Sowed the Winds . . .

and now we are reaping the whirlwinds.

* Bolivia seeks Chinese investment *
Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, on a visit to Beijing, invites China to invest in Bolivia's energy sector.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/americas/4593202.stm

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Over more than a century we (the U.S. corporations) dominated Latin America by foul means and fair -- manipulation of their economies, disruptions of their elected governments, assassinations of their recalcitrant leaders, and sending in the marines as a last resort. See John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hitman:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

Now nations representing 80% of the populations of South America have put in place governments that have had it with the U.S. and are turning elsewhere for their support and economic interactions. The one good thing about Bush having tied us down in Iraq is that we no longer have the military resources to take on our neighbors south of the border.

And so it is no longer going our way!
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