Response to Questions I've Encountered on Venezuela

[Judi Lynn]

Response to Questions I've Encountered on Venezuela
By Joe Emersberger at Oct 10, 2012

Below are replies to questions I’ve encountered about Venezuela since the October 7 election:

Q: Why should people on the USA (or in other rich countries like Canada or the UK) care about what is going in Venezuela?

People who live within imperial countries should not only learn what they can about successful movements, and applaud them, but also do what they can to prevent our governments from destroying them with the help of the corporate media. It is really just basic decency and common sense. The more people in rich countries believe lies, the more rotten things their governments can get away with doing.

Hundreds of thousands of Latin American’s have died in the post WWII era alone as a result of savage US opposition to basic social reforms – often far more timid reforms than what the Chavez government has undertaken. Recent US backed coups in Venezuela (2002), Haiti (2004), and Honduras (2009) illustrate that the threat “we” pose to Latin America remains very real. Fortunately, the 2002 coup in Venezuela was quickly defeated. Haiti and Honduras were not so fortunate.

Moreover, the US does not work alone in subverting democracy abroad, and never has. Both the coups in Haiti and Honduras were helped along by the actions of Canada, for example, and its corporate media. Canadians, in particular, tend to greatly underestimate how extensively our government goes along with US foreign policy – even in the “good old days” before Stephen Harper blew our cover.

More:
http://www.zcommunications.org/response-to-questions-ive-encountered-on-venezuela-by-joe-emersberger

[sabrina 1]

1. It has been surprising to watch Canada over the past decade. They are also involved in the Sudan

and elsewhere. I used to think of them as neutral, but that was far from the truth as we have seen.