Tom,

>Continue the cycle indefinitely and be sure to blame the United States.

First of all I didn't blame anybody. I just listed some events that thought would help to support my statement. Are those facts incorrect? Or they did happen. That's the point.

Second, as Tracy pointed in one of her message: stop the circle. Why not? If you (the US) have the knowledge of what is going on in those countries ruled by corrupt politicians, and don't stop it, you are as corrupt as those that get the money from you and put the money in swiss banks!

In Brazil, and you can check in the news, we can say we are in a crusade against corruption, that is extremelly spread in all levels of our society. Who is playing a big role? The press, that slowly is getting out of the hands of the biggest corrupts. Just this week a minister of the Supreme Court was put aside for investigation, because he was, suposedly, selling habeas-corpus (sorry don't know in englisg) to drug dealers!

It's going on very slow, it's been very hard, but we are doing by own means in a democratic way, and we're learning what freedom is about. Think this is the right way to do things.

Fernando