Is there a economic-interest war between the US and the EU in Latin America??? (vantiy rant)

Yours Truly | October 13, 2003 | Yours Truly

[El Conservador]

OK, it goes like this:

These last days there's been civil unrest over the gas exports and coca crops in Bolivia, fueled by leftist NGO's.

An expansion of Ecuador's national pipeline has been blocked by indigneous leftist organizations, funded by NGO's.

There's an unstable populist leftist government in Venezuela, South America's largest oil producer, lead by Hugo Chávez, intent in controlling the industry.

There's the guerrillas in Colombia, politically backed by the EU and European leftist NGO's.

The government in Brazil is leftist, and has been very cooperative in economic aspects with Europe in detriment of the US.

Argentina has veered toward trading more with Europe and less with the US.

Nominally, Cuba is a socialist country, but it's actually dominated by European and Canadian economic interests, especially the tourism industry, which is the chief generator of foreign reserves for the island.

Every Latin American leftist has spoken against the FTAA, which they say is an attempt to impose the US dollar as Latin America's currency, and thus the US controlling Latin America's economies.

But there's a reason:

Who are the chief financer of European NGO's??? Yes, it's the EU and the European corporations.

Who dominates the Cuban economy??? The Euros

My theory is that Europe is waging a veiled war against American economic interests in Latin America in order to push them out and substitute them with European interests. In other words, Europe would make an economic reconquista in Latin America.

There would be a FTAA after all, but not under the supposed control of the US, but under the real control of the EU.

If a country in Latin America is taken over by the revolutionary left, it would stay capitalist. What would happen is that they would exert some acts of "economic sovereignty" by expropiating American-owned companies, only to be turned over to European hands.

E.G: The national airlines would sot flying Boeing and start flying Airbus.

It's an economic war between the US and the EU.

(/rant off)

[El Conservador]

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[Red Boots]

Well, something is defintely up down there... Your idea makes sense. I've been worrying more along the lines of a loosely organized Islamic/Communist(Chinese, Cuban and Chavez) coaltion working together against the US, but it makes sense that the EU would be involved,too. Thanks for posting.

[Lessismore]

In language, culture, religion, politics and economics South America has always had much more affinity with Europe than with the Yankees.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[jimkress]

Remember the Monroe Doctrine - although I doubt anyone in Washington would know what that is. Certainly not those "educated" after 1970.