What Latin America's Communist Travails Say about the USA's Future

American Thinker ^ | 26 Oct, 2020 | Eileen F. Toplansky

[MtnClimber]

Will we look back on Bolivia's latest election results and concur that its citizens are still attracted to the dictatorial impulse of their leaders?

During his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy made it abundantly clear that he was concerned that the countries to the south of the United States not fall prey to communism.

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ot only have communist inroads been made south of the border, but jihadist attacks have increased. Thus, "[d]uring the 2000s and early 2010s, Iran made notable inroads throughout Latin America. Tehran capitalized on shifting power dynamics in an increasingly multipolar world and a tide of anti-US sentiments in Latin America in order to assert Iranian influence, most notably in countries where Left-leaning governments were in power. Iran's then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials deepened Tehran's relations with governments in Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela." In fact, South America has served as a "base for Hezbollah operatives who represent an extension of Iranian influence" into our southern neighbors' countries.

In 2018, apologists for socialism cited Bolivia as a "seemingly successful" socialist regime. They claimed that Bolivia had experienced a "3.8 percent growth rate" and that this was proof that socialism could work. They contrasted Bolivia's success with Venezuela's total destruction under socialism and claimed that the latter was an "outlier" instead of a prime example of what occurs under socialist regimes.

[MtnClimber]

The democRATs want open borders so they can come here and vote the same way.

[RealVirginia]

I wonder if the people really elected these SOBs (voter fraud).