December 13th, 2007  
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Originally Posted by Pale Rider
With U.S investments in these countries this should boost their economies so that they can handle this type of concern, also get the people above the poverty line and they tend not to listen to the Marxist red banner call to arms.

Ortega for the most part has also been keeping a low profile and I truly wonder what he really thinks of Chavez.
Remember this, regardless of the type of goverment be it Communist, Marxist, or Democratic or Dictatorship. In Latin America the Goverments are rife with corruption. The investment dollars do not trickle down to the pobres. They stay with the Rico's. So simply investing only shores up corrupt leaders and gives the Marxists a recruitment pool.

Latin America has no easy answer. But ignoring the a possible ChiCom incursion isn't a road to take.

At the Conference of the Americas Hugo and Ortega were all chummy and parroting each other so niether one should be written off.
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