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Raised in Argentina, lived in other parts of South America for various time periods, taught, wrote, and did US government service on Latin American and international issues, retired triathlete, loves futbol, family and birds.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
When it comes to internal governance, small political parties are like small towns: most politics is personal.#nzpol
pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
www.kiwipolitico.com/2025/10/a-fo...
A Fool’s Pied Piper.
For a while I have mentioned that too much of NZ political “thought” is re-hashed and often washed up ideas brought in from abroad. Both neo-liberalism and “Third Way” Labou…
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
This is for the NZ fools who think that this guy is worth emulating. Here is looking at you, ACT!

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This is Why You Don’t Let Libertarians Run Your Country
In Argentina, President Javier Milei has screwed the economy up so badly he needs a $20 billion bailout. That’s because his “free market” economics don’t actually work.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 1d
Cognitive dissonance is watching dancing at well-organized Tel Aviv hostage release street parties, then switching to images of Palestinian relatives standing in rubble waiting for Israeli prisoners to return to what is left of "home." There is an uncomfortable asymmetry to it.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 4d
Here is a little rant based on recent events in NZ: www.kiwipolitico.com/2025/10/the-...
The enemy within.
Rather than a measured analysis delving into complex and intricate political issues, this post winds up being a bit of a rant. That is because the subject is simple and deserves our disdain. I shal…
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 7d
A politician specialised in race baiting, xenophobic and misogynistic insults who joined anti-govt protests that called for a PM's execution cries crocodile tears about opponents "inciting" violence against him when someone smashes his house window in protest. Double standard?
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 18d
We can assume that there is something at work behind the scenes for NZ to refuse the Palestinian right to Statehood. Whether that factor is domestic, foreign or a combination of both is a matter of conjecture but it removes NZ as a champion of a global norms-based order. Craven.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 23d
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 23d
favor does NZ expect to curry from its supine obsequiousness and from who? Or are internal NACTFIRST politics and/or interest group lobbying steering its approach (against the advice of the diplomatic corps)? Either way, the position is untenable as well as indefensible.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 23d
After much public hinting, 5 Eyes partners Australia, Canada and the UK delayed announcing recognition of Palestinian right Statehood in order for NZ join them against an intransigent US stance. NZ has not, so they have now gone ahead with the announcement before the UNGA. What
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 23d
For all the talk of faith, freedom, free speech and Christian values, the Kirk memorial was a cynical celebration of intolerance posing as righteous sacrifice. Some of the speeches were an incitement, not just a wink and a nod to darker impulses. Rough times ahead.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 28d
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 28d
genocide in Gaza. The NZ Left in opposition could use the moment to apply serious heat on the coalition over these evident failures but instead is rendered by in-fighting, personal hubris, conflicts over ideology and strategy, timidity and scandal. No carpe diem moment in sight.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 28d
Timing is everything in politics. The NZ Deputy Prime Minister tried to offer a tribute to an openly racist misogynist foreign homophobe in parliament, and the govt refuses to condemn Israel or recognise Palestinian statehood even though the UN says that the former is committing
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 29d
That would be the Rakon missile guidance system components. Perhaps no new licenses have been issued--although several have been to the likes of the Saudis--but the Rakon supply of the originally licensed missile guidance components continues. As does the slaughter of innocents by those missiles.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 29d
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 29d
Surely those licenses can pulled in order to avoid appearing to be complicit in facilitating genocide? Has that happened? If not, why not?
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · 29d
PM Luxon says that the bilateral volume of trade between Israel and NZ is so small that sanctions will not work. But some of that trade is in military technologies that require special export licenses approved by MFAT.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · Sep 10
When it comes to hate-mongering, one reaps what one sows.
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · Aug 22
I turned my previous comment here into a blogpost at Kiwipolitico: www.kiwipolitico.com/2025/08/comp...
Comparative value versus comparative worth.
Recent NACTFirst government assaults on female pay equity, public sector employment, labour regulations and other worker’s rights (to say nothing of trying to roll back Maori Treaty rights an…
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · Aug 20
Given govt claims that teachers are paid very well and shouldn't be striking for pay increases, an academic friend passed along this chart. It begs the questions: who is more valuable for NZ society? Who is delivering more worth?
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pablopersonal.bsky.social @pablopersonal.bsky.social · Aug 17
Apparently some European leaders will go with him to the meeting. I hope that none of them wear suits.
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