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more than likely shilling for U.S. and other multinational corporations and war profiteers.
And here is a summation of that view: One of the rightwing coup generals in Honduras stated that their coup was intended to "prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States." (--quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile).
This raw statement contains the core of Langley's strategy in the region: to paint South American countries and leaders who are pulling together for mutual benefit, and in opposition to gross U.S. bullying and interference--as "a threat."
WHO is the real threat to the region? The U.S. and its war machine and its transglobal corporate rapists, murderers and thieves are the real threat, as are the rightwing assholes who collude with them, for instance, the white separatists in Bolivia who rioted and murdered peasants, funded and organized right out of the U.S. embassy, trying to topple Bolivia's democratic government and split up Bolivia, taking Bolivia's major gas reserves with them, in September 2008.
THAT is a threat to PEOPLE and their elected governments. Venezuela providing consultants to Morales, to help Bolivia DOUBLE its gas revenues (by renegotiating the contracts, as Venezuela did with its oil) or Cuba providing Bolivia with medical professionals from its highly successful medical care program or teachers and videos for its highly successful literacy program are NOT A THREAT to people and their elected governments. They are the OPPOSITE of a threat. They are examples of what Latin American countries need to do to repel the clear threat from the U.S. of smashing their people and their governments and installing bloody fascist tyrants once again.
If South American countries can pull together to solve their own problems, and to have each other's backs when the CIA and rightwing murderers and thieves plot to bring their governments down, only then can they achieve true sovereignty, and true economic strength and stability through social justice and self-rule. Venezuela and Cuba are both leaders in this movement for an independent Latin America. That is why rightwingers, and the transglobal corporations and war profiteers whom they shill for, hate these governments so much. Venezuela and Cuba--who are not alone, but have strong allies in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua and other countries--are NOT a threat to any people or their governments; they are a 'threat' to Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum, Chevron-Texaco, Drummond Coal, Monsanto, Bechtel, Chiquita, Dyncorp, Blackwater and the whole corporate horror show in Latin America and the world.
Michele Batchelet's agreement with Morales to RESTORE something that had been TAKEN FROM Bolivia by force, in a long ago war--their sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean--occurred in a specific context: The U.S. attempt to overthrow Morales in September 2008.
Batchelet also, as the first head of the newly formalised UNASUR (South America's prototype Common Market), immediately convened UNASUR and got unanimous backing of all countries to support Morales and help him end the white separatist riots, murders and mayhem that the U.S. was supporting. Brazil's and Argentina's governments--Bolivia's chief gas customers--made it very clear that they would not trade with a white separatist government, and, as stability was restored, several other unifying actions were implemented, to demonstrate South American unity against U.S.-sponsored coups: Batchelet settled the long-standing Chile/Bolivia sea access dispute. Venezuela helped Bolivia to re-negotiate the gas contracts to double Bolivia's government revenues, to support social programs, such as pensions for the elderly and education. And Brazil, Venezuela and others pledged the money to connect Bolivia to the new trans-South American highway, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, intended to combine with Bolivia's unfettered access to the sea, to help Bolivia become a major trade route for the Global South (Africa to Asia).
Pinera now weakening that sea access agreement (taking out its important sovereignty provision) is a clear signal--as clear as it can be--that he is a rightwing shill for the U.S. and its corporate rulers.
Access to a port is NOT access to a port without sovereign control. Bolivia will be subject to Chile, and its government and people will be subject to interference, disrespect and insults. This could even trigger a new "War of the Pacific"--the ultimate "divide and conquer."
I predicted that either Pinera or the corrupt "free tradist" Alan Garcia in Peru would try to sabotage that agreement, for this very reason: a U.S.-instigated "divide and conquer" strategy. Pinera and Garcia are rightwingers. That's what rightwingers in Latin America DO--they betray their own neighbors, and even their own people (except for the rich ones)--in collusion with U.S. corporate interests. I watched this billionaire, Pinera, very closely during the miners' rescue, and he seemed to be personally moved by their plight. He committed to rescuing them, damn the cost, personally oversaw the rescue, and then pledged to improve miners' and other worker conditions in Chile. I thought he might be different, more enlightened than former rightwing rulers of Chile and Latin America. This action against Bolivia and the Morales government, on Bolivia's sea access--rescinding the agreement that had been designed by the previous president of Chile to HEAL A WOUND between the countries, and help them all pull together--tells me otherwise. His support of the miners' rescue was very likely a P.R. act. He is very likely a U.S. government operative. And it won't likely be long before he breaks his promise to miners and other Chilean workers to "improve" their "conditions," and commits OTHER slimy deeds, like this one, against Bolivia, to stir up trouble in South America.
DISUNITY is the REAL threat to the people and governments of Latin America. United they have a chance at sovereignty, self-rule and general prosperity. Divided, they are prey to the horrors of the past, all over again--instigated by the U.S., for the profit of horrible corporations.
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