Posted on 04/25/2005 11:02:19 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Latin America: The past week's high political turmoil in Ecuador is about more than oil or bananas. It's about a terrifying descent into instability that could hit every country in the hemisphere.
The turmoil in the tiny South American country shows no sign of ending. Another president was thrown out — the third in a decade. His successor is widely regarded as an ignorant weakling. And no one thinks he's going to last. After all, Ecuador has had seven presidents since 1995.
Maybe that's why Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned her attention from a milestone NATO treaty signing in Vilnius, Lithuania, to recognize the danger in the Andean state 7,000 miles away.
She called it right when she urged Ecuador to hold new presidential elections. The current setup doesn't look stable, and the next event is likely to be a new explosion.
In Ecuador, they are calling this angry people-power demonstration of tens of thousands "coletazo de la serpiente" — the unpredictable thrashing of a dangerous snake's tail that can hit anything.
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Chavez will continue to be a problem until we subtly have him deposed.
Yeah, but Jimmuh Catah gave Chavez's 99% election victory his blessing and then gave Chavez his undying devotion and his class ring.
Did he lust for him in his heart?
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