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When a country run by narco-thugs, where thousands of union leaders, human rights workers, peasant farmers and others are murdered with impunity by the military and its death squads, and where some 5 MILLION peasant farmers have been displaced by government terror, and which received $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid, and is basically occupied by the U.S. military, accuses someone else of "supporting terrorism," the rightwing NEVER RAISES THE ISSUE of control of the one country (Colombia) by the other (the U.S.).
But when a popular leftist leader in a democratic country, Ecuador--a country that is on the RECEIVING END of tens of thousands of refugees from Colombia, a country whose leader had the courage to kick the U.S. military base out of the country, a country where the poor have a say in government, at long last--agrees with another leftist democracy, Venezuela, that the charge of "supporting terrorism" is bullshit, shallow thinkers like you call the Ecuadoran leader "Chavez's lapdog."
It makes no sense. Colombia is so obviously bought and paid for. You have bought the corpo-fascist 'news' "Big Lie" about bogeyman Chavez.
When the U.S. buys fascist murderers to run their client state, and to do bullshit like this at the OAS, you are blind. You don't see it. When truly independent countries--free at last from U.S. control--freely ally with each other, to strengthen themselves against obvious U.S. psyops, and against what is more than likely part of a Pentagon war plan, you fall back on the rightwing sado-masochistic projection, that one of them is a "lapdog" (and the other is, of course, your bogeyman "dictator").
Venezuela and Ecuador both border Colombia. Both have lots and lots and LOTS of oil. Both are members of OPEC. Both have honestly elected leaders who truly represent the interests of the majority, and are committing the mortal sin, in the eyes of Exxon Mobil, et al, of using the oil riches to benefit the poor. And both have been the victims of non-stop demonization and psyops by Exxon Mobil & brethren's LAPDOGS in the U.S. government and the corpo-fascist media. Venezuela and Ecuador are natural allies. There is no bullying involved. There is no $7 BILLION in military aid involved. Both leaders represent their PEOPLE, not Washington DC and its corporate tyrants. And both leaders, by the way, support equal rights for women, gays, the Indigenous and other excluded groups. They are true progressives and true democrats.
The cruelty, torture and murder that the rightwing mind finds so attractive--the fascist "dictator/slave" behavior; the notion of "lapdogs"--is characteristic of the rich, criminal elite running Colombia. They are the ones who crush poor union leaders and members under foot, who terrorize poor farmers and drive them from their small farms, who carve up the poor and their advocates and throw their bodies into mass graves. One recently discovered mass grave, in La Macarena, Colombia, was found to contain up to 2000 bodies, whom local people say are the bodies of local 'disappeared' community activists. That is what is going on in Colombia. This grave is of recent vintage (2005-2009). There are many more. Cruelty, torture and murder for the poor, unless they agree to be "lapdogs" of the rich.
If your problem is ignorance, I urge you to get informed. Push the corpo-fascist 'news' lies out of your mind with facts and reason. If your problem is that you yourself are profiting in some way from the corporate/war profiteer tyrants who are running our country and trying to dominate the world with murder and mayhem, then I urge to go peddle your rightwing swill elsewhere. We get quite enough of it from the controlled press.
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