Reply #3: Glad you bring up Joe Serrano. He has impeccable positioning on Latin America.

[Judi Lynn]

He also made arrangements with the Venezuelan government, one of the first Congressmen, who, after approaching U.S. based oil companies for emergency winter discounts on heating oil for his poorer constituents was handed his hat, and told to avoid letting the door hitting his ass on the way out.

He has arranged two or three years of important, deep discounts for the poor in the South Bronx, who are clearly grateful.

Looking forward to getting back to read the speech you've linked.



The Bolivian vote is moving up quickly, in May.

Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, married a Cuban "exile" in Miami who was useful to the campaigns of Bill Clinton, living in the bosom, apparently, of the reactionary Cuban "exile" faction which has controlled the Cuban community through unbelievable coersion and intimidation all these years, enforcing the views of the original Batista-serving "exiles" who always have been steeped in the slave-holding, plantation owning, European conquerer and tyrant of the Western Hemisphere attitude. They are extreme racists and homophobes, and politically, socially inflexible.

That community has always supported the worst, most violent right-wing dictators in Latin America. South Florida is the place where a lot of the oligarchy throughout Central and South America keep additional homes, and finally retire when things get too rough for them in their own countries, due to their exploitative, violent abuse of the citizens. Lots of former death squad leaders and participants, heads of small right-wing armies, and dictators, are, themselves, living there.

These are the people Hillary's sister-in-law appears to see as her kind of folks, via her total association with the "exiles." They would be the ones whose opinions she would court, apparently, which is not one damned bit more evolved, or educated than _{George W. Bush} or his brother, _Jeb, or his _father. Pity. Just the kind of ignorance, and violent streak you don't want to see in a U.S. President.