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Fear of An Angry Brown Continent

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A reader found the above WaPo headline over at Google this morning, which pretty well accurately sums up the story, which is about how everybody from Venezuela to Brazil to freaking Colombia is torked at us for breaking the economy. Hilariously though somebody at the Post decided that an angry, united Latin America would be too scary for their delicate readers or the jittery markets, so they changed the headline, and now it says the opposite: voila.

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What they'll never say is that Chavez helped bring about the big left turn in LatAm, which in turn is responsible for all that integration stuff they also won't report. Only Peru and Colombia are the odd men out, but you'll never hear that from them. Only this contrived crapola about how Lula and Chavez are allegedly at each other's throats because one is "against" Washington and the other is "for" it. When, in fact, they've been good friends all along, and neither one is "for" or "against" Washington. Both are against INTERFERENCE, which is another thing the WaHoPo won't report.

What they won't report would fill a library; what they will report, would fill the fiction sections of several.

The article contains not a single example of "deepening divisions" in Latin America. Indeed, the article is entirely about how the Bushwhack bankrupting of the U.S. unto the 6th, and now the 7th generation, has united South American countries against utterly irresponsible Bushwhack/Corpo financial policy. Odd. The title says the opposite of the content of the article. The article fails to mention DEFECTIONS from Bushhackydom, like Honduras' recent punch in the nose to the "Washington Consensus" (joining ALBA, the Bolivarian trade group). But it nevertheless gives the impression of South America speaking with one voice against supervoodoo woowoo economics, after all that preaching at them, about the need to wear blouses and codpieces and not worship false gods. The natives are spitting a unified volley of poison darts back over the fence. And did you see what Michele Batchelet said the other day, to U.S. investors, in the U.S. She said, "The reason there has never been a coup in the United States is that there is no U.S. embassy in the United States." And that's from the leader of one of the more pacified jungle countries.

TK Author Profile Page:

c'mon Darrel. They're too busy blogging to put anybody down : )

Javi27 Author Profile Page:

Classic example of Washington Post trying to fool readers into believing that it is only the "bad" left that is tired of US economic policies.

What does the guy from The Monkees have to do with it? :)

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