“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”
Partially wrong. Most of what happened in Perú had been the prelude in many other countries like Venezuela and Cuba.
A leader who either took the power by force (Velazco) or by using the system, and then ruining the country for the rest (Garcia Perez). With many policies focusing on the "“wellbeing” of the people, which (sadly) backfired terribly.
Velazco is the first example, with the nationalization of many businesses; as well as the alliances with the USSR, for the acquisition of weaponry. He tried to do the “best” for the Andean people, yet many of his reforms (the most notorious being “La Reforma Agraria”) only weakened the productive capabilities of many farmlands. Only to be left forgotten, and squandered. La Piturrina in Ica being the perfect example of such.
Fortunately, Moralez Bermudez helped with the transition back to democracy.
Alan Garcia implemented many socialist policies, as already mentioned. He tried to control the prices, unaware of how it impacted on the economy of the average Peruvian. With most investments escaping the country, the Into (the currency of that time) devaluated to the point that a million of it were needed to buy one dollar.
And something I must admit I forgot to write is how we were affected.
The Constant devaluation of the currency made it difficult for the average person to buy the groceries, also diminished for only estate backed businesses operated then. A can of milk could cost almost 2 billion intis (more or less 20 dollars). Imagine feeding a kid during that time…
And thanks to the insecurity of the terrorists, we suffered constant blackouts. Imagine doing your homework by the lights of the candles… Many of my generation need glasses thanks to that.
And lastly, you would be lucky if you were alive the next day… For any second a car could explode nearby.
This is what many Peruvians, and many South Americans will warn you.
None of that sounds anything like Socialism.
It is… Unless you want to raise the “That is not the real Socialism” commentary.
Also, that is how it started in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Argentina with Kirchner.
Funny, I don’t remember reading in any theory book that “Socialism is when government tries to control prices”.
Convenient…
May I remind you? https://fee.org/articles/how-price-control-leads-to-socialism/&hl=es&sl=en&tl=es&client=srp
So you believe Socialism is when the government does stuff, yes or no?
No… Socialism is the very political and social movement in which, by taking down the very pillars of this working society without true understanding, damns it completely.
Independently on who does it.
Well there you go. You fundamentally don’t understand what Socialism even is, yet you are criticizing it and attributing capitalist failures to it.
As I suspected, you are just ignorant this entire time, or arguing in bad faith, or both. Maybe you’re just a troll, who knows. Blocked. Cheers!
And it seems that you are idealising a philosophy not even wanted in its original country. So fixed on your seat that you can’t imagine someone, let’s say a Cuban or a Venezuelan, dissing it.
Oh, and just to annoy you, Trump did more for both countries than Biden did.