More bad news about Iran’s expansion in South America, under Biden’s watch, as the anti-West, anti-Israel Bolivia embraces the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has already made extraordinary inroads into Venezuela.
“Iran, Bolivia Presidents meet in Algiers,” Iran Press, March 2, 2024:
Iran’s President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, on the sidelines of the 7th meeting of the Assembly of Heads of Gas Exporting Countries in Algeria, held a meeting with the President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, this Saturday afternoon.
Iran’s president stated that Bolivia’s position in Latin America is special and inspiring for the nations of this region adding: “The Islamic Republic of Iran is greatly interested in promoting cooperation with the government of Bolivia. Raisi emphasized that commercial relations between the two countries should develop to the extent of the political ties between the two sides.
Raisi appreciated Bolivia’s revolutionary and anti-imperialist stances, commended the political approach of the Bolivian government and President in supporting Palestine and the oppressed people of Gaza, emphasizing: “Your passionate defense of Palestine will be a good support for the people of this country.”…
libertyORdeath says
All the SHITTIEST countries in the world are coming together against the West.
Just look at BRICS, the UNRWA, the corrupt ICJ, and all the third-world shitholes on the side of the TERRORISTS in Israel.
Wellington says
Agreed. The mindless and stupid war on the West continues in full throttle mode and demonstrating once more that mankind most of the time is a collective idiot.
Wellington says
Proving again that Latin America rarely learns (Milei of Argentina is a notable present exception but of course he is described by Leftists aplenty as Far-Right or Ultra-Conservative or some such mendacious rubbish) and why LA has remained a mostly dismal area of the world since independence from Spain two centuries ago.
Four things are necessary for a prosperous and free society: 1) democracy; 2) capitalism; 3) a proper moral code (N.B., the Islamic moral code and the Leftist moral code are not just not proper but horrible); and 4) a fair and decent legal system (N.B. Leftists and devout Muslims are absolutely incapable of embracing and implementing a fair and decent legal system).
Latin America still for the most part sucks just as the Islamic world still sucks. I’ve provided the reasons above.
SKA says
I think much of Latin America suffers from I hypothesize as the “Islamic Residual:” Namely 700 years of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula made some lasting impact on the political culture of Spain and Portugal even after the Reconquista. The absolutism of the Spanish monarchy mirrored that of their former Arab/Berber rulers. The mentality of the crusaders of the Reconquista was a reaction to the Jihadism of the Islamic occupation. And the religious fanatics and intolerance of the Islamic rulers may explain why the Inquisition in both Spain and Portugal was so much more militant than the Inquisition elsewhere in Europe. With the end of the Reconquista the discovery of the New World with its mineral riches provided the Spanish monarchy with a way to employ the now unemployed Spanish crusaders who often lacked any other occupation than soldiering and may have represented a source of instability within Spain. In any case wherever in Latin America where Conquistador influence was strong (mineral rich areas like Mexico, Peru or Argentina the political culture tended to be authoritarian, militaristic and rigorously Catholic. Mineral poor areas like Costa Rica and Chile attracted fewer Conquistadors and more farmers and merchants leading to a less authoritarian political culture. Costa Rica abolished its military in 1948 while Chile developed the most successful free enterprise system after the overthrow of Allende. Interestingly the more left-wing the governments have been (Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and now Bolivia) the more anti-Zionist the regime has become. In Europe Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria after their liberation from the Turks seemed to show the same Islamic Residual of authoritarianism, militarism and sectarian intolerance. Just food for thought.
somehistory says
And criminals from all those nations…Venezuela, Bolivia, iran, china, flocking to the U.S. across the border with Mexico.
Besides the ones walking across, hundreds of thousands more have been flown in by biden and his cronies…from all over the world to be allowed to stay in the U.S. at least two years and work (if they want to work) and are given the “parole” thingy.
I believe it was Dana Bash who asked the ugly liar, mayorkis, if the reason for all of this illegal activity to allow in so many illegally was to make sure his ‘party’ gets the votes they need.
That is a large part of it, for sure. Perhaps the next “election cycle” after this year, some one of the iranian mullahs will be on the presidential ballot in this country.
SKA says
The originator of the hypothesis of the residual influence of previous Islamic occupied nations that broke free and returned to Christendom was Jacques Ellul, the French Catholic philosopher.
TomD says
Remember, Iran has been buying lithium from Bolivia for years. Lithium hydride is the fuel for the secondary stages of H-bombs.
OLD GUY says
It’s all about MONEY for the elite and leaders of these countries, they don’t care about anything else.
Skai says
Agree with you