Dieterich: Magisterial Counter-Attack of New Latin-American Political Class in Ven & Bol

[magbana]

Magisterial Counter-Attack of the new Latin-American Political Class in Venezuela and Bolivia
September 13th 2008, by Heinz Dieterich

In a masterful counterattack to the destabilizing policies of Washington in Latin America, Hugo Chávez expelled in humiliating form the imperial ambassador Patrick Duddy. His action was supported by Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador and most importantly, the Southern Colossus, Brazil, that told the camarilla in the White House not to cross the red line of the Brazilian area of influence. In the diplomatic language of Itamaraty: "We will not tolerate the rupture of the Bolivian institutional order".

In this way, with the support of Argentina and Paraguay, a cordon sanitaire is established around the separatist zones that Washington has created by means of an evil inversion of the revolutionary "focus-theory" of the sixties. As a consequence, a configuration of regional geopolitical security administered by the Latin American Regional Power Block (Bloque Regional de Poder, BRP) comes into being. It is evident that such configuration cannot lack the coercive element, that is to say, the concentration of military forces in the geographical borders of the separatist counterrevolutionary foci, from the side of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

The dangerous Latin-American crisis that we live is the corollary of the movements on the "world chess board" of the Washington-Tel Aviv connection that desperately tries to achieve accomplishments of the expansionist-subversive neocon-agenda, they haven't been able to achieve during Baby-Bush's eight years in the White House.

To this agenda belongs the threat of war against Russia hurled yesterday by Sarah Palin, the prospective US vice-president; the authorization of US military attacks inside Pakistan, ordered by Bush in July, against the expressed will of the Pakistani Armed Forces; the authorization of the military aggression of Georgia against Ossetia in August, with soldiers armed and trained by Washington and Tel Aviv; the sending of warships with nuclear armament to the Black Sea; the authorization of 400 million dollars to destroy the government of Iran and, in Latin America, the military coup d'état against Hugo Chávez in April 2002; the subversion against the Evo Morales government and the ongoing aggression against Cuba.

The subversive interventionism of Washington and its allied oligarchies in Latin America is generating the conditions for the decisive battle against the Monroe Doctrine. The military aggression of Washington-Tel Aviv-Bogota against Ecuador, in order to destroy a FARC camp in Ecuador and kill its international hostage-release negotiator, Raúl Reyes, was the start of what Washington intends to be the final offensive against the hemisphere's Latin-Americanist governments. On that occasion, the new Latin-American political class avoided, at the insistence of Brazil and Cuba, the confrontation with Bush and his pawn Uribe, judging that the conditions of battle were not suitable.

This time, the reaction of Brazil and Venezuela shows that they have understood that the Battle of Bolivia is decisive and that its outcome will determine the future of the new Latin-American political class - to which they belong and which they are trying to consolidate - and their attempt to convert Latin America into a sovereign subject of world politics (a second independence). They begin to act with the profile of a regional power that protects its right to exist and its interests, not with the well-meaning manifestoes of the intellectuals, but with real power: political, economic and military. It is a repetition of the first anti-colonial war of independence (1809-1825) with growing signs of a unifying class-consciousness of the leading political actors: the Presidents.

All the presidents of the new Latin-American political establishment are ethical persons and none wants the spilling of blood. But history teaches that the decisive battles among different historic projects are decided by the correlation of power between organized forms of violence, in this case, the organized fascist-imperial violence versus the legitimate and legal organized violence of the States.

Today, as in 1810, there is no third option in the Patria Grande.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Mr. Dieterich's language is a bit hi-falutin for me, but I tend to agree with him

on what just happened, and what's been happening. South America has LOTS AND LOTS of oil that is basically undefended, militarily (vis a vis the U.S.), and South America has only one enemy--the U.S., and most especially the U.S.-Bush Junta. The Bushwhacks know no boundaries in their lust for oil and power. To them, Venezuela's Zulia province must look like a 'sitting duck'--up there on the Caribbean adjacent to Colombia (Bush Cartel client state, flush with $6 BILLION in U.S. military aid, and well practiced in assassinations, death squads, torture and repression). That Betancourt theater, earlier in the year, was interesting because accounts of it revealed that that incident, and likely the bombing/raid on Ecuador, was broadcast live from the field to a "war room" in the U.S. embassy in Bogota. Both events, and possibly the Bolivian fascist insurrection, might have been a testing out of military systems (surveillance, communication, coordination), and the bombing/raid on Ecuador and the Bolivian insurrection, also test-outs of the "the enemy's" (the rest of South America's) reactions. In any case, what became clear is that the Bushwhacks are not idling around in South America, waiting out the end of their power. They have PLANS--active, on-going operations, and, likely, a war scenario all laid out.

I was first alerted to this back in Dec 07, by a Donald Rumsfeld op-ed in the WaPo. Clearly HE has plans. And one of the things he urges is "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America. So, consider this, for what he means by "swift action":

I think the main target is Zulia. There is evidence of a fascist secession cabal in Zulia (like the one in Bolivia). They would declare their "independence" from the Chavez government, and ask the U.S. to help free them from "dictator Chavez" (--lots of psyops time & money have gone into that false accusation). The Bushwhacks would provide military support ("swift action")from three directions--with the US 4th Fleet from the Caribbean (recently reconstituted by the Bushwhacks probably for this purpose), with the Colombian military/ death squads, Blackwater, and U.S. special forces, across the border from Colombia, and internally using local fascist militias. Once they have control of Zulia--if they defeat the Venezuelan military--it is much more defensible than the eastern provinces of Bolivia (which are land-locked and surrounded by leftist democracies, including Brazil and Argentina).

With Zulia and its oil, the Bushwhacks could try to create a leftist-free zone in the Caribbean/Central America, as a sphere of influence/buffer zone against the coming powerhouse of the South American "Common Market." Zulia's oil would be a powerful weapon to that end. (They could, for instance, stop low cost oil shipments to Cuba, and to other Caribbean/C.A. countries; they could punish a lot of countries that are getting Venezuelan aid, cripple Venezuela, and insure shipments of Venezuelan oil to the U.S.) They would have fascist hegemony over the north hump of South America (Colombia, northern Venezuela), as well as the Caribbean, and might net Ecuador (south border of Colombia) into the bargain. Also lots and lots of oil in Ecuador; not to mention a $16 BILLION environmental damage lawsuit that Chevron is about to lose, in Ecuador--something the Bushwhacks would certainly like to end (by installing a fascist dictator, and killing some judges). The U.S. base in Manta, Ecuador--run by Dyncorp--was likely used in the bombing/raid on Ecuador in March, and could supply planes and bombs to the Venezuelan secessionists. The president of Ecuador will not be renewing the U.S. military lease on that base, as of 2009--which could add some urgency to Bushwhack plans to get Oil War II-South America started. And with McBush, there won't be a continuity problem, but with Obama there might be.

Dieterich is correct that the key to preventing such a move by the Bushfucks in their final hour is South American unity, which has been growing steadily stronger over the last year. They may not have great armies, but they do have strong common goals--social justice and Latin American sovereignty and self-determination--and they have the great strength that they are truly democratic governments, with widespread popular support. I also tend to agree with Dieterich that the confrontation over Ecuador was too soon (March of this year), and it was wise of them all to back off and avoid that Bushite-instigated war. It left the Bushites flat-footed, with their "mystery laptopS" and Raul Reyes' head on a platter as their only prizes (and it further obligated them to get Betancourt out, cuz that's whose release they scuttled, by killing Reyes). (How to turn it into a coup for John McCain was rather a problem, though--and very awkwardly and stupidly done.) They mainly wanted to draw Venezuela into a war--and probably do the Zulia insurrection at the same time, with Venezuela engaged on two fronts--in its own Caribbean province to the north, and, on the other side of Colombia, trying to help Ecuador repel U.S./Colombian forces. I thought it very wise of Chavez at the time (and noticed that Lula da Silva called him "the great peacemaker"). Chavez has good advisers. And, in the middle of that, they could have started the fascist insurrection in Bolivia, and turned the whole continent to flames--but with their main objective being Zulia, which they could pull back to and secure.

There is a lot of evidence that this is the Bushite plan. But I don't think that things are going according to plan, for them. They've been bumbling around, doing inept and stupid things, for over a year. Their plan to hand Chavez a diplomatic disaster, with dead hostages--back in Nov 07-Feb 08--failed. Their "suitcase full of money" caper out of Miami failed, and all they could get out of it was the absurd prosecution in Miami with their Bushbot U.S. attorney. When they told South American leaders that they must "isolate" Chavez, Nestor Kirchner replied, "But he's my brother!" And that's about how it's gone for them. They are so out of step as to be laughable--if they weren't such murdering, torturing, dangerous bastards.

This paragraph by Dieterich makes me uneasy:

"All the presidents of the new Latin-American political establishment are ethical persons and none wants the spilling of blood. But history teaches that the decisive battles among different historic projects are decided by the correlation of power between organized forms of violence, in this case, the organized fascist-imperial violence versus the legitimate and legal organized violence of the States."

He almost seems to want war. He says it's inevitable, based on history. That's nonsense. Nothing is inevitable. South America has sufficient economic/political clout--if they stick together--to prevent further bloodshed, and force the Bushwhacks to back off. "...history teaches that the decisive battles...blah, blah, blah." History teaches that war is hell, and that you may defeat the Nazis in one era, only to become the Nazis in the next--which is what has happened to us, or rather, to our government. War is only good for war profiteers. In today's blood-soaked, tinderbox world, it is to be avoided at almost any cost. A show of strength--such as Evo Morales has been compelled to display, or Chavez is about to produce in the Caribbean with Russia--may be necessary to convince violent, murderous leaders, like the white separatists in Bolivia, or those in the White House, but it should follow the principle of the porcupine--make the cost of attack too dear. The way to handle this situation, in particular, with one side having only brute strength, and no ideas, and the other side having democracy and great ideas, is to play to your strength: ideas. The South American left is way, way, WAY smarter than the Bushwhacks, their local running dogs, and their global corpo masters, because the new leftist leaders of South America are drawing upon the collective intelligence of their people. Their people are making history, not repeating it. Why try to burden them with these old paradigms? Radical change for the better can be peacefully achieved. They are proving it, in country after country.

The white separatists in Bolivia have completely discredited their cause--by machine-gunning 15 peasant farmers, blowing up Brazil/Argentina's gas pipeline and running rampant. And the Bush junta has ended its influence in South America (such as it was) by supporting these crazy rich racists. They need to gear up the new institutions and networks they are using to deal with this for what may be a Busite last ditch war (or possibly a private war that continues on after them, run by Rumsfeld). Bolivia was not a feasible Bushite war project, but Zulia is. Chavez is clearly taking that threat seriously, and they all need to (and probably are). But the solution is going to be--and really has to be--from the intellect: smart ideas.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Great seeing this article. I hope, also, (referring to Peace Patriot's post) this is a totally NEW

kind of revolution. I've seen Hugo Chavez emphasize the fact recently that the oligarchy is lucky in that this revolution is peaceful, as there would have been a lot of bloodshed already, otherwise.

Thanks for the valuable material, magbana.

[fascisthunter]

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