the U.S. and European corporations and entities as well as the U.S. & World banking systems that put their big thumbs on that continent and squeezed it dry for decades with the help of some really malevolent leaders who were good at making deals and keeping down their own people.
(Unless Rev Moon and the Bushes with orders to our military kids take over.)
There is a memory that haunts me that took place soon after Bush became king. The Argentina money situation collapsed. I think I remember that it was worse than all their collapses of the previous 30 years. It involved a battle led by the U.S. involving a contract - Arentina - Taliban - Unocal - the reason some Taliban went to Crawford. I found this for now:
"The commitment to invade Afghanistan was made long before 9/11.
The Bush Administration wanted to secure for American energy companies-notably the Enron and Unocal Corporations-the strategic pipeline route across Afghanistan to the Caspian Basin. But the Taliban had signed a contract in 1996 with the Bridas Corporation of Argentina, preempting the route.
Scarcely settled in Washington in early 2001, the Bush Administration immediately pressed the Taliban to rescind the Bridas contract, and undertook planning for military intervention should negotiations fail. Administration officials and the Taliban met for talks three times throughout the spring and summer, in Washington D.C., Berlin, and Islamabad-but to no avail.
At the last session, in August, 2001 the Administration threatened a "carpet of bombs" if the Taliban did not comply. The Taliban would not. Soon thereafter-still weeks before September 11-President Bush notified Pakistan and India he would attack Afghanistan "before the end of October."
Then 9/11. Then two more refusals of Osama bin Laden's head. Then, on October 7, the Bush Administration looses the carpet of bombs.
Since then Afghanistan has been supplied with a puppet government, the Bridas contract is history, and the country is dotted today with permanent U.S. military bases in close proximity to the pipeline route. It was a war of conquest and occupation."
Mods - these are short paragraph sentences - comes to about four normal ones?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19095.htmI wish all the countries on that continent peace, prosperity, and opportunity for those controlled by manipulative policies and intrusions keeping so many in unnecessary poverty and making do for decades - mostly to pay predatory loans to the World Bank and the IMF while their former Presidents moved to Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol - or maybe just Coral Gables to become businessman.