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Bacchus4.0

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Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:45 AM Mar 2012

Chile y Venezuela lead imports arms to South America (Spanish) [View all]

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61% 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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Well, after all COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #1
Isn't it? ocpagu Mar 2012 #2
the US built 8 bases in Colombia??? where are those?? n/t Bacchus4.0 Mar 2012 #3
Sorry. Seven bases. ocpagu Mar 2012 #4
nope, wrong. the US isn't building bases in Colombia Bacchus4.0 Mar 2012 #5
If you actually believe what you're saying COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #6
It's not a question of believing. ocpagu Mar 2012 #7
Take a look at the two posts in COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #8
It's not "my theory". ocpagu Mar 2012 #9
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
doesn't seem the country is very safe now given the enormous murder rate Bacchus4.0 Mar 2012 #29
If he lived for a thousand years and wasted all the money he could on his military, he still sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #30
The notion that the US has territorial plans on COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #11
The US CIA removed Hugo Chavez from office ten years ago Kolesar Mar 2012 #12
Even assuming that what you say is true COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #13
hauahuahaua ocpagu Mar 2012 #14
Yep. That's the reason in a downturning economy with COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #15
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
I lived and worked in Latin America for almost 20 years COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #19
It's a foolish idea, but they did apparently intend to build them there, but were refused permission sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #21
There's a whole lot of difference between building COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #24
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
If you truly believe that arming pro-government irregulars COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #20
Well, if it were up to me, I'd like it if no one needed to be armed. But when so many of these sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #22
On that you and I are in complete agreement. nt COLGATE4 Mar 2012 #23
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