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I agree, it's not just the social ideology that keeps them loyal, they are also fearful of deterioration on the ground if Maduro leaves, too many variables at play, but he had already destroyed everything there is to destroy and with new elections relative stability can be returned where people...

Venezuelans are still socialists at heart and haven't really assumed the responsibility for their miscalculations in the voting process, same goes for Argentines who refuse to admit to their nationalist obsessions and skewed sense of self-determination. Modern-day sovereignty, the way it used to...

hell, we should all move to NZ

No accountability, impunity and zero consequences for poor performance, in an environment like this why would anyone want to work? Just think about the simplicity of the situation. All your efforts to report and change that would prove useless. The governing authority is the one responsible to...

The answer is to implement the following things ASAP: 1. Change the judiciary 2. Enforce regulations and the rule of law in general, including debt collections 3. Restructure the education system from ground up and monitor progress accountability, accountability, accountability... This cannot...

Argentina is headed down Venezuela style and yet it doesn't have to be that way. Is it a surprise that Argentina once again decided to kick the can down the road collectively by postponing the inevitable facing of reality? This happened because of denial. No proud Argentine wants to believe...

@ cooper Easy is the last man in the chain that sells overpriced lumber and cutting all my pieces in their parking lot would make it impractical since it would take quite some time, i'm interested to see if there is a retailer that gets bulk timber from Misiones and then cuts it to size once...

While building a fairly large chicken coop for someone I know, the crazy lumber prices -- is something that's hard to ignore, but why would they charge this much at the maderera if the wood isn't even dried properly and does not come in accurate standard size? the 2x4 isn't actually 2x4, i have...

yes the produce is shitting and being someone who cooks all the time that's the first thing i've noticed when i started shopping around for produce here in argentina. the reasons are simple, the retailers don't care about providing good customer service and shoppers don't boycott outlets with...

It sounds like: "Pay me if you want us to do a good job, otherwise our other, less trained staff will do as their please..." Why would anyone fall for that?

@steveinbsas, @semigoodlookin I've been living in Argentina since January of 2015. I used to take public transit to work at a plastic shop before I lost my job a couple of months ago, I worked with negros from the villa nearby (I live in the Great Buenos Aires area) who cannot read and write...

I wonder about the same thing and believe (please correct me if i'm wrong guessing) what @Fiscal is really asking is why haven't they thought about improving their customer service in order to better their own business model which would then result in a win-win situation for everybody. Or put...

@perry Brazil does not want foreigners meddling in its own backyard and stealing its market share. Let's not forget the economic volatility of developing nations and their dependence on commodity exports. Brazil is heavily reliant on its domestic commodity market and about 25% of total exports...

@camberiu Brazil would have to get involved in Argentina militarily in certain circumstances and not because it wants to, this is the likely scenario once the balance of power is being compromised and additional players are beginning to threaten Brazil's own security and economic relationship...

@camberiu It might be funny to you now and I'm glad we can still be so relaxed in this country but Jair Bolsonaro is very emboldened to amend and maybe even rewrite the Brazillian constitution (his intent) and handle things the rough way, coming from a military background he could very well...

@perry I don't mind defending my opinion and happy to respond to your comment. When I call for invasion I do not necessarily call for chaos and destruction, this isn't a colonial push. My conclusions come from the observation that under pressure countries evolve into better places by lifting...

@gracielle The reason why I accept foreign intervention is because I don't believe Argentines are capable of self-governance. Look at what happened in Ukraine as an example, Russia attacked them and annexed a portion of their territory in 2014, killed a bunch of their people and even with the...

I don't know about government officials but I can tell you that the plastic industry where I work is highly corrupt, here are examples: 1. some domestic suppliers are faking numerous plastic products such as nylon, they makes low quality pellets from recycled plastic or low grade industrial...

I wasn't joking, I would be so devastated that I probably seek revenge if someone decided to siphon my life-savings into their offshore account, especially considering the fact that police in this country wouldn't care to help. After that, I would try to escape the consequences by running away...

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