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3. The devil's in the details with these...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 07:13 AM

Mar 2014

... arm-twisting "free" trade agreements. I hope El Salvador tells the USA to take its money and shove it. Invite the US Ambassador over and shower him with some free trade agreement graffiti. Oh yeah, and tell him to pack up his stuff and get out and to get the Embassy razed ASAP, to the ground, and it's remains hauled back to the USA. IOW, I hope they stand up to our threats.

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Washington is threatening to withhold development aid unless El Salvador adopts economic policies [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2014 OP

Didn't Hugo Chavez extend aid to cut out the US scheming to implement Shock Doctrine? Demeter Mar 2014 #1

Has it been 50 years now (at least) TBF Mar 2014 #2

Why should they? zeemike Mar 2014 #5

The devil's in the details with these... ReRe Mar 2014 #3

Love the imagery! n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #8

;-) ReRe Mar 2014 #11

so just refuse the aid then n/t Bacchus4.0 Mar 2014 #4

we tried "development" in the 60s and that blew up: ARENA moved to neoliberalism as well by 1992 MisterP Mar 2014 #6

The country's US puppets make out like bandits from the "aid." No one else. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #7

they're called El Catorce--14 families who've run the country for 150+ years MisterP Mar 2014 #9

Outrageous. Thanks for passing it along. Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #10