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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-03-14 07:18 AM
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Hope and change in Costa Rica?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/03/us-costarica-elections-idUSBREA110IV20140203


Whenever the "lefter" candidate leads, my spirits lift. I can't quite be 100% cynical, I guess.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-03-14 10:34 AM
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1. I can be pretty cynical.
The US will interfere in the politics of any leftist Central American nation. I suspect. "We" seem to prefer a corrupt right wing dictatorship to a democratically elected leftist one. More foreign entanglements.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-04-14 07:35 AM
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2. Haven't we always? Why stop now?
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