Film — Live-Action
"He’s killed, intimidated or bribed half the officials from here to Chile. There’s only one law down there: Sanchez’s law."
— Felix Leiter, Licence to Kill
"Originally established as a homeland for free American slaves, it's been enslaved by one dictator after another ever since. The latest was American-educated, self-declared president Andre Baptiste. President Baptiste was my best customer, but I was in no hurry to meet him; he'd gotten a reputation for routinely hacking off the limbs of those who opposed him. His seven-year civil war has been described as 'a relentless campaign of sadistic, wanton violence.' That kind of sums up Andy for me."
— Yuri Orlov, Lord of War
Literature
"It's a glorious thing," said Cronin, half jestingly, "to be able to discharge a government, and insert one of your own choosing, in these days."
"Oh, it is only amatter of business," said Vincenti, stopping and offering the stump of his cigar to a monkey that swung down from a lime tree; "and that is what moves the world of today. That extra real on the price of bananas had to go. We took the shortest way of removing it."
"Oh, it is only amatter of business," said Vincenti, stopping and offering the stump of his cigar to a monkey that swung down from a lime tree; "and that is what moves the world of today. That extra real on the price of bananas had to go. We took the shortest way of removing it."
—O. Henry: Cabbages and Kings, chapter 16: "Rouge et Noir"
Live-Action TV
"This is outrageous. Where are the armed men who come in to take the protestors away? Where are they? This kind of behavior is never tolerated in Boraqua. You shout like that, they put you in jail. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Journalists, we have a special jail for journalists. You are stealing? Right to jail. You are playing music too loud? Right to jail, right away. Driving too fast? Jail. Slow? Jail. You are charging too high prices for sweaters, glasses, you right to jail. You undercook fish? Believe it or not, jail. You overcook chicken, also jail. Undercook, overcook. You make an appointment with the dentist and you don't show up, believe it or not, jail. Right away. We have the best patients in the world. Because of jail."
—Raul, Parks and Recreation ("Sister City")
Podcasts
Jay: So, The Berserker here (aka John Nord, Nord the Barbarian, whichever you like), he was in from the AWA and the Pacific-Northwest, and he had similar manners and gimmicks [to] Bruiser Brody, who was stabbed to death in a shower after a wrestling match in Puerto Rico. That was horrific, it was a disgusting scandal.
Steve: Plus it ruined wrestling over there.
Jay: Rightly so. There were witnesses there, including Tony Atlas. Everyone knew what happened. Man walks off scot free.
Steve: Plus it ruined wrestling over there.
Jay: Rightly so. There were witnesses there, including Tony Atlas. Everyone knew what happened. Man walks off scot free.
— OSW Review on WWF Survivor Series '91
Video Games
"Colombia. From what I've heard, even the butterflies are corrupt and smuggling drugs."
— 47, Hitman: Codename 47
"You might be surprised to learn than 93% of investments are ethical, eco-friendly, and wide open to market collapse. A crash can strike without warning, wiping clean a lifetime of work and saving to destroy your future, and the future of your family. The people at Third World Bank have different ideas, capturing the earning potential of underdeveloped countries and spreading your money across a wide range of tobacco, defense, and pharmaceutical investments. Third World, keeping your money safe — no matter the cost."
— Third World Bank advert, GTA Radio
Web Original
And all of the guards are speaking Spanish, because I think it was a legal requirement in the ‘80s that all action movies had to take place in the jungles of either Vietnam or South America.
Uganda has managed to cram an awful lot of history into its few decades of independence — or should that be a lot of awful history. From Idi Amin to the Lord's Resistance Army, Uganda has suffered dictatorship, war, dictatorship, war, dictatorship and war. And the ebola virus.
— Rational Wiki
These fucks need to learn that you have to do some research before you agree to perform in a country that you can’t even pick out on the Carmen Sandiego map. You know why I’ve never eaten at Del Taco or Yoshinoya? Because I do my research by Yelping that shit first; and when the first three reviews that come up sound like the strained moans of a haunted spirit, I know to stay away, no matter how good a deal $0.59 tacos sound.
— Dlisted
, "Ruh Roh: Mariah Carey Maybe Kinda Performed For A Dictator Again"
, "Ruh Roh: Mariah Carey Maybe Kinda Performed For A Dictator Again"Millions of Brazilians have been protesting in the streets for more than a year over the superfluous spending on stadiums that'll be abandoned and probably turned into shantytowns two weeks after the games. The government's solution? Spend even more money coming up with sci-fi-looking measures to curb the protests...In other words, Brazil has finally caught up to the dystopian future shown in the movie Brazil from 1985.
