Blogging the democratic revolution
Uruguay has broken free from the Chavez orbit. It’s exiting Mercosur, the trade bloc that is a good idea in concept, but in reality not so good for a little state like Uruguay. It’s dominated by Brazil and Argentina, and while Brazil is never a problem, Argentina is. It’s also got Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez in…
Leftwing Uruguay, supposedly fully in bed with Hugo Chavez, now seeking a free trade pact with the hated Colossus of the North, none other than the U.S. And you were told it was all going so bad down there. Uruguay is practically the vortex of supposedly anti-American sentiment, its president fully pals with the hemisphere’s…
Cheap oil for rich Uruguay – that’s Hugo Chavez’s masterplan for winning influence in the region. What’s news to him is that it won’t buy him any influence. Down in that part of the world, people who are bought don’t necessarily stay bought. Just ask the IMF and emerging market investors about Argentina! Not that…
Two editorials about today’s launch of Telesur, Hugo Chavez’s grand new television network designed to put the region’s free press out of business, are in today’s Chicago Tribune and Monday’s Investor’s Business Daily. (A third, here, from El Semanal Digital, is in Spanish.) The Tribune points out that Castro is deeply involved in this “news”…
Blogger Randy Paul from Beautiful Horizons has a welcome perspective on Uruguay and its new president, Tabare Vazquez, a leftist, whose party is unpromisingly identified on the radio here as a collection of ‘communists, socialists and tupamaro guerrillas.’ Understandably, Vazquez is a cause for alarm to some – even some Uruguayans. But Randy checked around,…