http://www.kneedeepinthehooah.com/2008/05/us-fourth-fleet-unnerves-latin-dictators Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kneedeepinthehooah.com/2008/05/us-fourth-fleet-unnerves-latin-dictators/comment-page-1#comment-1660 kpbaker Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:30:34 +0000 http://www.kneedeepinthehooah.com/?p=673#comment-1660 Curiously enough, South America (I can't vouch for Central America; I live in Uruguay) is marked by democractically-elected, if leftist, governments (I exclude Chavez from my list - the man is a dictator)...elected after they kicked out their military dictators, virtually all of whom were installed by the United States in the 1970s and who then proceeded to murder, rape, and torture their own citizens while running their national economies into the ground, although in ways beneficial to the U.S. and its national economy. The only people trembling right now are normal people with access to a newspaper, who (understandably) are afraid that the real aim of the U.S. is to usher in another era of repressive, neo-satellite state governments in the name of cheaper oil and food products. Curiously enough, South America (I can’t vouch for Central America; I live in Uruguay) is marked by democractically-elected, if leftist, governments (I exclude Chavez from my list – the man is a dictator)…elected after they kicked out their military dictators, virtually all of whom were installed by the United States in the 1970s and who then proceeded to murder, rape, and torture their own citizens while running their national economies into the ground, although in ways beneficial to the U.S. and its national economy. The only people trembling right now are normal people with access to a newspaper, who (understandably) are afraid that the real aim of the U.S. is to usher in another era of repressive, neo-satellite state governments in the name of cheaper oil and food products.

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