News and Politics | July 24, 2008 | 3 comments

A New Cold War in the Caribbean?

source: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1826161,00.html

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Ever since the Monroe Doctrine, the United States has seen the Caribbean in the way that the Romans viewed the Mediterranean — Mare Nostrum, Our Sea. From the Spanish-American War through the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Central American dirty wars of the Reagan era, Washington was always quick to flex its muscle over the rum-soaked waters that stretch from Florida to Venezuela. The bad news: It ain't our sea anymore, gringos.

"The U.S. let its guard down in the Caribbean after the Berlin Wall fell," says Johanna Mendelson-Forman, a senior associate for the Americas at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "As a result we've gone from unipolarity in that region to multipolarity, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but we're in a real learning phase as to how to deal with it."

Chavez's visit to Moscow this week, not only to buy more than $1 billion worth of anti-aircraft missiles and submarines, but also to commune with growing anti-American resentment in Russia, resurrected old ghosts for some conservative yanqui lawmakers. Florida Congressman Connie Mack declared the Caracas-Moscow partnership "a stark reminder of the Cold War partnership between the Soviet Union and Cuba."
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3 comments // A New Cold War in the Caribbean?

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      virggie  

    • It's great to see people who don't repeat "dictator" like mindless drones. Thanks to Chavez the quality of life of my family has gone up inmensely. From healthcare to the payment of salaries of retired people (My grandfather was FINALLY able to stop working at an age where he shouldn't have been working anymore).

      Chavez can't fix everything, and crime is still high in Venezuela, but the country is taking a step in the right direction and thinking of the have-nots for a change.

      Sure, he talks crap sometimes. I'd rather have my president talk crap than waste billions and billions on a war for oil.

      Hopefully, the weapons which are being bought from Russia will serve their purpose as warnings for America to keep their hands off Venezuela, and nothing else.

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