Chile Forum

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A little follow-on regarding CL "ceding" the MI-17 helicopter order to PE. It just stinks of falsity and political perfume.

CL is apparently the only major nation in the region that has not added substantial Russian armament in recent years, despite Bachelet's efforts to do so when she was defence ministress and later presidenta.

News item 2010


Defensa agradeció a Chile haberle cedido opción de compra de 5 helicópteros MI-17

“Agradezco al pueblo chileno por este acto de generosidad que tienen con nosotros”, declaró el ministro de Defensa, Rafael Rey

article http://elcomercio.pe/politica/493441/no ... eros-mi-17

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Unsurprising news story -- election results in Perú produced the largest-ever crash in the PE stock market. We should see other negatives -- capital flight, perhaps.

Bolsa de Lima cerró anticipadamente la jornada y registró la peor caída de su historia
El mercado reaccionó adversamente a la elección de Ollanta Humala como el futuro Presidente de Perú.

John,

I think Brasil is already a member of the club.

Here, have a sour grape!

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/op ... 42810.html

Another interesting article.

And another fairly jaundiced look at the Brazilian influence: http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/20 ... ranch.html

As you say... interesting...

FrankPintor wrote:And another fairly jaundiced look at the Brazilian influence: http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/20 ... ranch.html

As you say... interesting...

I wish he would tell us how he really feels.....

PDC,

Yes, the Al Jazeera article is very interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing.

When Brazilian companies like Vale started up buying companies like Inco here in Canada (2nd largest mining company) people here started to take notice. I think in many respects the coming decades will belong to the Chinas, Indias and Brazils of the world..... They are going to be investing 10 billion here in Canada.... Peru has a lot of what they want.