...when socialist Michele Batchelet wins Chile's presidential election later this year. She's way ahead in the polls, and last time she was president she SETTLED this ancient dispute with Bolivia and gave them access to the sea. Pinera couldn't wait to undo that peaceful policy. He nixed Batchelet's order the day he took office, even before he was sworn in. He's a rightwing troublemaker (aren't they all?!) who is no doubt in league with the asshole white separatists, the 1%-ers of Bolivia, who want control of Bolivia's gas and lithium and agricultural land, to the benefit of the rich and their transglobal corporate and Pentagon/CIA allies. They want to unseat Bolivia's Nelson Mandela, Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia-- a largely indigenous country--who has led a political revolution to establish civil and economic fairness for all of Bolivia's people. They tried it before, with riots and murder, with the help of the U.S./Bush Junta ambassador. South America--led by none other than Michele Batchelet--put a stop to that. Now they're trying it another way.
I trust that this will be Pinera's last gasp--dragging poor Bolivia into the International Court of Justice--when the matter can so easily be settled, and WAS settled, with a tiny bit land on the coast, so that Bolivia can ship and receive products, and--importantly--create a market for its gas reserves.
There is something else that Pinera is targeting and trying to destroy, and that is South American UNITY--the new and remarkable cooperation and mutual aid that has characterized the rise of the left in so many countries in the region. The prevention of the white separatist coup in Bolivia was a seminal moment in that huge and important development. UNASUR--the union of South American countries--had only just been formalized, three months before the white separatist insurrection in Bolivia. Batchelet was UNASUR's first president and she acted swiftly and decisively to muster this infant organization behind Evo Morales, who had just been elected by a landslide. That kind of concerted action is a threat to transglobal corporate power, and to the U.S. "military-industrial complex." Pinera is trying to destroy that essential unity on behalf of these external powers and their 1%-er allies in Latin America.
It isn't just the typical meanness, low-mindedness, scurrilous scheming and greed of the political right that stands in the way of this historic settlement. It is all of the malevolent parties who want control of South America's resources, governments and peoples.
Goodbye and good riddance to Sebastian Pinera! Thought at one time he might be a good guy--during the rescue of the Chilean miners. He ain't. It wasn't him anyway who saved those miners. He just stood around and took the credit. That's what I'm seeing in him NOW--a self-aggrandizing billionaire who bought himself a presidency. His treatment of Bolivia, his obliviousness to the poor and his service to his uber-rich pals are disgusting.
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