LA Doesn't Always Mean Los Angeles
The Becker-Posner blog is always worth looking at, but this week they discuss an important topic that deserves more attention, the political drift in Latin America. Check it out. (Hey, ColombiaGuy, how come we haven't done anything on this?)
posted by LAGuy @ 12:29 AM
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Never did finish my rambling incoherent reflection on Nicaragua. Becker and Posner don't expect this cycle of socialism to last long but how long? Anyone who has ever had a thirty year mortgage has a long memory. Would you buy property in Bolivia right now? Invest in most Latin American countries? Certainly Brazil and Mexico have done much to improve reporting and have received much investment thereby, but when a leader decides to "take back our natural resources" it leaves a lot of doubt in the minds of the very people who could help with infusions of cash and jobs. Brasil has so far handled the Bolivian issue diplomatically. Maybe because they know the Bolivians need them more than they need the Bolivians.
Two other comment on Becker and Psoner. 1. the elections in venezuala were likely rigged and so the question of "democratic elections" is in play. 2. The Catholic thing. Catholicism while teaching "social responsibility" does not teach (and in fact rejected in liberation theology) the idea of socialism as the ideal state.
I agree that with Huge Chavez in power, it's hard to believe they have free and fair elections.
While Catholicism may not teach socialism, its ideas may inspire it in some places.
And why exactly haven't you finished your story about visiting Nicaragua? Pajama Guy readers want to hear it.
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