Thursday, March 03, 2005

Latin America's new left?

This article is about the new socialist president of Uruguay and his meetings with the left-leaning presidents of Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil. I hadn't thought about it before but those countries are half of South America. Whatever the problems the US has with Hugo Chavez (and vice versa) I think it's important to recognize the spread of left-of-center governements in Latin America and the fact that in the not so distant past even one leftist government would have had the US government seeing red (or should that be Red?) and doing everything it could to get that leftist out of power.

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