Why does Latin America have some many Crazy Presidents like Hugo Chavez, Castro or the new idiot Evo Morales ?
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Defective Machinery at the president factory.
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Of course, Chavez is an idiot who probably thinks that the whole world depends on the results of football games. It's like the most important thing to them in Venezuela.
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It's interesting, because I don't know that there are "countries" that hate us.  There may be a country's leader that "hates" america (Hugo Chavez of Venezuela certainly didn't like American capitalism, but I wouldn't say Venezuelans hate America) -- such as Fidel Castro of Cuba, probably the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, Qadafi of Libya (up until recently), some hardline Chinese communist leaders; and there may be some countries in which a majority of the people don't have a favorable image of America (I'd include North Korea, Iran, and, to a lesser extent, France), but I don't think there are countries that "hate" us, perhaps the way it was during the cold war.\n\nMost enemies of the U.S. today would be categorized into two camps -- rogue groups of non-nation states (like al Qaeda) and economic "enemies" who simply want to displace America as the great economic superpower (like China, India, and, to a lesser extent, the E.U.)  Both must be considered.
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Because  socialism is like a campaign slogan so that the populist governments and nationalists of Latin America can convince to the masses and their governments of which Capitalism is not beneficial and is necessary to eliminate it in its countries and thus to be united in a block of "integration". This will future see but real with the victory of the nationalistic party in Peru and the extension of the Mercosur.
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Chavez should be killed for his repeated Opposition to the U.S. and not cooperating on the war on terror. He is a dictator and has removed the law in his country that has a set amount of years for presidental term so we will see Chavez in office till he dies like Castro. Chavez is gonna turn his country into the next China except on the Radical Left side. With Removal of Rights and suppression of his opposers. He is annoyance and the U.S. Empire doesn't have time to deal with small fries like him. So he is on President Bush's Ignore list on all Chat Programs and Phones =P
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That's interesting. I think that they can. I think that brazil is one of those "quiet" countries that will eventually emerge as the next world leader. And I believe that they will do it without power or might but with their wisdom that they obtain from watching the rest of the world screw up in form or another.
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Many changes in Latin America didn't happen because of the US Army. It's not that many countries didn't try to change, it's little our powerful Big Brother from the North is always watching.
709009
Are you kidding? Have you noted that video clips from black artists from USA only have blacks and from white artists only have whites? Sounds like 2 different nations in the same territorry. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is native american. The former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo is native american too. Any black so far, but the black population of Latin America is not very large. Anyway, Chávez is almost black, the guy must have about 75-85% of black blood. The thing is that here in Latin American things are more naturally, we don't point someone to make part of the government because he/she is black.
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There are Idiots and really great people in every country in the world,Americans just seem to have more idiots because your country is much larger than European countries
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The more "rich" countries have used and abused the more poor countries, after sucking up all their resources they leave them high-and-dry. Its so easy to ignore the rest of the world unless they have something you want, IE: oil, coal, coco beans, rice, cattle, etc.
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The reason the Treasury Dept. (A.K.A. the U.S. gov't.) spends all this money re the Cuban Problem(?) is quite simple. Castro and his revolution, which laid the groundwork for the betterment of a very poor populace, displaced a cruel, corrupt, vicious and malleable close friend to U.S. interests ( bananas and sugar immediately come to mind) named Batista, the Cuban dictator. Batista was also a crony of the American mobs. (a.k.a. Mafia ). This was their playground which, by extension, meant the playground for American politicians. The problem is that the U.S. gov't. does not dominate Cuba anymore and they don't like that.Doesn't is seem odd that other democratic countries have full relations with Cuba while the U.S. happily welcomes boat load after boatload of less than prime immigrants free access to the U.S. soil just to spite Cuba ; but we have to wonder if this spite has backfired over the last 45 years.
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Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuala have lef-wing governments. I am not sure how many of them was elected after Bush took the office. However, it is true that there is an anti-American left wing trend in Latin countries. There is going to be election in 10 more latin countries till the end of this year. I guess we’ll see the exact picture at the end of this year. Please look over the following link.\n\n\nANALYSIS: HOW THE US 'LOST' LATIN AMERICA \n“There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble…….… there is a wave of profound anti-American feeling stretching from the Texas border to the Antarctic.”\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4861320.stm
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The Chilean president, sadly i forgot his name but there goverment is one of the most progressive goverments in all latin america, there country is a beautiful one, and there people are just as diverse, modern thinking,innovative,\nas any in all the americas, and europe.
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Latin American culture in general has a tendency to be very male dominated. This "manliness" factor would be called into question by something such homosexuality.
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America sure wants Hugo Chavez's oil, and he turned down OPEC like Saddam did before the invasion by America. Venezuela has gasoline for .12 cents a gallon right now, and George Bush hates that too.
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He's one the greatest things to ever happen to Venezuela and probably latin america. Despite all his faults, he has done more for the majority of venezuelans than any president in recent history, and he is standing up to the tyranny/hypocrisy of US foreign policy
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There is no information presented in the media about Venezuela on the news today.  Unless you watch the 24 hour news stations you wouldn't even know that South America and Africa existed.  On the 24 hour news stations you might get a few seconds of coverage when CNN takes a break from non-stop Natalie Holloway coverage, or Fox stops apologizing for Bush. \n\nActually there is probably more coverage of South America on the Daily Show than anywhere else.  Isn't that sad?