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2006-01-02 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Fred 2006-01-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What are coca futures running at today?

Posted by xbalanke 2006-01-02 00:43|| 2006-01-02 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 âunfortunately, relations with the United States can deteriorate badlyâ

This is what's going to happen, and not because of the United States. They'll have a never-ending revolution, and the economy is run into the ground, but they will always blame America.

Posted by Ulavique Grath7882 2006-01-02 05:53|| 2006-01-02 05:53|| Front Page Top

#3 ...James Dunnigan once pointed out that with the qualified exception of Brazil, every single army in Central and South America is a 'police army' - cops with medium to heavy military equipment - intended to hold down the local populace. Somebody needs to explain to Morales and Chavez that if they want to play Big-League As*holes with us, they are going to learn the same lessons the Argentine junta did in '82 and the Panamanians did in '89. We still, in a remote corner of our national consciousness, consider everything south of the border ours. Senors Morales and Chavez would do well to remember that against smart weapons and the US Marines, revolutionary jargon has a pk of .0 .

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-01-02 06:25|| 2006-01-02 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 We still, in a remote corner of our national consciousness, consider everything south of the border ours.

Ugh. That's exactly the kind of argument that the various Chavez and Morales of the regions use to present their populist rhetoric as anti-imperialistic instead.

I don't see what good it will do to prove them right when they try to present America as a bogeyman that feels like it owns everything.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2006-01-02 07:30|| 2006-01-02 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Mike,

The Costa Rican solution looks better every day. Just get rid of the Army.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-01-02 08:44|| 2006-01-02 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 We still, in a remote corner of our national consciousness, consider everything south of the border ours.

who'se we?

Posted by 2b 2006-01-02 10:33|| 2006-01-02 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 We still, in a remote corner of our national consciousness, consider everything south of the border ours.

who'se we?

Not me. I wouldn't take 'em if they asked to join. I'd get rid of PR pronto, if I had my way.

Posted by Thravitch Elminegum6010 2006-01-02 10:48|| 2006-01-02 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Mike, I think you went beyond the bounds of shared consciousness there.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2006-01-02 14:15|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2006-01-02 14:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Morales is going to go waaah waaah because he is going to be ignored by the Bush administration. I think they know that they will not be able to change this guy, so why even try. Better to let him do what he will do in his dirt bag of a country (a place that maybe Butch and Sundance considered theirs, but I certainly don't consider mine) than to draw attention to him and make him seem important. When the locals figure out that he is just another scum bag, he will get thrown out. It may take a while, but that will be the end result.

Posted by remoteman 2006-01-02 16:15|| 2006-01-02 16:15|| Front Page Top

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