Posted on 01/05/2006 10:37:37 AM PST by Sleeping Beauty
Here's a sad but safe new year's prediction: U.S. relations with Latin America, which plunged to their lowest point in decades in 2005, will get still worse in 2006.
The year ended with a string of reverses. In a regional summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in November, President Bush was jeered by demonstrators and taunted by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who aspires to make Latin America anti-American and anti-democratic.
Then came the Chavez-backed victory in Bolivia of Evo Morales, a former llama herder and coca farmer who describes himself as Washington's "nightmare."
Morales's victory sets the stage for a year in which leftist populists will be competing for power in elections across the region, including in Peru, Nicaragua and Mexico.
By the end of this year a Morales imitator could be president of Peru, Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista movement could once again control Nicaragua, and Mexico could be led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a socialist who has never visited the United States.
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We import far more oil from Mexico (our newly communist-leaning neighbor) than we do Saudi Arabia. Things are getting bad along the border. What do you think the U.S. should do, if anything?
AM I the only one thats getting sick and tired of dealing with the aftermath of these countries that cannot govern themselves?
Of course, Mexico wouldn't do it because they need the billions that illegal aliens send back to their home country.
They will still need to sell their oil at world market prices.
I don't see how oil becomes a weapon for them, though a Communist Mexico would certainly pose a lot of challenges for us.
Rent out the movie "Red Dawn".
that would really really su.k for me personally, because i have my life savings tide up in projects down south...
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While I realize there are many, many good and hard-working people in nations like Mexico, it worries me to a large degree that we seem to be importing their population. It seems inevitable that we will import their problems as well.
"It looks more and more like Mexico is headed the way of the rest of Latin America -- to the extreme left. In its June presidential election, Mexico may go socialist, with communist overtones."
Then we'll have no excuse to no built the tallest wall on the planet along that border and to put armed guards all along it. This could end up being a positive development. It might finally wake up Bush and the Republicans to the fact that Mexico is a hostile nation and that we must seal the border once and for all. If this socialist dope takes over there, it will be all the more imperative to build that wall ASAP because when Mexico's economy gets even more wrecked by Marxism, the flow across the border from Mexico will turn into a tidal wave.
Is the drug cartel run by communists? That's who now runs most of Mexico.
What Happens If Mexico Goes Communist?
They might as well, they can't seem to do anything else right.
They are just going to join the movement of Latin America, and the Socialist Democrats here in the USA. Nothing really different. Same agendas. Take money from one group and give it to their voting block. They know there are more that love to sit on their asses and get free stuff, than people who actually work their asses off and EARN the money. So, they all buy their votes. The entire bunch's goal is a TOTAL SOCIALISTIC GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD. And, as long as the population of dead beats and sit-on-their-asses grows larger and larger, the socialist will win.
If they go commie we had better have the wall in place.
Would anyone notice?
Big Stick diplomacy.
if the Pres and 'that congress of ours' has the 'yarbles'
Build a walll at the very least. Mexico needs SERIOUS reform but I don't see anything even remotely in the horizon to make it happen.
A communist Mexico might "wake up" those who have forgotten the evils of communism.
Mexico is one of the few countries where Communism would be an improvement. At least that way they would shoot their own citizens who tried to escape to the free world, sparing us the trouble.
Communists of the past have been pretty good about building walls to keep their subjects inside. Maybe Mexico will build our border wall for us ... and shoot people who try to escape Mexico.
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