In South America.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/...guay_elections

I think this Communism stuff is going to take a very long time to shake off.

Your probably right.

Tell me Chavez isn't bankrolling this guy like he's bank rolled every commie in Latin America for the last few years.

So what's new? Hasn't the US bank rolled most right wing junta in Latin America in the past decades? And it seems that the people like him enough, giving him 47.5% of the votes. Isn't democracy crap when you are on the losing side?

Suppose so. But in most competent military juntas, money eventually flows into the country and then it's up to the people to make it a democracy.

Examples:
South Korea
Indonesia
Argentina

That's what I can think of, right off the top of my head.

Communism has no such record and tends to be even worse in terms of human rights abuses than most military dictatorships.

It's going to be an interesting few decades coming up, but whether these guys vote in Communists or whatnot is really none of my business. Let them. They're going to pay for it. The only part that's going to suck is taking in all those refugees.
Again, I find it mystifying that people have such a casual attitude towards Communism and such a blind hatred towards Fascism when they're just as bad as the other. I suppose people like Ted will learn when Communism does indeed become the defacto system in Western Europe. There will be two winners: the guy who owns the party and flies.

Hate to break it to you but communism is dead and buried even the communists have accepted this and moved on to varying degrees of corruption driven capitalism of which Western Europe is immune to due to a couple of centuries of ingrained socialism.

Lets look at whats left of the communist world.
- Cuba
- Venezula
- North Korea

Any others?
I am not sure any of these countries are going to lead a worldwide peoples revolt hell most of these countries will be lucky to last the decade without a revolution of their own.

The Soviet Union is dead and buried and it doesn't matter whether Putin wants a return to the "good ole days" or not the fact is that the Soviet Union will never be resurrected.

China well there is more chance of the USA becoming communist than there is of China doing it, they are far to busy making money and spreading influence to ever take on communism.

Nicarugua (Oretega is back in power)
El Salvador just elected the old Communist party now called socialist back into power.
Boliva is dancing to Chavez tune as is Ecuador

Your right the for all real purposes communism is dead. However it's playing very well in Latin America right now.

Yeah in Latin America it seems to be making a comeback in force.
The only concern I have with Communism making its way there is not about politics, rather a concern about the impending disaster. When you see news about a tropical storm hitting some far away place on TV, you feel bad for the folks who live there. Similar deal really.
MontyB, I don't think Communism is dead and buried. It's going to be around for a while because its root is based on alleviating human suffering. It's a noble motivation which people with a heart will care about. Unfortunately it just goes downhill from there and those involved in it don't know when to let go and there is a seemingly unlimited supply of folks lacking the proper education and money to vote them into power in poor countries.
Hence, it is more dangerous than Fascism. Fascism, you can see that hate filled truck coming from a mile away, but Communism shows up in the form of an angel.

My problem is that Hugo is setting himself up to be the head commie of combined commie block of countries.

Its got nothing to do with the people, goverment never does. It has everything to do with Hugo's dream of being the liberator ala Castro of all of latin america and thereby the benevolent dictator.

Little Columbia has a way bigger military than Hugo's Venezuela. Any one fearing some great Communist Venezuelan Manifest that will sweep South America are just old farts missing the good old days of the Cold War.