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"one of the main passages of history." A small correction of perspective: it's the history of two countries, and it's only a major passage for one of them. This asymmetry is one of the main reasons of international disputes.
Thanks for your reply. I know you mean well. I could argue that it is the history of California, and it is important just because of the relevance of California to the world.
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I agree apathy and ignorance, usually fueled by propaganda, played a role in this mess, but to blame all Americans for that misses the point. Americans should have held their representatives responsible, but they failed to even get interested. How many Americans can point Chile or Nicaragua on a map?
They get free public education for a reason. That was a fairly outrageous proposition back in the day. (More so than free healthcare would be nowadays). But they get primarily so they make rational voting decisions. Math and literature is nice as a side-effect but that was not the original intent. Now when they see their kids getting left behind and brainwashed by the school system they should be doing something abou…
It's obviously not working.
I never imagined I would one day say something like it, but we all need more lawyers and politicians.
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>I understand most of the northern Latin America may harbor strong negative feelings towards the US That is what Chavez wants you to think. I agree there is some part of the population in Venezuela that does not like the US but I think is mainly because they are being told not to like them. I believe that most of Venezuelans have always looked up to the US and are pro-yankee. Given the choice (specially Chavez suppor…
Sorry, what? Was this intended to be satire? The US has done a great many things to make itself very hated in Latin America, and that is far from limited to, or even primarily in, Venezuela.
Honestly don't know what to make out if this.
Anyway have an up-vote, because in fact the US has done many things to be hated... as well as many things to be loved.
I, like many, many of my fellow Venezuelans, are very much, pro-USA.