Posted on 11/28/2006 12:47:58 PM PST by A. Pole
The red tide sweeping through Latin America, checked in Peru and Mexico, has achieved another memorable record this week in Ecuador. The substantial electoral victory of Rafael Correa, a clever, young, US-educated economist and former finance minister, marks a further triumph for Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and his Bolivarian revolution, which has long sought to ignite Latin America's "second independence". Correa joins Chávez, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Cuba's Fidel Castro in what some have termed "an axis of hope" for the continent. He promises to call a halt to Ecuador's participation in the US-backed free trade area for the Americas, to close the US military base at Manta, and to join Opec, the oil-exporters' organisation.
Unlike most US-trained academics in Latin America, Correa is an economist of a radical persuasion. He has been an outspoken critic of the neo-liberal [free market] economics of the globalised world, and an opponent of the so-called Washington consensus that has imposed this ideology on Latin America in the past 20 years. He cannot be easily dismissed as a caudillo or a populist, but was the intelligent choice against his absurdly rightwing millionaire opponent, Álvaro Noboa, whose electoral bribes were too outrageous to be effective.
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The Correa victory marks a seismic explosion in Ecuador's traditional politics. During the past decade, a series of popular demonstrations, military coups, and temporary governments have given clear warning of changes to come. Similar shifts occurred in Venezuela and Bolivia, where the termites of bureaucratic incompetence and corruption hastened the collapse of the old order. Nothing was left but an ineffective opposition that has proved leaderless and demoralised. Correa, like Chávez and Morales, will move swiftly towards establishing a constituent assembly to give a more representative voice to the country's indigenous majority.
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(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Free trade bump
Breaking news?
Mmmmm-mmmmm-mmmmm ... inevitable ... socialist revolution ... mmmmm-mmmmm ... political vanguard ... mmmmmmm ... dictatorship ... of the proletariat .... mmmmm-mmmmm ... capitalism is dying ... we shall overcome ... mmmmmm-mmmm ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Watery tarts lyin' around in ponds and handin' out swords is nothing to base a system of government on. True executive power derives from a mandate from the masses. (Obligatory MP reference).
As A. Pole will be explaining shortly, the Free Market causes slavery and Marxist Dictatorships.
In other words, Ecuador is to be run by a bunch of uneducated, illiterate chicken-pluckers.
Morales is Bolivia. Peru just elected the more conservative of the two candidates and rejected the man who would have aligned with the Chavez-Castro axis.
This commie journalist exploded from having one orgasm after another as he wrote this article.
This apparently isn't even from the Guardian, but rather their web site, where they allow all sorts of kooky stuff to get "published" if it drives hits.
If left unchecked, in time the liberal/fascist marriage of ignorance and arrogance will beget the bastard children of ruin and slaughter
As for Correa, did he give up his musical career for politics? /sarc
IOW yet another leftist figured out that the rubes will keep him in power if he promises to outlaw sadness and give away free luxury cars taken from rich people.
After that little report, the Guardian lay back and lit up a fag. "I didn't know it could be that way," the paper was reported to have whispered.
Everyone's happy till the reality of the broken Communist system comes to light that is.
Likely the only folks who get the joke are going to remind you that the musical Corea only has one 'r' in the last name. /butthead mode (my natural state)
Islam is the wave of the future.
"I'm being repressed! I'm being repressed!"
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