Bolivia Quotes
It is easy to make a million pesos. Buy an Argentinian for what he is worth, and sell him for what he thinks he is worth.
In 1900 Argentina was the 4th richest country in the world and had a gross domestic product about the same size as the United States. Misgovernment, ego, delusion, and corruption have impeded their progress since. However, Argentina has had the largest proportion of European ancestry citizens in Latin America. Prejudice being what it was, the European ancestry Latinos perceived themselves better than the descendants of the native Indians or Black slaves. So Argentinians even to this day tend to see themselves as superior to the other Latin nations. And at one point they were amongst the richest countries. Bolivia, in contrast, has the highest proportion of indigenous people and they most of all resent the Argentine attitude of superiority.
Bolivian Saying
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The General had sent his troops to invade and take over the British Falkland Islands. Others were worried that the British might send military to reverse the invasion. He really did not think that the British would send a military expedition halfway around the world for a few meager islands and a few hundred British citizens. He had fired up the population over the islands which they wanted so much that he actually believed that if the English came in force, they would be far away from their supply lines and their airfields, and Argentinians had always had an exalted opinion of their prowess. See {623878}. The English did come and the war was a rout with Argentina taking huge casualties and a great deflation of their ego. Galtieri was soon ousted.
Describing Marcus Garvey, self-styled "provisional president of Africa" and "Leader of the Negro Peoples of the World:"
Marshall was one of the greatest soldiers who ever served America. He was the Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War and then served as Secretary of State. It was he who devised and implemented the Marshall Plan. McCarthy accused thousands of people of being disloyal including Marshall. He claimed to have lists of communists in the Army and other agencies of government, but never produced such lists. In addition to being a overbearing demagogue, he suffered (and died from) from a serious case of alcoholism. McCarthy’s false and irresponsible attacks eventually caused the Senate to censure him. That and his drinking destroyed his career. Marshall is remembered as one of America’s great figures.
This is a particularly interesting contemporary passage about the early Christians. Unlike many who despised the Christians, or thought them dangerous to society, Lucian was an intellectual of his era. He saw the Christians as naïve, ignorant, bumpkins, who could be taken advantage of by unscrupulous people.
Al-Maarri’s quotations are not only meaningful in their own right, but they illustrate the openness and free thinking that was allowed in the early days of Islam before about 1100. If anyone wrote such things today in most Islamic countries he would at least be jailed if not executed for blasphemy.
Leaders of nations for years only trusted as truly patriotic those man—usually nobles of the aristocracy—who owned land. If an invader came and seized their land, they would lose their wealth. However money is fungible, and a banker can easily move his money abroad and join another nation or side in a war. If the country is ruined by war, the manufacturer cannot obtain labor or raw materials, The financier depends on none of these and so hs not the vested interest in the welfare of the nation.
One of the contradictions of capitalism is that at many points in history capitalism has caused and/or contributed to great death and suffering. However, that same capitalism has led to the development of science, technology, agronomy, medicine and education which has saved and preserved millions of lives and raised the standard of living more than anything else.
What is interesting is that when he cites the dreadful facts about American slavery, he never points out that the American slave traders rarely raided the villages and captured the slaves themselves. Most often this was done my Khamenei’s Muslim brethren slave traders who dominated the slave trade in Africa. Nor does he point out what after realizing the evil that Americans perpetrated with slavery, we ended it in the 1860s. Saudi Arabia, the central nation of Islam, did not make slavery illegal until 100 years later, and even today, there are many Saudi’s who get caught practicing slavery with household servants and forms of indentured servitude. And while Christians and the Bible tolerated slavery, the Koran and the Prophet never once condemn the practice of slavery. Democracy at any point in time is not always morally right, but it is a process by which under pressure from the people it improves over time because the people can change it and do.
Bolivia, officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered to the north and east by Brazil, to the southeast by Paraguay, to the south by Argentina, to the southwest by Chile, and to the northwest by Peru. One-third of the country is the Andean mountain range, with one of its largest cities and principal economic centers located in the Altiplano.
