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Bolivia

Ahmadinejad gets warm welcome in Bolivia, where Iran has funded...

Investmetn in Uranium would require millions of dollars, from exploration to extraction, the amount of the reserves are unknown due to lack of investment in the quantification work. Ahmadinejad is merely looking for allies to be accepted in the nuclear club against the US. Unfortunately his pursuit will end up in the US bombing Iran's nuclear plants before they're able to reach weapon's grade, say 1-2 years from now.  (Wednesday Nov 25 | post #4)

Venezuela

Venezuela's Budget for 2010: $264,000 for Hugo Chavez's Clothing

This is bullshit, where is the link to the original article...I guess Chavez beat Michelle Obama by a large margin on this one.  (Tuesday Nov 10 | post #6)

Venezuela

Chavez warns Colombia, US against possible aggression against V...

I don't doubt that Colombia w/ US assistance can overthrow Chavez fairly quickly, but this will cause Venezuelans to unite against any invasion (even if it's chavez fault) and in turn the replacement government may be another socialist with even greater support than what chavez had during his initial government.  (Tuesday Nov 10 | post #8)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Well, I didn't say that's the only kind, I meant that's the one that has had the biggest negative impact for Bolivia specifically  (Oct 29, 2009 | post #167)

Honduras

Chavez "warning" about the emergence of guerrilla

Well, everybody looks like a nice family here… First, the days of absolute world power are over, anybody heard of the term globalization? The US cannot do as they please anywhere in the world any longer, we need alliances. Case in point, Irak’s poorly supported coalition, 6 yrs later we still haven’t finish business and is mostly our soldiers dying everyday. By the way I support Obama’s holdup of troops into Afganistan. Most Americans wanted out of Irak, it doesn’t mean we take them soldiers and move them right into another conflict, lets bring them home unless it is absolutely necessary. Venezuela’s gov was elected democratically. There are many leftist governments in the world now that have been elected this way. Why should we pose against them. It is their country, let the people elect and run as they wish. We would never accept political intervention from any other country neither. One of the posts read, we should withdraw all international aid, I agree, we need to fix things at home first instead of wasting millions overseas. I read a lot about Venezuela’s arms built up. While there’s not much we can do about it, US has already sign up with Colombia contracts for military “bases”, not to mention Puerto Rico and our carriers. I don’t feel Venezuela is a treat to the US.  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #36)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

So you're a techie, big deal! any intelligent replies on the subject??  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #152)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

BIG, I'll admit I'm not an expert on Latin America. Why some nations prosper while others lag behind? I don't know. Certainly is not the resources, because Bolivia has plenty. The reason has to be bad administrations. Corruption has crippled the country.(by corruption I mean multinational corps bribing officials to get exporting & business licenses) A radical change is needed. You say look at Chavez, but Chavez, Evo and Correa are recent events less than 10 yrs. Bolivia was not able to progress in the 50+ years before them, so why should it be able to progress under the same system?  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #151)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Then your argument is as worthless as mine, since you live in the USA as I do. However, for I know what it feels to sleep not on a warm bed, but in colchon de paja, I know to feed my chickens and walk my sheep, which I did in Colquiri, and to play with Cachinas and trompos instead of GI-Joe's and Atari. So I feel confident enough to make comments that I believe benefit the poor indiansn and mestizos de el Alto and everywhere in Bolivia.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #145)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

You say you get the input from real live people you've spoken to, yet I doubt you have spoken to any of the victims of Octubre Negro. You pick and choose your sources to make your point, while i'm not afraid to say Evo is wrong (when he is). If you don't validate my arguments for being an "outsider ", then you shouldn't validate any other's in the forum, even when they agree with you, because most are "foreigners " as myself  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #144)

Bolivia

Evo Morales says NO to Narcocapitalism of the 21st century

when you are right, you are right...http://www .youtube.com/watch ?v=MidwrNzFy2w  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #2)

Bolivia

EVO, MANDELA, M L.KING JR: HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

I could not have written it better myself!  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #130)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Althought the rationing sucks, I have to agree, it is a measure of the drought that has hit several areas of the country, "there are parts of the country that haven't seen rain all year" as described in the Wall Street Journal. Water shortages have reduced the capacity of hydroelectric power plants to generate power, hence the blackouts, hence the rationing. It's a natural situation that could happen anywhere, and less a bankrupted economy unable to produce energy for its citizens, as JEN suggestd. By the way unemploymetn rate in Venezuela is 7.40% while the national average in the US is currently 9.8% according to the dept of labor. This is the product of the world economic resession, not venezuela's.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #142)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Very unlikely. Most people from the Blog are in the US and have some kind of Bolivian ancestry or background. Obviously most Evo supporters in Bolivia are indigenous and middle/low class who are not gonna log into blogs like this one. If you'd like to get a balance perspective you need to picture yourself being an indigenous person in bolivia and then you will start to understand Bolivia's current situation. It's like being black and living in the 1960's.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #141)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

OK you made your point, you are agains conspiracy theories, I understand you, if you canno prove it, it does not exist. What about something that is not for dispute, like Bush's war on Irak, where are the nukes?  (Oct 23, 2009 | post #112)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

First,to be fair, there is no proof who lobby the act into law, so that point should be a draw. Second, we finally agree the country cannot spend money fast as it prints it, BUT the rescue package was passed when Bush was in office, Obama inherited the problem, did not create it. The only difference is that Bush would have spend the money in tax breaks to the corporations, while Obame is spending it in promoting social proyects. Thrid, the elections were based on the economy, not on immigration. Yeah, hispanics played a big role, but if you ask anybody, including hispanics, would they rather lose their job or give amnesty to aliens? I think they all would choose their jobs. Finaly you fail to acknowledge the CNN video, which is the one that took us to this discussion, did Bush tried to give himself immunity????  (Oct 23, 2009 | post #111)