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To: Tailgunner Joe
Brazil is an ungovernable shithole. With an exploding population. There is not much of a future there unless you live in a walled (guarded) district for the rich.

It is well suited to communism or a Robert Mugabab type taking over. All these capitalism uber alles types of the 1990s were mistaken when they dreamed that 3rd world nations could be elevated by capitalist reforms and "transparency". They can't be elevated by anything.

67 posted on 09/13/2002 10:46:36 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
Mugabe!
68 posted on 09/13/2002 10:47:04 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
A couple of points:

1. Brazil, like the rest of Latin America, is unsuited for western-style government and economy. They have a mixed-bag third world population that simply has no cultural history of democracy and free enterprise. Their politics usually alternates between a small clique of educated white rulers who loot the country, and a third world uprising that results in a government of leftist demagogues.

2. The more that the leftists destroy the economies and nations of Latin America, the more that our way of life in heartland America is imperiled. When Venezuela and Brazil implode, amid fluries of "hate-whitie/hate USA" propaganda, they will all head for the US/Mexican border. This will destroy our way of life in the short run, and turn our country into another Brazil in the long run.

3. The world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket lately. Latin America is spiralling into socioeconomic chaos, the middle east is in the grips of islamic fanatacism, sub-saharan africa is (as usual) a stinking pesthole. Very little is going right these days. These are unsettling times.

85 posted on 10/26/2002 7:38:50 AM PDT by quebecois
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