[headsonpikes]

These 'zombie ideas' afflicting Latin America sound like an update on Marx's 'spectre haunting Europe'.

Same sh*t, different pile.

[livius]

And, judging from all symptoms, in only two countries in our culture have ''zombie ideas'' been almost totally eradicated by their societies' political maturity: Spain and Chile.

This is true. These last years under the PP have been Spain's most successful period in living memory, and Chile (although it too is under attack from "zombie ideas") is about the only sucess story going in South America.

I sure hope the good guys win in El Salvador. The last thing we need is another zombie-infested socialist prison - er, paradise down there.