An Axis of Good?
Posted on 01/02/2003 5:42:22 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
So, that great champion of the workers is going to send strikebreakers to Venezuela? Hmmm.
I'm sure Lula is just tickled pink (pun) by all this attention from the two biggest losers in Latin America.
Anyone who believes this trio is a TRUE threat is a bit paranoid, IMHO. Lula i suspect just wishes these two clowns would just go away. They will ruin Lula's chances (if he had any) in Brazil...
Perhaps i'm an optimist but i think Chavez will be gone even before Saddam, and Castro will continue his slide into oblivion, accompanied by his ideological stablemate jimmuh the nobelpeaceprizeTM winner...
"Trust me, Lula, just keep blaming everything on I live in Chile, which is probably the most far along of the Latin American countries in its economic development, although by no means the richest, just the most robust.
I have many Latin American friends, of all political persuasions. I even have friends who are diehard COMMUNISTS.
The reality in Chile, at least, is that there is a really big middle class that would NEVER put up with Cuban style socialism -- the standard of living in just too low.While they might sympathize with Cuba and cheer them on as the "underdog" against big bad Amerika, they would NEVER go the last mile with them and put up with the inconvenience and scarcity of a socialist economy. they look down upon the Cubans and socialists as ne'er do well incompetents and do not hate America enough to stop trying to live like Americans.
There is a strong middle class in Brazil, along with one in Venezuela.
While the "poor" in both these countries are quite powerful politically, they are not the class that gets things done, and they know it
When push comes to shove, the majority of the poor will NOT come to the aid of Lula or Chavez, and these will fall.
The Venezuelan middle class has basically decided to go for broke, the shop owners, the professionals, have, IMHO, decided that this is the LAST chance to oust Chavez: it will become almost impossible if Chavez survives this strike. I don't think he will be able to, but things will get dicey.
Keep your fingers crossed folks, the next six weeks are going to be *really* interesting not only in latin America, but in the middle east, Iraq and Korea!
Mr. da Silva (LULA) chillingly hinted on September 13 that Brazil should resume its quest for atomic weapons. Speaking at the Air Force Club in Rio de Janeiro, he criticized Brazil's compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
"I imagine this would make sense only if all countries that already have [nuclear weapons] also gave them up," the former metalworker said. As O Globo On Line reported the next day, Mr. da Silva added: "It is not fair that developed countries, who have nuclear weapons technology, demand that others not have them or deactivate what they have. All of us developing countries are left holding a slingshot while they have atomic bombs."
If we cave with the North Koreans it is going to be tantamount to giving Lula a green light.
What happended to last advocate of a Cuban-dominated Latin America. Comrade Che Guevara.
If these two neo-commies try to Fidelize their nations, blood will run in the streets.
We will see 2 new Pinochets before we see even one new Fidel.
A_L_L_E_N_D_E.
VIVA PINOCHET THE SAVIOR OF CHILE!!!!
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