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rodgerd
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Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electr...
Exactly. Having armed forces ready to stage a coup any time their friends in the State Department or CIA encourage them leads you down the route of Honduras, Chile, and so on.
digi_owl
on April 1, 2015
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Except that they could abolish the army because USA has underwritten their security. So in essence they have gone one further than Chile.
rodgerd
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Characterising the situation of Central American states as having "the US underwrite their security" seems willfully at odds with actual history.
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