Someone called Moms for Liberty "Assholes with Casseroles"

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31. The photo's from 2012, in Argentina - but they still happen on occasion, always against prog. gvts.

At the time, they were protesting limits on dollar purchases enacted by the left-leaning Cristina Kirchner administration - a highly-unpopular move she was forced to take after fraudulent vulture-fund lawsuits cut the country off from global bond markets.

But they first became popular in Chile in the early 1970s - while the economy was being "made to scream" against then-President Salvador Allende.



Allende's overthrow - and everything that contributed (including the cacerolazos) - is still revered by Latin right-wingers, who view any progressive gov't as "another Allende" (or even 'another Castro').

Much of it, the result of paranoia fanned by the region's RW media - many of whom are at least as vicious as Fox.

Qué será.