Reply #4: You do understand that we have a long and bloody history

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of intervention in the region whenever anything remotely ressembling a populist social democratic movement challenges our economic interests? We are not talking ancient history here, there have been repeated hideously repressive interventions across latin america instigated and/or backed by our government in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. The 90s saw a shift to IMF/WB imposed neoliberal economic imperialism rather than the more traditional authoritarian military regimes and paramilitary death squads that were the trademark of prior post WWII interventions. The economic policies imposed on the region in the 90s proceeded to wreck one economy after another, and what is happening now is a populist social democratic movement, from Argentina to Chile to Brazil to Bolivia to Ecuador to Venezuela to Nicaraugua, Guatemala and Mexico,sweeping the region, and directly challenging the WB/IMF Washington Consensus neoliberal order. Hell yes I support that! Hell yes I will defend that from the idiots and rightwing posers here who are attacking it. It is my fight. I'm on their side. The Bolivarian movement may be the last best chance we have.