Comments on: Chile’s Aggressive Military Arm Purchases Are Ruffling the Region, Alarming in Particular Bolivia, Peru and Argentina

By: Eduardo Cespedes

Eduardo Cespedes — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:01:13 +0000

Your article can only be said to be an expresion of Peruvian inferiority complex. I want to make you feel even more inferior, I will add to the list of Chilean military adquisition that you have mentioned, the most recent ones. 3 new submarine
hunter planes C295, a giant petrol tanker of 42,000 tones, 24 155mm long range artilliery pieces, a 105 mm automatic Otto Melara gun for the Type 22 Frigate, upgrades of the misiles for all the 8 frigates to Harpoons II, installations of capacity to launch Exocets misiles sumerged to the other two submarines,(the Scorpene ones already have them), 18 more F16 MLU planes from the Netherlands, artilliery fire tracking systems to pinpoint and direct attack towards the origin of enemy fire, remote controlled spy and attack planes Hermes 900 from Israel, a 12,000 tonnes amphibian assault ship with the capacity to operate 4 assault helicopters simultaneously and transport up to two batallions of marines, three inflying refueling tankers KC 135 for the F16 fleet and finally a military spy satellite that is going to be launched tomorrow. Have a very, very nice day.

By: alejandro

alejandro — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:17:08 +0000

Why Chile bought new arms ? its simple, because Bolivia with Evo Morales is a very unstable country with politic and militar organization corrupted and influenced by drugs trafficker, and now in Peru with a new president Ollanta Humala with a serious influence of Chavez from Venezuela, all that make a scene where Chilean goverment have to be strong enougth to say to Peru an Bolivia. : -Ok guys we now that you Peru and Boliva are incluenced by Chavez and at the moment we live happy, but Chile is strong so Peru an Bolivia please dont do stupid things!!! (Like a war or comunist revolution or any other stupid action that can turn unstable the region).

By: Tamara

Tamara — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 02:12:53 +0000

Can you blame us for making our military forces stronger?
having neighbors like Perú and Bolivia, who constantly talk bad about our country, what can you wait?
and why are they so concern about chile?
They should just move on! war was almost 200 years ago!
here we don't even bother thinking about them, let us live in peace.
please!!!

By: Vatatzes

Vatatzes — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:15:16 +0000

since the early second half of the 1800, chilean policy (democratic or not, but mostly democratic) was and is always to have strong armed forces, thats a part of the chilean culture. most of the big increments of weapons in the past were under democratic goverments (we have to recall that chile is one of the most pollitically stable countries all along its history in south america), so since its economic wealth is growing fast, obviously they want better weapons.
enemies? anti-chilean feelings are ussual in several south american countries except ecuador and Brazil. if you know something about chilean people you'll realize they feel good with strong armed forces ..in democracy?…of course, as i said…is part of their culture. besides remember there are just a bunch of countries in s. america wich are in the final path to became developed countries and one of them or the first in that area is chile.
cheers.

By: Esteban

Esteban — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:00:47 +0000

Look at the map and what do you see? Chile is surrounded by enemies, before showing Chile as the "bad guy". Remember the 1800 when both Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador waged a war against Chile, yes Argentina was allied with Chile but they didnt do shit while Chile was defeating Peru and Bolivia all alone ( Ecuador was hardly counted as a threath ) even today they are crying because of what happened nearly 200 years ago. Peruvians and Bolivians call us shit like rasists, nazis and vice versa while every day they are burning our Flag, entering our Country because they have no jobs and so the list goes on. We even let them fuck our women and they still talk trash. Im not saying tath we are the good guys, but our neighbours and the rest of the world should not give a shit if we are making our military stronger cause we are NOT doing it for no reason. If there would be another war then ill be happy to tell you that Chile will be a much bigger country and that Argentina, Bolivia and ESPECIALLY PERU would no longer exist on the map Sorry for my english… AND HAVE A GOOD DAY