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News & Current Events Apr 18, 2026 at 1:23 PM

Colombia's Petro warns of Latin American 'rebellion' if US doesn't rethink policy

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Ultra_Metal Apr 18, 2026 +73
Most countries in Latin America have been voting for right wing, pro-US politicians lately. If anything, the "rebellion" is against the far left politicians that have ruined Latin American countries for years.
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Particular-Algae2620 Apr 18, 2026 +15
The pendulum swings both ways though - a lot of those right-wing governments are facing serious backlash now for failing to deliver on economic promises.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 18, 2026 -10
Most of those governments have been in power for a very short time. Milei's policies are beginning to bear fruit and the Argentinean economy has improved. Bolivia's economy is also starting to improve and the currency stabilized under Paz's new policies.
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FuggyGlasses Apr 19, 2026 +2
Milei Senator: "if We'd All Eat Donkey We'd Have a Healthy population." https://share.google/S4YDzwKm2G7sEyCFy
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Estrelleta44 Apr 18, 2026 +4
Exactamente!
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cutcss Apr 18, 2026 +5
Colombia had the biggest economic grow of the region in 2025, with a 2.6 GDP growing.
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DigitaIBlack Apr 18, 2026 +7
Which looks nice on paper till you see what's going on on the ground. A lot of it has to do with the migrant crisis but things ain't going too hot unfortunately
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cutcss Apr 18, 2026 +9
The Colombian minimum wage had a 23% increase starting this year, not really sure what you mean about immigrant crisis in the context of economic growth (I assume you mean Venezuelans)
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DigitaIBlack Apr 18, 2026 -1
Have you been to Colombia recently? Do you know people that live there? Things have been a bit of a shitshow since disarmament. Things are not sunshine and rainbows there.
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cutcss Apr 18, 2026 +7
I live here in Colombia, yes, and the right wings are mad that the economy is doing well because they want Petro to look bad.
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DigitaIBlack Apr 18, 2026 -1
We've suspended fiscal rule and have been running budgets assuming tax revenues that then didn't realize. This isn't just unsustainable in the longterm, it's not sustainable in the short-term. Credit ratings are already junk or on the brink of it.
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cutcss Apr 18, 2026 +4
The right wing has a lot of the blame for the non-deductibility of mining royalties (Margarita Cabello to be precise) which had a huge impact on the tax revenues that didn't realized
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Liuu_ Apr 18, 2026 -4
Same is happening in Brazil.
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imaginary_num6er Apr 18, 2026 +1
Everywhere in the world is a shitshow now
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interrupt_hdlr Apr 19, 2026 +1
Latin America sure loves some dictatorship.
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Speedracer666 Apr 18, 2026 +7
We don’t have any policies. For anything.
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RickardsRed77 Apr 18, 2026 +6
Do it!
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Mysterious_Past6277 Apr 19, 2026 -2
Sure if they want to be conquered... all of the Americas could attack the US, and would lose badly. 
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Unfair_Resolution836 Apr 18, 2026 +10
Dude wants to get kidnapped so bad.
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Lain_Staley Apr 18, 2026 -4
Its not entirely out of the realm of possibility that Maduro arranged it. With wife in tow.
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ResponsibleClock9289 Apr 18, 2026 +9
Yeah good luck. Not only have more US-friendly governments been being elected recently, but the US has been quietly moving manufacturing to Mexico and other Latin American countries Looks more like Mr Petro knows his time is limited and he’s losing friends all around him.
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SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING Apr 18, 2026 +8
They need their own NATO style defense alliance or they’re toast. No single LATAM country of course has a flicker hope on their own if US decides to mess with them. Venezuela was a test case. Cuba is the second one.
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Epyr Apr 18, 2026 +33
LATAM countries don't really like each other enough to do that though. There is a lot of rivalry between them and they are not even close to being a unified group of people
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CupcakeSeaShanty Apr 18, 2026 +4
Europe didn't either and it took multiple catastrophes before they turned around. There's no doubt they see one coming.
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GoliathTCB Apr 18, 2026 +1
It'd be crazy if that was a result of larger economies outside of latam deliberately destabilizing the region to exploit it for its rich and abundant commodities and c**** labor. That would be nuts.
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Epyr Apr 18, 2026 +1
That's a factor but a lot of the hatred and distrust comes from within the LATAM community. It's always easy to blame someone else instead of looking internally for issues
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Ultra_Metal Apr 18, 2026 +30
Most people in Latin America are very happy about the ouster of Maduro. He was reviled in the entire region. The Cuban regime is hated as well. Most countries in Latin America have been voting for right wing, pro-US leaders lately. They have rejected far left politics because it has ruined countries like Cuba and Venezuela and they don't want the same thing to happen to their countries too.
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TheSaxGandalf Apr 18, 2026 -16
No. They have rejected moderate politics because of manufactured fear and simply lack of deeper understanding of different roles a governments may perform.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 18, 2026 +3
Moderate? LOL, it's obvious you don't know much about politics in Latin America.
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Ironvos Apr 18, 2026 +6
I don't think the point would be to win a direct conflict but to deter from having one. Taking on even an inferior military will have a great cost for whoever wants to attack, as we have seen many times in the last 50 years. Attacking a combined South America would have big consequences, even for the US.
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SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING Apr 18, 2026 +3
Point of a defensive alliance is to make it cost prohibitive. Invading Cuba is easy. Getting into a war with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela is not easy.
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Estrelleta44 Apr 18, 2026 +2
Dominican here, nah we are in favor of what the US did in Venezuela and i hope he does invade Cuba.
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Willgetyoukilled Apr 18, 2026
Jamaicans want you to f*** right off.
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faafo2434 Apr 18, 2026 +2
Are you one of the Iran invasion advisors?
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ItsDarkAndHeckIsHot Apr 18, 2026 -5
Welcome to 2026 where smaller countries can wage asymmetric warfare on the global economy via export controls, refusal to pay back loans, etc. Iran is a loose model. While may smaller countries don’t have the same leverage as the strait of Hormuz, a bloc could certainly make folks in the US lives more expensive, and that kills an American politicians career as surely as a bullet.
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Gentle_Capybara Apr 18, 2026 +2
Meh. I'm a leftist myself, but the idea of rebellion and revolution in South America only exists inside the heads of these stalinist tankie geezers. LATAM people aren't revolutionary or ever wanted a guerrila warfare. It's 40ºC inside the jungle, the army will torture you just for fun, and the people are heterogeneous and individualist. What we want is fun, beer, football, and not a communist utopia that will never happen. These old leftists are elitist and come from the darkest corners of public colleges. That's why they are always going further and further from the public desires and opinion.
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Estrelleta44 Apr 18, 2026
🤣🤣 Only he and his narco guerrilla buddies are going to “rebell”. hes an absolute moron
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Danheru Apr 18, 2026 +1
He appears on events while being drunk and high on drugs, he has his family living abroad while preaching socialism, like all of them do. Theyre just evil people. Hopefully one day all of it is purged
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Neilandio Apr 18, 2026 -2
lol, as if. Latam countries love to be beaten and humiliated, that's why they like Trump.
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Complete-Sort1617 Apr 18, 2026 -18
Get it Colombia. Viva La Revolucion, wey.
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