Ecuador Leans Back To Right

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 17 Oct 2006 | Editorial

[Kitten Festival]

Voters kick another Chavista in the keister.

[SIDENET]

YAY!

[Dog]

Hugo is snubbed by another country...

[Army Air Corps]

Pingaroo

It appears that Li'l Hugo isn't the pop idol that our media believe him to be.

[Kitten Festival]

Yeah, I like watching him self-destruct on all fronts - at the UN, around his regional neighborhood and in his home country. Everywhere, everywhere, the world is rejecting Chavez, like a bad smell.

[Cicero]

Pendulum swinging the other way?

[Army Air Corps]

Part of Hugo's problem (aside from being inept and throughly ignorant of economics) is that he is on the same level of nuttiness as Lil' Kim. Hugo see a Yanqui invasion around every street corner and under every bed. The man is completely paranoid and stupefyingly delusional.

[Kitten Festival]

Except that Lil Kim considers Chavez crazy.

Strange, but true. Tells us more than we wanted to know.

[Kitten Festival]

It's BEEN swinging the other way - Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Brazil's congress, and other key states have all elected rightwingers or center-rightists. Only Bolivia is the real outlier.

[Army Air Corps]

Gads!

throughly = thoroughly

[neodad]

So the pre-election polls were wrong? I'm . . . . . shocked!

[Victoria Delsoul]

This is good news, I just hope the leftist loses big time.

[jveritas]

Defying the polls, Ecuador's voters have surprised everyone by choosing a free-market presidential candidate over a radical leftist for a November runoff. It happened because Alvaro Noboa got the message out.

Do not tell me that the polls were also wrong in Ecuador? I am shocked... Not.

[1rudeboy]

It's really not a pendulum. Some writer pointed out months ago that generally, S. America is splitting into western pro-U.S. and eastern anti-U.S. halves.

[AnnaZ]

I lived in South America for three years, and, hands down, the folks from Ecuador were my favorite. Honest and sweet, every one of them. Apparently they're smart, too.

= )

[Army Air Corps]

The sake of the people of Ecuador, I also hope that the leftist jackass loses his butt in the election.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Amen brother.

[Cicero]

There are pendulum effects in most South American countries, and often in South America as a whole. Over the last few decades, on the whole South America seemed to be democratizing. But there has been a return to leftist dictators in several countries in recent years. I would add Evo Morales to the list, and there is now talk that the Sandinistas may make a return to power in Nicaragua.

None of this is Bush's fault, except perhaps the failure to help Ecuadorans remove Chavez in that coup a few years back. It's just the nature of Latin American politics.

[Names Ash Housewares]

3 steps forward a times, two back others, but democracy always pushing forward.

[WashingtonSource]

magnifico!