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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
26 Mar 2006 09:29:15 AM |
| Object: |
George Bush has done what Che Guevara failed to do |
With the swaggering Texan in the White House, a leftward surge has
united Latin America to a degree that T-shirt icon Che Guevara could
only dream of.
Bush has presided during one of the most significant political
re-alignments in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
By this summer, every major Latin American nation but Colombia is
likely to be run by elected leaders with stronger backgrounds in Marx
than free markets.
If Cold War-era domino theory has been a bust elsewhere, it's working
in Latin America.
Late last year, Bolivian voters overwhelmingly elected as president
former coca-grower Evo Morales, founder of Bolivia's Movement Toward
Socialism party, who fancies himself a nightmare for the Bush
administration.
Then, in January, Chilean voters chose socialist candidate Michele
Bachelet, a torture victim of the Pinochet regime, as the nation's
first woman president.
Leftists now rule as well in Venezuela, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina,
and are leading in election campaigns in Peru and in Mexico, the
region's electoral grand prize.
Even recycled Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega -- "a hoodlum,"
according to Roger Noriega, formerly the U.S.'s top Latin America
official -- appears poised for a possible comeback when Nicaraguan
voters go to the polls in November.
Although Latin America's national borders won't melt away anytime
soon, Che's vision of pan-Latin cooperation has begun to materialize.
From The San Francisco Gate, 3/26/06:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/26/INGFRHSVGT1.DTL
How President Bush has unified Latin America
By Nick Miroff
Has Latin America ever had such a unifying figure?
At political rallies, his visage is held aloft as a beacon to regional
independence and self-determination.
He's helped forge new trade partnerships to spur economic growth and
alleviate poverty.
And his leadership has fanned a gale-force electoral trend that's
sweeping the hemisphere to topple one pro-Washington government after
the next.
Who is this grand inductor of Latin American leftism?
Venezuelan fireball Hugo Chavez?
Blue-collar Brazilian Lula Ignacio da Silva?
Bolivia's coca-farmer president Evo Morales?
ĦEpa! It's George W. Bush, the accidental revolutionary.
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That proves it. George Bush is a secret Commie agent.
Harry
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