Making Mercosur more valuable is a good thing for South America itself in the sense that it keeps countries from doing radical movements. For example, Venezuela was suspended from it because of their violation of human rights.
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For example, some conspiracy theories say that FOSS maintainers being trash talked and having their families threatened online might be state actors trying to get them to give up the project so that someone else can continue it and insert vulnerabilities (especially if it’s a dependency of many other projects).
And the same applies to smartphones since a while ago.