Bolivia: Year one

[Year: 1]

The coca leaf-chewing Morales is trying to take the revolution so far to the left no one will even recognize it. Good for him. How far do you think he can take it?

[Nachie]

To the point where it supercedes him, but if he is going to get there is anyone's guess.

[Kurt Crover]

Who knows? But the farther he goes, the happier the working people of Bolivia will be, and the more pissed the US will be. It's a mixed bag.

[McLeft]

I can see he will achieve a lot. Bolivia is a vast country in size but small in pop. (only 9 million) and it has an enourmous potential to become better off. now that the guy has nationalised the gas industry, slowly moving to the land and mining industry i reallly see prospects for a better future here.

Good for him and his people and the people of latin america. :)

[Ander]

Yeah, except for the growing tensions between Bolivia and Brazil..

[McLeft]

That's something that worries me but i'm sure it will all be sorted out over this year, it has to be if Lula wants to be re-elected he surely doesn't want people thinking that he didn't do anything about a possible gas shortage so i'm sure they'll sort it out I don't think it's that big a problem to be honest, there's no way it can escalate..or so I hope.

[Angry Young Man]

Maybe I'm weird, but I reckon between now and the end of the 21st Century, all of Spanish speaking America will be a single country. Nice thought :P

[Ander]

It would never work, imo.

[Louis Pio]

In my oppinion Morales biggest problem is that he's trying to balance between socialism and capitalism. History show this to be impossible. Anyway the interesting thing is what side he will take when pushed.

[McLeft]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2006, 09:18 PM
Maybe I'm weird, but I reckon between now and the end of the 21st Century, all of Spanish speaking America will be a single country. Nice thought :P
That's something i've dreamt of all my life...It's been my biggest dream, i just hope it happens and I think it would work, you have to start by uniting South America first and keep on adding as the years go by until it gets to Mexico and the Caribbean.

[Year: 1]

Originally posted by McLeft+May 25 2006, 06:23 PM--> (McLeft @ May 25 2006, 06:23 PM)
[email protected] 21 2006, 09:18 PM
Maybe I'm weird, but I reckon between now and the end of the 21st Century, all of Spanish speaking America will be a single country. Nice thought :P
That's something i've dreamt of all my life...It's been my biggest dream, i just hope it happens and I think it would work, you have to start by uniting South America first and keep on adding as the years go by until it gets to Mexico and the Caribbean. [/b]
Well in a few years the USA itself wil be a pretty much Spanish-speaking country so you have to include it too, eh?

[McLeft]

Originally posted by Year: 1+Jun 2 2006, 05:54 PM--> (Year: 1 @ Jun 2 2006, 05:54 PM)
Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2006, 06:23 PM

[email protected] 21 2006, 09:18 PM
Maybe I'm weird, but I reckon between now and the end of the 21st Century, all of Spanish speaking America will be a single country. Nice thought :P
That's something i've dreamt of all my life...It's been my biggest dream, i just hope it happens and I think it would work, you have to start by uniting South America first and keep on adding as the years go by until it gets to Mexico and the Caribbean.
Well in a few years the USA itself wil be a pretty much Spanish-speaking country so you have to include it too, eh? [/b]
I don't think so, I wouldn't like to live in a united latin america where the republican party will have a stake in a future parliament, and the tremendous amount of capitalism that america will never get rid off. But if the southern states decide to become independent then welcome may they be, at least washington won't be controlling them anymore.

[BobKKKindle$]

As Che Guevara said...The people of South America are all of one blood - indivisible. I will admit that a tear appeared in my eye during that scene of the Motor cycle Diaries (No Comments on Bourgeois Culture please)

However, It is very difficult to see a united South America as a single nation states. it may be more pragmatic, feasible, and even more beneficial to hope for the establishement of more Lefty Trade Agreements, such as the recent Cuba-Venez-Bolivia One - who knows, maybe an economic confederation - the revival of the Non Aligned Movement?