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Obviously your post is incomprehensible partisan gibberish and does nothing to answer the points.
From your partisan position, it appears your head is going to explode if you have to honestly concede the obvious, that being that the United States of America is no where near to or interested in militarily "invading Venezuela" as the Chavez has been scaremongering.
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And what a scaremonger he is...if you avoid reading his actual quotes:
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Originally Posted by Hugo Chavez
"We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it,"
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That's the only point I made. Others brought up coups to which I blithely and accurately noted that it would take one to know one.
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Which is a, by the way, a complete aavoidance of the issue. 'Takes one to know one' as a response to an argument about the potential for a coup is indeed careless and without regard (blithe), and I would argue far more comical than your misrepresentation of Chavez.
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Second, the links very obviously support the point that without a platform that encourages the investment of outside capital, both Mexican and Iranian oil production will decline, taking their petro economies with them in all probability as well as any programming that might exist for the poor.
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And if the world existed in the stark capitalist terms you describe, the US foreign debt wouldbe a far larger problem than it currently is. You act as if the political culture in the near future will be able to avoid expenditures in these economies to keep their own running. No matter what the labour or governmental structure of mexico, US corporations (the US Government) will continue to import oil from Mexico if only for proximity to US refineries and markets. If all else fails, they can try and cripple them economically (chile), or militarily, overt (chile) or covert (brazil).
