Comment by igleria
15 hours ago
> Recently the newly elected president criticized foundational research saying it doesn't "turn into jobs" and instead "ends up in an expensive book abandoned in a library"
Guess what the other far right president of the region says (Argentina's). Makes me sad.
It's the same for the whole region, friend. Shut up and keep mining, harvesting, or raising these cows for the gringos, ain't no need to get clever about it.
Unless the PRC is a gringo now, you should not limit your concern to the US. The easiest propaganda technique - and trivially easy to accomplish with basic agents and existing social platforms - is divide and conquer.
Get people fighting about who is exploiting them, and they cannot unite against anyone exploiting them.
edit: no need to make the thread deeper. I agree with your reply, too. Two things can be correct at once, and usually are.
I'm well aware of the share of commodity exports that goes to China. I'm also well aware of the history of US intervention and its brutality in South America and what it did to keep the region its backyard. Now, if the PRC wants to do the same, they need to seriously step up their game, because it was a LOT.