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14.9.08

The Monroe Doctrine?

The BBC, 11 September 2008:
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says two Russian bombers have arrived in the country to carry out training flights.

Moscow is dispatching one of its largest warships - a nuclear-powered cruiser - accompanied by a small flotilla, to the Caribbean for exercises with the Venezuelan Navy.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy at an August 29, 1962 news conference:
The Monroe Doctrine means what it has meant since President Monroe and John Quincy Adams enunciated it, and that is that we would oppose a foreign power extending its power to the Western Hemisphere, and that is why we oppose what is happening in Cuba today. That is why we have cut off our trade. That is why we worked in the Organization of American States and in other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba. That is why we will continue to give a good deal of our effort and attention to it.
It ended here...

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