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In reply to the discussion: Pres Morales: "NO You can NOT inspect my aircraft!" Emergency UNASUR meeting. Hague Tribunal? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)talking about that right being violated. Big difference. And when our President has a right to fly over certain countries but has his plane rerouted because of a paranoid suspicion of harboring a wanted whistle blower, we will be as dismissive of such an incident as we are now of the sovereign right of Morales not to have his presidential plane searched like a common criminal, violating the immunity he enjoys as the head of a sovereign state.
The end result however, is likely to be the opposite of what was intended. This is not the S.A. of the Reagan years when the US backed coups of democratically elected leaders and installed dictators to do their bidding. We have no clout in S. A. now, being there are no dictators for us to deal with. Just democratically elected leaders who will not sell their countries to the highest Global Corporate bidders.