[Cincinatus' Wife]

(AFP/File/Adalberto Roque)

Fidel Castro - Cuba

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

[Cincinatus' Wife]

South America's new-style military coup***LIMA, PERU - A new form of military coup d'état is emerging in South America. Today's new militarism is characterized by leftist military men who lead a rebellion, are jailed for it, and then emerge with the popularity to win the next presidential election with large majorities of the vote.

With the patriarchal blessing of Fidel Castro, the model of new militarism started with Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan colonel who led a failed coup in 1992, served two years in prison, and returned to capture the presidency in 1998. Ecuador's President Lucio Gutierrez - an Army colonel who led a successful indigenous rebellion in 2000, was jailed briefly, and was elected president last November - has consolidated the trend that, without a doubt, will spread.***

[Clemenza]

Fidel is starting to look more and more like a confused scitzophrenic (sp) homeless person as he ages. Chavez, of course, looks like something that passed out of my body.

I really would like for the USA to take a harder line in Latin America, rather than continuing the "benign neglect" initiated by Clinton.

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[nickcarraway]

Can we send this to all the Senators, representatives, governors etc., who went to Cuba and buddied up to Castro? And don't forget Jimmy Carter, Dan Rather and Oliver Stone?

[PeaceCorpsGuy]

We should send this to the International Acation Center and the WWP, both parties who see Castro as some "great and moral" man and view the US as the terrorist state. Would love to shove it in their face!

[FeliciaCat]

Why can't Casto just DIE already.....