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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (221436)3/2/2005 12:59:56 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1571808
 
It was the beginning of the Age of the Second Democratic Revolution. Spain inspired Portugal, and the second Iberian dictatorship gave way to democracy. Spain and Portugal inspired all of Latin America, and by the time Ronald Reagan left office there were only two unelected governments south of the Rio Grande: Cuba and Surinam. These successful revolutions inspired the Soviet satellites, and then the Soviet Union itself, and the global democratic revolution reached into Africa and Asia, even threatening the tyrants in Beijing.

Oh my God.........such exaggerations and lies. There were only two gov'ts unelected gov'ts south of the Rio Grande? Huh?

Mexico had its first real democratic election in 2000. Up til then, there was no real opposition to the principal party. You all think that Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay are democracies? Columbia is a place of violence where the gov't could fall at any given moment. Peru's president recently was ousted because he was implementing more and more authoritarian reforms. Argentina is in perpetual economic crisis and changes gov'ts like most people change their clothes. I could go on in this vein but why bother.

When a world audit of democracies was done, most South American countries ended up in the two last divisions:

worldaudit.org

You all are taking spin to a whole new level..........all in the name of a RR Sr. There is a reason why his son chose to be a liberal! Think about it.

This article is total BS.............you should be ashamed you posted it!
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