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Yes, because owning shares in a company is EXACTLY the same thing as engineering several coups, encouraging torture, and pressuring people to look the other way at the issues of the disappeared in the dictatorships.
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When the company in question engineers coups, engages in torture (or hires Sandline or Executive Outcomes to do it for them) and pressures people into looking the other way at the issue of Disappeared Indians, yes, it is. A coup is a coup. Murder is murder. Torture is Torture. Disappearing is Disappearing. Full stop. And for someone like Mr. Gore, who has the entire collected body of human information at his hands via an innovation which he helped create, to be unaware that this is happening (because face it, that's how oil companies operate in S. America) in utterly incredible.
Either he didn't know, in which case he can best be described as a marginally-literate social isolate with zero common sense or investigative drive...
...or he -did- know, which yes, puts him right up there with that slime Kissinger.