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March 1, 2006
Latin America Is Falling Apart And Nobody Cares!
Topics: Latin AmericaCarlos Alberto Montaner writes at RealClearPolitics:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatens President Bush and insults Condoleezza Rice and nobody in Washington pays any attention. Chávez meets with his ''brother,'' Evo Morales, or with his spiritual father, Fidel Castro, to plan the conquest of the planet or the galaxy beginning with Latin America (if they have enough Leninist fervor that day), and The New York Times publishes a four-line item on Page 48, next to a story about a guy who swears that he was kidnapped by Martians who forced him to drink whiskey all weekend long.As Montaner points out, no one really cares about those who persist on taking the wrong road, as Latin American countries have consistantly done. And if most Latin Americans continue to insist on walking away from the standards of behavior of the First World and waste their time and resources on the "costly neopopulist pipe dreams proposed by Chávez and the rest of the madmen running loose in the region", no powerful nation will make much of an effort to steer them in the right direction, nor even care where they end up.
Posted by Richard at March 1, 2006 11:43 PM
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