Justin’s note: Regular readers know that our founder Doug Casey lives in Uruguay… but not many know why. In fact, most people don’t even know much about the country in general.
In today’s Conversations With Casey, Doug shares what’s happening in the country right now… and the main reason to consider living there today.
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Justin’s note: “Why Uruguay?”
My friend asked me this question a couple of weeks ago after I said I was going to visit Doug Casey at his Uruguayan ranch.
He couldn’t understand why someone like Doug would choose to live there. Granted, he didn’t know much about the country. But most Americans don’t, either. Heck, I didn’t even know much about the place before I got there.
So, that was one of the first things I asked Doug when I got to his ranch. Below is his response…
Justin: So, Doug. Why Uruguay?
What do you see in the picture below? Old Boomers collecting Social Security? Old fuckers who should just die?
Well, that’s Senator Lucia Topolansky drinking a traditional tea of yerba mate on the farm she shares with President Jose Mujica. The country is Uruguay.
He makes $120,000 annually. Probably a lot of money in Uruguay. But, he gives away 90% to charities. He drives a beat up old Volkswagen. He refuses to live in the presidential palace. He attends important functions in sandals.
She is very interesting. She comes from a monied background, attended the best schools and studied architecture at a first-rate college. These days, she lives on a ramshackle flower farm with a three-legged dog.
She’s simply not interested in wealth, she says, and she hopes to set an example for her country, and possibly the rest of the world. “Just like people, a government has to dream, and it has to dream big!” Topolansky said. “The government that says it has fulfilled its dreams simply needs to dream bigger.”
She was a real bad-ass in her younger years having served 13 years behind bars as punishment for her involvement in the guerrilla movement … and even orchestrating two stunning jailbreaks.
You will love this.
In 1969 she worked for a private banking institution, Monty Financial House, to fund her way through architecture school. She discovers a black market financial operation going on behind the scenes. She contacts banking regulators and the press. No one listens. So, she contacts some buddies in a rebel group, — the Tupamaros. An armed raid follows. Incriminating papers and ledgers are found. (They also steal a bunch of cash to help fund the cause. lmao). It resulted in the prosecution of high-level bankers!
These two are people of character and accomplishment. They LIVE their convictions. I could support and follow people like this. We need leaders like this in America.
What do we get? Two narcissistic, ego-maniacal, wealth-loving Monkeyfuks of zero accomplishment who lie with every breath they take. (If there is a God, He must hate America.)
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More details here; http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/politics/world-leaders/140329/think-uruguay-s-president-fascinating-meet-his-wife-0
PS: SSS would LOVE this country. President Mujica signed a law making Uruguay the first country on the planet that will grow, harvest, sell and tax marijuana. (I’m glad to know that we Americans are more free than those poor bastards.)