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Originally Posted by he-fox
I would not take Chavez so easy, he´s a Castro-type dictator, and he´s very aggresive in building a kind of alliance based on communist and socialist ideology and huge natural resources both in Latin America and worldwide. When one thinks that Rusia is iron hand leaded by Putin, Iran is a muslim dictatorship, Venezuela is a dictatorship now, with Nigeria and Irak in trouble...a good chunk of the global oil and gas reserve is in dangerous hands. And energy resources can become a powerful weapon.
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And good reason to keep an eye on him along with the others with extremist views on both sides of the fence - Ortega, Bush, Morales et al - they are a source of trouble already or could head that way.
Who knows, but it's inevitable countries in south America and Asia are going to (they already are) rise in economic relevance and would be nice to see this happen without drama queen politics, disruption, threats and sanctions blah.