Chavez Says U.S. Behind Campaign Against Latin American Integration

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the United States is behind an alleged media campaign aimed at undermining his government's efforts toward Latin American integration. The alleged campaign is taking shape throughout the hemisphere, from the U.S. to countries like Ecuador and Argentina, Chavez told an auditorium filled with supporters participating in state-run education programs.

Chavez read part of what he said was a report in the Ecuadorean daily El Comercio about rebels receiving military training in Venezuela and statements by former Argentine President Carlos Menem that appeared in Chile's La Tercera newspaper as evidence of the alleged media campaign.

"They are the lackeys of (U.S.) imperialism, many of them in this continent are paid by the United States," said Chavez, adding that Washington was "spending millions of dollars ... on a dirty war."

In an interview published Sunday, Menem was quoted as saying that "there are expropriations, actions against private property, harassment of people, and (Venezuela) could go along the path to Cuba," the president added.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBX7QKDEEE.html

[tainowarrior]

1. Viva Chavez!

I don't know...I just didn't know what else to say. :)

I wish Latin America WAS unified like Europe.

[Say_What]

8. Give 'em time, they're working at it...

Read my sig line. :-)



On edit: Sig lines are turned off. Here it is:

"The 19th was the century of Europe, the 20th was the century of the United States and the 21st century will be that of Latin America". Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Well, one does not need to be a rocket scientist to deduce THAT.

"Divide and conquer" is the oldest tactic ever.

Of course, THIS guy has an enormous talent to say the obvious in ways that make wingnuts blow a gasket. :evilgrin:

[Say_What]

9. and also all that OIL

:bounce:

[Megahurtz]

10. It's all about THE OIL!!!

The greedy U.S. fucks want every country's oil!!!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Behind Campaign Against Latin American Integr

Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Behind Campaign Against Latin American Integration

By Christopher Toothaker Associated Press Writer

Published: Oct 4, 2005

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says the United States is behind an alleged media campaign aimed at undermining his government's efforts toward Latin American integration.

The alleged campaign is taking shape throughout the hemisphere, from the U.S. to countries like Ecuador and Argentina, Chavez told an auditorium filled with supporters participating in state-run education programs.

Chavez read part of what he said was a report in the Ecuadorean daily El Comercio about rebels receiving military training in Venezuela and statements by former Argentine President Carlos Menem that appeared in Chile's La Tercera newspaper as evidence of the alleged media campaign.

"They are the lackeys of (U.S.) imperialism, many of them in this continent are paid by the United States," said Chavez, adding that Washington was "spending millions of dollars ... on a dirty war."

In an interview published Sunday, Menem was quoted as saying that "there are expropriations, actions against private property, harassment of people, and (Venezuela) could go along the path to Cuba," the president added.
(snip/...)

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBX7QKDEEE.html

The former President of Argentina, Carlos Menem, quoted in this article is a close personal _Bush family friend, has been for years.

Impeached presidents include Brazil's Fernando Collor de Mello, Ecuador's Abdala Bucaram, and Paraguay's Raul Cubas and Luis Gonzalez Macchi. In Costa Rica, Rafael Angel Calderon and Miguel Angel Rodriguez have been jailed, the latter after he returned in October 2004 from his post as head of the Organization of American States. Arnoldo Aleman is serving a 20-year sentence in a Nicaraguan prison for embezzlement. Argentina's Carlos Menem, Peru's Alberto Fujimori, Ecuador's Gustavo Noboa and Guatemala's Alfonso Portillo have been forced into exile. Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Costa Rica's Jose Maria Figueres are the subject of corruption probes.
(snip/...)

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BEK/is_3_13/ai_n13619914



Carlos Menem, former wife with Bush.

[1932]

4. A few coordinated stories repeating the same points which

happen to undermine the efforts by progressives to do what's right for Latin America?

An "alleged" coordinated effort?

After watching the 2000 and 2004 elections and even the Katrina coverage, or any ten minutes of CNN and FOX in the last decade, what American couldn't believe Chavez is probably right?

[Say_What]

5. Anyone with half a brain and a bit of knowledge of LatAm history

would agree with Chavez. What Menem said is exactly what the 'opposition' in Allende's Chile said about Allende. In Allende's speech to the UN less than a year before his assassination, said the following:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

...THE FINANCIAL BLOCKADE

That is why it is even more painful to have to come here to this
rostrum to proclaim the fact that my country is the victim of grave
aggression.

We had foreseen problems and foreign resistance to our carrying out
our process of changes, especially in view of our nationalization of
natural resources. Imperialism and its cruelty have a long and ominous
history in Latin America and the dramatic and heroic experience of
Cuba is still fresh. The same is the case with Peru, which has had to
suffer the consequences of its decision to exercise sovereign control
over its oil.

...From the very moment of our election victory on 4 September 1970, we
were affected by the development of large-scale foreign pressures,
aimed at blocking the inauguration of a government freely elected by
the people and then overthrowing it. There have been efforts to isolate
us from the world, strangle the economy and paralyze the sale of copper,
our main export product, and keep us from access to sources of
international financing.


http://www.rrojasdatabank.org/foh12.htm

[Judi Lynn]

6. Mods, could you blend mine with the other one?I'm 3 minutes later.

This is the one which got here first:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1826034

[genius]

7. Congress authorized money for this in the Foreign Relations Auth Act

This was in July (20th) of this year. The evidence is in Thomas.