Bolivian President Isn’t Radical Enough for Corporate Media
Bolivian President Isn’t Radical Enough for Corporate Media
By Jordana Jarrett
Jul 09 2014
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Bolivian President Evo Morales[/font]
Vilifying left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean leaders is nothing new from the US media–from Chile's Salvador Allende to Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to Mauricio Funes of El Salvador. Bolivian President Evo Morales is no exception, as he caught the attention of the website Vox (6/26/14), a new outlet that sets out to "explain the news" with an emphasis on data analysis.
Vox took Morales' reversing the direction of a clock on the Congress building in La Paz as an opportunity to insult his presidential policies. The reversed clock represents a sundial, which turns clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere while counterclockwise in the Southern–symbolizing a shift away from Northern assumptions. The congressional president, Marcelo Elio, called Morales’ action "a clear expression of the decolonization of the people" (AP, 6/25/14).
However, Vox's Max Fisher said it was a "self-caricature" that fits with Morales' record of "radically leftist but ultimately inconsequential government policy." Fisher compared this gesture to a previous "stunt" by Morales:
Earlier this month, he called for the abolition of the United Nations Security Council, to help bring "the destruction of world hierarchies" and begin healing "mother Earth." He frequently defies and denounces Western governments, for example in July, when his plane was grounded in Austria and searched for NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
It is hard to see how the US grounding the Bolivian plane qualifies as an action by Morales, rather than as a dubiously legal exercise of force by a superpower. Fisher’s using this as an example of how Morales "defies…Western governments" suggests that countries like Bolivia should submit meekly to such abuses.
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...for when you can't help laughing at Corporate News Monopolies' latest bullshit lies about Latin American Leftists, even though you know that murder, torture, rape, theft, enslavement and fascist dictatorships, for profit, are the ultimate goals of those lies.
I burst out laughing at Vox's characterization of the detention of Morales' plane as, somehow, Morales' "defiance" of "Western governments" (as if Bolivia is NOT a western government--last time I looked at a map, Bolivia was in the western hemisphere) (--also need a new phrase for what the U.S. and its bankster client states in Europe have become--how about "post-modern predator states"? or "rotten billionaires' castle moats"?) (--a bit wordy). (But interesting, thus: Morales "frequently defies and denounces rotten billionaires' castle moats, for example in July, when his plane was grounded in Austria and searched for NSA leaker Edward Snowden."
But back to my problem. "LOL!" just doesn't say enough. It's funny, yeah, but, oh, how very dark it is. Funny how "rotten billionaires' castle moats" (the current alleged democracies of western civilization) originated in a European historical period called "The Enlightenment." Sad to say. Those lights are going out, as we re-enter the 10th Century. What's become of it all? The Koch Brothers. The Urosevich Brothers (ES&S/Diebold). Vulture capitalists. The Patriot Act. The Drone Wars. Torture. "Enemy combatants." Dark, dark.
Funny like a Black Hole is funny. How about "Dark Matter LOL"?
