Chomsky On Latin American Liberation Movements

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1684

For the first time the Indian population is becoming politically quite active. They just won an election in Bolivia which is pretty remarkable. There is a huge Indian population in Ecuador, even in Peru, and some of them are calling for an Indian nation. Now they want to control their own resources. In fact, many don't even want their resources developed. Many don't see any particular point in having their culture and lifestyle destroyed so that people can sit in traffic jams in New York.

Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to. The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone; and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers. But it's not easy to intimidate it. In fact, you can't intimidate it at all. So China's interactions with Latin America are frightening the United States. Latin America is also improving economic interactions with Europe. China and Europe now are each other largest trading partners, or pretty close to it.

Noam Chomsky: Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States. It's the first time in the history of the hemisphere that anybody stood up to the United States. Nobody likes to be under the jackboot but they may not be able to do anything about it. So for that reason alone, he's a Latin American hero. Chavez: the same.

[SpiralHawk]

1. When the Condor flies with the Eagle...

it will get muiy interesante.

"From the south direction, to speak in the vigil circle, came twenty-four women and men representing the Quechua, Mapuche, Payapo, Maya Cafan, and other native nations of South America. They spoke of the ancient prophecy of the condor and the eagle..."

http://www.8thfire.net/Day_100.html

(snip)

[ngant17]

7. Great interview

I didn't know it was almost a year old. Thanks for the link!

[Richard D]

9. This is good stuff.

Thanks for posting this.

[SpiralHawk]

11. Hugo and Evo are into this...the Condor on the wing

[NEOBuckeye]

2. Can you blame China?

They are merely stepping into a void/opportunity created by a US run by dittoheads and idiots like Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, who think they can bully and intimidate their way into getting what they want.

Meanwhile, China does things much more diplomatically, and gets better results with nations we have long ago dismissed as inferior to us. Go figure.

[malaise]

4. China and this hemisphere have been

connected for centuries. What's more they came in peace.

http://www.1421.tv/pages/evidence/index.asp

[malaise]

3. Chomsky expresses the views

of millions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Great read.

[Vidar]

5. Chomsky is right on all counts.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

6. If only this could lead to the death of the IMF and WTO

Economic fairness is the first step
towards world peace.

[Richard D]

8. I've spent some time in SA . . .

. . . first question: where are you from?
Second question: Do you like *? A look of disgust on your face and a hearty NO! gets pats on back and a big smile.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Chomsky brings forth some great information I've never heard:

The ideological issue that you rightly bring up is the impact of neoliberalism. It's pretty striking over the last twenty-five years, overwhelmingly it's true, that the countries that have adhered to the neo-liberal rules have had an economic catastrophe and the countries that didn't pay any intention to the rules grew and developed. East Asia developed rapidly pretty much by totally ignoring the rules. Chile is claimed as being a market economy but that's highly misleading: its main export is a very efficient state owned copper company nationalized under Allende. You don't get correlations like this in economics very often. Adherence to the neoliberal rules has been associated with economic failure and violation of them with economic success: it's very hard to miss that. Maybe some economists can miss it but people don't: they live it.
(snip)

Now THAT'S a fact which has never been discussed on ordinary articles in the U.S.

Thanks for posting this great article.

[BayCityProgressive]

12. I didn't

know it either Judi. I wonder how that survived Pinochet?