Here we go again... Always Argentina
On my bucket list is to go to South America, but jeez those countries always seem to be on the precipice of some sort of coup or financial disaster of some sort.How many times have they defaulted on debt? Must be three or four. Spain really left this entire continent in a crap hole. Not sure if we can blame them now though. Maybe Che is responsible.
A few ASX listed stocks playing in Argentina have had a poor couple of weeks. This may be part of it, but not sure how selling stuff in USD affects them.
On my bucket list is to go to South America, but jeez those countries always seem to be on the precipice of some sort of coup or financial disaster of some sort.
One if my clients is from Uruguay, came out with family. Reckons she'd go back if the rest of them weren't here. Got another client cycling through Columbia, Ecuador and Peru ATM. Will have to wait for the report on thatSome amazing things to see...
It's interesting comparing New World countries that were colonised by either England, France, the Dutch, Spain and Portugal. Some seem to have gone a little better than others.
Uruguay is the Swiss land of Latin America, a bit boring even...but boring Latino vs Australia..I understand her.One if my clients is from Uruguay, came out with family. Reckons she'd go back if the rest of them weren't here. Got another client cycling through Columbia, Ecuador and Peru ATM. Will have to wait for the report on that
Uruguay is the Swiss land of Latin America, a bit boring even...but boring Latino vs Australia..I understand her.
Was disappointed by Chile..and expect same in Argentina..a leftist mindset, arrogant, lazy and pseudo intellectual...all same points leading to the fall of my native country which I could recognise with horror in Chile.and expect to see same in Argentina .pending visit...
Interested by Brazil and Mexico , especially the later...time and travel will tell
Arriving late '79, I spent 12 months in S. America .. a circumambulation ot the continent, mainly on buses.
First stop Chile, one word that was whispered then was desaparecido. People were scared of Pinochet and the military.
Missed the Chilean navy supply ship (no cruise ships in those dsys) to the Antarctic bases so i crossed from Osorno to Bariloche, hitched to Neuquen and enquired about a train ticket to Bahia Blanca.... 20,500 pesos. Went and changed just enough USD for the ticket, went back to buy and the price was 22,800 pesos. Welcome to inflation, Argentina style.
As pointed in my post, the french ideal of intellectuals sipping coffee, not working, hating money and fromenting revolution is not exactly an economic winner.What's France's most successful colony frog? Quebec? New Caledonia? I like Vietnam but I'm not sure what you left them except for bread sticks which produced the amazing Banh Mi.
Pondichéry?Maybe someone can think of a success story?
Maybe someone can think of a success story?
First stop Chile, one word that was whispered then was desaparecido. People were scared of Pinochet and the military.
The radical conservative libertarian, Javier Milei, surprisingly won the first round of the Argentine presidential election (30%) and is now the favorite to win the run-off in November.
As pointed in my post, the french ideal of intellectuals sipping coffee, not working, hating money and fromenting revolution is not exactly an economic winner.
We did well a lonnnng time ago by helping the creation of the USA (constitution etc), and Napoleon thru his European empire did bring civil laws, democracy systems,engineering and national schoolings, police department etc..but since the fall of France after wwi..no real french colony I would dream of...
Africa is a dumpxxx where the french intellectuals created their own anti colonialist movement, and where most countries have been going backward in the last 50y..but for population numbers ,numbers now overriding the colonial power on the mainland.
Places like la reunion, and Guadeloupe are a kind of success in a multi racial and multi religious integrated into a french nation/lifestyle but the last 30 y of socialism has transformed these in our equivalent of NT: multigenerationsl welfare dumps in paradise.
At least, even the far left there is not yet planning to give them yet the voice?.
So no brilliant ex colony or still attached colony I can think of.
By nature, the heavy PS, centrally controlled french government does not fit well with a distributed territory.
Paris making decision on the legal fishing size or rent fixed price in st Miquelon off terra nova, or Tahiti....nope does not work well.
And we left these government models as legacy in former colonies.
Maybe someone can think of a success story
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