Latinamerica not involved in an arms race and can further reduce defence costs

Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 04:34 UTC

Full article 8 comments

Latinamerican countries are not involved in an arms race and can further cut into military expenditure because it is essentially a region of peace, said the Defence ministers of the Americas IXth conference meeting in Bolivia. Read full article

Comments

Disclaimer & comment rules

Redhoyt
Well, that should keep the status quo as .... well, the status quo :-)
Nov 25th, 2010 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Rhaurie-Craughwell
So much for the threat of a South Atlantic arms race that the more nutty elements of the current Argie govt where wailing about when the UK test fired 6 rapiers missiles....
Nov 25th, 2010 - 08:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Forgetit87
“Latinamerica not involved in an arms race”

I don't think that, by Latinamerica, they mean the FI.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
yaghan
#3 : Of course not, since they consider themselves as something else
Nov 25th, 2010 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Rufus
Hang on a minute, don't I remember a couple of days ago about Brazil wanting to build a fleet of 6 SSNs and 20 more SSs?
Nov 25th, 2010 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Forgetit87
@5
That is a project that is predicted to be finalized by 2047.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Zethee
“Hang on a minute, don't I remember a couple of days ago about Brazil wanting to build a fleet of 6 SSNs and 20 more SSs?”

It's a fleet of 10 subs, then a further 10 subs to replace them in 30 to 40 years.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
briton
Of course Argentina is part of the arms race, she has been caught red handed storing up white flags to attack us with ha ha
Nov 25th, 2010 - 11:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+

Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!