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Chile Moves to the Left ¶ Michelle Bachelet 1st Female President! ¶ Updated | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

What About: U.S. Lost Its World Prestige (4.00 / 7)

"... and is weakening U.S. influence and prestige in the Middle East."

Excellent Writing Larry Johnson!

Will Evo Morales follow Hugo Chavez's model?

● Evo Morales Wins, The Bird Shit War & Bush's Nightmare ◊ by Chris Kulczycki
Sat Dec 24th, 2005 at 01:55:28 AM PDT

Breaking News ::
Chili Moves to the Left ¶ Michelle Bachelet 1st Female President!

So ... after Chavez and Venezuela, the Bush cabal got what they deserve:
Lulu Brazil, Socialist in Uruqua, Morales in Bolivia and a self-supporting Argentina freed from the IMF noose.
Only through U.S. and France meddling in Haiti, Bush got himself another country in chaos today.

The signing ceremony was attended by Spain's defence minister (l)

Spain moved to the left. Another First Woman was elected as president in an African country - Ms Sirleaf in Liberia. Germany moved to the right but Angela Merkel is off to a great start on the international stage, an Islamist with extreme views got elected in Iran and insurgents running wild across the globe.

● Europe on CIA Detainees and Guantanamo

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

by Oui on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 07:04:51 PM EST

Re: What About: U.S. Lost Its World Prestige (4.00 / 2)

I took this picture when Pinochet had to give power in 89 (I believe).

On the way to Argentina, I flew and had a stop over in Paraguay. I had to get my 2 puppies out of the plane because there was a few hours delay. So I was pretty much on the runway. About 300 yards was waiting Stroessner's plane to leave the country. He had been deposed.

I spent about one and a half years in Argentina, and when I left to the US, we crossed to chile to fly back. It was on the days that Pinochet was being kicked out. Whe happened to meet some women were I was staying in Argentina, who had offered us to stay at their place. When we got there, they asked us if we wanted to go to the stadium for the inaguration of Alwin. It was such a party !!

Where we were, we had the Trosquists to our left, and the Communists to our right. That was an experience I will never forget.

I guess I should become a frequent flier :-)

by cruz del sur (nicodk@sbcglobal.net) on Mon Jan 16th, 2006 at 06:35:00 PM EST
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Re: Chili Moves to the Left (4.00 / 5)

Hi Oui..good diary and the update on another country in South America. I imagine all this is sending bushco into apoplectic fits of anger that they aren't able to control all those lefties down there.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 07:51:12 PM EST

Sorry, I don't buy it ... (4.00 / 3)

In spite of their different political backgrounds and ideologies, both candidates to succeed Lagos have outlined strikingly similar basic goals, promising to continue the two-decade-long free-market policies that have made Chile's economy one of the healthiest in the region.

How then can this be a move to the left?

What Chile has been doing for the past 15 years is what many South and Central American countries did for much of the 19th and 20th centuries - traded power back and forth between two parties whose policy differences couldn't be discerned without a microscope.

"We're trying to give the illusion of due diligence." --Bennett Holiday to Jimmy Pope in Syriana

by Meteor Blades (tleelange@hotmail.com) on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 09:13:34 PM EST

Re: Sorry, I don't buy it ... (4.00 / 3)

That might have something to do with the fact that every time the various countries have tried to change government pathways, they've had to use armed revolts to get past the feudalists at the top, and those have routinely resulted in little visits from the USMC or the CIA...

The people can elect all the leftists they want but until they're out from under the economic and military shadow of Tio Sam, it means nothing. But at least they're still trying.

Every third American devotes himself to improving and uplifting his fellow citizen, usually by force. -- H.L. Mencken

by stormkite on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 09:58:45 PM EST
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Re: Sorry, I don't buy it ... (4.00 / 2)

now, you two, stop that!!!! :o) You have made me hungry...;o)

by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 10:12:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Indeed, true. n/t (none / 0)

"We're trying to give the illusion of due diligence." --Bennett Holiday to Jimmy Pope in Syriana

by Meteor Blades (tleelange@hotmail.com) on Mon Jan 16th, 2006 at 03:10:39 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Chili Moves to the Left ¶ Michelle Bachelet 1s (4.00 / 6)

I hate to be a stickler, but it's not Chili, but Chile.

You might want to change your headline.

An untypical Negro

by blksista (gab1954@gmail.com) on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 09:44:30 PM EST

Re: Chili Moves to the Left ¶ Michelle Bachelet 1s (4.00 / 3)

Beat me to it. Have a 4.

Every third American devotes himself to improving and uplifting his fellow citizen, usually by force. -- H.L. Mencken

by stormkite on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 09:50:09 PM EST
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du Chili - Chili - Chile (none / 0)

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du Chili - Chili - Chile

«« click on pic for Powell's

In short - you're right. Thanks!

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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by Oui on Mon Jan 16th, 2006 at 06:12:02 AM EST
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Michelle Bachelet's victory confirmed (3.85 / 7)

A good call by Radio Bio Bio, thanks Oui.

Ms Bachelet's opponent, Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera, has conceded defeat. AFP/ABC(Aust) story here.

Let's watch what happens in Chile.

by canberra boy (canberraboy1 at gmail dot com) on Sun Jan 15th, 2006 at 07:39:54 PM EST

Re: Chile Moves to the Left ¶ Michelle Bachelet 1s (none / 1)

President elect Ms. Bachelete, saild that the relation with Argentina was "strategic" for her her and for Chile. She also stated that it's foreign policy a would prioritize the region.

She also said that the FTAA is not incompatible with the MERCOSUR.

by cruz del sur (nicodk@sbcglobal.net) on Tue Jan 17th, 2006 at 03:39:22 PM EST

Bush neocon failed oil policy ... (none / 0)

.
Bush neocon policy failed everywhere, from North Korea to Iran and the Arab nations in the Middle East. Bush - Powell - Rice lost all the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union and got kicked out of Uzbekistan. China and Russia have tightened their grip on these satellite nations bordering strategic oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea,

The twist with the Ukraine and Georgia were the latests where the Kremlin - Putin - and Gazprom got their way and secured the trasport pipelines through the whole region. Putin mirrored the openings Bush took to grap executive power in the States, to his own possibilities with domestic politics of the Doema, Russian oil billionaires and neighboring totalitarian states. Putin's implementation was much better than Bush, even China wasted no time to sign multi-billion LNG import contracts with Iran and invested heavily in Central Africa Chad and Sudan, South America in Argentina and Venezuela.

Bush and neocon cabal got their asses kicked everywhere and are much worse off than at the start five years ago. No wonder Bush spoke of his oil addiction, because he failed miserably to conquer any foreign oil fields. His only success was the invasion and occupation of Haiti, except there is no oil to be gained. VP Cheney probably wanted to vault from Haiti into Chavez territory of Venezuela, but the overthrow failed!

● Iran - Pakistan - India Pipeline

≈ Cross-posted from my diary -- Democracy Failures In Middle East Under Bush ≈

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

by Oui on Wed Feb 1st, 2006 at 02:46:55 PM EST

One - Two Punch: Rummy & Johnny N. (none / 0)

.
In my diary today ::

Rumsfeld Likens Adolf Hitler, Iran and North Korea! No Kidding

Mr. Chávez's comments came on the same day that senior Bush administration officials, who have been relatively silent after weeks of constant verbal volleys by the Venezuelan leader, harshly criticized his governing style. Warning that Mr. Chávez is consolidating power at the expense of democracy, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld went so far as to compare Mr. Chávez to Hitler:

"He's a person who was elected legally just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others."

Mr. Rumsfeld said, referring to the Cuban leader and the new president of Bolivia, Evo Morales. "It concerns me."

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, John D. Negroponte, director of national intelligence, said Mr. Chávez "appears ready to use his control of the legislature and other institutions to continue to stifle the opposition, to reduce press freedom, and entrench himself through measures that are technically legal, but which nonetheless constrict democracy."

Mr. Negroponte also said:

Mr. Chávez's populist government was seeking closer economic and military ties with Iran and North Korea, while meddling in the internal affairs of neighboring countries.

Little, if anything, has ever been publicly raised about ties to North Korea, and Mr. Negroponte did not offer evidence. But Mr. Chávez, whose country has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves, has met with Iranian leaders and has vigorously defended Tehran's goal of developing a nuclear program.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

by Oui on Fri Feb 3rd, 2006 at 06:33:55 PM EST

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