U.S. prepared to do anything to prevent change

[IndianaGreen]

U.S. prepared to do anything to prevent change

BY NIDIA DIAZ

FOR those who still had doubts, I think that they must have been dissipated. United States imperialism, represented on this occasion by the fundamentalist Republican administration of George W. Bush, is prepared to do anything to avoid the development of national-liberation processes taking place with increasingly greater strength in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Nicaragua are in the sights of Washington which, prevented by the regional scenario – and not forgetting the existence of Brazil, Honduras, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina – from directly using its military forces like so often in the past, has turned its hand to the most barefaced interventionism and to million-dollar support for the discredited but still powerful political forces which, by majority decision, were displaced from government. Spearheads that imperial interests are trying to plunge into the very heart of those peoples.

Sowing chaos, making the region ungovernable, terrorizing the masses with assassination plots, buying those who have not as yet understood the reach of the processes of change on account of their class position or as a result of the manipulation and distortion of reality by the private and transnational media, are some of the weapons selected by Washington in a confrontation that, at this stage of events is of unpredictable consequences.

Nor should we forget the rearming of paramilitary groups of a fascist and racist nature which, in the case of Bolivia, have left a total of dozens of fatal victims and incalculable material damage, and have provoked the uncontainable anger of the majorities who, this time around, cannot be deceived, because they know that this is a war to remove them from decision making and the benefits denied them over centuries and which they are now winning after long years of struggle.

These native emulators of the Blackshirts are, moreover, being protected by the Yankee 4th Fleet, which is navigating with impunity the waters bordering the above nations in a display of bravado and threat.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/septiembre/juev18/38bolivia-i.html

[Demeter]

1. OR Even Here at Home!

That's the scariest part.

[bertman]

2. Intimidation of the populace and control of natural resources is what this is all about.

Here's an anecdote that happened to me last week. While at a business meeting with a client to discuss some storm damage caused by a fallen tree, the asphalt contractor, who was giving an estimate to repair the driveway, mentioned that the cost of asphalt had gone up due to the rising cost of petroleum. He said something to the effect of "most of our asphalt comes from Venezuela." Our client then mentioned that Venezuela was threatening to stop sending its petroleum products to us.

The asphalt contractor's next comment was "Well, if they won't sell it to us, then we need to just go down there and take it."

For the first time in my professional life I lost it in front of a client. I was so pissed that I said "Haven't you learned a damn thing from this damned war we're in now trying to take oil from the Middle East? Are you saying that we can just go invade another country because they don't want to sell us their oil? Are you really willing to have more Americans killed and maimed for oil? Don't you understand that we're throwing away trillions of our dollars doing crazy shit like this?" He didn't say anything. Just kept on measuring and taking notes.

Meanwhile, this client of many years (20-plus) who is very liberal, was kind of standing there with wide eyes smiling at me.

Later on the ignorant asshole started railing against the Katrina cleanup and I had to explain to him why he was dead wrong again.

He is an intellectually lazy redneck who just believes everything he hears from Rush and O'Reilly.

Our leaders are greedy, corporate pawns who will do anything to make sure their corporate masters keep financing their campaigns. This shit has to stop. We should be setting the example for democracy, not exercising our imperial military might.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. Isn't a Russian fleet visiting the region for war games with the Venezuelan navy?

I wonder how the State Department and Pentagon view that?

[bertman]

6. Probably the way the Ruskies view us sending our fleet to Georgia. Yavold!

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. That sounds about right....

[bvar22]

4. OOPS! Damn Double Post.

:shrug:

[bvar22]

5. K&R

This is a HUGE mistake on the part of the US government.
We should be supporting the new emerging democracies, and assisting them in every way possible.
Opposing them will only drive them and their markets into the arms of Russia and China.

Even Democratic Party leaders like Obama and Kerry have taken opposition stances against Chavez and the new populist elected leaders in South America. :shrug:

The Oligarchs/Fascists were able to steal the last election in Mexico.
They will lose the next one.


VIVA Democracy!
I pray it migrates to El Norte.
We could use some here.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. This economic meltdown could change all that radically.