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...specifically the Andes democracies--Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and probably Paraguay, if they elect the "bishop of the poor," Fernando Lugo, as president, which seems likely. Paraguay is also the place where the Bush Cartel purchased 200,000 acres on a major water aquifer, likely as the base for a "squeeze" action against Bolivia, to oust the first indigenous president of Bolivia, socialist Evo Morales. Peru is presently on board for the murderous U.S. "war on drugs" (i.e., war on union organizers, small peasant farmers and political leftists), and thus could also be a launching point for rightwing paramilitary forces allied with the Bush Junta; however, there is great social unrest in Peru, very similar to the unrest in Bolivia and Argentina, prior to rebellions there that led to the election of leftist (majorityist) governments.
The NeoCons/Corporatists lust after the oil, gas, minerals, forests, fresh water and other rich natural resources of the Andes region, but the people of the region--and, indeed, of all of South America--are in rebellion against U.S. domination, with leftist governments elected in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Nicaragua, and strong leftist movements in Peru, Paraguay and Mexico. U.S. War Profiteers are happy to accommodate more war, and a new theater of war, as the people of the U.S. become more and more outraged at the Middle East occupation plan. We've been prepped with all the propaganda about Hugo Chavez being a "dictator," which is as true as Saddam Hussein having WMDs in 2003--that is, it is what George Orwell called "the Big Lie" (--a whopper that reverses the truth, perpetrated by tyrannical governments). Venezuelans have never been more free, more politically active, and better off than they are now, with the president and government THEY chose, overwhelmingly and repeatedly, in the most highly monitored elections on earth. It is Hugo Chavez's position as outspoken leader of the Bolivarian revolution that is sweeping Latin America that makes him the particular target of lies and disinformation by the Bushites and their lapdog corporate press.
We, the People of the U.S., in whose name union organizers and other innocent persons are being tortured, chainsawed and their body parts thrown into mass graves in Colombia, by rightwing paramilitaries closely allied with the Uribe government, and thus with Bush, must--and I mean MUST--smarten up about past U.S. history in Latin America, and current U.S. fascist/corporate goals, which are nothing short of the utter destruction of democracy in Latin America and re-installation of heinous rightwing military dictatorships. It ain't gonna work, in my opinion. The Bolivarian revolution is too solid. But that doesn't mean that the Bush Junta and Democratic Party colluders can't inflict terrible suffering in pursuit U.S. corporate profit and perpetuation of the U.S. "military-industrial complex" milk train.
The first obligation of we, the People, here in the U.S., is to know what's going on. Our next obligation is to restore transparent vote counting here--and remove the outrageously undemocratic electronic voting machines, run on "trade secret," proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations--and repair our OWN democracy, so that we have some control over our government.
The chainsawing of union organizers in Colombia, and other heinous activities--including a recently exposed plot to assassinate Chavez and other democratic leaders--is OUR FAULT. It can be directly traced to our ignorance at what the Bush Junta and Congress are doing, and our inattention to our own election system, which has produced a fascist tyranny here in the U.S.--one that has been uniquely tailored to us, to be sure, but is nevertheless rife with all of the alarm bells of the worst dictatorships the world has ever known--those of Hitler and Stalin. ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --Josef Stalin.) One fact tells all: over 70% of the American people oppose the Iraq War and want it ended, and, instead, it is ESCALATED!
Our election system is no longer in the public venue. It has been privatized, and is now controlled with "trade secret" vote counting software, that we have no right to review. That's what the Anthrax Congress did to us. We have no control over our government, which WILL torture and kill many more people in Latin America--and, in fact, is colluding in such activities RIGHT NOW--if we don't inform ourselves of what is going on, and re-empower ourselves to stop it.
In the 1980s, I was aware of the activities of Reagan's thugs in Nicaragua, to some extent aware of their activities in El Salvador, and completely unaware of their activities in Guatemala, where TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND Mayan villagers were slaughtered in the cause of "anti-communism" and corporate rule, with Reagan's direct complicity. It is my hope that people like me--well-intended progressives and leftists (the majority of us) here in the U.S., do not wake up forty years from now and find that our government had perpetrated similar horrendous crimes with our tax dollars and in our name, under George Bush, Hillary Clinton or anyone else. I hope they will look back at this era as the turning point, when we, the People, finally rebelled against our Corporate Rulers, and joined with our compadres in Latin America to create a peaceful, just and prosperous western hemisphere, on a planet that we had all saved "by the skin our teeth."
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