Posted on 01/15/2007 5:26:19 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
There ain't no way this is good.
Uh oh. Chavez groupies?
I don't think this will go as smoothly as Zelaya thinks it will.
When we leave set them on fire.
Amazing.
Combined with Amadinejad groupies. He's touring Latin America right now and telling them to strike the Great Satan, etc. He and Hugo are setting up a sort of anti-American trust fund with their oil moneys, and he has made a visit to almost all the newly left-wing LatAm countries.
Exactly. Short-term benefit for the country, long-term pain for the populace. Let's see how all future contracts turn out, eh? But hey, don't let me spoil their chest-thumping fun.
Temporary communism.
What a nightmare in the making. We could very well end up with troops deployed on Mexico's southern border.
Honestly, it appears the White House has totally dropped the ball on Latin and South America these past years.
Exxon should stop bringing in finished products to Honduras.
They should, for their own sake. But, that would just open the door further for Venezuela.
What sort of military capability does Venezuela actually possess?
Latin America has been going completely to the dogs during President Bush's watch, and he has never even commented on it. Decades of democratization are being undone, populations are being impoverished, socialism and communism are spreading from one country to the next, and not one thing has been done about it.
This could have been cut off at the pass if Bush had taken action when Chavez was first deposed temporarily in a coup. But he sat and did nothing while Chavez came back, and it's been downhill ever since.
Certainly part of the problem is that the CIA is broken. But Bush did little or nothing about that, either. He finally fired Tenet and put in Porter Goss, but then failed to follow through.
This is a serious dereliction of responsibility. The last thing we need is to add Latin America to our worldwide list of problems.
It seems some south american "politician" must not have recieved his bribe payment or thought he/she was worth more in bribe money.
Just for the next 75 years or so.
Agreed. The current administration's policy has been a disaster.
They could probably match anyone in the Western Hemisphere except the US.
Mexico formally complained (twice, I believe) last year about VZ infiltration on its southern border, and also about the interference by VZ agents in southern Mexican political processes.
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