oh I like that Rafael Correa prez of Ecuador

[donsu]

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071126/klein


In less than two years, the lease on the largest and most important US military base in Latin America will run out. The base is in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the country's leftist president, has pronounced that he will renew the lease "on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami--an Ecuadorean base. If there is no problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States."

Since an Ecuadorean military outpost in South Beach is a long shot, it is very likely that the Manta base, which serves as a staging area for the "war on drugs," will soon shut down. Correa's defiant stand is not, as some have claimed, about anti-Americanism. Rather, it is part of a broad range of measures being taken by Latin American governments to make the continent less vulnerable to externally provoked crises and shocks.
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ok, one down, how many more bases to go? 146 more bases?

[fenriswolf]

1. nice, hopefully maybe this means they won't have to spend

as much for the WoD.

[Fridays Child]

2. Damned uppity South Amurkin dicktaters. Let's git 'em. Condi, hon?