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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (63685)	4/10/2006 2:46:07 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361345

One word: PROPAGANDA. Latin American nations have complained for years that the U.S. talks about "democracy", but often supports the opposite. Remember when we went into Panama to restore "democracy" and get rid of Noriega? Funny, how we had no problem with Noriega as the duly elected leader of Panama as long as he was doing our bidding. I agree, the dreadful Pinochet incident is perhaps the our darkest moment. Not only did we destroy a stabil Latin American democracy that could have been a model for other Latin American countries, but we also destroyed Latin America's longest democratic tradition in Chile, which went well back to the 19th Century. American elites don't like democracy in practice, because they can't control it. Just look at the fits we are having over Iraq. We don't like who they elected, so we are trying to force him from office. Is that really letting democracy work?