[ExitPurgamentum]

We have Chavez and Lula now because of the wreckage caused by IMF shock therapy and liberalization. And Putin's increasing authoritarianism is backed up by a Russian people who saw their country becoming a failed state under IMF advice.

And, the relationship to what is being discussed --- what, exactly?

We now have warm weather as well. Why don't you write about that?

[Sam the Sham]

Since your brain seems to be functioning poorly, I'll spell it out for you.

You free trade type continually prattle about what the "experts" say. Well the economics experts were dead wrong during the 90's about what was best for Latin America and Russia.