Way too much of the mierda flung by both sides will be too true, imho ... certainly the old oligarchy mismanaged this country to the point where so many were dispossessed that a great majority of voters were ready for a Chávez - that says a lot in itself, and i don't think we should want them back in power, because such a state would be temporary and even worse in its end result ... at the same time the whole chavista thing has definite stalinist overtones to it, with these círculos bolivarianos and all, what they are doing is not revising the system, only changing the faces of who is a Have and who a Have-not
Ideally a Ni-ni ideology comes along and captures the imagination of enough to swing a vote ... ni-ni means 'neither-nor' ... something based in part on the ideas of Hernando de Soto, as undogmatically as possible, is what is needed imho
The US should stay right out of it, as their history in Latinoamérica is too tainted to be effective ... and 'recognising' that little two-day attempted coup by Cardona et al didn't help it any .... latinos have had enough of the Batistas and Galtieris and Pinochets
There's never been much high and far-sighted principle at work in the latino zone, lord knows there's little enough of it elsewhere, of course ... mining in much of this land has always meant that foreigners come with guns and steel, they enslave the locals and take great wealth away in the filthiest possible manner, leaving the land devastated and native culture destroyed ... perception of that is more in the background now, but it's still there
Ever look at Cadre, jr? ... major placer project, finally going ahead it looks like, and i'm fairly content with the political risk involved [using 'fairly' in the 'really quite relative' sense] - Message 21037068
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