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Our Latin Conundrum
Washington Post ^ | January 2, 2006 | Jackson Diehl

Posted on 01/05/2006 10:37:37 AM PST by Sleeping Beauty

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To: Sleeping Beauty

we could melt down Ted Kennedy's Blubber for fuel!


21 posted on 01/05/2006 10:49:21 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
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To: Phantom Lord

So long as our border is an open sieve there will be no communist revolution in Mexico. The comparatively rich, capitalist North is a better alternative for the Latino oppressed.


22 posted on 01/05/2006 10:49:25 AM PST by Rebelbase (Whew! Another year until the cursed green bean casserole strikes again!)
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To: Maceman

Mexico has always been communist to some considerable degree from back before the October, 1917 Revolution in Russia.

Mexico still has private farms but they have confiscated some estates in the past. Ever buy gasoline in Mexico? Bet you filled up with Pemex, the government's monopoly. Ever notice how El Salvador's FMLN terrorist leadership were lovingly embraced in Mexico. Over the decades the hammer and cicle was much in evidence during the ruling "Revolutionary Party's" large rallies.


23 posted on 01/05/2006 10:50:04 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (France kicked Germany's teeth out at Verdun among other places.)
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To: Sleeping Beauty

IF they do, you see a hell of a lot of reshoring of those factories they couldn't wait to move there... once the government decides they are theirs.


24 posted on 01/05/2006 10:50:21 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: RockinRight

what like Cuba did....no dice.

these communist countries needs and enema by us.


25 posted on 01/05/2006 10:50:28 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
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To: Sleeping Beauty

Mexico has been communist in all but open declaration for 70 years.

In the 70s I was stuck in La Paz coming back from marlin fishing at the cape and couldn't get a flight back because the PRI was having their national convention there and had comandeered all flights.

The 2 days I was stuck there their delegates were running all over town waving their red flags and Mao's little red book and shouting communist slogans.


26 posted on 01/05/2006 10:51:45 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Flavius

Its not a matter of IF its a matter of WHEN....why do you think Bush is leaving the borders unprotected????


27 posted on 01/05/2006 10:51:56 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: RetiredArmy

I think you're right. If Mexico moves politically, it will be by way of communism. The wealthy don't want to deal with the poor, and that's why we have a problem with illegals: they get a better chance here than at home.

The cartels have only to take the wealthy by force and help themselves to the wealth. Actually, the government has very often done that by way of taking wealthy landowners' holdings...sort of like or eminent domain.

Greed is so ugly.


28 posted on 01/05/2006 10:52:10 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: RockinRight
Communism feeds on poor people, they are waived injustice proof pinned onto foreign firms that pilfer the wealth from the "natives".

The industries are nationalized, the peasants get $ 40.00 a head as a show of future benefits of nationalization and direct ownership.

By the time populace realize that the incompetent leadership has destroyed the infrastructure that provided the initial wealth. The jig is up, and its to late then the warlords show up to fight over the scrap.

In the very end, there are live aid shows that confront the evils of capitalism because they let the communist destroyed country starve.

Rinse repeat any point on globe.
29 posted on 01/05/2006 10:52:34 AM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Sleeping Beauty

If Mexico goes comunist then they will build their own wall and save us the time, trouble and expense. It's what communists societies are really good at (i.e. Russia, East Germany and China).


30 posted on 01/05/2006 10:52:45 AM PST by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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To: Sleeping Beauty
Now I get it.
That is why Fox is so mad at us for wanting to build a wall.
He wants to build it, so he can control it! ! ! !
31 posted on 01/05/2006 10:52:47 AM PST by DeaconRed (IF . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: Sleeping Beauty

"What do you think the U.S. should do, if anything?"


Invade.

Regime change.


32 posted on 01/05/2006 10:53:17 AM PST by Blzbba (Sub sole nihil novi est)
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To: rhombus; All

Exactly.

Come on people, everything below our southern border, with one or two notable exceptions is communist.


33 posted on 01/05/2006 10:53:48 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: Halgr

borders are unprotected to provide free labor,


34 posted on 01/05/2006 10:54:05 AM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: RetiredArmy

Do you really still think the Russians are gonna nuke us? The nukes used in the movie were Russian, and the soviets led the proxy armies.

I really don't see the Cubans leading an assault with Latin American armies.

That being said, I still watch the movie when it comes on.


35 posted on 01/05/2006 10:54:15 AM PST by dmz
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To: Sleeping Beauty
What Happens If Mexico Goes Communist?

The same thing that happened in 1848.

So9

36 posted on 01/05/2006 10:54:21 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Trust Me)
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To: Flavius
that would really really su.k for me personally, because i have my life savings tide up in projects down south...

Mexico has some beautiful and relatively cheap beachfront property. I've been tempted to invest in the past, but I remember my mom's words: "you'd be only an election away from losing it all."

Good luck, you're going to need it.

-ccm

37 posted on 01/05/2006 10:55:14 AM PST by ccmay
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To: All

The Reagan Administration was well aware of the problems developing in Latin America, as I recall.

Does anyone else want to get Ollie to finish that mission?


38 posted on 01/05/2006 10:55:59 AM PST by AZ_Cowboy (Christmas isn't over until the 6th. Don't tell the lefty bloggers!)
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To: Wombat101

Chuckling. I think that wall in China predates Mao by a few years.


39 posted on 01/05/2006 10:55:59 AM PST by dmz
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To: dmz
The nukes used in the movie were Russian

Wha??? I don't recall any use of nukes in Red Dawn.

-ccm

40 posted on 01/05/2006 10:56:26 AM PST by ccmay
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