Bolivia 'to join Chavez's fight' against "neoliberalism and imperialism"

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4576972.stm

Bolivia's president-elect Evo Morales has said his country is uniting with Venezuela in a fight against "neoliberalism and imperialism".

Mr Morales spoke as he met Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on a brief second leg of a seven-nation tour.

The two men agreed to share information and resources in agriculture, healthcare, education and energy.

Mr Morales won the recent election on pledges to raise social spending and turn away from free-market policies.

'Axis of good'

[gordianot]

1. What is Neoliberalism? n/t

[ugarte]

3. Roughly what we call Neo-Conservatism

U. of Chicago "free trade" economics, privatization of government, etc.

[gordianot]

5. Thanks I looked it up.

Sounds a lot like what we call the Neo-Con agenda. Maybe we should start calling neo-cons, (Neo-Liberals) Limbaugh would just love that.



:rofl: Limbaugh you neo-liberal.

[ugarte]

2. That's okay, we've still got Paraguay

The "US-Paraguay Axis"...rofl

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. The world LOVES us. Can you tell?

:eyes: This rat bastard has squandered GENERATIONS of foreign relations and it will take GENERATIONS to get back any respect from the world and our old allies. NO ONE will ever trust this country again. It makes me sick what these people have done. They've rallied the entire world to HATE us.

[FSogol]

6. After 9/11 even our enemies felt for us. Bush has squanded all

that good will.

[gordianot]

7. We are despised and loathed in our own hemisphere at new levels.

By those who should be our friends. I know we have had a bad history in this hemisphere, but we share many cultural, social, and historical ties. We are even a threat to Canada, not just Latin America. Bushco built this toxic dump and the GOP will never be able to clean it up

[1932]

8. I think we've actually been loathed more in the past.

We were more loathed by the poor people in the rest of the world who were being harmed by our policies and by their own governments who were complicit. (Think: Chile in the days of Pinochet, or Nicaragua, or Panama.)

But now those poor people have government which represent their interests, so they have less to worry about.

The difference, I would guess, is that there is less total loathing of the US, oddly, but there's also much less complicity with the US's uhelpful Washington Consensus policies.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Let's hope these new governments which do represent their poor more

than the ones controlled by Republican Washington will find the unity and strength to repel ALL attempts which will be made by _Bush to sabotage them, bribe the corruptible, and overthrow them from within first, and from without if and when the first wave of treachery fails.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Kick!