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The Andes region is not stable. So we can expect to see more US intervention. It could be under any kind of pretext. We can no longer use the Russians as an excuse, as we did in Central America in the 1980's, so drugs will have to do.

Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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