In long-overlooked Paraguay, a priest becomes president
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Meanwhile, deep down in that vast region Washington lawmakers still like to think of, paternalistically and pejoratively, as the United States’ “back yard” – namely, all of the territory south of the fortified, southern U.S. border, including Mexico, the countries of the Caribbean and Central America, and all of South America – economies like that of Brazil and Chile have been smokin’, and yet another newly installed government has emerged that has heroically declared to fight corruption as a major part of its policy platform (a policy Washington pols, in an American context, would dismiss as “liberal” or worse). Apparently, this new government will lean to the left. It has taken a stance on the side of the common people, not, as in many other countries in the hemisphere, on the side of a long-ruling, power-consolidating, corporate-connected oligarchy.
admin @ August 21, 2008