrations or
riots in some country, just has to check the inflation rate,
unemployment rate, grocery prices, or gasoline prices, and simply
blame the riots on one or more of those. In fact, the news story
could be written by a bot.
The problem with just naming poverty as the reason is that there's
always some level of poverty in every country, including countries
where there are no demonstrations and riots. Some reason has to be
found why poverty in one country is different from the same level of
poverty in another country, and that question is never addressed.
The articles about riots in Latin America point to the rise of
Socialist or left-wing governments, but once again, give no reason why
socialist governments are rising in some countries but not others.
Mostly, the reporters are confused about whether to blame the
socialism for the poverty or the poverty for the socialism. Sometimes
they blame both of them on Trump.
In the case of Latin America, not a single article that I read today
mentioned the split between indigenous people (Amerindians) versus the
descendants of European invaders and mestizos (children of
intermarriage). This is an important issue in every Latin American
country, and it's an issue that the mainstream "reporters" are
apparently too embarrassed to mention, even though it's the most
important issue in most cases, and even though this issue is
enormously obvious to the people who live in the country. As I
described in my recent article on Bolivia, the European descendants
marginalize the indigenous people, resulting in political differences.
These political differences can turn into demonstrations, riots and
uprisings when the economy worsens, since the marginalized indigenous
people are the hurt the most.
** 15-Nov-19 World View -- Ouster of Bolivia's president Evo Morales evokes memories of Ché Guevara
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e191115
One problem for mainstream reporters is that to understand what's
going on requires knowing a little bit about the history of the
country they're reporting on. College students today are taking
far-left courses in sociology, women's studies and underwater
basket-weaving, where they're taught nothing about history,
and are taught that Socialism is wonderful. These children know
nothing about history, and believe that "history always begins
this morning," so they look on far-left socialist movements as a
good thing, not even having a clue that what's going on is not
socialism vs capitalism, but Europeans vs Amerindians.
Riots and demonstrations have been spreading among Latin American
countries, initially led by Venezuela, as indigenous people in one
country follow the lead of indigenous rioters in another country.
Within the last couple of weeks, Colombia has joined this list of
rioters.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, there are two
important trends in Latin America.
First, most of these Latin American countries had their last
generational crisis civil wars in the 1960s or thereabout, and so by
the 58-Year Hypothesis, they're coming due for the next crisis civil
war. At present they're in a generational Unraveling era, and so
there are periods of demonstrations alternating with periods of
ceasefires, but a new full-scale crisis civil war is not expected for
another few years.
Second, most of the world is in a generational Crisis era, and a
feature of this era is that central banks have been cutting back on
"printing" money, which means that there's less money in the world,
which means that there's less money per capita, resulting in poverty
among margialized people.
In the meantime, the world is approaching a new world war, and the
demonstrations, riots and uprisings in the Latin American countries
and elsewhere will in the end be folded into the world war.
---- Sources:
-- Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile / South America's
uprisings are about more than politics
https://www.axios.com/south-america-upri...d8b17.html
(Axios, 21-Nov-2019)
-- Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela / Opinion:
Latin America needs solidarity
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-latin-amer...a-51038560
(Deutsche Welle, 29-Oct-2019)
-- Latin America’s upheaval should finally shatter conventional wisdom
about the region
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...ut-region/
(Washington Post, 22-Nov-2019)
-- Roundup: Mass protests hint at deeper crises behind the headlines
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/...-headlines
(Memri, 22-Nov-2019)
-- Leftist Government In Latin America: A Comparison Of Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, And Venezuela
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/ll...eftist.pdf
(University of Texas, PDF, 2008):
The continuing chaos in Bolivia has resulted in a mainstream media
spate of stories about demonstrations, populism and uprising in
several Latin American countries, particularly: Bolivia, Brazil,
Ecuador, Chile, and Venezuela.
These stories are sometimes extended to Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon,
Sudan, Haiti, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and of course Hong Kong.
The stories all give the same core reason: poverty. A lazy or
ignorant reporter assigned to write a story about demonstrations or
riots in some country, just has to check the inflation rate,
unemployment rate, grocery prices, or gasoline prices, and simply
blame the riots on one or more of those. In fact, the news story
could be written by a bot.
The problem with just naming poverty as the reason is that there's
always some level of poverty in every country, including countries
where there are no demonstrations and riots. Some reason has to be
found why poverty in one country is different from the same level of
poverty in another country, and that question is never addressed.
The articles about riots in Latin America point to the rise of
Socialist or left-wing governments, but once again, give no reason why
socialist governments are rising in some countries but not others.
Mostly, the reporters are confused about whether to blame the
socialism for the poverty or the poverty for the socialism. Sometimes
they blame both of them on Trump.
In the case of Latin America, not a single article that I read today
mentioned the split between indigenous people (Amerindians) versus the
descendants of European invaders and mestizos (children of
intermarriage). This is an important issue in every Latin American
country, and it's an issue that the mainstream "reporters" are
apparently too embarrassed to mention, even though it's the most
important issue in most cases, and even though this issue is
enormously obvious to the people who live in the country. As I
described in my recent article on Bolivia, the European descendants
marginalize the indigenous people, resulting in political differences.
These political differences can turn into demonstrations, riots and
uprisings when the economy worsens, since the marginalized indigenous
people are the hurt the most.
** 15-Nov-19 World View -- Ouster of Bolivia's president Evo Morales evokes memories of Ché Guevara
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/x...tm#e191115
One problem for mainstream reporters is that to understand what's
going on requires knowing a little bit about the history of the
country they're reporting on. College students today are taking
far-left courses in sociology, women's studies and underwater
basket-weaving, where they're taught nothing about history,
and are taught that Socialism is wonderful. These children know
nothing about history, and believe that "history always begins
this morning," so they look on far-left socialist movements as a
good thing, not even having a clue that what's going on is not
socialism vs capitalism, but Europeans vs Amerindians.
Riots and demonstrations have been spreading among Latin American
countries, initially led by Venezuela, as indigenous people in one
country follow the lead of indigenous rioters in another country.
Within the last couple of weeks, Colombia has joined this list of
rioters.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, there are two
important trends in Latin America.
First, most of these Latin American countries had their last
generational crisis civil wars in the 1960s or thereabout, and so by
the 58-Year Hypothesis, they're coming due for the next crisis civil
war. At present they're in a generational Unraveling era, and so
there are periods of demonstrations alternating with periods of
ceasefires, but a new full-scale crisis civil war is not expected for
another few years.
Second, most of the world is in a generational Crisis era, and a
feature of this era is that central banks have been cutting back on
"printing" money, which means that there's less money in the world,
which means that there's less money per capita, resulting in poverty
among margialized people.
In the meantime, the world is approaching a new world war, and the
demonstrations, riots and uprisings in the Latin American countries
and elsewhere will in the end be folded into the world war.
---- Sources:
-- Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile / South America's
uprisings are about more than politics
https://www.axios.com/south-america-upri...d8b17.html
(Axios, 21-Nov-2019)
-- Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela / Opinion:
Latin America needs solidarity
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-latin-amer...a-51038560
(Deutsche Welle, 29-Oct-2019)
-- Latin America’s upheaval should finally shatter conventional wisdom
about the region
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...ut-region/
(Washington Post, 22-Nov-2019)
-- Roundup: Mass protests hint at deeper crises behind the headlines
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/...-headlines
(Memri, 22-Nov-2019)
-- Leftist Government In Latin America: A Comparison Of Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, And Venezuela
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/ll...eftist.pdf
(University of Texas, PDF, 2008):
