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Offline endicom

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American Thinker
Monica Showalter
Oct. 19, 2018

Like President Trump, Brazil's likely new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is openly embracing free-market economics – the hardcore Chicago Boys kind that was last seen transforming Chile into a first-world country.  The real stuff.

I'm going to argue that that's big, really big – not only because Brazil is a leftist sump of longtime culturally embedded socialism and dependency - but because hardcore free-market economics, the kind that turned Chile from a Venezuela-style hell-hole into a true first-world economy in a mere decade or two, has long been a dirty word in Latin America.

Bolsonaro doesn't care.

More... https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/10/brazils_bolsonaro_chooses_the_chicago_boys_for_a_trumpsized_economic_revival.html

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Excellent choice.  Worked for Pinochet.


That alone will make Leftist heads explode.

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If your other choice is to end up like that socialist shithole Venezuela, then the choice was/is very logical.
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