davonz said:
It doesnt surprise me that Chile and Uruguay are so high up the tables, you just have to look where NZ companies invest in south america.. and it aint argentina.. i am surprised where arg is though, they are usually down around Zimbabwe in most surveys of this nature.. so maybe things are getting better here..
Gosh! some of you people are so blinded by the propaganda feed by your respective countries that will be funny if it wasn't for the crude and true reality.
Lets see Chile for a second, in the beginning of the 70's Allende socialism was the choice by popular vote in that country, but the elite like anywhere else won't let relinquish their power on the economy or the political spectrum to the masses, so the military as always was there to give them a hand, over all this layers there was USA looking for excuses to get involved to suppress this kind of behavior in all the subcontinent cause it won't spread to much and become uncontrollable by them...so far so good.
Pinochet in power and the happy times are here again that give a solution the socialism tread, now they must support the dictatorship to show the world but particularly Latin America that's the way is to go USA capitalistic doctrine or else.
At the same time Argentina and Uruguay went on the same path, nice dictatorships supported by good old USA and never criticized or opposed, what about hypocrisy here guys? from the land of the free.
Pinochet gone but still on the command seat with the military machine behind until he die, as for the government that followed there was given total support not to let them fall, Argentina was a different nut case on his own with the generals in conflict Chile and Argentina and later the Malvinas war it was to complicated, so it was left simmering on the back burner for the moment, with the fracas of the Malvinas war over and now the military regime in Argentina gone they must fin another kind of strategy to support the regime so the game must had to be changed.
The main idea was to continue supporting them in the short term at least Frei in Chile and Menem in Argentina to show to the world an Latin America as new models of capitalism and to make sure socialism as model is not a very good idea in general, so Argentina in particular went to adopt full neoliberalism at is worst, selling the grandma jewellery their soul and the kitchen sink in the process, and finished as we all well know in a total disaster and misery for this country.
With Argentina gone for the moment they focused on Chile to rise as a new wash down model, support come as investments in the mineral and infrastructure sector particularly from Canada, NZ and massively from Australia to show that it was not coming so obviously from the States but to spread the control from their allies in the multinationals and financial world.
So far so good for Chile, how long it would last?...as long they have some mineral left in the ground then when all that is gone good luck and good bye Chile and lets move on and go to suck the natural resources from another some poor third world country until their are dry off, the lust for blood never ends in a vampire world.