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“This revolution will be violent and ugly.
I have great compassion for the people of Venezuela. Most of them are good and just want an honest corrupt free government.”
I have none of your quaint views of the peoples of Central/South AMerica. Their culture is a mixture of Spanish culture just after it emerged from 700 years of Muslim slavery. During those centuries, too many of MadMo’s beliefs were absorbed.
Note that what in Muslim societies is called Bak’sheesh is La Mordita in Spanish. Yup - means “bribe”. And now you know why corruption is endemic south of the USA border.
Factor in the incredible brutalities of those Central?South American “indigenous peoples”, from their ceremonial rites to the cannibalism, and then add a bit of Muslim cruelty and one can easily understand why Central/South American sultures are different from America.
We are the final fruition of the Judao-Christian concept of the individual, specifically the responsible individual. They are the result of Europes most ahrsh version of Christianity alloyed with an overdose of Islam, with an admixture of Stone AGe cannibal culture.
Just one small point is soooo telling. Americans have homes with large glass windows. “Latino homes have a well developed tradition of iron bars over all doors and windows. They know each other, and in their cultures, the “other” steals whatever isn’t secured because they are from a culture where security in person or property is unknown.
Theirs is NOT a society derived from English Common Law.
SOrry, but culture is determinative. Venezuela has a culture which assures their present situation will be repeated.
As they will not accept the deficiencies of their “culture” and adopt the American model(the only society which provides such freedom and wealth), they are condemned by their choice to being Venezuelan. And Venezuelans with sore butts from nasty TP substitutes, too.
Culture really does count. Theirs is very different from American culture.
Their nation is accordingly different - and will remain so.
Good points. Land/private property laws taken from Spain held most economies prisoner...while a few actually controlled every aspect of the day to day life of the average person.
Costa Rica I think was the first to cast this system off but Chile took it further and today Chile is booming. Colombia is booming and Peru is transforming. Not without problems of course.
But most of SA still adheres to the old systems and the governing class always blames the GRINGOS when things go wrong....but that old line isnt working much anymore.
A free economy works. period. no debate.
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That would be Carroll Quigley's "Pakistani-Peruvian axis".