Bolshevik Barbuda
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A gathering of socialist midgets is bound to be entertaining.
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| The Mighty ALBA Cartel |
Led by the new millennia’s blundering Bolshevik and perpetual odd job Hugo Chavez, a tiny number of microscopic Latin American countries clustered to create a development bank. Named after South America’s revolutionary hero, who went from freedom fighter to dictator in record time, ALBA seeks to create an economic alternative to free trade agreements, mainly because such free trade agreements require free people with which to trade, and they are in short supply down south.
Such economic powerhouses as Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines have agreed to fork-over to ALBA one percent of their reserves (Cuba has reserves?). Without much documentation concerning how the monies will be administered, “leaders” of these underdeveloped nations are tossing their limited public capital toward undefined goals. If their general socialist tendencies hold sway, the monies will be poured into public work initiatives that attempt to accelerate prosperity by leap-frogging all required middle steps. Hydro electric dams will be built in regions that lack appliances to plug into the grid. Colleges will be erected for peasants who never attended elementary schools. Roads will be built from village to village for the improved mobility of goats.
Or it may go to revolutionary armies.
One of the undignified dignitaries in attendance was Bolivia’s Evo Morales (not to be confused with a similarly masculine Emo Philips) who proposed ALBA create a defense council to coordinate their militaries. Given ties petty revolutionary dictators routinely create between their armies and assorted guerilla groups (e.g. Pakistan and the Taliban) coordinated effort and seed money between these lingering pools of centralized stupidity present possible problems. Granted, even if these rather unpredictable nations ponied-up their entire stake, the cumulative monies would be about 7% of the U.S. military budget alone. Given that non-psychotic countries like Argentina, Brazil and Peru would bear the brunt of confrontation, nations north of Mexico might never get involved.
Yet as the former Soviet Union demonstrated, socialist organizations with significant military capability are to be watched.
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