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2005-12-19 Caribbean-Latin America
Bolivian president vows to be a nightmare for the US
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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-12-19 00:13|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 How soon until the nationwide famine starts? Will that, or the corruption scandal come first?
Posted by gromky">gromky  2005-12-19 02:45|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/]  2005-12-19 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Those will be our fault, too.
Posted by Fred 2005-12-19 08:04||   2005-12-19 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, if they actually do have a famine, all that coca will come in handy. They'll be too juiced up to notice.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-12-19 08:14|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2005-12-19 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I would not be so casual about this nutcase winning the presidency in Bolivia. Now, South America has 5 leftist government: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, ann Bolivia. This is not good for the US!
Posted by TMH 2005-12-19 08:29||   2005-12-19 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 DB, not if that coca fungus spreads.
Posted by ed 2005-12-19 08:36||   2005-12-19 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I wouldn't get too bent over this guy. What could the bolivians possibly hold over our heads? The price of coke may go down, but that isn't really traded on the futures market is it?
Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-12-19 09:01||   2005-12-19 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 It's time to turn off the damn $pigot. I'm sick and tired of sending aid to prop up every two bit dictator on "humanitarian" grounds, or to bribe them to like us.

It never works worth a damn, and unless we have explicit, short term, national interests in maintaining a foot hold, screw them.

Pakistan is an example of a country that we need to keep access to, Bolivia isn't.
Posted by AlanC">AlanC  2005-12-19 09:35||   2005-12-19 09:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Still think having Gayana as our 51st state is a bad idea?
Posted by raptor 2005-12-19 09:49||   2005-12-19 09:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Uh oh...looks like our supply of bright, multi-colored capes may, potentially, be at risk. Seriously...since they're not selling their natural gas...isn't that really the only legal export that Bolivia offers us? Well, capes and Bolivarian rhetoric.

Morales suffers from delusions of grandeur.
Posted by mjh">mjh  2005-12-19 09:54||   2005-12-19 09:54|| Front Page Top

#10 How cute! The little Bolivian wanna-be dictator really thinks he's one of the big boys!

(Honestly, I do not understand why these people insist on all this silly posturing when they could be working to improve the situation for their citizens. And why on earth doesn't the citizenry insist on it?!?)
Posted by trailing wife 2005-12-19 10:34||   2005-12-19 10:34|| Front Page Top

#11 I suppose I just have a twisted mind, let them have a crop failure, famine and depopulation, then we don't have to worry about them anymore.
The weak pose no threat.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-12-19 10:39||   2005-12-19 10:39|| Front Page Top

#12 "Evo is a real man of the people. He's with us," said Estela Martinez, a homemaker celebrating in Cochabamba.

Appears to be a real struggle in that part of the world to find these so called, "real men."
Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-19 11:28||   2005-12-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, Estela. If "man of the people" starts wearing his suits with lots of big medals and sashes, I'd watch my ass. That's usually a telltale sign that things are not gonna work out the way you thought.
Posted by tu3031 2005-12-19 12:09||   2005-12-19 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 I've never forgiven them for killing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-12-19 12:51||   2005-12-19 12:51|| Front Page Top

#15 poised to become Bolivia's first indigenous president

So none of the previous presidents were born in Bolivia?
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-12-19 12:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-12-19 12:57|| Front Page Top

#16 A high-school dropout who herded llamas as a boy,..

I'd say Bolivia's seriously phuqued.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-19 13:55||   2005-12-19 13:55|| Front Page Top

#17 Raptor,

This is an even better reason not to want Gayana as the 51st state. Or Guyana either.
Posted by mac 2005-12-19 14:39||   2005-12-19 14:39|| Front Page Top

#18 I still like Sondra K's headline:

Bolivians on crack elect Pro-crack President
Posted by mojo">mojo  2005-12-19 17:53||   2005-12-19 17:53|| Front Page Top

#19 Time to pull all USAID funds from that fool. Oh, and don't forget a nice little trade embargo with perhaps a deportation of Bolivian nationals. Send them all home.
Posted by 49 pan">49 pan  2005-12-19 18:36||   2005-12-19 18:36|| Front Page Top

#20 The rarefied oxygen at their altitude may explain part of the irrationality.
Posted by Kalle 2005-12-19 21:55||   2005-12-19 21:55|| Front Page Top

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