Posted on 09/12/2002 3:53:00 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
At one point, not long ago, Brazil was in line to become another major power like the US. It's a shame if they are falling back and won't realize their potential.
Sorry, but I'm not a democrat. I don't believe people should be allowed to vote themselves into slavery.
And I am a democrat (Admin Mod, please note the small "D"). If someone has the power to deny people the right to vote themselves into slavery, that someone must also have the power to deny folks the right to vote themselves freedom. That scares me.
Do they have a reparations movement?
Interesting.
Excuse me for thinking you could easily be swindled.
Allende was freely elected. However, within a few months he was a dictator who did not follow the law. I'm pretty sure he had suspended all elections so that he couldn't be voted out if we merely did nothing. He was having orgies at his presidential palace, inviting lawmakers to the orgies and getting them on film in compromising situations, then using it to blackmail them. He was considered a truly bad character for what he did after he came to power, the democracy was dysfunctional at that point. He imposed some communist rules on the economy so that things were coming to a standstill. Food was not coming into santiago, the population was getting hungry. You couldn't buy bread and other staples in the markets in the days leading to the coup. People were rioting in the streets. All we did was work with the Chilean military to get allende out. It was in fact necessary at the time. The people stopped rioting in fact after allende was killed. But allende was a communist who was elected, the US helped get rid of him, so we are the bad guys and allende is the good guy according to the liberals. But since we helped get rid of him, chile has become the most prosperous nation in latin america. Their economy is kick-ass. They have a stable democracy today. Chile benefited enormously from getting allende out and pinochet in. Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela all envy chile over what has happened since the early 1970's.
Absolutely true.
We did provide advice to the Chileans on how to get rid of him.
1) China controls the Panama Canal
2)China has the world's largest naval base in the Bahamas
3)The Chicoms are already pouring into Venezuela and plan to pump in 1,000,000 troops into Brazil
4)The Chicoms will then back up the FARC in Columbia and then work their way up through Mexico and will be on our border by 2010
5) Argentina is ripe for revolution
Chile, thanks to Pinochet, is in great shape but will soon be surrounded.
It's time to reinforce the Monroe doctrine before it's too late.
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is currently on a tightrope. There has already been one coup attempt. The mistake that the patriots there made was that they failed to get our approval or support in advance.
We may let Brazil taste hard leftism. But if it becomes a problem to us, it will end. James Monroe knew what he was talking about. Even then.
Brazil is more likely to go supra-right than supra-left. Hell, it's already leftist, so the only way it could change would be to swing rightward. Lula is a career dissenter who, if elected, won't know which shoe to put on first. He will be squashed. The only way he could survive is to pretend not to be the commie that he is.
The author of this article is pissing hysteria. The danger of Lula is real, but it is not a danger of revolution. Not even Chavez can get away with that.
Now, if Brazil goes, it goes the way of Cuba, not Chile. Castro was much smarter than Allende, and more devious. Fidel played cute for a few years before pulling the trigger. I don't count Lula in either category.
Vigilence, nevertheless.
[Chavez has already driven up real estate prices in Miami. If Lula wins, it'll be even more of a seller's market... Careful, though: the NASDAQ is A-ball to a real FLA real estate game.]
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