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Latin American integration: Venezuela joins Mercosur | 11 comments (11 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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South America is a continent now dominated by the left, with the strong likelihood that the wave of leftist victory will soon bring socialists to power in both Chile and Bolivia.

Actually, victory in Chile would be a keeper for the Left!

Only Paraguay and Colombia remain. And if in Mesoamerica, Mexico is lost for the US too, the reaction might be stronger activity - striking down on and emanating from Columbia. Poor Columbia, as it it hadn't enough problems already.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Sat Dec 10th, 2005 at 02:26:09 PM EST
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Oops!  You're right.  Chile is a really conservative country.  If you realize the extent that they were a weird sandbox for neoliberal economists, you can understand how deeply to the Right they are.  

And my European friends, plenty of European corporations have done nasty things in Latin america as well.

I think on the the right wing candidates is related to Jose Pinera, the arhitect of Chile's pension privatization, and for the last few years resident at  Washington's Cato instiute trying to sell the idea of pension privatization in the world's largest economy.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Sat Dec 10th, 2005 at 08:54:24 PM EST
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Latin American integration: Venezuela joins Mercosur | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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