Reply #13: And guess who opposes the murderous and genocidal U.S. "war on drugs"? That "dictator"

[Peace Patriot]

Hugo Chavez, and the vast population that supports his policies of independence and self-determination in the Andes region, and the other democratically elected leaders in nearby Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, also with huge support among their people, and the growing democracy movements in Paraguay and Peru as well.

You wonder why Hugo Chavez is demonized by the Bush State Dept. and our corporate-controlled press? This is why. He is the leader of the opposition to U.S. massacre of union organizers, small farmers and leftists, to U.S. multinational poisoning of the land, and to rule by fascist juntas and rightwing paramilitaries funded by our taxpayer dollars in the name of the phony, PRO-drug trafficking U.S. "war on drugs." Cocaine imports from Colombia to the U.S. have dramatically increased in 2005 and 2006 BECAUSE OF the U.S. "war on drugs" which punishes and poisons small local coca leaf producers (who have been growing coca leaves for thousands of years for local use in the frigid, high altitude conditions of the Andes mountains), and FAVORS large-scale drug traffickers that have been linked to the Colombian chief of the military, the former Colombian intelligence chief and many politicians in the Uribe government. One of the goals of the multinational corporations who are behind all this crime is to use of these poisoned lands for biofuel production (another assault on the environment), and to push all the small farmers out and crowd the poor into urban centers as an easily exploitable slave labor force. They also want unfettered access to the other rich natural resources in the Andes region: oil, gas, minerals, forests and fresh water.

The Bolivarian revolution is determined to put these Dark Lord forces in their place--to push the worst of them out of the region: the U.S. military and associated fascist thugs, murderers and drug traffickers, the World Bank/IMF (the loan sharks of the fascists and the corporations), and corporations that do not respect the rights of the people in the region and do not agree to fair trade deals that include labor and environmental protections and fair taxation.

Chavez is not a "dictator." He is expressing the democratically arrived at policies of the people of Venezuela and the people of the Andes region. Bush/Cheney are the "dictators"--or rather their Dark Lord billionaire CEO puppetmasters. We are getting "the Big Lie" in our corporate press about Chavez. The opposite of the truth. They try to push our buttons--about Latin American dictators and juntas, and armed leftist revolutionaries, of the past, and about Stalinist models of forced communalization--to make us think that Chavez is bad. They couldn't persuade Venezuelans of that (or most South Americans) in their violent 2002 military coup attempt, or by any other means (oil professionals' strike, U.S.-funded recall election, USAID/NED-organized rightwing student protests, etc.), and so now they are fomenting violence and trouble on the Colombian borders of Venezuela and Ecuador, with paramilitary incursions and toxic spraying over the border, to try another tactic of destabilization.

It is so transparent. Bush calls Chavez a "dictator." Bush himself, of course, was never elected--as Chavez has been, repeatedly. Bush tries to militarize the region with billions of U.S. tax dollars--in the name of the "war on drugs"--which are bled off to rightwing paramilitaries with close ties to the Colombian government, while claiming that Chavez is the problem (the Chavez government has, in fact, significantly reduced military expenditures) and vilifying Chavez as an evildoer (no evidence of it whatsoever--the "Big Lie"), thus to put the citizens of the U.S. to sleep, while the REAL return of "authoritarian" rule to South America is plotted--and paid for by US.

And the goal behind it all, as in everything the Bush Junta does: vast, unregulated, out-of-control corporate exploitation. And it ain't just the Bush Junta--we need to keep an eye on our Democratic leaders as well, too many of whom have the same goals, and also hold them accountable, if we can, and, at the least, get educated on these matters and don't make it easy for them, by being uninformed and "head in the sand."

The Ecuadorans who have suffered DNA damage from this dreadful program of poisoning farm land are just a few among untold numbers of victims of U.S. interference in Latin America. Their tragic fate is blood on the hands of any of us who prefer to remain stupid and uninvolved. This is happening in our own hemisphere, to our fellow and sister Americans to the south. And it's time for us not only to understand what our government is up to, but also to find the ways to restore democracy HERE, so that we can exercise rightful control of our own government and of U.S.-based global corporate predators, who are killing people and trying to destroy democratic governments in South America.