Stool Pigeons Wire Message Board > Uraguay elects Leftest Leader

megabear

Nov 2 2004, 03:48 AM

Celebrate, Uruguayans, celebrate!!

Interesting trend here. Apparently one of the platforms this guy ran on was..."put America second to neighoring South American countries"

>>Celebrate, Uruguayans, celebrate!!
11/01/2004 12:49
In an historical vote, leftist leader Tabare Vazquez won the presidential race in the South American country. It is the first time in the history of this 170 year nation that a non traditional party wins the elections. This victory costs the US another ally in Latin America.

Sunday's Vazquez victory confirms a pattern in the region, where during the past six years, leftist governments challenging U.S. policy in South America have come to power in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Venezuela. Now, Uruguay is likely to join the list of countries frustrating President Bush's hope for a hemisphere-wide free-trade deal by 2005. <<

machinehead

Nov 2 2004, 04:27 PM

QUOTE (megabear @ Nov 1 2004, 10:48 PM)

Celebrate, Uruguayans, celebrate!!

Interesting trend here. Apparently one of the platforms this guy ran on was..."put America second to neighoring South American countries"

>>Celebrate, Uruguayans, celebrate!!
11/01/2004 12:49
In an historical vote, leftist leader Tabare Vazquez won the presidential race in the South American country. It is the first time in the history of this 170 year nation that a non traditional party wins the elections. This victory costs the US another ally in Latin America.

Sunday's Vazquez victory confirms a pattern in the region, where during the past six years, leftist governments challenging U.S. policy in South America have come to power in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Venezuela. Now, Uruguay is likely to join the list of countries frustrating President Bush's hope for a hemisphere-wide free-trade deal by 2005. <<

One of the 'achievements' of the Bush II regime has been to make anti-Americanism more fashionable in Latin America than it's been since the 1970s.

How do you go about poking the Latin Americans in the eye with a stick? One way is with the Drug War. First you blame America's drug consumption on Latin American countries. Then you destabilize them by moving in with military advisors, raining poison herbicide on peasant farmers' fields, equipping their police with 'non-lethal' weapons to put down the inevitable riots ... and training their armies for brutal domestic suppression if required.

"Why do they hate us?"

For almost anyone besides George W. Bush, the answer is obvious.

mirac

Nov 4 2004, 10:40 PM

QUOTE (megabear @ Nov 1 2004, 10:48 PM)

Celebrate, Uruguayans, celebrate!!

Interesting trend here. Apparently one of the platforms this guy ran on was..."put America second to neighoring South American countries"

>>Celebrate, Uruguayans, celebrate!!
11/01/2004 12:49
In an historical vote, leftist leader Tabare Vazquez won the presidential race in the South American country. It is the first time in the history of this 170 year nation that a non traditional party wins the elections. This victory costs the US another ally in Latin America.

Sunday's Vazquez victory confirms a pattern in the region, where during the past six years, leftist governments challenging U.S. policy in South America have come to power in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Venezuela. Now, Uruguay is likely to join the list of countries frustrating President Bush's hope for a hemisphere-wide free-trade deal by 2005. <<

South America as a continent is going left. Can't blame them when you see what's going on over at the far right in the US. Looks like the 'New Roman Empire' is being isolated philisophically.

lb

Nov 4 2004, 11:23 PM

What’s the big deal? Isn’t W a good borne again, god fearing person. Didn’t he say he wanted a compassionate conservative administration? Why don’t those South Americans understand him?
And why, when I hear him say once again that he wants us all to just work together, I feel like I am being offered a nice refreshing shower by an SS guard?

threadbare

Nov 5 2004, 02:25 AM

Is South America going left or are the countries just becoming more nationalistic? I cringe at the term "left" to describe people who are trying to reclaim some of their autonomy.

sherlock_online

Nov 5 2004, 01:56 PM

QUOTE (lb @ Nov 4 2004, 06:23 PM)

What’s the big deal? Isn’t W a good borne again, god fearing person. Didn’t he say he wanted a compassionate conservative administration? Why don’t those South Americans understand him?
And why, when I hear him say once again that he wants us all to just work together, I feel like I am being offered a nice refreshing shower by an SS guard?

Dear lb,
Some days your cynicism just wipes me out.. after I finally discipher your meaning.

But your message is to one to be heeded.