Che Guevara Smacks Bush!

Evo Morales
Hugo Chavez
There's a new wave of political and economic inspiration and power developing, and the whole of Latin America is being influenced. Indeed, what the typical western countries have been claiming to be is what is beginning to happen to the South. And this is their answer to elite run economics and politics which benefit only the top elites, at the expense of those under them in their own countries, but also where they are internationally involved. While much of our attention has been focused on the Middle East of late, we would do well to pay attention to the South, where it is more often good news than bad.

Who knows? Maybe that will have some positive influence on the Western People, too.

American liberals don't pay much attention to those nations south of us, but we should. They are successful at just what we are trying to do. They are throwing out corrupt crypto-fascist or Neo-con leaders and replacing them with progressives. The US and Latin America actually have little in common beyond geography and the US's long history of aggression and domination. The US has sent troops to Latin America 87 times according to Instances of Use of Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2001 and other sources. We may never know how many times the US has interfered there covertly, how many assassinations we have paid for, how many governments we've toppled. But the tide is turning. The spirit of Che Guevara, the charismatic revolutionary leader who is still a hero and an inspiration to many Latin Americans, is gaining strength.

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