Estronguista

Honduras

Hey Mel, most of Hondurans Voted!

The 10 most powerful families, many descended from Palestinian and Jewish immigrants, dominate banking, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications and media, including TV and newspapers in Honduras. Half the population of 7.6 million still live on less than $2 a day. We'll have to wait and see what El Lobo can do for the poor, and not his peers.  (23 hrs ago | post #10)

Richmond, MO

Health Care - Richmond, MO

Norton, as I read thru your posts I see your main concern is Gov having to much control and fewer doctors available. As far as I know people will be able to "choose" who they want their insurance from, If private companies offer lower premiums than the Gov, then they will have the bigger share of the pie, wont't they? As far as there being less doctors available, that is the law of supply and demand, we will have to wait and see how it balances itself out, besides aren't people without insurance going to hospitals to get treated right now anyway? As far as all the my-tax-dollars talk, somethimes doing the right thing is not the cheapest one, and healthcare available for ALL is the right thing for any human being.  (Yesterday | post #59)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Two thirds victory baby, two thirds!!!  (Yesterday | post #170)

La Paz, Bolivia

Morales wins easy re-election

why dont you read the newspapers instead.  (Tuesday | post #26)

La Paz, Bolivia

Morales wins easy re-election

Well spoken, although I would not go as far as comparing the two presidents side by side. Let everyone else insult and talk their bullshit. Fact is both Obama and Evo won by ample majority and are in the presidency and the loser need a way to vent their anger. Viva Evo!  (Tuesday | post #25)

Bolivia

Ahmadinejad gets warm welcome in Bolivia, where Iran has funded...

Investmetn in Uranium would require millions of dollars, from exploration to extraction, the amount of the reserves are unknown due to lack of investment in the quantification work. Ahmadinejad is merely looking for allies to be accepted in the nuclear club against the US. Unfortunately his pursuit will end up in the US bombing Iran's nuclear plants before they're able to reach weapon's grade, say 1-2 years from now.  (Wednesday Nov 25 | post #4)

Venezuela

Venezuela's Budget for 2010: $264,000 for Hugo Chavez's Clothing

This is bullshit, where is the link to the original article...I guess Chavez beat Michelle Obama by a large margin on this one.  (Tuesday Nov 10 | post #6)

Venezuela

Chavez warns Colombia, US against possible aggression against V...

I don't doubt that Colombia w/ US assistance can overthrow Chavez fairly quickly, but this will cause Venezuelans to unite against any invasion (even if it's chavez fault) and in turn the replacement government may be another socialist with even greater support than what chavez had during his initial government.  (Tuesday Nov 10 | post #8)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Well, I didn't say that's the only kind, I meant that's the one that has had the biggest negative impact for Bolivia specifically  (Oct 29, 2009 | post #167)

Honduras

Chavez "warning" about the emergence of guerrilla

Well, everybody looks like a nice family here… First, the days of absolute world power are over, anybody heard of the term globalization? The US cannot do as they please anywhere in the world any longer, we need alliances. Case in point, Irak’s poorly supported coalition, 6 yrs later we still haven’t finish business and is mostly our soldiers dying everyday. By the way I support Obama’s holdup of troops into Afganistan. Most Americans wanted out of Irak, it doesn’t mean we take them soldiers and move them right into another conflict, lets bring them home unless it is absolutely necessary. Venezuela’s gov was elected democratically. There are many leftist governments in the world now that have been elected this way. Why should we pose against them. It is their country, let the people elect and run as they wish. We would never accept political intervention from any other country neither. One of the posts read, we should withdraw all international aid, I agree, we need to fix things at home first instead of wasting millions overseas. I read a lot about Venezuela’s arms built up. While there’s not much we can do about it, US has already sign up with Colombia contracts for military “bases”, not to mention Puerto Rico and our carriers. I don’t feel Venezuela is a treat to the US.  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #36)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

So you're a techie, big deal! any intelligent replies on the subject??  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #152)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

BIG, I'll admit I'm not an expert on Latin America. Why some nations prosper while others lag behind? I don't know. Certainly is not the resources, because Bolivia has plenty. The reason has to be bad administrations. Corruption has crippled the country.(by corruption I mean multinational corps bribing officials to get exporting & business licenses) A radical change is needed. You say look at Chavez, but Chavez, Evo and Correa are recent events less than 10 yrs. Bolivia was not able to progress in the 50+ years before them, so why should it be able to progress under the same system?  (Oct 28, 2009 | post #151)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

Then your argument is as worthless as mine, since you live in the USA as I do. However, for I know what it feels to sleep not on a warm bed, but in colchon de paja, I know to feed my chickens and walk my sheep, which I did in Colquiri, and to play with Cachinas and trompos instead of GI-Joe's and Atari. So I feel confident enough to make comments that I believe benefit the poor indiansn and mestizos de el Alto and everywhere in Bolivia.  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #145)

Bolivia

Bolivian president says U.S. behind Honduras coup

You say you get the input from real live people you've spoken to, yet I doubt you have spoken to any of the victims of Octubre Negro. You pick and choose your sources to make your point, while i'm not afraid to say Evo is wrong (when he is). If you don't validate my arguments for being an "outsider ", then you shouldn't validate any other's in the forum, even when they agree with you, because most are "foreigners " as myself  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #144)

Bolivia

Evo Morales says NO to Narcocapitalism of the 21st century

when you are right, you are right...http://www .youtube.com/watch ?v=MidwrNzFy2w  (Oct 27, 2009 | post #2)