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While I'm sure you don't see it that way, your comment is true on many levels.

Leftists got better at "not being scary" to foreign and most importantly local interests. And for the most part, they delivered.

Basically the José Figueres Ferrer way.

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You mean, they assented to playing the role of client states and let foreign investors asset strip their economies?

I mean they actually improved delivered on major issue like education, social programs, wages and actually really improved the lives of their citizen.

Bolsa Familia surely lacks the romantism of the comprehensive agrarian reform but I like the fact that it has actually been done.

> I mean they actually improved delivered on major issue like education, social programs, wages and actually really improved the lives of their citizen.

And it was for that reason the US left their governments unmolested?

Nope. But it sure does prove that those things can be done.

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