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Brazil Falling Apart
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:54 pm
https://archive.fo/Zmfu3
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44258652
COUNTRY PARALYZED AS TRUCKERS GO ON STRIKE
GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO SEND IN ARMY
Brazil fuel protests: Drivers to clear roads over army threat
Highways around São Paulo have been blocked
The strike has brought the country to a standstill, with queues at petrol stations, airports running out of fuel and supermarket shelves empty.
Obviously more info in the link but a country the size of Brazil failing could have lots of refugees trying to escape...
This post was edited on 5/26/18 at 2:57 pm
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Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:58 pm to zatetic
They got some fine wimminz down there!
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:58 pm to zatetic
Isn't this one of the countries leftists always tell us we're going to look like in 50 years like it's a good thing?
Can't wait.
Can't wait.
This post was edited on 5/26/18 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:58 pm to zatetic
Just goes to show that the suspension of logistical services for even a day or two can completely cripple an economy, whether it's from infrastructure destruction/failure, or from the refusal of labor from the 'boots on the ground'.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:59 pm to zatetic
I think we can let some of the women in. 
Posted on 5/26/18 at 2:59 pm to HempHead
who is that in avitar?
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:00 pm to zatetic
From reading between the lines, this appears to be due to the current government, which replaced an impeached one, getting rid of subsidies for gas prices.
Is this correct?
Is this correct?
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:00 pm to goatmilker
Yuri Bezmenov
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:00 pm to KSGamecock
quote:
Isn't this one of the country the leftists always tell us we're going to look like in 50 years like it's a good thing?
We already do. Large metro areas full of upper-class whites and lower-class blacks and mestizos and a chunk of the country thats 85%+ white.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:01 pm to zatetic
Who was gleefully telling us here that's where China could now get their soy beans to 'stick it' to Trump on his trade negotiations?
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:01 pm to Bob Sacamano
quote:
I think we can let some of the women in.
Better check them for AIDS at the border
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:02 pm to KSGamecock
Brazil outside of the elite enclaves is like Africa, and they have some of the most vicious ciminals in the world
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:02 pm to Strannix
quote:
Brazil outside of the elite enclaves is like Africa, and they have some of the most vicious ciminals in the world
The southern areas of the country are fairly okay.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:03 pm to zatetic
Good luck selling your soybeans to China.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:03 pm to zatetic
I hope this doesn't affect the Brazilian Fart Porn industry.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:03 pm to HempHead
Very true.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:06 pm to zatetic
They should invade Venezuela for oil
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:07 pm to teke184
quote:
reading between the lines
I believe the lines are a (maybe formerly maybe still) corrupt country is breaking apart as it tries to normalize itself. With that said it would take a lot more knowledge on the full dynamics of Brazil economic situation to read between the lines. Obviously when you switch economic systems there will be places that have to be ironed out before something "works."
But this seems to be the on the face of it catalyst:
"The state-owned oil company Petrobras adopted a pro-market policy of tracking international oil prices after President Michel Temer took office following the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016."
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:13 pm to zatetic
I thought having the Olympics would fix all that.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 3:35 pm to Y.A. Tittle
WildTchoupitoulas in response to me
To which I told him
And shite, this gridlock is out on the freeway. Not even on the rough arse, falling apart, farm roads
To which I told him
quote:
Right, right. But production means jackshit if you can’t get it from the field to elevator to the port. When the weather turns bad down there it’s not unusual at all for one truck to take a week or two getting to the elevator. South America isn’t a bad place to buy from to supplement what you’re getting from the U.S. but to get all your beans from them, well I just hope they don’t have many vegetarians over there.
And shite, this gridlock is out on the freeway. Not even on the rough arse, falling apart, farm roads
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