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and a better one than ours in many ways. For instance, Venezuela conducts highly transparent, internationally monitored elections. Our elections are 100% non-transparent, controlled by private Bushite corporations, using 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code. The Venezuelans have elected, and re-elected Chavez, in transparent elections, because the great majority (63% of the voters in the last election) approve of his policies and believe them to be in their best interest. Venezuela now gets a 60/40 split of the revenues from their oil resource, for instance, due to Chavez's tough bargaining with the multinationals. His government uses those revenues for education, medical care, fostering small business and local manufacturing, land reform and other benefits for the poor and for the society in general.
Venezuela has one of the healthiest political cultures in the western hemisphere, with the government pursuing a policy of maximum citizen participation. Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, recently said, of Chavez: "You can criticize Chavez on a lot things, but not on democracy." We never hear things like that here--because of our Corpo/fascist media--but South Americans know the truth. Chavez is a democrat with a small d!
So, how is Venezuela like Cuba? Do you mean, the Bushwhacks don't like governments that do hard bargaining with their oil cronies? That they hate democracy, social justice and cooperation and self-determination in South America? All true, but that doesn't make Venezuela "the next Cuba."
Bolivia just threw the U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg out of their country--for colluding with white separatists who want to carve the country up, secede from the Morales government and take the gas/oil resources with them. Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, says there is a three-country Bushite plot--Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela--to instigate such civil wars, and grab the oil in Ecuador and Venezuela, as well as the gas and oil in Bolivia, via secessionist plots to set up fascist mini-states in control of the oil.
With such hostile behavior (and much, much more) by the Bushites, it is quite reasonable for Venezuela to seek allies in South America and the world. Brazil recently proposed a common defense force for South America, in conjunction with the newly forming South American "Common Market" (UNASUR), neither thing--neither the common defense nor the common market--includes the U.S. This is the common thinking now, among South American leaders--and increasingly among Central American leaders: How to create their own, self-determined economy, and protect themselves from further U.S. domination and interference.
Venezuela is not alone. It is surrounded by friends--with the exception of Colombia, a Bush Cartel client state--$6 BILLION in U.S.-Bush military funding; the U.S./Colombia bombed/raided in Ecuador this year, using U.S. high tech surveillance and 5 to 10 U.S. "smart bombs," to kill the FARC's chief hostage negotiator, Raul Reyes, and 24 other sleeping people, without benefit of trial. They almost started a war with Ecuador. Meanwhile, the Bushites have reconstituted the U.S. 4th Fleet, to roam off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela's richest oil state, Zulia. So the Venezuelan government has reason to be concerned, and so do its allies (most of South America).
It is our own government that poses the threat to peace in our hemisphere--not the Venezuelan government, nor Russia, nor anyone else. The South Americans are looking to the future "Common Market" with goals of social justice and self-determination, and are looking to defend themselves from the hostile intentions of the Bush junta and any future U.S. government in thrall to Exxon Mobil and other global corporate predators.
The democratic Venezuelan government invited Russia to engage in manuevers. They are a sovereign country. They have a right to do that. There is no client state relationship, as there was between Soviet Russia and Cuba during the Cold War. There is no threat to us. All the threat is coming from us. The Bushites are belligerent--proven mass murderers, ruthless and anti-democratic--desperate for oil. I don't see the analogy. Please explain.
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