[lit-ideas] Re: Adios, amigo.
>> Thing is, almost everybody in Latin America knows about this kind of duplicitous stuff.
>>>Hmmmm. You'd think someone somewhere along the line would have told the CIA.
Yeah you'd think so. Because many people do know that Chavez and Castro are asses.
Unfortunately, people also know about our CIA stuff and hate us for it. An old Brazilian guy told me, "The US gave us two things: John Wayne and tortured and murdered school teachers." 

He was right on both counts. No denying it.
I explained that we didn't know any better, were naïve Americans suddenly boosted to power by the outcome of Europe imploding, were afraid Brazil would become another Cuba, and that the human race would consequently end in a shower of Cold War nuclear missiles. So helping the Brazilian dictatorship eliminate Marxist school teachers seemed the lesser evil to us.
He replied that Brazilians would never tolerate Cuban Marxist revolutionaries, that all Brazilians knew Castro was a buffoon.
I reminded him that we were clueless Americans who didn't know any better -- all we knew of Brazil was Carmen Miranda -- but couldn't risk ceding Brazil to the Soviets. 

He told me that Carmen Miranda was born in Portugal.

I said, "See? Yet at least we're still alive so Americans can be hated."

He agreed that it was the better outcome, and told me this joke:


     [Concluding Unscientific Jokescript]
GW Bush, Fidel Castro, and Lula Da Silva are visited by God who tells each of them that the world is going to end the next day. All three immediately address their nations on TV.
Bush says: I have good news and bad news. First, the good news. God exists, just as we had always believed. Now the bad news: the world is ending tomorrow.
Castro says: I have two pieces of very bad news. First, Comrades, God exists, and so our entire revolution has been based on a false premise. Second, the world is ending tomorrow.
Lula says: Brasilieras and Brasilieros, I have great news! First, God spoke to me, Lula Ignacio Da Silva, and we now know that he exists. The second piece of good news is that, starting tomorrow, poverty in Brazil will be eliminated forever! 


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