Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:08:50 AM
"The enigma is what common ground could there be between a leftist, populist leader like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, whose broad vision is a somewhat ill-defined, unified Latin America as Simon Bolivar dreamt of, to a radically conservative religious leader who theistic vision seems to be a world controlled by Sharia law, like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran."
What Does Iran Want From Latin America?
by Douglas Farah
Yesterday I spoke at a program sponsored by the
Hudson Institute’s Latin America center on the growing ties among Iran, Venezuela, and non-state armed actors such as the FARC, and the strategic challenges these alliances pose for the United States.
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