They've been demonizing Chavez and setting up this "narrative" of 'one man rule'--in case the fascists succeeded in gunning him down; so they could start the drum beat that the Left is in decline. The Leftist revolution in Latin America is huge and widespread and it is the result of hard work by "grass roots" organizations, as well as civic work on honest, transparent elections, and the political awakening of the people across LatAm who have had such a bad deal for so long. Chavez is just one leader. There are many. And he was so weak at first that the people of Venezuela had to go into the streets, in the tens of thousands, and re-install him to his rightful office during a fascist coup attempt. He and his government grew in power over the decade because so much of what they did was right and had massive support.
Chavez, the government he assembled and the people of Venezuela were the pioneers of the leftist democracy movement that swept across LatAm over the last decade, with leftist presidents elected in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua and other places, and have also been the leading idea creators that have transformed the region. That is why their efforts had to be pigeon-holed as a "dictatorship" (wholly falsely).
Chavez is no more of a "dictator" than FDR was, and, indeed, FDR was vilified in much the same way by the rightwing of his day. Neither of them were "dictators." Both served the will of the people which was formed by great social movements--the labor movement, the farmers' collectivist movement and others, in the case of FDR, and the labor movement, the barrios movement, the women's movement, the campesino movement and others, in the case of Chavez. These movements had great leaders in their own right, as well as great followers, who transformed the civic life of the country, in the USA during the '20s to '40s, and in Venezuela during the '90s-'00s.
The transglobal corporations who now rule our country and its allies and client states desperately want you and me to remain ignorant of the huge political/social transformation in Latin America. They don't want us to know that Latin Americans have organized and voted themselves a "New Deal" because they are terrified that we might get that idea here. They want to write the funeral notice for this historic transformation, and they intend to do so when Chavez dies, having completely "black-holed" the truth all along.
The corporate press in LatAm is as bad as the corporate press here and worldwide, and they think that they can invent "reality"--for instance, that Reagan was benevolent, that cutting the taxes of the rich would prompt wealth to "trickle down," that "neo-liberalism" would create jobs and that Iraq possessed WMDs. Lies! And this is one of the bigger ones they've told--that Chavez is a "dictator"--a lie with the very purpose of inventing reality, to undermine, "divide and conquer" and overthrow this great leftist democracy movement.
Their corporate press lies about the Bolivarian Revolution have not succeeded thus far--neither in Venezuela nor in most of South America, because the real reality in so overwhelmingly favorable to the Left and to LatAm's "New Deal." Countries with Leftist governments are enjoying remarkable prosperity and have never seen such equalizing of incomes, fairness, social justice and massive political participation. But that doesn't dampen the hubris of the corporate press. And they are still at it, now that Chavez is ill.
Some day soon the corporate press is going to crash and burn, just like the economies that the corporate rulers deliberately looted and destroyed, in LatAm in the '90s, and here and in Europe in the '00s. We see it happening already--in the crumbling of the Murdoch empire, the "downsizing" and staggering losses of revenue of numerous corporate news entities and the loss of trust by readers and viewers worldwide. It ain't just the Internet revolution. It's that they write manipulative, lying, distorted, self-serving crapola and try to palm that off as "the news."
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Utter crapola:
"Any departure of Chavez from the national stage would have profound consequences in Venezuela, where he has governed since 1999. It would also have a huge impact across Latin America, especially in leftist ally nations which have been showered with his country's oil wealth."--Yahoo
The Bolivarian Revolution is much, much bigger than Chavez. The people of Venezuela and of other LatAm countries who have voted themselves a "New Deal" are not going to give it up because one leader retires or is dead. It will take the transglobal looters and plunderers half a century to kill LatAm's "New Deal," as it has taken them here. They want to accelerate it, with narratives like this, but they won't succeed. And, given what has happened here and across the "first world"--with that "lesson" for Latin Americans to contemplate--they may never succeed. Latin Americans, on fire with the power of democracy and love of independence and social justice, will not likely ever accept a return to U.S./Corporate Ruler slavery.
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