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That was really an important event, and it was so poorly covered here--as are all truly important events in South America.
The bare facts are these: The Bush Junta and their tool, Uribe, set up Hugo Chavez to suffer a diplomatic disaster, by asking him to negotiate with the FARC for hostages releases, then bombing the location of the first hostages to be released, and other treachery. When he was successful at it--got six hostages safely released--despite their continual effort to sabotage him--they then escalated the situation to provoke a war with Ecuador and Venezuela (the bombing of the FARC hostage negotiator camp just inside Ecuador's border). And soon after that, we began to hear Uribe's wild accusations about the FARC laptop, to the effect that the presidents of Ecuador and Venezuela are "terrorist-lovers" and were getting money from, or giving money to the FARC, and the FARC was seeking a "dirty bomb," etc., etc. During all of this, Chavez evaded their every trap, and was called "the great peacemaker," by the president of Brazil, for his role in defusing the Colombia/Ecuador situation, that almost turned into a war.
All of this treachery and war plotting was coming straight from the Bushites--and my candidate for its architect is Donald Rumsfeld, which I won't go into again here. Suffice it to say that he was actively interested in these events. They were the preliminaries to their planned Oil War II: South America. This plan also involves their supporting, funding, organizing and probably arming the white separatists in Bolivia (who oppose Chavez ally Evo Morales, and want to split the country up and take the gas and oil reserves with them).
Enter Bill Richardson, a couple of weeks ago--just after he switched his endorsement from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama. He had been a Clinton cabinet appointee. He was expected to endorse Hillary. He didn't. And his endorsement of Obama really pissed the Clintons off. Another important fact, regarding all this: Clinton had been mortally embarrassed--and was probably mortally wounded--by the discovery that her chief campaign adviser, Mark Penn, is a paid agent of the Colombian government trying to push the Colombian "free trade" deal through a very reluctant Democratic Congress--Colombia, a country with one of the worst human rights records on earth. Clinton publicly stated that she opposes this "free trade" deal, but Mark Penn's prominent position in her campaign belies her public position. Penn has been a BUSHITE operative in South America on this and other matters.
Shortly after his endorsement of Obama, Richardson visited Uribe in Colombia. Publicly he stated that his purpose was to foster a negotiation for the release of three American "war on drugs" contractors, who are held hostage by the FARC. He said he was visiting Uribe entirely in a private capacity, and entirely for this purpose. He gave no report on what Uribe said. Uribe (rather a psycho like Bush) probably flipped him off. Richardson came back to the U.S., and shortly thereafter announced that he was going to visit Hugo Chavez, and ask his help with this hostage release.
Bear in mind that the Bushites--and their corporate/fascist press--have done everything they can to demonize Chavez, and make him the bad guy in South America--despite overwhelming evidence that he is not. (It's like they live in a completely delusional world.) And their tool Uribe has been desperately trying to paint Chavez as a TERRORIST (after ASKING him to negotiate with the FARC). (In fact, analysis of the lapdtop documents points out that Chavez's contacts with the FARC are all related to the hostage negotiation that URIBE had initiated!)
Further, the Bushites have recently been making noises about putting Venezuela on their "terrorist" list--setting it up for sanctions, etc. They've gone off the deep end, in other words. They are as out of touch with what is really happening in South America, as they are with what is happening with the American people.
Richardson and Chavez both made statements to the press about Chavez's willingness to help with negotiations for release of the American hostages.
In a normal political world, these actions by Richardson would not be very surprising. In Bushworld, they are quite startling. And I do NOT believe Richardson that he undertook these missions in an entirely private capacity, nor that the discussions with Uribe and with Chavez (with whom Richardson met for an hour and half) were entirely about the American hostages. I think Richardson was an ambassador from Barack Obama, and that his mission was to assess the potential for a political settlement of the 40+ year Colombian civil war (something Chavez was working on, with the hostage releases as the first step--and that Uribe very much DOESN'T want; the civil war is his gravy train--$5.5 BILLION in Bush/U.S. military aid).
This was a bold move on Richardson's part--in complete defiance of the Bushites' policy of demonizing Chavez. I don't think he would have undertaken this mission on his own. It holds political peril for him, standing alone. But he is NOT standing alone, is my guess. He WAS privately negotiating, in the sense of NOT representing the Bush Junta. He was representing the NEXT president of the U.S., Barack Obama.
Now, I don't particularly trust Bill Richardson--or Obama, for that matter. I will never forget Richardson's role in stopping the 2004 recount in New Mexico (a recount that could have given the lie to the voting machines). As for Obama, he is running for emperor. He therefore MUST have the backing of certain global corporate predator interests, to win. For all his populism, and his truly wonderful supporters--a newly activated American citizenry, who are THE most essential element for reforming our country--he has certain problems that he must solve, and certain interests to satisfy, before they will PERMIT him to become president. This Richardson mission, to Uribe, then to Chavez, may be part of a new Obama policy on South America, premised on cooperation rather than war (and perhaps also aimed at reducing the huge U.S. taxpayer expense of supporting the Uribe regime, and its death squads and its drug traffickers). But it also may represent a new sense of reality on the part of the global corporate predators who have an interest in South America's resources, particularly the oil in Venezuela and Ecuador. Chavez is not going away. Nor is Rafael Correa in Ecuador (who is even more popular than Chavez--Chavez approval is about 65% to 70%; Correa's is in the stratosphere, in the 80%'s.) They are both democratically elected, and very popular--throughout the region. Demonizing them hasn't worked--or hasn't worked yet (and the Bushites have been trying their best, as to Chavez, for 8 years now). For business purposes, the Bushite insanity about Chavez and the South American left has had diminishing returns. If the Corporates are going to topple the South American left, they are going to have to be much more clever and patient, and think more long term. Obama wants peace in this region, apparently. The Corporates want a better business climate. (Their nefarious schemes haven't worked out--so it's back to the drawing board.)
The paramilitary death squad/drug trafficking scandal is getting closer and closer to Uribe, who is now under investigation himself. I think Uribe is in the process of being ousted. He has become a liability, and he has not delivered on the tasks he was given (treachery against Chavez and Correa, and starting a war). Exxon-Mobil recently LOST its bid to freeze $12 billion of Venezuela's assets (a London court ruling)--in a move to bully Venezuela about an oil deal. The winners are Norway's Statoil, British BP, France's Total and Chevron--who cooperated with the Venezuelans, and agreed to their terms (a 60/40 split of the profits, favoring Venezuela). And, finally, the OAS, and most Latin American countries, are not going to permit the split-up of Bolivia--another Bushite chaos-creating project. The trend in South America is overwhelmingly leftist, and pro-indigenous. And the nasty Bushite plan to split Bolivia up, with the white separatists getting the gas and oil, and to create a fascist enclave in the "southern cone," has come up against a major snag--the election of a leftist in adjacent Paraguay (adjacent to the gas/oil-rich white separatist provinces).
All of this is to say that Richardson's FAILED visit to Uribe, and SUCCESSFUL visit to Chavez, is a harbinger. It is a reflection of the leftist reality there, and it is a good omen for our own fate as well. Richardson would not have undertaken this mission, at this time, if he was not carrying a very serious and meaningful message regarding a coming change in U.S. policy. And that means that the Corporates ARE going to permit Obama to be elected! We may not like the machinations involved, and the pivotal global corporate predator power over our government. But that is our reality--and, for whatever reason, they appear to be backing off about bringing the fascist boot down here, and in South America. Indeed, the success of the left in South America may have bought us time--a breather--to restore our democracy here.
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