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Showing Original Post only (View all)Chile y Venezuela lead imports arms to South America (Spanish) [View all]
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emol.com%2Fnoticias%2Feconomia%2F2012%2F03%2F19%2F531489%2Fchile-y-venezuela-acaparan-el-61-de-la-compra-de-armas-en-america-del-sur.html61% percent of arms to continent went to Chile and Venezuela
555% increase in Venezuela who went from 46 to 15 on the global scale of arms importers.
US is largest arms exporter.
COPENHAGUE.- El continente americano experimentó un aumento del 61% en las importaciones de armas entre los años 2007-2011, mientras el comercio mundial de armamento convencionales aumentó un 24% durante el mismo periodo, según un informe difundido hoy por el Instituto Internacional de Estudios para la Paz de Estocolmo (SIPRI).
En América del Sur, Chile y Venezuela acapararon el 61% de las importaciones en la región, y en el caso de este último, aumentaron un 555% en el último lustro, pasando del número 46 al número 15 en la lista de importadores mundiales.
En tanto, el informe destaca que Brasil ha firmado varios acuerdos de compra de armas con Francia e Italia "que resultarán en un aumento dramático en el volumen de sus importaciones en los próximos años".
Del mismo modo, Estados Unidos mantiene su hegemonía mundial como principal exportador, mientras que la India fue el país que más armamento compró en ese quinquenio, seguida por otros cuatro países asiáticos.
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the fact that the US has NOT built the bases is not secondary to your claims on the OP
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2012
#10
It can be justified by the attempted coup of a democratically elected president. No further
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#17
well, if there is going to be a military coup then you are simply giving the military more weapons
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2012
#26
I was talking about a repeat of the US-backed coup. The military supported Chavez and
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#27
If he lived for a thousand years and wasted all the money he could on his military, he still
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#30
if the US were really going to invade Ven, the importation of the arms would be no deterrent
Bacchus4.0
Mar 2012
#25
The US has the same plans for Venezuela as it had for all S. American countries in the past. Their
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#18
It's a foolish idea, but they did apparently intend to build them there, but were refused permission
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#21
What are we doing there at all? It is not our country. We have enough problems here that need
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#28
Considering the US was behind the coup to remove him, a democratically elected president of a
sabrina 1
Mar 2012
#16