Spend a little time getting to understand why Bolivia going Marxist as well as other of our South American neighbors is not regarded as a positive development.
Save your on-the -fly judicial commentary for flamers and lurkers and other members in this open-air asylumn...they are more likely to appreciate shooting from the hip.
"The real boogeyman here isn’t the populist leader from an obscure Latin American country, but China and its insatiable appetite for energy sources. China is desperate for oil and gas."
All we need is is arm-chair first responders telling us it's OK.
Go ahead. Tell us how small Bolivia is economically.
Excuse me, but YOU are the one "shooting from the hip" with your nasty gruffiness, completely uncalled for.
Somehow your missive to spend time doing whatever is not at all conducive to me doing anything, but this I can write here and that the United States is no fall guy for all the woes and hard luck stories of why Southern Americans just HAVE to grow narcotics and engage in terrorism of the narco kind.
I've read all the apologetics for their (and, probably, yours) concept of victimizations and it seems to me that it's a case of bad character. Bad character always blames others for their own bad choices, bad behaviors.
It's mostly a problem of, face it squarely or not, but the Spanish method of conquering and doling out and down monarchy as government. Their legacy was never one to inspire people to govern themselves, but to be governed. Thus, the monarchy retreats and people who don't understand self government remain. That's what we have in South and Central America today, as legacy from their political pasts.
And, people such as that are always ripe for dictatorships. They are still expecting salvation by monarchy. It also explains their senseless dedications to drug cartels, in my opinion, as general cultures.
Not all of them, but most on average. Peru has made progress and elevated as a civilization, for example.
South America has all, if not more, than the natural resources that North America had and has. There's no way to excuse it not being used well or to the benefit of civilzation.
Your snippy, foolish nastiness doesn't do much to help them or any discussion about their plight, either.