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President of Bolivia to resign (This Freeper's Living It!)
TribNet.com ^ | October 17, 12:55 p.m. PDT | By KEVIN GRAY, Associated Press

Posted on 10/17/2003 1:16:43 PM PDT by EsclavoDeCristo

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Goni's out. What next?
1 posted on 10/17/2003 1:16:43 PM PDT by EsclavoDeCristo
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
Stay safe.
2 posted on 10/17/2003 1:18:02 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
Socialism and Castroism. Whatever suffering the Bolivian people are about to endure, they brought it on themselves. Perhaps one day they'll cease from drinking the collectivist kool aid.
3 posted on 10/17/2003 1:18:13 PM PDT by KantianBurke (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
It seems things never really change in some of those countries. Too bad instead of a millionaire, they couldn't find someone with a belief in having a middle class society.
4 posted on 10/17/2003 1:23:29 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: KantianBurke; EsclavoDeCristo
Socialism and Castroism. Whatever suffering the Bolivian people are about to endure, they brought it on themselves. Perhaps one day they'll cease from drinking the collectivist kool aid.

Well put. I call it populism, its the default philosophy that permeates the society. It has various left and right manifestations, but it always comes back to the same. Dirigiste economies, economic stagnation, and endemic corruption. Each government overthrowing the previous one, and then resorting to the same solutions again and again ad infinitum.

5 posted on 10/17/2003 1:30:58 PM PDT by marron
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
Stay safe; keep us posted.
6 posted on 10/17/2003 1:31:37 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
I am not familiar with the situation there. Why are the protestors against the export of natural gas?
7 posted on 10/17/2003 1:34:55 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
Stay safe!
8 posted on 10/17/2003 1:36:34 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (There's two kinds of people in the world. Those with loaded guns and those that dig.)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
I saw videos of the protests in Bolivia. What's the deal with the Indians there wearing derby hats? I remember seeing pics of them wearing those hats in geography class but I would like to know why they wear those derbys.
9 posted on 10/17/2003 1:40:47 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Ahnold Groped Eva Braun While Popping 100 Painkillers Per Day!!!)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
Has anyone noticed that where there are natural resources, such as oil and gas, there is great rebellion by the masses. My personal opinion is that there are underlying currents that are getting the people to protest leaders that provide oil and gas to the United States. Could the thinking be that without these resources, the power of the United States will falter? I think that is exactly what the "larger plan" is. And who runs these demonstrations? People with ties to the Communist and Socialist parties (MoveOn.org comes to mind). This organization and others like it are trying to bring down the United States.
10 posted on 10/17/2003 1:41:27 PM PDT by BushisTheMan
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To: avg_freeper
Why are the protestors against the export of natural gas?

I had that same question

11 posted on 10/17/2003 1:43:23 PM PDT by Teacher317
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To: KantianBurke

Candidates are already lining up...

12 posted on 10/17/2003 1:52:20 PM PDT by SquirrelKing
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He's got my vote!
13 posted on 10/17/2003 1:54:14 PM PDT by KantianBurke (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
ping
14 posted on 10/17/2003 2:07:35 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
This is Hugh!!!
15 posted on 10/17/2003 2:09:14 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (The left always "feels your pain" unless of course they caused it.)
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You summed it up. Look to Castro and Chavez if you want to know where this is coming from. And oil is definitely weapon they plan to use.

We have stupidly ignored Latin America for years (heck, Clinton turned over most of Colombia to the Castro-inspired and supported FARC guerrillas) and now, I fear, it's too late to do anything about it.

Well, except perhaps to drill ANWAR.
16 posted on 10/17/2003 2:21:22 PM PDT by livius
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Ping to CW. I just read about this in the Spanish press, too. Big news, not good.
17 posted on 10/17/2003 2:22:41 PM PDT by livius
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To: avg_freeper
OK, well, here's CUBA's official communist view today of the Bolivia situation (from "Granma") which is in support of what has happened (apparantly):

"LA PAZ.— New condemnations of U.S. interference, a massive popular march and the unexpected reappearance of the vice president, Carlos Mesa, who has confirmed his split with the government, revealed the intensity of the Bolivian crisis today. Arsenio Álvarez, leader of the Federation of Press Workers in La Paz as well as Jaime Solares and Roberto de la Cruz, leaders of the Bolivian Workers’ Union (COB) and the trade union in the neighboring municipality of El Alto respectively, condemned U.S. interference that is seeking to maintain President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada in power despite a fierce social demand for him to resign, reported PL. This demand was the overwhelming theme today in the largest demonstration ever seen in the Bolivian capital, when some 120,000 people called on the president to stand down, according to figures released by the Catholic Fides radio station."

18 posted on 10/17/2003 2:27:49 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (NORTH KOREA is a DANGEROUS CANCER in late stages; we still only meditate and take herbal medicines)
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To: EsclavoDeCristo
The left is pushing a major resurgence in Latin America. For previous articles on Bolivia and related matters, see the following threads:

Bolivia's Poor Proclaim Abiding Distrust of Globalization (Socialist Resurgence in Latin America)

The Fire Down South...( Latin America--)

19 posted on 10/17/2003 2:32:19 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: EsclavoDeCristo; Libertarianize the GOP; livius
Things are so incredibly fragile in Latin America.


Tourists stand in line to board a plane at the airport in El Alto, Bolivia on Friday, October 17, 2003. Hundreds of stranded travelers were airlifted out of the Bolivian capital Friday as a key member of the embattled president's ruling coalition quit the government amid renewed street protests. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Dozens of Australians stranded in Bolivian unrest*** Instead of some holiday bargain-hunting and snapping picturesque street corners, tourists have had to pick their way through the debris of pitched street battles and numerous road blocks in the four or five streets that make up the main tourist centre.***

20 posted on 10/17/2003 2:33:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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