Obama Faces Tough Crowd During Appearance in Latin America

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The South Americans are somewhat astute in seeing that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are corporate capitalists promoting their special interest sponsors... like many or most federal politicians do if they want to get into office. Some of the Latin politicians might favor outright Marxism from the sound of the article.. and that terrible "racket" of Marxism is even Worse than corporate cronyism because it's out and out dictatorship.. our federal system is "merely" corrupted and not absolutely despotic [yet].
The Ron Paul movement is the stunningly best arrangement possible, real free enterprise economics without harmfully keeping competition from existing industries .. [stiffling real competition in the marketplace is one awful result of corporate cronyism etc].
Malcolm Kyle of NY is making some very good points regarding prohibition. The South Americans see the big trouble that the American cannabis prohibition is bringing to all the societies involved.
Legalized hemp would bestow a tremendous economic boost when hemp fiber replaces many many plastic products and also cotton products and timber products as well.. all this reducing environmental degradation. Legalization will give us a healthy measure of prosperity, in the past American hemp farming was done with great commercial success.
The Ron Paul Revolution sets things right.

John of NY 7:45PM April 14, 2012

If you're a bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking prohibitionist who's career has entailed subjecting the rest of us to off-the-scale corruption and lawlessness, then maybe you should consider moving to somewhere that won't extradite you to a future national or international drug-war tribunal for your crimes against humanity.
Prohibition has finally run its course; our prisons are full, our economy is in ruins, the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans have been destroyed or severely disrupted, and what was once a shining beacon of liberty and prosperity has become a toxic, repressive, smoldering heap of hypocrisy and a gross affront to fundamental human decency.
It is now the duty of every last one of us to insure that the people who are responsible for this shameful situation are not simply left in peace to enjoy the wealth and status that their despicable actions have, until now, afforded them. Former and present Prohibitionists must not be allowed to remain untainted and untouched from the unconscionable acts that they have viciously committed on their fellow citizens. - They have provided us with neither safe communities nor safe streets; we will provide them with neither a safe haven to enjoy their ill-gotten gains nor the liberty to repeat such a similar atrocity!
Prohibition has evolved local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, helping them control vast swaths of territory while gifting them with significant social and military resources.
Those responsible for the shameful policy of prohibition shall not go unpunished!

malcolm kyle of NY 12:34PM April 13, 2012

Monroe Doctrine is alive and thriving.
US politicians and press alike haven't learnt that they but one American nation among 35, and that the other 34 nations are not US protectorates.

Luke Weyland 11:58PM April 12, 2012