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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

🤦

petro is not wrong; but he's given the americans full blessings to regime change colombia and absolutely no one in the west will come to his aid; not even his fellow latin americans out of fear of pissing off the americans.

PLEASE prove me wrong!!!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As if the US ever needed someone's blessing to perform a coup.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

difference is that now they don't have to invent a reason like iraqi wmd's

the point is moot however, the colombians have already caved like the americans wanted them to.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, did we invent reasons for the rest of our South American coups? We did like 20 of em in the last century. Just pretended the CIA wasn't involved.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yes: it was either the "war on drugs" or the Monroe doctrine

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Nope mate, Latin America is split into left and right. The left will do left things and the right will do right things.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Petro is from Colombia. Columbia is in Canada.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

We'll see. Honduras looks like it's trying to align everyone in the Americas.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't expect too much of the americans.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nobody except the US and its vassal states refer to it as America. It's the United States. The Americas are a huge continent of which the US and Canada are but a settler blight in.