Op-Ed: Barack Obama's war against democracy
Op-Ed: Barack Obama's war against democracy
By Ruth Hull
Feb 22, 2014 - yesterday in Politics
From Iran to Vietnam to Chile to Libya to Venezuela, the world is tired of America's opposition to democracy. The people with the world's best elections, according to Jimmy Carter, are fighting back against another American-sponsored attack on democracy.
Former U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jimmy Carter has hailed Venezuela as having the best election process in the world. Unlike American elections, the winners in Venezuelan Presidential elections actually choose to take office. It is an example that would have changed America had Al Gore and John Kerry chosen to respect the will of the people who elected them in 2000 and 2004.
Democracy Now did a show on the current American-sponsored attempted coup in Venezuela that has now killed a number of people. in the news program, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales interviewed George Ciccariello-Maher, author of We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution. Mr. Ciccariello-Maher teaches political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia and previously taught at the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas. Here is some of what this scholar had to say about America's bloody interference with democracy that is taking place in Venezuela and about the American-backed leader of the attempted coup.
Leopoldo López represents the far right of the Venezuelan political spectrum. In terms of his personal and political history, here’s someone who was educated in the United States from prep school through graduate school at the Harvard Kennedy School. He’s descended from the first president of Venezuela, purportedly even from Simón Bolívar. In other words, he’s a representative of this traditional political class that was displaced when the Bolivarian revolution came to power.
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