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To: Snowshoe who wrote (10402)	9/28/2001 3:38:07 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

The US and Latin America in this crisis: Together, for now Sep 27th 2001 From The Economist print edition Unity conceals new tensions FOR the first time since the 1960s, the Rio treaty, a cold-war mutual-defence pact for the Americas, has been invoked, this time in support of the United States' campaign against terrorism. At a meeting in Washington on September 22nd, the region's foreign ministers pledged to co-operate in tracking down and extraditing terrorists. But behind this façade of unity, Latin America's solidarity is strained. The decision to invoke the treaty came at Brazil's initiative, and was approved unanimously. But only just. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who last year visited Iraq and is due in Libya next month, was persuaded to fall into line only at the last minute, by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil. The American campaign against terrorism is causing awful difficulties for Mexico. During a state visit to Washington before the attacks, Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, had criticised the Rio treaty as “obsolete and useless”. Now Jorge Castañeda, its foreign minister, is being lambasted at home for supporting the United States' right to “revenge”. Latin America will no doubt do its best to comply with the American request to tighten controls on borders and terrorists' finances. But rather to the surprise of American officials, the attacks have laid bare the continuing strength of anti-American opinion in the region. Governments are “going to have to find a way to balance their foreign-policy concern to support the United States against public opinion that could become increasingly hostile once conflict begins,” says Peter Hakim of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington think-tank. To make matters worse, Latin America's main economies are sinking into recession, amid widespread disillusion with the meagre fruits of a decade of American-backed free-marketry. “It all points to a far rockier period for relations between the United States and Latin America,” according to Mr Hakim.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (10402)	9/28/2001 4:57:42 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Americans as slaves of the fat cat bureaucracy. Ray must have been reading my postngs: Message 16425716 As he puts in his postings: administrations come and goes. But the fat cats bureaucrats remain. This gives a pretense of democracry: That there are people in Washington representing you as a citizen. No way. You are in fact a slave of the bureaucrats. Juts tune on to CNN and watch the fat cats get free air time (in front of the Seal of the United States) market their goals to the population. almost 30 years ago no one went for that. They just went to Canada and dind't want to be butchered. Bureaucrats know that people tend to forget very easy.