Obama & Biden should say no more coups against democratically elected gov'ts like Chavez & Morales

[yurbud]

Apparently, there's tape of the coup plotters in Venezuela, including some of the same generals that tried to overthrow Chavez before, who he didn't have executed or locked up for life.

The only sins of Chavez & Morales is that they aren't playing ball according to the neoliberal rules and giving up their natural resources to transnational corporations on terms dictated by the corporations.

We could get what we need from those countries, support democracy, earn the goodwill of people down there, and have to spend less on military and intelligence operations simply by not carrying the water of oil and other extraction industries, and "shock doctrine" financiers trying to kill countries to pick apart the corpse and sell the organs at yard sale prices.

Whatever faults Chavez may have as an elected leader, they pale in comparison to the vile dictators we currently support without raising a peep, from the Saudis to the dictator in Uzbekistan who boiled political opponents alive.

Ironically, even if we adopted a "no more coups" policy or backed astroturf opposition, those corporations agitating for the coups could still make a profit; it would just be more modest and not at the cost of human misery, death, and oppression they are currently imposing.

Since we are demanding that we return to obeying international law on torture and when we start wars, we should ask our candidates to go further and support democracy even when it pisses off powerful corporations.

In the long run, it will save us money by not having to impose our will militarily, and it will save us from suffering the blowback of terrorism.

[ladjf]

1. Yes. And Bidden might need a bit of education about the Chavez

situation.