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| LatAm nations to create new non-US bloc | ||
| 2010-02-25 | ||
| Latin American and Caribbean nations have agreed to launch a new regional body that will exclude the United States and Canada. The new bloc will bring together some 32 nations in order to resolve regional issues and present a common position on global challenges. Good riddance, eh ... The decision was made during the periodical Rio Group Summit at the resort town of Cancun, Mexico. The new group will be an alternative to the Organization of American States (OAS), the main forum for regional affairs in the past 50 years. The OAS has been criticized for pursuing US interests and its members have repeatedly failed to get along when it comes to economical policies and trade.
Discussions about the group, which yet has to be named, are to be continued at summits in Venezuela and Chile in 2011 and 2012.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 You are correct sir that the peoples of each one of these countries, while for the most part exactly the same, hate each other passionately. Their resentment of the US will bind them together, tho. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2010-02-25 11:07 |
| #6 This should be hilarious. A little known statistic about people from central and South America is that they cannot stand each other. Intermarriage between any two Latin American countries is less common than parents marrying their own children. People from central and South America will intermarry with whites, blacks, orientals, but not with the people from the next country over. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-02-25 09:35 |
| #5 A quick check of the web - 46.9 million - The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2008, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or race minority. Hispanics constituted 15% of the nation's total population. In addition, there are approximately 4 million residents of Puerto Rico. Ecuador 13,363,593 Colombia 42,954,279 Venezuela 25,375,281 Brazil 186,112,794 Peru 27,925,628 Chile 16,136,137 Uruguay 3,415,920 Paraguay 6,158,000 Argentina 39,537,943 Bolivia 8,857,870 Mexico 111,211,789 Its seems, that outside of Brazil and Mexico, the third largest population of 'Latins' in the Western Hemisphere resides in the United States. Can we say its really just an racist anti-Anglo organization rather than 'Latin'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-02-25 08:38 |
| #4 Solving your own problems, no stinking gringos needed? Excellente! Glad to hear it. We'll just put a stop payment on the following bullshi* USAID programs. Did I mention they were all bullshi* giveaway programs anyway: Peace & Security (FY 08 $208 Million): Governing Justly & Democratically (FY 08 $158 Million): Investing In People and Humanitarian Assistance (FY 08 $390 Million): Economic Growth(FY 08 $206 Million): Linkages With The Millennium Challenge Corporation: In addition to the above assistance, ongoing Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funding includes compacts with Nicaragua ($175 million), Honduras ($215 million), El Salvador ($461 million), and a Threshold Country Program for Paraguay ($35 million) and Guyana ($7 million) and Peru ($35.6 million). Link. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-02-25 08:01 |
| #3 No Homers club. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-02-25 03:15 |
| #2 Now if the US will only get out of NAFTA. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-25 00:42 |
| #1 Yet to be named? What about the Hugo Fan Club. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2010-02-25 00:03 |