We have problems brewing south of our boarder that will affect the United States.
First, in 1999, we gave up the Panama Canal under the Carter-Torrijos Treaties, signed in 1979. Immediately, 50-year leases were awarded to a Chinese Hong Kong corporation named Hutchison Whampoa operating under the name Hutchison Port Holdings, giving Red China complete control of both entrances of the canal.
Second, socialist Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela in December 1998. Recently, he has established diplomatic ties with first Cuba, then Red China. Now he is saber-rattling against the United States while in the meantime he has been buying arms form Red China that no doubt are coming through the Panama Canal.
Then earlier this year, Socialist President Tabare Vazquez of Uruguay was elected. He wasted no time developing new alliances and co-operative agreements with Cuba and other pro-Cuban Latin American nations.
In Bolivia, Evo Morales, a self declared admirer of Brazil’s left wing President Lula de Silva and of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, is leading in public opinion polls published last week, for the December presidential elections. He is expected to win the election.
It is alarming when the trend is when political leaders openly calling themselves socialists and then getting themselves elected.
Chavez, a known supporter of terrorists, including al-Qaida, has helped Castro s form a bloc of Latin American countries opposed to the United States.
Chavez has been warmly received in travels to pre-war Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea, China and Libya.
The leaders of Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador are also on board with Chavez and Castro.
On his first day in office, Brazil’s President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had breakfast with Chavez and dinner with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
This alliance has found and building new markets in China and elsewhere in Asia in an attempt to foil U.S. efforts to create a Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Mr Resnick,
I stand by statements as the truth. Christ’s loving image, as you say, can be found among his flock. It is written that Christ hates evil and sin. Just as He does, I pray that the wayward leaders will see their slide down the slippery slope and change their ways.
I had to edit your content a little as profane language is not accepted. I hope no one was looking over your shoulder as you as you were typing your comments from the Minneapolis Public School system computer.