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Lol as an American, good luck with that. You'll probably have some "good times" in early to mid-stage capitalism. Then, you'll reach late stage and realize it's all rigged.
Nah. The tracks are laid already. They'll go straight to late stage. Turns out the problem was never free market versus heavily regulated. It was always rich people twisting the system.
Yeah, it's not like there's been a good track record in Latin America of socialism being allowed to be implemented. There's basically 2 countries you could call socialist, and both are sanctioned and under constant threat of regime change.
That sounds like how Latin America already works...
Well yeah, and that's the false promise being sold to these people. At least with the economy and national resources under government care there's a hope to clear out corruption and a certain amount of welfare had to exist to get votes. Once it all goes private it's going to be ten times worse because there's no such check on a corporation. They'll just sell your potatoes right out from under you and bring in foreign troops to enforce it.
This isn't really a major shift for Panama, it was already a fairly right-wing country. People voted for Mulino because life was good and the economy was strong under Martinelli and they want those days back, not because they particularly like his policies.
That title is a stretch on so many sides. But it's DW after all so it's unsurprising
You could, maybe, try to make the argument that the use of the term "pro-business" is not meant in a laudatory sense. However, I find even this to be a stretch and, especially, if the article is written for an international audience.
They could have well framed the article around the the multiple controversies surrounding these characters. Heck, Mulino (who is standing in for Panama's criminally condemned former President), is said to visit Cuba with certain frequency or, at the very least, uses a private jet that does.
Election results always seem to mean exactly what the person writing about them has been telling everyone for years. Funny that.
Latin America is big, populated and diverse. Argentina, Ecuador, Panamá, Salvador are still outliers
Edit: most of those countries were in deep institutional crisis for years (Idk about panama). I doubt this is a new wave.
Somebody has to tell them, there's no such thing as free markets. All big players will just set up shell companies and own your country too.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Following the recent election victories of pro-business candidates in Argentina and Ecuador, voters in Panama also chose a staunch free-market advocate as their next president in a poll held earlier this month.
In November last year, far-right libertarian Javier Milei won the presidency in Argentina, vowing to "exterminate" rampant inflation and "put a chainsaw to the state."
The Harvard Kennedy School graduate focused his campaign on job creation, recommending tax exemptions and incentives for new businesses and pledging to attract more foreign investment.
Winfried Weck from the German Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Panama City says Mulino has adopted the economic strategy that was considered successful during the 2009-2014 Martinelli presidency.
Despite Argentina's nascent recovery, Christian Hauser, a Latin America expert at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden, Switzerland, warns against excessive expectations.
For now, though, Latin America's three new pro-market presidents will have to wait until after next month's elections for the EU Parliament to see if Europeans will seize the opportunity to create more growth on both sides of the Atlantic.
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