Venezuelan ambassador: Aznar a Yankee tool

[Judi Lynn]

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Venezuelan ambassador: Aznar a Yankee tool
Spain Herald

Venezuelan ambassador in Madrid Arevalo Mendez said yesterday that former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar "has no voice, nor thought, nor discourse of his own." When analyzing the Latin American political system, "Aznar is carrying Bush on his shoulders, which limits the vision the US has of the region."

Aznar had committed himself to working to stop "the return to populism" in the area. He said, "Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, maybe Argentina. All those places run the risk."

Méndez said, "I'm surprised that a person with enough intellectual capacity to have his own voice" is agreeing with Bush on Latin American issues. He added, "In analyzing current politics in the region, you can "use the context of internal leadership in Latin America, or the Americanized viewpoint of the US, which Aznar supports."

Mendez added that Aznar was wrong when he called on Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez not to use "petrodollars" in foreign policy, because that would be like "asking Spain not to use the money it receives from tourism to make international policy, or Argentina not to use what it receives from meat to make international policy. This sort of right-wing statements have no validity nor stand up to minimal discourse."

According to Mendez, the US government is not against Latin American left-wing governments, but rather "against those who do not agree to the rights that the US claims." This "populism" which the US is fighting against, he said, "is putting an end to hunger in Venezuela, and building an extraordinary network in the public health field."
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http://www.spainherald.com/2788.html

[Binka]

1. Bush Didn't Even Know His Name Called Him Anzar!

And indeed he was carrying Bush on his shoulders because he had his head up Bush's ASS!

[Judi Lynn]

2. How embarrassing it must have been for suck-up Aznar (Anzar) to learn

the guy didn't even care enough to learn his name.

[EuroObserver]

4. Heh heh. Yes, and brother Jeb called Ansar "President

of the Republic" and promised "great rewards" for supporting * policy. Muy buena :hi:

[formercia]

3. Aznar has close ties to Opus Dei

Just another crusader wannabe.....


Elements that tried to overthrow Chavez also had ties to Opus Dei.

as did the Death Squads in Central America during the war there in the 80's.

[Peace Patriot]

10. The rightwing Venezuelan cardinal, Castillo Lara, who has been

vilifying Chavez, also has ties to Opus Dei and to the 1980s Vatican banking scandals. The Vatican has tried to distance itself from Castillo Lara, as has the local Catholic hierarchy in Venezuela. Castillo Lara spent most of his career in Rome running Vatican finance and was forced to resign. He is now retired and living in Venezuela, but has been highly vocal in opposition to Chavez, and uses the pulpit to rail against him. He's apparently one of these fascist Catholic clergy who prefer to keep the lower classes ignorant, illiterate and worshipful. They're not all like that (especially at the lower levels--Liberation Theology was created in Latin America by priests, nuns and monks who are advocates of the poor). But the Opus Dei crowd certainly are a powerful faction within the Church that is into money and power, and creating Hell on earth.

Thanks for the info on Aznar. Didn't know he was Opus Dei, but it figures. I believe that rightwing elements in the Italian intelligence agency, who had a hand in the forged Niger documents, and possibly in outing Valerie Plame/Brewster-Jennings, and other possible crimes, also have ties to Opus Dei. They want a return to fascist dictatorship in Europe, incredibly. They may have fantasies of Holy Roman Empire III--that somehow the Italians are going to end up in control of all that oil in Iraq and Iran, when Bush runs out of cannon fodder and has driven the US into bankruptcy.

Actually, it's not so laughable: the Italians have long experience at occupation, going back about 2,500 years; they wiped out the Carthaginians and took over all trade in the Mediterranean; they of course conquered (slaughtered millions) and occupied all of Europe, No. Africa and most of England through about 500 AD; then later occupied it all again with enforced Christianity of the worst possible kind--witch-burnings, pogroms, inquisitions, the Crusades--headquartered in Rome, for another half-millenium, until the Protestant rebellion and the era of the Enlightenment--a word that is meant to imply "the light of reason" as opposed to the darkness, corruption, bigotry, violence and oppression of the *Roman* Catholic Church. Then they sided with Hitler.

So this small fascist elite (like the oil elite in Venezuela) may well think that they are going to end up the winners in Bush's dreadful war--absurd as it may at first seem. They remind me of Marie Antoinette and that lot, who simply could not fathom the overwhelming tide of history toward "liberty, equality and fraternity"!

[rman]

5. RW working to stop the return of democracy

as usual.

"run the risk"? What "the risk"?

[Toucano]

6. Picture 4. The return of the Hitler 'stache? n/t

[USA_1]

7. ASSnar

Spaniards believe him to be a tool of Bush. That's why they voted the jerk out of office.

[hadrons]

8. "That's why they voted the jerk out of office" ...

I thought he retired, its that his party's successor that lost... you're right about Spaniards seeing him as a tool

[Ben Ceremos]

11. Jose Maria Aznar

paid to have himself issued/"awarded" a US Congressional Gold Medal. It cost the Spanish government 2 million US$. I think they are currently trying to recoup from the little man.
Quite the little man. Notice the company he keeps(or keeps him).


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6543.htm

[hadrons]

12. class

[ronnie624]

9. Interesting.

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Aznar had committed himself to working to stop "the return to populism" in the area. He said, "Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, maybe Argentina. All those places run the risk."

According to my Merriam-Webster Ninth Collegiate Dictionary, populism is the belief in the rights and equality of the common people. Who, other than a fascist boot licker, would have a problem with that?