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That was the thinking and for years it was a net positive, but we didn't consider the consequences of a nation with 40x our population that was starting to generate wealth and immediately wanted to get it out of there along with their families. It swamped us and the same happened in Australia.

Most Canadian cities have a great Chinatown and hard working immigrants. What you would get with CBI is a whole other kettle of fish.

Have to disagree with you there.

It's a good thing. Major areas of BA would have become Chinatown. Canada should have shut CBI down after the Hong Kong migration in the 80s, but they let it stand and our cities were swamped with Chinese immigrants. Homes became unaffordable to citizens. You have to laugh at the media...

Wow, that is the definition of irony

Awesome!!

Boy isn't that the truth

This is a fabulous thread :)

All he had to do? :ROFLMAO:

Hard to tell, it usually comes with a side of anger :)

I'm pretty sure my wife feeds me donkey meat whenever I've been bad :)

I'm really sorry to hear that Avocado, it's terrible to see people suffering. I truly hope better times are ahead, no matter what it takes to make that happen. In my opinion it matters enormously whether you steal X or 1000x. It's not just the obscene amount of money that kleptocrats steal...

No, the highest estimate I've seen is $5 million so it was probably less. The promoters made all the money in Libra. It was an idiotic scam that was guaranteed to blow up in Milei's face and I still shake my head at the stupidity of it. True kleptocrats operate on a completely different...

For a bit of perspective.... if you esimate Milei has stolen US$50 million so far (which may be way too high) and lets say he decides to really kick things into high gear and steal another $200 million over the remainder of his term. It's hard to see that happening with the IMF breathing down...

Thanks Betsy, that is interesting reading and a very different lens on Argentina

No it doesn't, but he probably needs to steel another $9.95 billion before he ever catches up to her

Thanks Silvia, I certainly appreciate that perspective, especially the way you put it. The other side of it is that Argentina was already in a deep hole when Cristina took power and needed real leadership. She knew this of course but had no interest in making difficult choices, she just spent...

I agree about Milei and his sister and have said so many times. So has everybody else here. Cristina deserves a lot worse than an ankle bracelet. She is a major kleptocrat and a symbol of all that is wrong with Latin American politics, I cannot believe that some people still revere her.

Some companies would see that as a positive :)

We've been over this before, Avocado. Everyone here has been plenty critical of Milei, but I've yet to hear you say anything bad about the Kirchner's.