Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Latin America reports worst economic crisis in over a century" video.

  1. Plus a hopelessly gullible public who continue to vote for said political class as they love their social programs and free stuff. Economic consequences be damned!
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  2.  @franzjoseph1837  The USSR's prosperity didn't last once commodity prices dropped and its model got exposed by the US's military spending. <ol bro look up the definition of communism. It's worker ownership of the means of production.> But in practice, the workers who owned the means of production were not ordinary people but party elites and affiliates.
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  3. <while Latin America, dominated by Spain and Portugal, is still a mess> Including Spain and Portugal themselves.
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  4. Chile due to US intervention. Who knew that ousting Allende in favor of Pinochet would turn out to be a good thing in the long run?
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  5.  @dennisweidner288  Exactly.
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  6.  @jakebryant9723  Only to squander it and then cry poverty. The people are partly the reason why Argentina can't get any leaders who can implement any meaningful reforms to get its finances in order without fear of unrest or ouster.
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