LH, you have just confirmed the point I was making. A person who holds the values of true socialism to their heart would never put themselves into a situation were they would have to make compromises to the industrial corporate hand fed leaders of the world. Compromising would mean selling out to the controlling corporate capitalists. If they did, they would know that they are selling away the basic needs of the societies they are fighting for.

Can you envision Douglas or Guevara accepting an annual salary 100 times greater than the average citizen of their own country, especially a country whose average citizen is so downtrodden by working in textile factories, picking fruit and coffee in which the efforts of their labour will be sold in in the U.S.A. at such a high price that is unimaginable to them. At such a high price whose profits go into the coffers of some foreign fat corrupt gringo. Can you see Douglas or Guevara driving around their impoverished country in a nice black shiny spanking new Mercedes. Driving to their elaborate weekend hacienda of their own on the coast. Driving those Mercedes through squalid dusty dirt villages with children diseased and running around with no shoes.

No, I don't think Daniel Ortega is that one socialist messiah come to rescue the world's poor from the greedy clutches of corporate capitalism. That salary cut doesn't cut it with me at all.

biLL