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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Marxism; Yugoslav style // to Brian Mahoney
Message-ID: <1958@psuvax1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 17:40:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 17:40:20 1986
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> In article <257@decwrl.DEC.COM> mahoney@bach.DEC writes:
> > (refering to south american countries)
> >  The freedom in many of these countries is no better or worse then that
> >  of Yugoslavia.
>
> That statement is incorrect. There are only two countries in south america
> that still live under a military dictatorship: Paraguay and Chile. From
> speaking with a friend from Yugoslavia, I conclude that even in these
> countries there are more freedoms than in Yugoslavia.
>
> As for the rest of south america, they enjoy a quite open democracy with
> all or most of the freedoms enjoyed in the west. There is no comparison.
> --
>     Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department

I do not see why Chile is more free than Yugoslavia.
Colombia has "democratic" government, but quite autoritarian and
under strong influence of the military.  There are opinions that
Betancour was less connected with the traditional oligarchy than
the previous presidents, but only temporarily.  Venezuela has also
a multi-party system, but the government is allegedly so corrupt
that the party in power makes very little difference.
Surinam has very bad record, Guyana only slightly better.

Piotr Berman