South America Rising!

[GreenEarthAl]

Rock on with ya bad self Uruguay!

----------------------
Uraguay Elects First Leftist President in 170 Years
And this news from Uraguay, voters there have elected a left-wing president for the first time in the country's 170 year history. Tabare Vazquez, a doctor, won in the first round of voting with just over 50 percent of the vote. Vazquez's heads the Broad Front Progressive Encounter that is a coalition of former leftwing guerrillas, socialists, communists and social democrats. Vazquez's victory in Uraguay follows similar moves to the left in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay and Ecuador.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/1522229

[ASsman]

Hahaha, I have to check the time. I just posted the lot of them, thought they were all pretty important.

[GreenEarthAl]

Well done.

This thread can be in case any of the old crew is still around that liked to fight over Venezuela and Cuba and Bolivia and such.

Allende's ghost! BOO-Yeah!

[Whois]

Guess we'll have to bring some freedom(tm) to those poor blighted people.

So how many bombs does it takes to bring freedom(tm)?

[zippo]

Rock on with ya bad self Uruguay!

----------------------
Uraguay Elects First Leftist President in 170 Years
And this news from Uraguay, voters there have elected a left-wing president for the first time in the country's 170 year history. Tabare Vazquez, a doctor, won in the first round of voting with just over 50 percent of the vote. Vazquez's heads the Broad Front Progressive Encounter that is a coalition of former leftwing guerrillas, socialists, communists and social democrats. Vazquez's victory in Uraguay follows similar moves to the left in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay and Ecuador.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/1522229

wow, didnt expect to see a thread about this...and yea, i know, some of my familys going crazy about it. you know greenal, some people say that its not such a great outcome cuz some of the people in this party have used violence in the past, but, even thuogh im not that well informed, i think that theyre ideologies could be positive for uruguay, leaving out the violence ofcourse

[Echewta]

South America is more of a beacon of democracy than its big neighbor in the north.

[zippo]

South America is more of a beacon of democracy than its big neighbor in the north.


omg...democracy is a utopia here...south america is the mother of corruption, although...bush isnt staying too far behind recently

[ASsman]

Beacon?

[paulk]

That's unfortunate, but give the people what they think they want.