Ahmadinejad teams up with Latin American Marxists.After visiting with Marxist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela on January 13, and with Marxist Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua on January 14, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted which do not the text.Please help [ improve this article] by checking for inaccuracies. skipped over to Ecuador to cheer at the inauguration of Ecuador's new president, Marxist Rafael Correa Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (born 6 April 1963 in Guayaquil) [1]is the President of the Republic of Ecuador. A trained economist, he previously served as the country's finance minister. , on January 15. Attending the celebration in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito was Bolivia's Marxist president, Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo (IPA: [ˈeβ̞o] . The Iranian hardliner Noun 1. hardliner - a conservative who is uncompromising conservative, conservativist - a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas hardliner n → partidario/a de la línea dura pledged deeper ties with Venezuela and Nicaragua, including establishing embassies in each other's capital cities. And he cemented ties with Correa and Morales. Hugo Chavez is positioning himself to be Fidel Castro's successor as the leading Latin American Marxist and opponent of the United States. At his own inauguration for a second six-year term a few days before Ahmadinejad's arrival, the Venezuelan leader described Jesus Christ as "the greatest socialist in all history" and screamed to a cheering crowd, "Fatherland fa·ther·land n. 1. One's native land. 2. The land of one's ancestors. fatherland Noun a person's native country Noun 1. ! Socialism or death, I swear it!" He refused to back away from his announced plan to nationalize na·tion·al·ize tr.v. na·tion·al·ized, na·tion·al·iz·ing, na·tion·al·iz·es 1. To convert from private to governmental ownership and control: nationalize the steel industry. 2. the telecommunications and electric power industries and renewed his request that his country's congress give him powers to rule by decree Rule by decree is a style of governance allowing quick, unchallenged creation of law by a single person or group, and is used primarily by dictators and absolute monarchs, although philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben have pointed out how it has been generalized since World War I . While visiting his allies on America's doorstep, Ahmadinejad pledged to spend billions financing projects to counter the global influence of the United States. Chavez couldn't have been more pleased, and he took the opportunity during the visit of his new friend to announce a plan to replace municipal governing bodies with communal councils. His supporters claim that he received inspiration for such a revolutionary idea from studying the socialist Paris Commune that ruled France's capital in 1871. While hosting the Iranian leader in Nicaragua, Ortega offered a less inflammatory stance but still pledged close ties with Iran. He did not dispute Ahmadinejad's claim that the two nations "have common interests, enemies, and goals." The two then gave a closed-fist salute standing before a cheering throng in Managua. |
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