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2007-11-08 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2007-11-08 00:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 We knew this wouldn't be long in happening. If the protesters don't get quiet and toe the line, this could get real bloody with a full civil war. Hopefully the US will help the anti-Chavez side.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-08 09:50|| 2007-11-08 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 So...does Miami have enough room for "Little Caracas"?

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-08 10:14|| 2007-11-08 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, since you asked tu. Here and here. :)

The U.S.-Venezuelan community, centered around the Doral neighborhood of Miami and in the "Little Caracas" city of Weston just north of it, numbers at least 40,000 and may be as high as 180,000, the Miami Herald reports.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-08 12:29|| 2007-11-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 So, all is not Eden in Commie paradise?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-11-08 12:34|| 2007-11-08 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Who's coming? Not farmworkers or day laborers. Sadly for Venezuela, we're getting the cream of the crop. The doctors working in department stores and teachers working in fast food places are among the many coming here who've had some opportunity to develop their skills as professionals and entrepreneurs.

That's the way it usually starts. Those that can get out are usually the first ones out. When the lawnmowers, cabbies, and sheetrock guys start showing up illegally, you'll know Hugo's screwed...

Posted by tu3031 2007-11-08 12:36|| 2007-11-08 12:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm interested in the on-going developments in Venezuela and encourage any aspiring economist to use this opportunity to catalogue the mistakes of this regime. As a modern state devolves into Utopia, it will be worthwhile to the prospective doctoral candidate to have at his finger tips the political turning points and resultant economic dispair.

Capital formation is one of the greatest hurdles facing third world countries' entry into second world status. Watching the populist implosion of a country's capital is a rare and unique opportunity. Mugabe's actions are resulting in third world to simple dis-civilization. Chavez' devolution will result in a second world country becoming a third world country. Which, in the '50's, '60's and '70's was--being a third world country--a necessary condition for the rise and growth of Soviet and Chinese supported communist parties. The irony of returning to this "necessary condition" is painful, but an almost comedic playing out of what implementation of these Socialist/Lefty/Democrat prescriptions would mean, and could do, to our own national economy.

Lefties are convinced they know the path to social justice. It is not whimsically that they choose Malthus as their intellectual fulcrum. Their nightmarish convictions lead them to see the need to control the impulses of freedom...while granting the tyrant the power to enforce their convictions.

Take notes. There will be a test.

Posted by OregonGuy">OregonGuy 2007-11-08 14:09|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/]">[http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com/] 2007-11-08 14:09|| Front Page Top

#7 *happy sigh* That was wonderful, OregonGuy.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-08 15:03|| 2007-11-08 15:03|| Front Page Top

#8 no Supermodels hurt, I hope. The world needs them

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-08 15:41|| 2007-11-08 15:41|| Front Page Top

#9 I think we should pay all the supermodels in bolivars, since they apparently don't like dollars.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-11-08 19:23|| 2007-11-08 19:23|| Front Page Top

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