Reply #2: He really NEEDS to do a LOT more studying on Latin America, doesn't he?

[Judi Lynn]

I've been thinking he's pandering to the Cuban "exile" leadership/Venezuelan "exile" rightwingers in South Florida, too.

Can only hope he finally learns enough to see what they ARE, actually. (He already knows he has the support of moderates and liberals in Florida, however,I'm sure. Maybe that has something to do with this, since Florida has 27 electors by now. (Or is it even more?)

There's a GREAT article in another thread you would undoubtedly appreciate:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=648689#648782

I just noted this snippet on that thread from the posted article, as it ends, speaking of Bolivia:

On June 21st the COB launched a campaign to collect a million signatures calling for nationalization of the country's gas reserves. The US government should send its representative on a basic civics class in Bolivia. Apparently after having been asleep during recent events in Bolivia, Roger “narcolept” Noriega woke up on March 2nd this year to tell the US Senate, “A principal objective of our democracy program in Bolivia is to draw the long-marginalized indigenous population into political life.”12

Arguably as crucial for the future of Latin America as the presidential referendum in Venezuela, very little of the national debate in Bolivia reaches the international media. The imperial “free trade” consensus has never had much time for genuine debate based on accurate and timely information. But the referendums in Bolivia and Venezuela are likely to deliver unmistakeable signals that the empire's subject peoples have had enough - whether the corporate media report it fairly or not.