He was a hero, indeed.
Now Chile enjoys the best economy in all of Latin America, even if they don't appreciate Pinochet's role in creating it.
Posted on 05/14/2016 5:23:34 PM PDT by dynachrome
At the moment, the armed forces’ position vis-à-vis the government is not clear. Some speculate that the Bolivarian National Guard is divided. Others claim that the regime exerts full control over the Bolivarian National Guard’s members. The only certainty is that uncertainty abounds.
The PanAm Post had the opportunity to interview a Bolivarian National Guard member of middle rank, who asked to remain anonymous since his views could expose him to danger.
Why has the state launched an offensive against criminal groups?
The situation was getting out of hand for political reasons. The state has no means to control criminal groups. The country’s jails are in chaos. The streets themselves are in chaos. The state’s security personnel are unarmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at panampost.com ...
Send Sean Penn and the rest of the Commie libs over there to Venezuela, its their Utopia, the promise land, let them see up close and personal the true success of socialism
Not often said about Latin American or South American leaders - but that is a picture of an heroic bunch. Pinochet steered his country away from the abyss of Socialism to 40 years of relative prosperity.
Eisenhower was the last President that took the Border seriously, He proved it with “Operation wetback”.
All others have opened up the ‘Safety Valve’ to relieve pressure on the Spaniards Elite and the coming coup d’état and revolution, it will be ugly and Communist will satisfy the peasants.
He was a hero, indeed.
Now Chile enjoys the best economy in all of Latin America, even if they don't appreciate Pinochet's role in creating it.
Thanks to obama, just like the U.S.
In the majority of cases.
Is the OLP really carrying out its operations strictly to end gang violence?
That is their main purpose. But there is also a political element. The OLP’s creation was a desperate measure. The government had given liberty to the gangs to do what they please. They armed them and now they are attacking them."
Thanx for the link to the Pan AM Post, there’s a lot going on south of our border that we should be paying attention to. And good sources in English are hard to find.
And yet our young folks have not a clue whats going on in the world and how it relates to the two imbeciles they adore wh are pushing the same wagon
I feel a Salvador Allende moment coming on!
They need a Pinochet. Warm up the helicopters.
The only good commie...
Possibly several someones.
Carroll Quigley was one; he wrote "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Tim", describing, among other things, the Pakistani-Peruvian Axis, explaining why the Iberian-based cultures of South/Central America are such hellholes.
He can fix this!
When Jim Jones set up his commune in Guyana, the English-speaking country was basically a communist state. I think plenty of the English-speaking Caribbean countries are leftist, and the US and Canada certainly are.
Mexico’s coup is delayed as long as the US border is left open; President Fox said as much to Bush II when he asked the border remain open (and Bush happily obliged). Fox said Mexico couldn’t have so many unemployed young men remain in the country with so little opportunity; those young men include the rapists and murderers killing Americans today.
Another general did something similar in Indonesia.
Suharto inflicted quite simply the most devastating defeat on Communism prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall. He did so without the help of a single US boot on the ground and saved the most important “domino” in SE Asia (indeed if anyone in Washington had been paying attention they would have realised there was no need to get involved in Vietnam after 1965). He then oversaw a massive spurt of development and economic progress while acting as one of the US’ biggest allies in Asia.
And yet when he died, so ingrained was leftist propaganda in US society, the invective and abuse that was dumped on him here on this forum was astonishing. The same applies to Indonesia today, the most tolerant, democratic and liberal state in SE Asia (admittedly not setting the bar high) but the hatred for Indonesia knows few bounds on this forum.
One almost suspects that people would like Indonesia more if the Communists had won.
Spain had 700+ years of subjugation to the Muslim caliphate prior to 1492. Islam is like cancer to any culture!
My wife worked in the “foregn students” department of a local university. A lot of the kids were from Venezuela. She saw it go from “fairly good” to bad to worse. She left a couple of years ago but we met a couple of them working as waiters in local restaurants this last few months. They have been given strict orders from their families to not go home at all costs, no matter what.
One girl’s family’s ranch was taken over by the government to “house the poor”. When the ranch foreman protested, they shot him dead, right there on the back porch.
This is looking like some of the stuff going in in the middle of the 20th century in Europe.
"...there’s a lot going on south of our border that we should be paying attention to."
Yep.
Too many similarities. The US in many respects is a third world/banana Republic nation. The government is wickedly lawless and corrupt and sits on the precipice of Revolution. There's also the election cycle, worthless currency, declining jobs, a dependent population, ...
The words contagion and wildfire come to mind.
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