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| | Rebelion. Latin America: political re-alignment and empire |
 | | After indulging in the usual vacuous populist rhetoric and empty electoral promises, Gutierrez traveled to Washington to guarantee Washington’s agenda on ALCA, Plan Colombia, the Manta military base, the privatization of petroleum and other issues of import to Washington. |
 | | In the first place, they do not have the same political trajectory; in many cases they are “outsiders”, who have not been part of the governing or ruling class. |
 | | One thinks of the contrast between Gfutierrez, a petit bourgeois ex-military official and political ‘rebel’ versus ex-President Noboa, a millionaire businessman; Carlos Mesa, an affluent middle-class professional versus his predecessor ex-President Sanchez de Losado a capitalist millionaire; Lula Da Silva, petit bourgeois long-term Workers Party functionary (ex-metal worker) versus affluent upper middle class Fernando Cardoso. |
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