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2014-05-03 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by 3dc 2014-05-03 02:38|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 long-held dream of a trans-oceanic canal through Nicaragua

You think the ecologists will be outrages at the environmental impact? Will they file endless suits to obstruct it? /sarc off

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-03 08:27|| 2014-05-03 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Hell build it the hell out of it, nothing like a little competition. Make it wide and deep so our CVNs can get thru it.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-03 09:56|| 2014-05-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#3 As far as I can tell, their colonies in this hemisphere are Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-03 12:29|| 2014-05-03 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Every last one of those countries are fucked up beyond belief. It's scary that Cuber is the new shinning light.

Altho, Boliva not getting their currency screwed up is a plus, has possibilities.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-03 14:26|| 2014-05-03 14:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Ship, did you read the Michael Totten piece about Cuba?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-03 15:17|| 2014-05-03 15:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Snowy, yes. He paints a darker picture than I think the light allows. Cuber is way, way FU, but they have the saving grace of being populated by Cubans, which next to the wiley Chinee, may be the most capitalist folk on earth.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-03 15:46|| 2014-05-03 15:46|| Front Page Top

#7 It doesn't matter about the people if they're never allowed any freedom and the "Capitalist" FSB calls the shots.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-03 18:29|| 2014-05-03 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 True Snowy, but think Poland. It's a matter of faith as it were.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-03 20:51|| 2014-05-03 20:51|| Front Page Top

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