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South America
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Reading the nationalisation of Bolivian oil thread, I started wondering...
What are your opinions on the best way for South America to develop? (ie: overcome poverty, raise the standards of health, education, and general life standards.., etc.)
I'm curious... post your views!
What are your opinions on the best way for South America to develop? (ie: overcome poverty, raise the standards of health, education, and general life standards.., etc.)
I'm curious... post your views!
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And if we could ensure no more foreign interference in the shape of sponsored death squads of coups d'etat, things could really take off. That's the reason they haven't so far anyway.
Decriminalisation of cocaine would change South America for ever.
A straight and abrupt finish to the CAP would decimate farmers throughout the EU. That's not to say it shouldn't be changed though.
No it wouldn't nothing short of legal supply in the West would make any difference. But I have really really mixed feelings about legal supply.
Imagine the shift in power if that were to happen.
Return the oil to those who discovered, extracted, and marketed it, and don't allow it to be used as a revenue stream for the sponsorship of world-wide terrorism. Very little, if any, will be used for the benefit of the people of these countries who will be faced with years & years of anti-government insurgency wars that will obliterate the countryside & towns, destroying infrastructure, killing millions, and wreaking havoc on the economy.
South America is in for a very rough ride.
That is precisely who has been behind the production and distribution of it (the bulk of it at any rate) all along, Al. No"shift" in power would accrue from such an arrangement.
Its certainly not behind the production, which is in large part done by very poor farmers who have nothing else which they can produce.
The actual production of the cocaine from the 'base' is done by a mix of groups, some with governmental ties, others not. Largely its either FARC or the right-wing paramilitaries, only one of whom has ties with the government.
As for importation into the US market (the biggest) that's largely done by Mexican gangs now who arent really linked with the government they just buy it off.
You're funny
By production I referred to the ensurance of continuation thereof, funding and essential "blind eye" policies which require only the occasional "big crackdown" for Mass media PR.
As for importation, hate to burst you illusion but the CIA far exceeds "mexican gangs" for shipment of product both into the country and into the inner cities. This is a well established and well documented fact.
But large chunks of production are done in areas of South America where the government cant control even if they wanted to, so they're not really turning a blind eye.
Illusion? Do you always have to have this tone, its as though you are constantly talking to a five year old. The CIA may indeed have a key role, that doesnt stop billions of drug money flooding Mexico and making it virtually a narco-democracy.
they already manufacture morphine heroin and cocain.
Its not really related to the thread, but I dont think people want drug companies doing it because they dont trust them. I'd like to see recreational drugs produced under licence (like anti-biotics are now) and sold in a similar way to pharmacies work now.
End corruption.
theres no one else.
Let it as it is i say.
The development of a whole continent obviously requires a vast array of complex and interlinking strategies...