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Latin America Arms Race?

First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:30 PM ET

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miamiherald.com:

Whether it's called an ``arms race'' or a ``coincidental modernization'' of existing stocks, a wave of weapons purchases by Latin American nations is causing neighbors to watch each other with growing mistrust and fear.

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Whether it's called an ``arms race'' or a ``coincidental modernization'' of existing stocks, a wave of weapons purchases by Latin American nations is causing neighbors to watch each other with growing...
Whether it's called an ``arms race'' or a ``coincidental modernization'' of existing stocks, a wave of weapons purchases by Latin American nations is causing neighbors to watch each other with growing...
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rissole
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01:27 AM on 11/04/2009
So that's where Blackwater got to?
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USA2Sense
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08:52 PM on 11/02/2009
Probably getting ready for the influx of monied people coming to the upcoming Olympics in Rio!
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GerryS
There they are--
474 Fans
03:10 PM on 11/02/2009
it's been bad for years in South America--

I was robbed at gunpoint down there in the fall of 2007--------------------
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Durango
1058 Fans
11:41 AM on 11/02/2009
If the story is about military purchases why is it illustrated with a handgun?

Second, why would anyone assume that the Iraqi fiasco was lost on anyone simply because they are in the Western Hemisphere?

Invading a nation that was no threat using make believe excuses. In violation of the UN Charter.

And with NOBODY in the World able to do anything about it?

I wouldn't care who the American President is at this moment in time. I would be arming my country innanticipation of a repeat of the criminally inept Republicans gaining power again.

Of course all this is money being wasted. Money that could serve the people of the area with housing, food, jobs.

But with the USA sitting to the North spending more money on arms than the rest of the world combined.

I can understand their reaction.

I would not wait for Bush Doctrine.2.
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Cogs
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11:32 AM on 11/02/2009
Arms dealers are spreading their poison around the world.
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Mystic01
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11:57 AM on 11/02/2009
I think Dante would have a special place for them in his Inferno.
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isaidit
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09:57 AM on 11/02/2009
Paraguay is eying Bolivia. That's rick. Boliva would be doing a huge solid if they invaded Paraguay. That place needs help. Mind you, Bolivia is no piece of cake either but combined, something could happen.
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000Jade000
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09:47 AM on 11/02/2009
Latin American countries have every reason to be paranoid. And they have every right to protect themselves.
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EattheRich
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09:21 AM on 11/02/2009
The (Norte) Americans are Coming! The (Norte) Americans are Coming!
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Durango
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11:47 AM on 11/02/2009
Wouldn't be the first time, now would it?
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