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To: Ilaine who wrote (16258)	4/1/2007 1:01:16 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218553

Russia: for us westerners the fall of the communism is a failure of an economic system. For the US was a victory against a Cold War enemy. We accept that and move over. For the Russians, the national pride is hurt. We don’t live there or talk with them. But that generation that is today 30-40 they want to prove that the new Russia will come up. They have a point to prove. Expect more and more Russia assertiveness when dealing with the rest of the world. Cuba, they don't want to just turn belly and say: We are dead. They still keep their system intact as it was. And that after 17 years of Soviet satellite status ended. Basically saying: we didn’t lose the Cold War. Venezuela: The people wonder where has their money gone since they have been resource-rich for so long and they are still poor. Their elites didn't tell them. The representative of the poor takes power and wants to discover by himself while at the same trying a new development policy. But it is democratic country. It needs support from their people to keep the power. Easier way to do it is to point that there is an enemy elsewhere to blame for their poverty. Venezuela needs a little more explanation, to see what the situation is today. Venezuela may have had some tough time with his foreign-relations and doesn't have skilled diplomats to negotiate with the foreign interests. As result of this impotence they blame the US. Once a regime changes radically, they hurt a lot of interests. It gains a set of friends and it gains a set of enemies. The enemies are the ones who lost and sabotages the new project moves on. There are a lot of saboteurs of the new Venezuelan regime. Albeit the sabotage is result of the new regime's actions, the regime reacts as if those saboteurs have been there all along. I need to point to the case of South Africa. Once apartheid fell, the new regime gained a lot of friends. But it gained enemies. They sabotage the effort by moving out. By flying their capital out. Or by simply staying on but not engaging fully. They may stay and support pockets of 'resistance' say, for instance, keeping the state-owned enterprises -inherited from apartheid- intact. I understand you being from a stable, pragmatic country may have difficult to understand that perspetive. I am not saying those settling of accounts are the best way to solve problems. I am just stating what they are.