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  • This house as Nicolas Maduro would seek to voluntarily step down from power

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    Venezuela has an autocratic socialist government lead by president Nicolas Maduro. Currently, the country is experiencing significant political and economic instability due to international sanctions, sagging oil prices, and coup attempts allegedly backed by the USA

    Parassat Open · 4 · 2020-05-10

  • This house regrets the decision to let the FARC run as a political party.

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    In August 2016 the Colombian government and the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed to a historic peace treaty, ending a 50-year conflict. Amongst its conditions, it allowed guerrilla leaders to run for office, gave the FARC state funding to form a political party, and it both allowed regions whom the FARC claims to represent to elect additional representatives in Colombian elections and awarded the FARC 10 guaranteed seats in Parliament for the first two election terms (from 2018 to 2026).

    Erasmus Rotterdam Open 2020 · 3 · 2020-03-20

  • This house believes that universities should not take into account the Ser Bachiller test score for university entrance.

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    The Ser Bachiller test is a standardized exam whose result is one of the factors to determine admission to higher education in Ecuador.

    Campeonato de debate Libre e Independiente de Guayaquil 2020 · 1 · 2020-03-09

  • This house believes that the recent Monetary Policy decisions of the US Federal Reserve have brought more harm than good to the Ecuadorian economy.

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    Countries with dollarized economies are subject to the monetary policy decisions made by the United States Federal Reserve, since this is the Central Bank that issues the dollar. After twelve years without making any cuts, the Federal Reserve has made four consecutive interest rate cuts between August 2019 and March 2020.

    Campeonato de debate Libre e Independiente de Guayaquil 2020 · Open Final · 2020-03-09

  • This house would support the economic and commercial integration of Latin America through the adoption of a single currency for the entire region similar to the euro in the countries of the Euro Zone.

    Campeonato de debate Libre e Independiente de Guayaquil 2020 · 4 · 2020-03-09

  • That we regret the removal of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia

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    Evo Morales was elected President of Bolivia in 2006. During his presidency, he undertook a number of economic and social reforms, including massively increasing royalties from oil and gas companies to begin repairing the economy, and investing significantly in social reforms such as education and welfare. He also introduced term limits for the presidency. Morales ran for president in 2019. this move was challenged in the supreme court as a breach of the term limits he had introduced, but ultimately he was permitted to run. The election was marred with irregularities, which led to widescale public protests. Morales (and other high ranking officials from his party (MAS)) eventually resigned under the pressure from the protests. In December, the President of the Senate, Jeanine Áñez, was made interim President. She is a member of the conservative Christian party, MDS.

    2020 Commonwealth Debating Championship · 5 · 2020-02-28

  • That we regret the 2019 election of Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernandez de Kirschner in Argentina.

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    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was President of Argentina from 2007 until 2015. She is a leftist populist Peronist. Her presidency included many successful reforms on social welfare in Argentina, but was also marred with corruption (including alleged bribes stolen from the Venezuelan national oil company to fund her campaign, and providing government contracts to former members of her party). this ultimately cost her the 2015 election, where she was replaced by Mauricio Macri. Macri ran on a platform of political and economic reform, and alleviating poverty in Argentina. Under his leadership, inflation rocketed to 56%, and poverty increased from 29% to 35%. While still under investigation for corruption, Kirchner announced that she would run as the VP running mate to Alberto Fernández at the 2019 election, in an attempt to depose Macri. They were successfully elected. It is likely that she will not face prosecution now for any of the corruption charges for which she was being investigated.

    2020 Commonwealth Debating Championship · 5 · 2020-02-28

  • This house, as Michel Temer, regrets nothing

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    For the purposes of this debate, Michel Temer, the Vice-President, in 2016, planned and executed a coup of Etat against Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil.

    UFMG IV · Open Final · 2019-12-20

  • This house believes that religious institutions should use radically leftist interpretations of their teachings in areas of high rates of poverty (e.g Liberation Theology, Islamic Socialism)

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    Liberation theology is a left-leaning interpretation and practice of religion. It was born to address systematic poverty and is widely accepted in schools of thought in most faiths. e.g. Islamic Socialism and versions of Christian communism.

    PAUDC Akofena 2019 · 9 · 2019-12-09

  • This house as the Catholic Church would adopt Liberation Theology

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    Liberation theology is a movement in the Roman Catholic Church that makes criticism of oppression in the form of socio-economic evils (capitalism, imperialism, feudalism, etc.) as essential to the task of Theology.

    4th Mindanao Intervarsity · Open Semis · 2019-11-22