For Want of A Sandwich - A Franz Ferdinand Lives Wikibox TL
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Not only because of how it is led by Shining Path's OTL leader but adheres to "Marxism-Doriotism".
Jorge Eliecer Gaitan
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (January, 23 1903-April, 15 1973) was the 20th and 22nd President of Colombia, first from 1950 to 1954 and second from 1958 to 1966. Born in Bogota to parents who were rank-and-file members of the Liberal Party of Colombia, Gaitan rose steadily in Colombian politics in the aftermath of the 1928 Banana Massacre, serving in the House of Representatives, as Mayor of Bogota and Minister in two different administrations, becoming a firebrand of the left wing, vehemently attacking the oligarchy with his oratorical skills. Due the hatred from much of the elite, even within his own party, he was victim of a failed assassination attempt in 1948; the backlash from the attempt led to the impeachment of President Laureano Gomez, that was compelled to resign by the army. Gaitan in turn managed to be elected President in 1950 ; after serving one term, he returned to his former office from 1958 to 1966.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitan’s terms were characterized by various reforms, the most important being a massive program of land distribution and the 1951 Constitution, that cemented Colombia’ standing as a democracy that’s even verified to this day. To this day, Gaitan is remembered as the greatest President Colombia ever had, even if some point his legacy as one of the reasons for the clientelism of the Liberal Party and the steady rise of the Patriotic Union that would give birth to La Violencia.
La Violencia
La Violencia was a state of widespread political violence that lasted in Colombia from 1980 to 1990, reaching its climax from 1987 to 1990. It is historically rooted in the backlash from President Jorge Eliécer Gaitan (1950-1954, 1958-1966)’s far-reaching reforms, that emboldened the left-wing (incarnated by the Patriotic Union and various trade unions) and worried Integralist militias, primarily formed by Legion of Christ’s veterans returning from Europe and oligarchs impacted by Gaitan’s land reforms. The very strong results of the Patriotic Union in the 1970 presidential election and the 1980 parliamentary elections, along with the 1977 general strike and the corrupt policies of the Michelsen presidency, paved the way to the election of Patriotic Union’s candidate Jaime Pardo Leal to the presidency in 1982. Fearing a neo-syndicalist revolution in the Latin American country, the Robertson Administration heavily funded and armed Integralist miltiias in Colombia, with emerging leaders such as the Castano Brothers, that began to form links to drug-running criminal organizations such as the Medellin Cartel and the Cali Cartel.
In 1985, Colombia was at the brink of civil war, with President Pardo Leal threatening to dissolve the Parliament in order to rule; he was removed by General Miguel Vega Uribe on November, 6, in the first military coup in Colombia since 1948. Far from proclaiming himself a dictator, Vega Uribe outlawed the Patriotic Union and trade unions, suspending the Constitution until the 1986 presidential election was held, which was won by Conservative Alvaro Gomez Hurtado.
Gomez Hurtado was assassinated on February, 4 1987 by Integralist politician Carlos Lehder Rivas, who viewed the President as being too soft on the leftists ; succeeding Vice President Victor Mosquera Chaux was compelled to outlaw the Integralists, who in turn retreated to the Venezuelan border, being supported by the United States and Venezuela, and waging a low-intensity war against the Colombian government until the December, 1 1990 Agreement, signed by newly elected President Luis Carlos Galan, that outlawed militias throughout Colombia and legalized far-right and left-wing parties.
Pablo Escobar
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (born December, 1 1949) was the 31st and 33rd President of Colombia, serving first from 1998 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2018. Born in Rionegro and raised in Medellin in a very modest family, Escobar was a Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana of Medellín dropout before becoming, thanks to “successful investments into import-export business and real estate deals” (according to his own narrative), the wealthiest man in Colombia before turning 30. His status as a self-made man and a man of the people ensured him widespread popularity in Colombia, building football fields, housing projects and distributing wealth among the poor, and was elected Deputy then Governor of Antioquia State. He preserved Medellin during the Violencia period and supported President Galan’s efforts to put an end to the instability.
Disliked within the Liberal Party of Colombia, he resigned in 1997 from the party when he launched an independant campaign for the presidential election the following year ; still enjoying tremendous popular support and self-funding his campaign, he managed to win the Presidency, first as an independant. He would create his own party, the Friends of Pablo (Amigos de Pablo), a big-tent populist party, to support his agenda in Parliament. Pablo Escobar, as President, put an end to the statu quo in Colombian Politics, effectively crushing the Liberal and New Patriotic Union parties, convincing investors from China and Russia to come to Colombia while redstributing wealth among all classes of Colombian society. His first term was also marked by a violent struggle against drug traffickers, most importantly the Cali Cartel that was totally sweeped out by the Escobar administration. Leaving office in 2006 with a 73 % approval rating, he returned four years later to the presidency, with his successor, Horacio Serpa, graciously retiring. After serving two terms, noticeable as a period of strong growth for Colombia, nicknamed by economists “the Latin American Tiger”, he was succeeded by German Vargas Lleras, also stemming from the Friends of Pablo Party, even if Escobar is rumoured that he would run a fifth time for President in the 2022 elections. Pablo Escobar was victim of an assassination attempt on September, 2 2016 in the streets of Bogota : the President accused the United States of having armed his would-be assassin and expelled the US Ambassador, triggering a crisis between Colombia and the USA.
President Pablo Escobar has been heavily criticized by his opponents as a criminal and a would-be dictator ; the most widespread of the theories is that Escobar is the true leader of the Medellin Cartel (and not Jorge Luis Ochoa, currently jailed), that benefitted from the crushing of the Cali Cartel and established itself as the main purveyor of cocaine to the United States, notwithstanding with the concurrence from Bolivia and Chile, with all Escobar import-export and real estate businesses acting as a front. Others have pointed the disappearences or killings of politicians, journalists and judges opposed to the Escobar Administrations, the most important being Liberal presidential candidate Rodrigo Lara, who was killed in a plane crash when he was challenging Escobar in 2002. Some even claimed that Escobar engineered the most violent episodes of La Violencia, having armed Carlos Lehder in order to assassinate President Gomez Hurtado and funding the Integralist militias. The United States government lent interest to these claims before Escobar’s election, before approving of his policies against the cartels and his support of US foreign politics ; during Escobar’s fourth and final term, in 2015, the United States Departement of Justice repeatedly asked for Escobar to be a witness before the US Senate about his relations with the Medellin Cartel ; the Colombian President attacked the query as “Yankee interference”, starting a diplomatic crisis that would culminate in Escobar’s assassination attempt in 2016 and the breakup of US-Colombian relations. Nevertheless, the former President has proposed to be a mediator in the US-Venezuelan conflict, hoping, as some would say, to win the Peace Nobel Prize...
Comrade Gonzalo has had a different career ITTL, but one could say that Marxism-Doriotism is the equivalent of Stalinism. But also Nazism.
N'Ban La
Field Marshal N’Ban La (born on June, 23 1943 in Laiza) has been the leader of the Jingpo Confederation since its independence on September, 24 1992, first as President of the Kachin Republic and, since 2014, as Head of the Jingpo Confederation. He led the Kachin Independence Army during the independence war (1988-1992) of his native province, that had been annexed by Thailand from Burma in 1964, receiving Chinese help until the Thai Republic acknowledged independance of the Kachin peoples in 1992. He has since received steady help from China, recognizing the annexation of Jiangxinpo, an area between the N’Mai and Mali Rivers that been claimed by China since the Qing dynasty. Having to deal with a pluriethnic state and wishing to distance its young country from Burmese influence, he opted for a confederation on 2014, a process that had started in 2011.
Widely seen abroad as a military dictator, favoring the Jingpo and Christian ethnicities against the Bamar, Shan and Buddhist minorities within the Confederation, N’Ban La has been saluted for maintaining a pluriethnic state in the unsteady landcape of the former Thai Empire, and using the revenues of the jade and gold mines of the Confederation to slightly improve its development, helped by Chinese investments.
As a fan who got into your timelines through AGSS, I’d love to hear more on what cause the US party realignments of the four parties shown to be president. Would also love some kind of Ross Perot wikibox if he did anything in this timeline
I wonder who assassinated Lowden AND Roca and what circumstances led to them being killed together?
World Democracy Index
Classification definition :
Full democracy (level 9, darker green) - Political debates and citizens' representations are guaranteed by the insitutitions, as well as the separation of powers, freedom of speech, information. Gender and race equalities are enforced. For example, United States.
Full democracy (level 8, dark green) - Same as above, but limited issues arise, such as bureaucracy, reunion limited corruption and some restrictions on equality and media representation. For example, China.
Flawed democracy (level 7, green) - Overall good democracies but corruption is more stressed, as well as some media freedom infringement and minor suppression of political critics. Underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, civic representation and other issues can be issues. For example, Germany.
Flawed democracy (level 6, light green) - Same as above, but more widespread : corruption is endemic, electoral fraud is widespread, political violence and suppression of the media and some political parties are suppressed. For example, United Kingdom.
Hybrid regime (level 5, yellow) - Electoral fraud, political violence, corruption are widespread ; even if the institutions guarantee check and balances, they also tend to discriminate and limit freedom of speech, media or enforce discrimination against certain populations. For example, Italy.
Hybrid regime (level 4, orange) - Democracy is nothing but in name. The institutions are officially democracies and guarantee some political debate, but rule of law and pressure against the opposition avoid any true democratic spirit. For example, Mexico.
Authoritarian regime (level 3, dark orange) - "Light" dictatorship, the basic rule of law and prior institutions are maintained, but political repression, suppression of opposition and media are enforced. For example, France.
Authoritarian regime (level 2, crimson red) - Dictatorship. All individual freedoms are repressed, as well as all opposition, but return to democracy is an option. For example, Angola.
Authoritarian regime (level 1, red) - Regime that tend to be considered "totalitarian". For example, Bharatavarsha.
PS : of course, the Canadian Arctic Islands aren't a dictatorship, it's a bug when converting the file
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A great map, it's a clever idea to make a "World Democracy Index". My question is, what is the status of Kamerun? I can't help but notice it's none of the nine colours in the key. Civil war? Multiple recognized governments claiming the same territory?View attachment 600765
Classification definition :
Full democracy (level 9, darker green) - Political debates and citizens' representations are guaranteed by the insitutitions, as well as the separation of powers, freedom of speech, information. Gender and race equalities are enforced. For example, United States.
Full democracy (level 8, dark green) - Same as above, but limited issues arise, such as bureaucracy, reunion limited corruption and some restrictions on equality and media representation. For example, China.
Flawed democracy (level 7, green) - Overall good democracies but corruption is more stressed, as well as some media freedom infringement and minor suppression of political critics. Underdeveloped political culture, low levels of participation in politics, civic representation and other issues can be issues. For example, Germany.
Flawed democracy (level 6, light green) - Same as above, but more widespread : corruption is endemic, electoral fraud is widespread, political violence and suppression of the media and some political parties are suppressed. For example, United Kingdom.
Hybrid regime (level 5, yellow) - Electoral fraud, political violence, corruption are widespread ; even if the institutions guarantee check and balances, they also tend to discriminate and limit freedom of speech, media or enforce discrimination against certain populations. For example, Italy.
Hybrid regime (level 4, orange) - Democracy is nothing but in name. The institutions are officially democracies and guarantee some political debate, but rule of law and pressure against the opposition avoid any true democratic spirit. For example, Mexico.
Authoritarian regime (level 3, dark orange) - "Light" dictatorship, the basic rule of law and prior institutions are maintained, but political repression, suppression of opposition and media are enforced. For example, France.
Authoritarian regime (level 2, crimson red) - Dictatorship. All individual freedoms are repressed, as well as all opposition, but return to democracy is an option. For example, Angola.
Authoritarian regime (level 1, red) - Regime that tend to be considered "totalitarian". For example, Bharatavarsha.
PS : of course, the Canadian Arctic Islands aren't a dictatorship, it's a bug when converting the file
It will be done soon ! As of requests, here are the Presidents of Argentina already asked. Time is a much needed resource nowadays.
I hadn't thought about Good Old Ross, he will have his cameo in this timeline ! As of the US political parties :
-The Democrats were dried out by the emergence of the Progressive Party and retreated in the Old South, becoming a Dixiecrat remnant, wielding their power in the Senate, the House and the Electoral College. After the abolition of the latter, the Democrats merged with the Conservatives, that had emerged from a loose coalition of voters who didn't feel anymore represented by the Republicans, who survived to the present day thanks to moderate voters in New England, the West Coast and Midwest. Now, Republicans tend to be the kingmakers, lending their support to either Progressives or Conservatives, even if they tend to benefit from Conservative Presidencies to gain more seats. As of the Progressives, they emerged also as a big-tent, social-democratic party that emerged during the Great Depression.
It will be adressed in due time, but the answer is simple : Argentine anarchists, who were still surviving after the First Argentine Civil War and were still trigger-happy to enforce a Revolution.
Wait until you hear about Azania !