petro is not wrong; but he's given the americans full blessings to regime change colombia and absolutely no one in the west will come to his aid; not even his fellow latin americans out of fear of pissing off the americans.

PLEASE prove me wrong!!!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As if the US ever needed someone's blessing to perform a coup.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

difference is that now they don't have to invent a reason like iraqi wmd's

the point is moot however, the colombians have already caved like the americans wanted them to.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, did we invent reasons for the rest of our South American coups? We did like 20 of em in the last century. Just pretended the CIA wasn't involved.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Yes: it was either the "war on drugs" or the Monroe doctrine

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Nope mate, Latin America is split into left and right. The left will do left things and the right will do right things.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Petro is from Colombia. Columbia is in Canada.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

We'll see. Honduras looks like it's trying to align everyone in the Americas.