Será que algum dia vamos aprender?

"In South America, most intellectuals are still prone to populist, nationalist and socialist ideas. We lost decades of progress due to those romantically rooted beliefs. Against all evidences, the intellectuals from this part of the world insist in their old-fashioned views that generate nothing but misery, poverty, hunger and crocodile tears.
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As ideas have consequences, the political effects are clear: Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, Lula da Silva in Brazil, Nestor Kirchner in Argentina, Tabaré Vazquez in Uruguay and... maybe Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Evo Morales in Bolivia?"

Claudio Téllez, "We still have so much to learn from them"

(via Claudio Tellez)