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Losing Latin America; Do we care? Should we care?
Topic Started: Apr 3 2006, 02:25 PM (213 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.

While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.

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If you were to colour a map of anti-Americanism in Latin America, for nearly 50 years Fidel Castro's Cuba has been the deepest red. Three of the most economically developed countries - Brazil, Chile and Argentina - are now in varying shades of left-of-centre pink.

Peru - if Mr Humala wins - would join Venezuela and Bolivia in bright post-box red, with two other countries - Mexico and Nicaragua - possibly about to follow.

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In pursuit of American interests, the US has overthrown or undermined around 40 Latin American governments in the 20th Century.

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  1. Are we really "losing" Latin America?
  2. If so, do we care? Should we care? How important is Latin America to us anyway? Important in what ways?
  3. That statement about the US having overthrown/underminded 40-ish Latin American governments in the 20th Century, is that about the right ballpark or just complete nonsense?
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George K
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Axtremus
Apr 3 2006, 05:25 PM
[*] That statement about the US having overthrown/underminded 40-ish Latin American governments in the 20th Century, is that about the right ballpark or just complete nonsense?

That kind of statement, submitted without documentation will live on forever, with a life of its own. "It came from the BBC, it must be true." It's like the "study" that counted the number of Iraqi deaths from Johns Hopkins. Everyone looked at the number, no one looked at the method of study or the built in errors.
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AlbertaCrude
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Not sure about 40 some regimes but certainly Latin America (& the Carib for the sake of inclusion) from the Rio Grande to Terra del Fuego has been a sandbox for the US to play in ever since the Munro Doctrine became indisputable gospel. One of the more notable interventions was the 1954 CIA orchestrated Guatemalan coup.
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John D'Oh
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I know Bush isn't much good at Geography, but this is ridiculous. He hasn't lost it at all, he's just not looking in the right place.

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tcmod
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any oil there?
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JBryan
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Venezuela has lots of oil. So does Mexico.
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AlbertaCrude
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Not to mention Brazil's offshore oil and Bolivia's natural gas reserves.
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