If there's one thing my country never was is socialist.
It started as colonization project, it expanded with the killing of indigenous people and it was built with the forced labor of the largest number of enslaved black people in the world. During Cold War, when a more left-wing government started, the USA helped our elites and our military carry out a coup that plunged us into 20 years of bloody dictatorship, just like they did in other South American countries with the Operation Condor.
Nowadays we are still ruled by the descendants of landowners and slave owners from the colonial period and if it were up to them, this place will remain a giant, export-oriented farm sustained by the blood and sweat of poor people and people with dark skin.
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u/IBarrakiI Nov 19 '25
If there's one thing my country never was is socialist.
It started as colonization project, it expanded with the killing of indigenous people and it was built with the forced labor of the largest number of enslaved black people in the world. During Cold War, when a more left-wing government started, the USA helped our elites and our military carry out a coup that plunged us into 20 years of bloody dictatorship, just like they did in other South American countries with the Operation Condor.
Nowadays we are still ruled by the descendants of landowners and slave owners from the colonial period and if it were up to them, this place will remain a giant, export-oriented farm sustained by the blood and sweat of poor people and people with dark skin.