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blockading reform in the Senate, and the U.S./Bush embassy supporting the minority white separatists in the gas and oil rich provinces.
Bolivia is a basketcase of corrupt, entrenched, greedy, fascist interests, in cahoots with the Bushites.
This is the problem faced by the vast majority all over South America--a century of brutal, power-accumulating, rightwing rule--much like we have here, with our corporations living forever, and accumulating vast wealth and power, so that there is almost no way to unlock it and restore democracy. The bad guys write the laws, control the courts, create complex and remote systems of control, and then deny education to the poor majority--or, as here, actively seek to destroy quality public education for the poor and working classes--so that the members of the majority who enter politics, if they are able to, enter it handicapped. Where is the power? It's in obscure, fine print esoterica of legal codes, and the country clubs and board rooms of the rich.
We see this in our Senate, and, lately, in the House as well. Power locked up. And they write the rules for the rich.
It is a wonder and a marvel that the poor of South America, who have suffered so much--such outrageous brutality and oppression--continue to seek peaceful, democratic change.
Removal of Bushite malefactors would help, if we can accomplish that. But I fear that the Bushites have amassed so much wealth and firepower, at our expense, that they will continue with their oil war in South America, even if we are able to dislodge them from the White House (or Diebold & brethren permit Obama to win, for their own nefarious reasons). Not that Obama's Latin American policy is so great. It isn't. But I think he would try to help resolve problems like the one in Bolivia, rather than actively try to make them worse, and the peaceful nature of this democratic revolution would then have a chance at amicable problem-solving. As long as the white racists in the eastern provinces have Bushite support, they will continue to try to rip the country to pieces, to control the gas and oil. Without Bushite support, they will have to face the reality that the rest of South America will not trade with them. Brazil and Argentina--the chief gas customers--have said so.
But whether Obama will be able to control private Corpo war resources--funded by the U.S. "war on drugs" (and war on the poor) in Colombia (which he says he's going to continue), and by the billions stolen in Iraq, and including Colombia's rightwing paramilitary death squads, Blackwater, and local fascist militias--or will want to control them--I don't know. They've got the 4th Fleet set up to move on Venezuela's northern oil province. Presumably Obama would have control over the U.S. military, and would not be inclined to use it for an oil grab. It's hard to say, though, what Obama's real powers will amount to, or what he intends. With Mr. McGoo and Mrs. Dingbat, we know they would try their best to wreak havoc on South American democracy, in service to Exxon Mobil. I am fairly certain that Obama wouldn't do that willingly. But would he do what JFK did, regarding the "Bay of Pigs," and simply refuse to be trapped into it? Or, if Rumsfeld/Exxon Mobil grab some oil provinces privately, will Obama defend the sovereignty of South American countries?
I do know this--the South Americans are NOT going to tolerate this kind of U.S. interference any more, and they are well focused and well-organized, and will likely solve the Bolivian problem, and other such Bushite-created problems, on their own. I'm just saying it would help if Bushites weren't funding, training and arming the fascist minority.
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