<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jadetree:<BR><B> <BR>There are never a lot of stable countries in South America, and I would think that Ecuador would be one of the safer countries in the world to go to in terms of the Iraq situation. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>and in the 20th century, most of the times, the US has been one of the main reasons to keep these countries unstable (Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua...). Oh well, this is nothing new.<P>And I am not criticizing Americans or the US as a whole, I am just criticizing most, if not all, the governments you have had in the last few decades.<p>[This message has been edited by Barcelona (edited 02-16-2003).]