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Re:2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for t... by scarmig on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @04:33PM (#7098574)
It's easy to overstate how leftist many of the governments there are. Outside of Venezuela (and Cuba), I wouldn't consider anything they have done surprisingly or inappropriately leftist. Photo-ops with Chavez or Castro are meant more for domestic PR than anything policy related.
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Re:2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for t... by GFischer on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @12:59PM (#7104239)
Most are more authoritarian than leftist, but they are all way more leftist than the U.S. government.

Argentina, for example, has nationalized the oil companies (YPF), and price-fixes and subsidies most utilities, and has started price-fixing food.

Uruguay has also on a lower scale tried price fixing.

Both, plus Brazil, have extensive welfare programs (with the dual purpose of capturing vote for the ruling parties of course).

Such things are typically characterized as leftist.

Sources: I'm Uruguayan.

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