The Two Latin Americas

[camberiu]

A Continental Divide Between One Bloc That Favors State Controls and Another That Embraces Free Markets

 

[EdRooney]

Isn't it curious how that map matches the US gov'ts map of allies and enemies? Yet this comes from a supposedly anti-regime paper, the WSJ. Any protestations the corporate media may make about being independent and not government stenographers should be taken with ginormous grains of salt.

 

[camberiu]

Isn't it curious how that map matches the US gov'ts map of allies and enemies? Yet this comes from a supposedly anti-regime paper, the WSJ. Any protestations the corporate media may make about being independent and not government stenographers should be taken with ginormous grains of salt.

I'd hardly classify Ecuador, the country that is protecting Julian Assange and offered asylum to Snowden, as an "ally" of the United States.

 

[Matiasba]

Now the "eje del Pacifico" is loosing Chile. And perhaps Uruguay (and surely Argentina in 2015).

 

[EdRooney]

Good point. The map does not seem to precisely match the points in the article.

 

[Rich One]

Isn't it curious how that map matches the US gov'ts map of allies and enemies? Yet this comes from a supposedly anti-regime paper, the WSJ. Any protestations the corporate media may make about being independent and not government stenographers should be taken with ginormous grains of salt.

Well its like 90 % RED.....??

 

[EdRooney]

Well its like 90 % RED.....??

Sorry Rich, I don't get your point. I was talking about the WSJ as yet another government mouthpiece. As always the media in the US just parrots the government line. Are the colours significant? Or the percentages?

 

[nicoenarg]

Now the "eje del Pacifico" is loosing Chile. And perhaps Uruguay (and surely Argentina in 2015).

The Pacific Alliance? When was Argentina ever a member? Uruguay has had an observer status. Chile isn't going anywhere.

 

[Ries]

I am amused by how every positive thing that happened in the past is attributed solely to high commodity prices.
Evidently, in the past, government actions were completely without effect.
But every negative thing predicted for the future will be solely the fault of socialist tendencies of the governments of Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela.

The real world is a bit more complicated, on both sides of the Andes.

 

[Rich One]

Sorry Rich, I don't get your point. I was talking about the WSJ as yet another government mouthpiece. As always the media in the US just parrots the government line. Are the colours significant? Or the percentages?

No just the percentages,,,, if the Green countries are pro-USA then is pretty sad result for Obama's Policies for LATAM..?