well what do you know about Latin American policies
well
i think they're kind of ambivalent really uh
i i just have a feeling that we've kind of talked out of both sides of mouths down there like we do in some other situations you know
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uh-huh
we're we don't know half the time we don't know who to support
are you uh relating this uh to the uh affair we've got going on in Haiti right now
that and you know uh maybe it's maybe it's tough for a big powerful nation to deal with with uh
countries like that that depend on us so much without you know just telling them running their country for them but
right
that that's just it
it's got to be tough but i mean uh uh i'm you sure you still have to you know let them know how you feel
right i guess my concern uh
you know no matter which no matter which side we take we're gonna have supporters and we're gonna have
uh antisupporters i guess for lack of better term
and uh
like you said they're such small countries
that we're bound to upset somebody but we seem to be lacking the ability to take a stance
yeah it it worries me that uh the economy of so many countries in in South America and Central America
depend on something that that damages people like the you know like cocaine from Columbia and
right
right
uh
you know of course i i'm sure we have some enemies down there who would wouldn't care what happened to us but
that's true
but that is that's a tough deal and it i don't think that maybe i'm maybe it's you know i'm just reflecting how i feel about it but i have a feeling that we that we really don't understand basically the the
the competing factions in a lot of those countries and i mean they've been hammering tongs for the last you know ten centuries
sure
and it's still going on and uh
we we dabble in it just enough to make both sides angry at us i think sometimes
that that's about the lump sum of it well um i was speaking with a a woman from uh uh i believe she was from
the Honduras or Guatemala or somewhere in there no she was from El Salvador
yeah
and uh
she was from a relatively wealthy family and when uh the Contras came into power
of course with uh
oh gosh darn it what's his face he's in in Florida jail now Marcos
yeah yeah
uh no he's Marcos is Philippines
yeah um
well i'm blank i can see his face i mean how could you forget his face
well you know who i'm talking about
yeah i i know it uh anyway when he came into power he basically just took everybody's property you know just assigned it to himself
yeah kind of nationalized it
right right and uh
for himself
so she's been a real strong supporter of the Sandinistas and has been trying to back the US government in that respect and i in that respect i have to agree that
i think we're taking the right stance uh because they were a democracy
yeah
turned uh
dictator yeah
you know right basically a dictator fascist
and it seems like those countries are so easily susceptible to that kind of thing it just
sure
you know unstable
well what do you think of uh this uh US free trade agreement we're working on with Mexico
well i think it's long overdue uh i just you know there's so much difference in in the economies of the two countries i i'm not you know i have a problem uh
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with whether it's gonna work or not you know
there's uh
it seems like there's
and i this may be unfair to Mexico but it seems like there's a lack of honesty in in
in in foreign policy a lot of the times
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uh Mexico
they're i i know they're trying they're really trying the Mexican government is trying and a lot of the larger Mexican businesses are trying to
oh
make themselves Americanized i guess
yeah
and uh
which is great because that's what they basically need to do the big problem with the United States
is we
have our basic nine to five schedule you know and we don't have the Siesta and there's the cultural differences is what
yeah yeah
is what's kind of it's what's really hurting uh the Mexican the Mexican people because they've had their way of life and we've had our way of life and uh
i think there's their version of the good old boy network going that uh
you know has a lot
