re: Colombia just elected a Marxist ex-terrorist as President

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There's a reason that Simon Bolivar said that democracy really wasn't a fit for Central and South American peoples, and that they had to be ruled by a strong hand. It's one of the reasons I'm adamantly against Puerto Rico becoming a state. It's basically another Spanish-language third world country with American financial subsidies and the thinnest of Constitutional veneers

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One of my friends’ brother is a missionary to Haiti and she was asking him what they can do to fix the corruption in the country and his answer was that they pretty much need a heavy handed benevolent dictator/fascist. Not somebody who’s going to kill/jail his opposition but be able to clean house and permanently expel the corruption.