Then we should begin by halting all sales to Brazil.

http://motherjones.com/arms/brazil.html
http://www.acronym.org.uk/17latin.htm
http://www.clw.org/pub/clw/cat/armspap.html

Also, you may want to check the school attendance at the bottom:

http://www.ciponline.org/facts/br.htm

Actually Fernando, I have no disagreement with you on this issue. I agree that the U.S. should get out of internal affairs in other nations and stop sending arms, money, or training their forces. UNLESS they pose a clear threat to the U.S. Then the U.S. has the right to protect itself as does any other nation. However, that is when the waters get murky...



>Tracy,
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>>...foreign political goals which are what need to be examined...
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>That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about!
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>Let people in the world find their way to democracy, if that's what they want. Even if that'll take centuries.
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>>People switch 'sides' in Latin America like turning on the hot/cold taps on a faucet. You know this to be true.
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>Hope not in Brazil any more. And we did it by our own means, after suffering with murders and torture. At last it didn't took even a century :)
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>Fernando