Evo Morales Joins Chavez's Fight
Happy 2006!
This year starts with a reminder of how it ended, with elections in Latin America that promised or threatened (depending on how you look at it) to take Latin America to the left. It started with Bolivia, where one of Hugo Chavez's stronger allies, Evo Morales became President. Bolivia cheered but the world worried and ended the year wondering if Evo would in fact nationalize the natural gas industry. The matter is still unsettled.
2006 dawned and Evo's first visit was to Venezuela where he was met by Hugo Chavez. Yes, it didn't take long for Evo to confirm the path his government would take. Evo did mention worthy programs to attempt to help the people of Bolivia but this was overshadowed by Evo's agreement to have Bolivia join Chavez's fight against neo-liberalism and the imperalist United States.
Bolivia is putting a lot of things at risk by joining Chavez's "axis-of-good". After all, the United States does give Bolivia most of its aide, and Brasil and Spain have invested in Bolivia's natural gas reserves. This all starts to strike me as a bad deal for Bolivia and I can only hope that this isn't really the begining of a Latin America ruled by the likes of Chavez.
Read what others have to say:
- Hugo Chavez Offers Ample Help to Evo Morales
- Evo Morales Calls for a "Second Liberalization"
Tags: Current events, International, In the News, News and Politics, Bolivia, Venezuela, Latin America, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez
posted by RodoMXOZ @ 18:02
2 comments
2 Comments:
Es preocupante esta situacion en sur america.......Mexico tendra que cuidarse de cualquier ola izquierdista que venga del sur.
Efectivamente, la deriva -ya antes pregonada a los cuatro vientos- de Evo Morales es ciertamente preocupante. No se trata de un gobierno de izquierdas como el de Lagos, por ejemplo, sino que apunta al extremo liberticida que representan sus amigos de Venezuela y Cuba y al que todos tememos. Al calor de las declaraciones de Evo desde que fue declarado vencedor, ya es prácticamnete una realidad nuestro temor. También por lo que comentó en España.
Sólo resta comprobar cómo llevará el sr. Morales la cuestión de la disidencia: ¿será con la camisa de fuerza que Chávez colocó a Venezuela, será a imagen y semejanza de la represión castrista? Puesto que sus medidas económicas, hijas del comunismo, se han demostrado empobrecedoras, todos esperamos que al menos la gente de Bolivia sólo padezca pobreza, y no represión.
Salu2
P.S. : les descubrí por un comentario en mi blog. Les he enlazado ;)
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