Rafael Correa connects the dots

[Catherina]

Rafael Correa connects the dots
April 29, 2013 — Sabina Becker



The crapaganda mafia of the North American media aren’t known for their honesty in reporting on Latin America. It takes nothing less than an interview with a Bolivarian head of state to set the record straight, and even then, who knows how much of this they may have censored, because it cuts awfully close to the bone:

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, gave an interview on CNN’s Spanish-language channel, in which he alerted the public to constant destabilization efforts taking place against progressive governments throughout Latin America.

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“Every day, we confront destabilization processes (in the region). There is permanent putschism, don’t be fooled,” said the Ecuadorian president, whom Pastor interviewed on April 20, while Correa was on a tour of Europe.

Correa listed the coups d’état, failed and successful, which have occurred during the 21st century. They began in April 2002, against the government of Hugo Chávez, and continued in Bolivia, against Evo Morales, in 2008. Both coups failed. In 2009, the putschists succeeded in toppling Zelaya in Honduras. In 2010 they tried to topple Correa without success, and most recently, there was a successful coup in Paraguay, in 2012, against Fernando Lugo.

“Four of those cases were governments of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALBA), and all five were progressive. Do you believe that’s a coincidence? When will we see such an attempt on the governments of the right?” Correa asked.

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Translation mine.

So there you go. This is why Latin American governments (even that of Mexican right-winger Enrique Peña Nieto) have stepped up to recognize the Maduro presidency, while the US (and, even more shamefully, Canada) are still pretending it was too close to call, or some such — and therefore, not deigning to recognize a freely and fairly elected leader. They’d rather “recognize” a putschist who did this:

…because that putschist attacked the embassy of a country the US has had no luck in destabilizing and reeling back into its sphere of influence, ever since the failed attack on the Bay of Pigs.

Frankly, Capriles should have been in jail, and declared permanently ineligible to run for office. But Chavecito’s irrepressible confidence in his democratic government and social programs was such that they could afford to let him run loose and trip over himself, I guess. And Maduro is just as confident, with just as much cause. The election result has borne that out. Some fucking dictatorship, eh?

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http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/rafael-correa-connects-the-dots.html

[Demeter]

1. US State Dept/Govt. Is a Drug Pusher

and not just literally. Their drug of choice is Fascism, though. Everything else is tied to the Corporate takeover of the world's nations and peoples.

How did we come to this? And more importantly, how do we root it out?

[Arctic Dave]

2. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

3. Love the new word "crapaganda!" Couldn't be more appropriate. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

4. "crapaganda"--what a great word! I will be borrowing it!

It perfectly describes what the entirety of the corporate media--including the corporate-influenced (bludgeoned?) BBCons, NPRats, and even the Guardian and the New Yorker (heaven forfend!)--have been doing to newly independent, democratic Latin America!

It is beyond sickening. It is LETHAL It's not just propaganda--it's CRAPAGANDA! A steaming, stinking, disease-bearing, maggot-infested mountain of shit.

Shoveled into peoples' brains 24/7 for the last decade, from multiple a-hole "sources," to crowd out real information and thought itself.

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"The crapaganda mafia of the North American media aren’t known for their honesty in reporting on Latin America."

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You've got it exactly right, Catherina! THANK YOU! And thank you for posting this Rafael Correa interview. He, too, has it exactly right. The putschists are very busy toppling or trying to topple leftist governments in Latin America.

I feared this when Leon Panetta ("old CIA," member of Bush Sr.'s "Iraq Study Group&quot took over the CIA. He's a lot smarter and a lot savvier than the Bushwhacks. For one thing, I believe he ousted Rumsfeld, largely because of Bush Sr.'s interests in China, which didn't want Iran nuked; also, to end the war between the Pentagon and the CIA that Rumsfeld-Cheney had started, and get everybody back on "the same page." Not a good page--the SAME page. And, thirdly, to enforce "the deal" about no investigation/no prosecution of Bush Junta war crimes, and to cover the Bush Junta's--and especially Jr.'s--criminal trail probably everywhere but I've noticed it in Colombia. Fourth goal--to cover the CIA/Bush Cartel/U.S. banksters' cocaine trail in LatAm. (The Bush Junta had gotten outrageous by installing an actual mafia boss as 'president' of Colombia!)

Panetta had BIG PROBLEMS in all these respects, and solved them all. Now the CIA can do what it LIKES doing--not manufacturing wars for people who don't like them (Cheney, Rumsfeld), but preventing wars (i'm sure that's how they put it to themselves) by super-clever analysis of political systems, governments and societies, to undermine any true democratic tendencies, and to install operatives like Capriles by superficially 'democratic' means, in Venezuela, for instance, to get Exxon Mobil back in control of all that oil. The CIA is ruthless in its methods but very covert. The Bushwhacks were (are) ruthless but stupid and obvious. Some of their capers in LatAm were just laughable. Panetta and the re-booted CIA are not laughable.

I think one of the things that the CIA is doing right now--using Capriles and their corporate media trumpets--is to wrongfully slander and UNDERMINE Venezuela's excellent election system (which Jimmy Carter called "the best in the world&quot for whatever destabilzation they can accomplish now, and for future uses. I wonder, too, about that mysterious one-week plunge in Maduro's numbers, from a 10% to 20% lead (all polls) to only a 2% victory on election day. Venezuela has the best system of safeguards against election tampering in the world, but could it have been tampered with by some new means developed in a secret CIA/DIA hightech shop?

A CLEVER planner with such a capability would not necessarily (s)elect Capriles, this time, but instead seriously shave Maduro's mandate to cripple his ability to run the country, and then keep the country in turmoil throughout his presidency. Venezuela has been a very hard nut for the U.S. to crack. Real democracy has taken hold there. So they have a lot of work to do, to rip out the heart of the Bolivarian revolution (Venezuela's and LatAm's "New Deal&quot . Capriles winning this time would not have worked. It would have brought millions of chavistas into the streets for a permanent state of siege. HE would have been unable to govern. But a Venezuela without Chavez, wracked by Capriles riots and murders, pummeled by the entirety of the corporate media, with CIA/local operative handles on some economic levers (after much study, and trial and error), a weakened president, floods of USAID money into rightwing groups, and--the cleverest CIA ploy of all, historically--penetration of leftwing groups, such as trade unions, and so on and so forth? THEN Capriles or some other corpo-fascist "savior" comes to "the rescue." Clever. Clever. So clever.

Just wondering about it. So far, I can't see how they got into Venezuela's safeguarded system. But I know a whole lot of very hightech shit is going on behind closed U.S. doors, with billions and billions in funding. They rigged our election system--in very obvious and crude ways. Have they gone beyond the obvious and the crude? Have they found the way into Venezuela's?

NOTHING will ever surprise me again, after the 2004 (s)election here, following the plague-like spread of 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines all over the country between 2002 and 2004. The bad guys are way, way ahead of ordinary citizens, on multiple methods of election fraud, installing systems FOR election fraud and covering up election fraud. If I were Venezuelan, I'd seriously consider proposing to go back to paper ballots--not because this special election was close--nor because of any of Capriles' lies and murderous riots--but because it shouldn't have been close. Venezuela's pre-election polls have never been so off. 8% to 18% off? In truth, THAT is impossible.

And WE most certainly should go back to paper ballots, right now, today. Our system is pitifully riggable, obviously riggable and has obviously BEEN rigged. And now ES&S/Diebold has put a whole lot of far rightwingers in power, in the states, to rig it every which way imaginable--including keeping the poor from voting altogether. We are a very sick country and ES&S/Diebold is the disease.

Crapaganda is layered over the top of "black hole"-aganda--that is, the vital news that is NOT reported. ES&S/Diebold exists in a media "black hole" out of which no light can emerge.

[ocpagu]

5. Glad to read Correa's comments.

The truth is that for the US government, its puppet organizations and the servile Western media, there is only one well established point regarding democracy in Latin America: the left can't win.

The right can do whatever it wants. They can kidnap, torture, "disappear" and kill regular citizens by the thousands and throw their bodies in rivers, in the Atlantic, or burn them in sugar mills, they can censor the press (though it's not really necessary, mainstream press is pretty good at self-censorship), they can dismantle the democratic institutions of a country. The American government and its parrots won't say word.

The Latin American right wing is increasingly becoming weaker and weaker. Right wing political parties are walking toward irrelevance. Therefore, they are delegating the role of opposition to media in the entire continent, but media is also losing influence and the ability of molding the public perception of reality. We've seen it in the past. With Allende, Goulart, Alvarado...

When that happened some decades ago, Washington gave a hand to help the right-wing and the entire continent had to swallow the fascist dictatorships.

Will it be different this time?

[bahrbearian]

6. Lots of people should be in jail, but we like to Honor them.

You know look forward.