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It reminds me of the Ukraine corruption when Biden demanded removal of one official as corrupt that another administration claimed was a warrior against corruption.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele defended his party's removal of the attorney general and five top judges, saying the country's constitution allows congress to do so and that the U.S. and other critics have a skewed view of what happened.
He said the dismissed attorney general, Raul Melara, had been chosen by Arena, the opposition political party, which he called unethical, and accused him of carrying out his work in a partisan manner. Salvadoran law allows congress to remove constitutional judges and the attorney general with a two-thirds legislative vote, which was surpassed on Saturday with the backing of 64 of 84 lawmakers.
"I find it strange that when I talk to countries where they do exactly the same thing, they tell us we are doing it wrong," he told members of the diplomatic corps in El Salvador on Tuesday night. U.S. officials did not attend the meeting, he added. "Elections have consequences. That's not weakening democracy. That's strengthening democracy."
On the hypocrisy scale, how does removing judges and the attorney general by the legislature compare to our congress packing the court to get their way?
In these days of spin, I have no idea who is the truth teller.
-Rod
If you see lips moving? Its a LIE. Doessn't matter which side of the aisle or the color of their tie.
I was looking at some old footage. These guys can support position 'A' today and if you look back, they were on the opposite side of the field 5 or 6 years back.
Than look at the financial meltdown of 2008. Many of those guys ended up in the Obama Administration doing financial stuff.....I think even that creep Mishkin showed up again. Mishkin is the guy who was PAID to write a paper praising the economic system of ICELAND which later imploded due to HUGE debt. Iceland population is about 1/3 million persons.
Politicians endlessly recycle these hacks which is why The People's Business if for sale.
Too much is never enough
You don't have to look to El Salvador to see the rise of Totalitarianism. It's right here in the U.S. today.Here in the U.S., it's just more fashionable and acceptable, 'cause we're not quite there yet.
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We are inclusive and diverse. But dissent will not be tolerated.
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of analogy.
Not because of 'right vs. left' but because of the sanctions we are on track to implement.
Our sanctions kept Castro in power for so long he was able to outlive Batista's thugs who escaped to Miami. When he finally died there was no one left alive to celebrate.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.
"Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan."
Yup. Great examples of the U.S. sticking our nose where it don't belong.
Well, except for Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Vietnam: It's now Communist, but we buy their stuff. Even after more than 50,000 young Americans died, we buy their Communist stuff.
Iraq: It's still a terrible mess, but we stopped Hussein from invading Kuwait, so, that's good.
Afghanistan: That country is a mess, has been "forever" and will be for the foreseeable future. Let them duke it out amongst themselves for the next thousand years.
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We are inclusive and diverse. But dissent will not be tolerated.
if they won't play ball with US-based multi-national corporations. Anything that smacks of socialism, it's the exploding cigar for you, pal.
Guy like Pinochet can assassinate his rivals in downtown DC and the CIA will help out.
The US has never, period, never cared a lick for democracy in Central and South America. Cuba? We promised it independence if it fought on our side in the Spanish American War but reneged after we won.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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You got that right. I'm in DC and remember the explosion.
"Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once." - John Coltrane.
Cpwill
Hitler was a unique character in world history. The other great butchers of the 20th Century, Stalin and Mao, can't really be compared in terms of philosophy, etc. Neither Stalin nor Mao would have started a world war, for example.
And dictators in Central and South America are nothing new. Nine times out of ten, they're handpicked by our own government, which has never had the slightest respect for democracy in the region. We pick a guy and keep him there unless he pisses off some big mult-national corporation like Pepsi. Then he gets the chop and we pick somebody new.
It wasn't too many years ago our chosen dictator in El Salvador was helping us overthrow the democratically-elected government in Nicaragua.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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