There are worse places I could live …
Dissidents and journalists are being arrested, during protests outside the ruling party congress, where the nomenclatura is seeking a figurehead to replace the discredited leader and hopes to avoid a takeover by a centerist reformist groups. The outgoing leader, who came to power in an election marked by open fraud and ballot stuffing, is the son of the country’s former secret police chief.
In their desperation, the ruling party turned to an elderly, ailing wealthy Senator who will be running on a joint ticket with the governor of a distant oil-rich province known for it’s corrupt leadership and right-wing separatist movements. Sources suggest the governor is supports a religious fundamentalist paramilitary organization. The Governor has been compared to Hugo Chavez, and not in a good way.
Miltary adventurism, economic mismanagement, a long term “state of emergency’, the curtailment of civil liberties and a suspected link to terrorism are all cited by outside observers as factors in the eroding support for the ruling party.
(Obviously, this isn’t Bolivia — though my thinking about this, and the fascist warning sign — owe quite a bit to Duderino’s creative genius.)
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Much more descriptive than mine. All true. I love that fascism as well, definitely worth the steal.
Brilliant! Very sad, too.