Latin America: Delusion and Reality

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=2004
The irony of attacks on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by cynical, sadistic country-wreckers like Condoleezza Rica and John Negroponte can be lost only on them. While Venezuela advances steadily towards prosperity and social equity, the Bush regime commits its extraordinary rendition of the US people to military disaster and falling living standards. Speaking to a Congressional hearing on February 7th this year, Rice declared, ""I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically."(1)

People walked out on the fictional Captain Queeg (2) when he took out some silver balls on the court martial witness stand and proceeded to fidget with them as his testimony collapsed into paranoid mumblings. In real life, Prince of Delusion George W. Bush, has yet to face outright mutiny from his fellow dysfunctional political leaders. Presumably the motley corporate-behoven crew running the single party US ship of State are waiting until they and the rest of the world are in the lifeboats.

In Latin America people may be more tuned-in to reality. When respected mainstream political analyst and historian Luiz Moniz Bandeira publicy affirms that Brazil sees a US invasion of Amazonia as its main external military threat, the Bush regime's jaded-Reaganaut State Department's "freedom and democracy" rhetoric has clearly lost whatever slap-it-on-thick-maybe-they'll-never-notice credibility it ever had. Although Bandeira discounts the likelihood of such an invasion, he says it is the main premise for the Brazilian army's strategic planning. He notes, the US military "does not exist to defend its national frontiers but rather for planetary domination and aggression to secure sources of energy and raw materials." (3)

[DCKit]

1. That's OUR oil, OUR trees, OUR gold

Who do them South Amurikans think they are? That's why they're Amurikans!

[RethugAssKicker]

2. South America has tradiionally been viewed as our

backyard. We have been murderous, ravenous, treacherous fiends with our dealings with every country in Latin America. I am so pleased to see the integration of Latin America by Latin Americans...

I don't think the US can stop it now.. they've gone along successfully for too long now...

As for us Americans, 98% of Americans don't know squat about what great things are taking place
there... NOR would they even care if you tell them!!!

[Peace Patriot]

3. Yeah, that's what 63% of the Venezuelan electorate believes, that

"the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically." Not.

The thing I find most curious about corporate news-echoing Chavez bashers is their insult to the people of Venezuela, who have repeatedly endorsed Hugo Chavez and his progressive policies--most recently with 63% of the vote--in the most highly monitored and transparent elections on earth. (Can we say the same? No. Double no. NO!) They've been in a position to scrutinize Chavez since 1998, in one of the liveliest political cultures in South America, where the corporate news monopolies bash him and his policies all day long. And, gee, his electoral margins just keep increasing.

In Venezuela, they handcount 55% of the ballots, cuz they don't trust the machines. Know how much WE handcount? Better look into it, if you don't.

They also ignore the fact that Hugo Chavez has lots of friends among the leaders of Latin America, besides Fidel Castro. Evo Morales (Bolivia). Rafael Correa (Ecuador). Nester Kirchner (Argentina--who described Chavez as "my brother" after Bushbots told South American leaders that they must "isolate" Chavez and Venezuela). Lulu da Silva (Brazil). Chavez is a pretty popular guy all over Latin America. In truth, his Bolivarian revolution (Latin American self-determination and regional cooperation) has empowered them all.

As with all BushCon statements, if you figure the exact opposite is the truth, you can't go far wrong. Rice apparently believes that majority rule is destructive. Put the majority in charge, and they will ruin fascists, economically and politically. She wasn't really talking about Venezuela. She considers her rich pals to be a "country," and Hugo Chavez, with his notions of democracy and self-determination, are ruining HER country (Exxon-Mobile, et al). But she exaggerates. He likes Exxon-Mobile well enough. He just wants them to pay their fair share, for the benefit of the people who own the resource. THAT is ruin, to her. A slight downtick in ungodly profits for the super-rich. Fairness. Common decency. Notions like these have ruined many a country.

Not.