Protests, Disturbances, and Violence Continue in Venezuela, General Strike a “Failure”

[Peace Patriot]

24. Blind, empty-headed, a-historical, one-sentence, hit-piece comments are NOT...

...needed here, and have no value except to illustrate just how the CIA and those whom they serve operate in the world, using rightwing trumpets to spread disinformation, and to make people stupid, powerless, uninformed and uncaring--all the better to foist 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines off on them, and bankster bailouts, and wars.

Latin Americans, these days, are into REALITY, and know the truth about U.S. domination and interference--often horrific interference--in their DEMOCRACIES. They are not taking it any more, nor should we, here in the U.S., who value truth, who know what's real and what isn't, and who cherish and advocate and live democracy.

Your deliberately vague "hit piece" words--"anti-democratic regimes," "popular thing"--have no real meaning, but seek to implant an IMPRESSION based on decades of "Big Lie" propaganda that OUR government is democratic, and desires OTHER countries to be democratic. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The "Big Lie" goes on to say that anybody who doesn't like Corporate Rule, corporate monopoly of the public airwaves, corporations writing their laws and buying their politicians, corporations plundering their resources, corporate resource wars, corporate banksterism, USAID funding of rightwing causes and candidates, the U.S. military, DIA, CIA, DEA, FBI, AFT, et al, controlling their militaries, police forces, courts, laws, political leaders and entire governments, is anti-democratic. The opposite is true. Those who hate these things ARE the democrats in Latin America.

The people of Latin America are making a so far highly successful bid for INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY and REAL DEMOCRACY. They are the democrats, and our rulers are the anti-democrats, here and abroad.

Our rulers' mouthing of democracy pablum is just that--gruel for innocent babes. It could not be more hypocritical. We need to grow up, like Latin Americans have done, restore our independence from transglobal corporations and "military-industrial complex" war profiteers, re-assert our sovereignty as a people and re-establish real democracy HERE.

As part of our growing up, we need to understand what our rulers have done to Latin American countries over the last half century, and over the last decade, and are still doing, now, today. Our government is NOTORIOUS in that region for coup plotting, for overthrowing democracies, for destabilization tactics, for supporting militarism and fascism, for arming and training and funding torturers and murderers, and for looting entire countries and trying to destroy every advance that Latin Americans have made in economic fairness, poverty reduction, health care, educational opportunity, public services and all the elements of a decent society. Our rulers are PROFITEERS. They see Latin America is THEIR 'back yard.' The last thing in the world they want to see happen there is democracy, and that is what IS happening, at long last.

In Venezuela.
In Brazil.
In Bolivia.
In Ecuador.
In Argentina.
In Uruguay.
In Nicaragua.
In El Salvador.
In Peru.
In Chile (leftist democrat will be elected there, this year).
In Honduras (before the U.S.-supported fascist coup).

Our rulers are terrified of this leftist democracy revolution moving north. That is one reason why they lie about it so much. "When in doubt, blame America" is the kind of lie they love. Short, pithy, like a bullet to the head, stopping thought. Gee, why would "blaming America" be "popular" in Latin America? Can't imagine why.