Economy Bolivia's Socialist Economy Booming

Which is your favorite South American Socialist Government?

  • Venezuela

  • Bolivia

  • I am triggered and refuse to answer


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Also its so hilarious how little shame Latin American politicians have.

Since Bolivian gas main destination is Brazil, Evo Morales went to Bolsonaro's inauguration ceremony and called him "Brother President".

You are correct @Cuauhtemoc only stupid leaders try to piss off their trade partners at the geopolitical stage. Like Chavez and Maduro attacking the USA when the USA was their main source of hard currency.

At least Evo Morales knows the value of diplomacy.

"Brother Bolsonaro" L O L

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The people who got their money will use that money to get out of the country
 
This isn't my opinion, it's Bloomberg's. You are now more than welcome to move on if you want but I will be so heartbroken this thread will be deprived of the insights of a international business wiz like yourself.
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Ha! Killing with kindness.
 
The people who got their money will use that money to get out of the country

Bolivia isnt that bad besides being poor. Its mostly indigenous in nature and indigenous people tend to be more tame, traditional and less prone to violence and greed.

Which is why i find the whole "latinos are wired for hyperviolence" from people like @Cuauhtemoc kind of contradictory. Its not indians doing the ultraviolence, its mestizos and white people.

Bolivia will be fine, because its not as militant, Evo Morales will need to do some master politics if he wants to stay in power and that will drift him away from socialism and more into traditional Latin American corporatism.
 
Also its so hilarious how little shame Latin American politicians have.

Since Bolivian gas main destination is Brazil, Evo Morales went to Bolsonaro's inauguration ceremony and called him "Brother President".

You are correct @Cuauhtemoc only stupid leaders try to piss off their trade partners at the mgeopolitical stage. Like Chavez and Maduro attacking the USA when the USA was their main source of hard currency.

At least Evo Morales knows the value of diplomacy.

"Brother Bolsonaro" L O L

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Yeah, he isn't stupid. He also deported Battisti ASAP to Italy. No point in harboring a terrorist because he is left wing. Morales will probably drop Maduro when it's convenient too, but I believe that right now Bolivia has some important deals with Venezuela dealing with oil(Bolivia has gas but little oil) and lacks some extractive technologies.
 
The sham is that the country growth and expansion of social programs came thanks to an extractive policy of state capitalism, selling commodities abroad to finance an unsustainable model inside, a model that broke down once the commodity slump of 2014 came. As of now Bolivian "socialism" is just running the credit card, the last 5 years have seen Bolivian deficit go up dramatically.

So the difference between Morales, and Trump, is who the deficit spending goes to?

Call me team deficit spending should benefit the people, not corporate tax breaks.
 
Bolivia isnt that bad besides being poor. Its mostly indigenous in nature and indigenous people tend to be more tame, traditional and less prone to violence and greed.

Which is why i find the whole "latinos are wired for hyperviolence" from people like @Cuauhtemoc kind of contradictory. Its not indians doing the ultraviolence, its mestizos and white people.

Bolivia will be fine, because its not as militant, Evo Morales will need to do some master politics if he wants to stay in power and that will drift him away from socialism and more into traditional Latin American corporatism.

Isn't Bolivia mostly rural?
 
Bolivia isnt that bad besides being poor. Its mostly indigenous in nature and indigenous people tend to be more tame, traditional and less prone to violence and greed.

Which is why i find the whole "latinos are wired for hyperviolence" from people like @Cuauhtemoc kind of contradictory. Its not indians doing the ultraviolence, its mestizos and white people.

Bolivia will be fine, because its not as militant, Evo Morales will need to do some master politics if he wants to stay in power and that will drift him away from socialism and more into traditional Latin American corporatism.
Here it's mostly blacks and mulattos. But I mean it looks surprising how violent these small central american countries are and they're mestizo but mostly Indian genetically. I'm talking about El Salvador, Honduras etc
They also have a different kind of violence compared to blacks. Blacks are more into rioting and looting while mestizos genocide their enemies. I think that even happens in the US to a degree, latino gangs have been chasing out black gangs.
There aren't many Indians left in Brazil but the ones that are more isolated are extremely violent too. See the Yanomami the fierce people.
 
So the difference between Morales, and Trump, is who the deficit spending goes to?

Call me team deficit spending should benefit the people, not corporate tax breaks.
The US also has a lot more leeway in expanding the deficit. Third world countries go broke when the debt gets out of control, investors pull out and hyperinflation sets in. It's pragmatic for third world countries to follow these IMF rules, Brazil tried to go into a government sponsored development era until the 80s and it just didn't work. We do not have the trust the US has, if we start piling up on debt the investors pull out.
 
The US also has a lot more leeway in expanding the deficit. Third world countries go broke when the debt gets out of control, investors pull out and hyperinflation sets in. It's pragmatic for third world countries to follow these IMF rules, Brazil tried to go into a government sponsored development era until the 80s and it just didn't work. We do not have the trust the US has, if we start piling up on debt the investors pull out.

I think the truth is that the banksters crash economies that don't play ball. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Venezuala's economy was anymore unsound, then Greece's. The difference was in which government was willing to bend over, and take it in the ass.
 
I think the truth is that the banksters crash economies that don't play ball. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think Venezuala's economy was anymore unsound, then Greece's. The difference was in which government was willing to bend over, and take it in the ass.
Taking it in the ass was the better solution. Greece is doing very fine compared to Venezuela. The banks are a problem but we can't live without them.
 
Taking it in the ass was the better solution. Greece is doing very fine compared to Venezuela. The banks are a problem but we can't live without them.

Naw, I would rather die on my feet, then live on my knees, and the truth is that most of us won't die.

Nothing worth doing comes without a cost.
 
So, the fact that Bolivia's economy and standards of living have improved greatly under their socialist government is negated by the fact that Bolivia also "has some of the lowest Crime rates in South America" and...has cocaine...?

Try harder.
No, moron, the crime is lower than other "shitholes," but still terribly problematic and any country that produces that much cocaine will have a booming economy so long as the US is on board.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...-cultivation-cocaine-production-peru-bolivia/

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Nationalizing oil and gas resources =/= socialism. It's called a mixed economy dunderheads. Norway has nationalized oil reserves. France has nationalized electricity and gas services. A bunch of countries have nationalized railroad systems. Almost no country in the world give free reign to private companies to exploit their oil. It's literally giving away for free your country's valuables. Bolivia used to do that in the past before it was changed, you can bet multinational corporations greased some politicians for it.
 
ITT @Trotsky proves to the world he has no idea what a banana republic is.
 
So the difference between Morales, and Trump, is who the deficit spending goes to?

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The difference is Trump deficit is in US dollars while Bolivia's deficit is also in US dollar.

The same but different
 
Here it's mostly blacks and mulattos. But I mean it looks surprising how violent these small central american countries are and they're mestizo but mostly Indian genetically. I'm talking about El Salvador, Honduras etc
They also have a different kind of violence compared to blacks. Blacks are more into rioting and looting while mestizos genocide their enemies. I think that even happens in the US to a degree, latino gangs have been chasing out black gangs.
There aren't many Indians left in Brazil but the ones that are more isolated are extremely violent too. See the Yanomami the fierce people.

The point is likely that its cultural and not genetic.
 
Bogus claim yet again from reality denying leftists.

Bolivia has made gains every year for several decades and gains in the last few years have zero to do with it. Bolivia's GDP growth is as follows.


2000
29.2 billion
2005
38.1 billion
2010
53.55 billion
2015
74.59 billion
2017 83.55 billion

This was all due to loosening of foreign private investing in the nation in 1995 and saw yet another push with the Mutun Iron Ore project in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Bolivia#Foreign_investment

Fuck all leftists. They can do nothing but lie.
 
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