Economics – Latin Arabia

Chile Is The Tipping Point

Latin Arabia Economics, Gaza War - 2023-24, Opinion, Palestinians, Zionism September 8, 2024September 8, 2024Chile 0 Comment

Chile has a population of roughly 20 Million people at the time of writing this post. It is considered a developed country and is borderline first world.

Except for the period of Allende and Pinochet, Chile has a history of being a stable republic. Today, it has a high freedom index. Chile also has a growing Evangelical population, which are often Zionist in outlook.

It’s influence in Latin America cannot be underestimated.

However, roughly 500,000 of its population is Palestinian in origin (~2.5%), and they are very prosperous and embedded in politics. They have so much sway that they have altered Chile’s politics regarding Israel. Even otherwise conservative politicians have to pay homage to the Palestinian cause.

The video below shows the cultural power and influence of just one aspect of the Palestinian-Chileans: Their football team. The video also mentions Sebastian Piñera – a former conservative president and politician – who had to pay them proper homage (see 1:04 in video) by recognizing the state of Palestine during his administration.

Posted on YouTube: June 21, 2024

Many, even Jews, have noticed that the power of Chilean Palestinians (Chilestinos) corresponds to that of the Jews in America.

Posted on YouTube: December 9, 2023

Source: Police in Chile guard Jews after anti-Semitic attacks
By Gil Stern, Stern Shefler
August 18, 2010
Jerusalem Post

“The Palestinian community is to Chile what the Jewish community is to the US,” [The president of Chile’s Jewish community, Gabriel] Zaliasnik explained.

So a key to weakening Iranian influence in Latin America is to defang the power of the Chilestino community.

Would it even be possible. The Chilestino community is 99% Christian (usually Eastern Orthodox Christian or Roman Catholic). Even though they tend to identify with the Palestinian cause, their Christian identity might be a tool to bring them to a reconsideration of their support towards what is now a Muslim cause in the Mideast.

Daunting though it may be, the Evangelicals of Chile should put denominational differences aside and reach out to the Chilestinos. Maybe they can get them to ease up a bit.

Ecuador and the UAE Begin Talks on Commercial Accord

Latin Arabia Economics, Other February 29, 2024February 29, 2024Ecuador 0 Comment

Source: Ecuador and the United Arab Emirates will begin negotiations for a trade agreement
La Hora
February 28, 2024
Translated by app

The Government of the United Arab Emirates would be interested in investing in logistics services and the creation of a regional distribution hub in Ecuador.

This February 28, 2024, the Minister of Production, Foreign Trade, Investments and Fisheries, Sonsoles García , spoke with Thani Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Commerce of the United Arab Emirates , about the potential of the commercial relationship between both countries.

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As noted many times in the past, the Arabs and the Latin American nations do a lot of business together. And they are interested in economic alliances.

As for Ecuador, at the time of this post, Wikipedia reports that Ecuador has only about 2,000 Muslims out of a country of over 16 million – or roughly only 1 out of 9,000 people.

The (Christian) Lebanese demographic is about 100,000 though, about 50 times the number of Muslims. Again, as noted, that vast majority of Arabs in Latin America are Christian. The Lebanese came to Ecuador fleeing the tyranny of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.

Yet, amazingly, Ecuador has had three presidents with Arab ancestry.

What we see is that the Arabs tend to be elites in South America.

Yes, I know that – at the time of this writing – Ecuador is having a national crisis over gangs, but that does not change the fact that Arabs have done well in Ecuador.