Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Every single time a nation in what used to be called the Third World had an actually democratic election the result would be the coming of either the CIA or the Marines or both in the following months. The debate over the various "liberated zones" in the 20th-c as to whether they were "socialist" or not has always been misleading. Regardless of their internal political structure, what these "liberated zones" (USSR, PRC, the Eastern Europe states, North Vietnam for a short time) did was 'remove' their populations from the global "Reserve Army of Labor." Conditions were sometimes not very good in these states -- but without exception they are worse now.