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There really could nothing worse for the Bush junta, as to international politics, than the election of Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ("Amlo") as president of Mexico--a man who leads by example, and whose policies reflect the interests of the vast majority of people. So watch out for the "swiftboating" and other dirty election theft tactics. Virtually the entire continent of South America has gone "blue" over the last several years--with Leftist governments elected in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela and Bolivia, and growing Leftist movements in Peru, and even Columbia, also in Nicaragua.--and now in Mexico. It is a huge unstoppable movement, based on TRANSPARENT elections (--years of hard work by the OAS, the Carter Center, EU election monitoring groups and local civic groups). (U.S. voters, take note!) Its common themes are self-determination and opposition to U.S. global corporate predator policy/domination. The Bush junta is out to "divide and conquer," undermine, and disrupt this movement in every way they can. The threat to the Bush junta posed by majority rule and real democracy in Latin American countries cannot be overly stressed. While they've been busy destroying Iraq, and bankrupting the U.S. with massive thievery, Latin America has become THE center of democracy in the Western Hemisphere.
Recently, in the Peruvian election, a Leftist candidate--Ollanta Humala--came out of nowhere to win 30% of the vote in a prelim election for president, winning a runoff against the frontrunner (a corporate progressive, a la Clinton/NAFTA, with a long personal history of corruption--Alan Garcia). Humala's surprising showing bumped the rightwing candidate tout of the race. Humala--a grass roots candidate with no big money/corporate support--then went on the INCREASE his vote total to 45% in the final election. Because of Humala's success, the Bush/Corporate predators had no choice but to back the corrupt progressive (Garcia). But when the narrative of this election was written, the corporate predator press wrote it as a victory for Bush. Humala, a 100% indigenous Andean, like Evo Morales in Bolivia, is allied with Morales and with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. They all subscribe to the Bolivarian principle of regional self-determination and unity against exploiters and foreign, especially U.S., domination. Morales' and Chavez's endorsement of Humala was painted as "interference" (by neighbor countries) and used as the linchpin of the "Bush victory" narrative. Utter crap. If anything, Morales/Chavez's endorsement is what INCREASED Humala's support by 15% between the prelim and final election. The indigenous Andeans that Morales and Humala represent straddle all three countries. They are finally coming into their own as a political force, after centuries of oppression by colonial powers. The borders drawn by the colonial powers (as in Africa)--and which revolutionary hero Simon Bolivar OPPOSED (he wanted one "united states" of the Andes, and, indeed, of all South America)--are not that meaningful to the indigenous and the poor of these countries. The charge of "interference" was ludicrous (coming from Bushites and NAFTA-ists!). It was merely a false "talking point" in a false narrative. And, after Garcia utterly destroys Peru's economy with NAFTA policies, IMF/World Bank debt and corruption (a la Argentina), the Leftists will be back to pick up the pieces (as they had to do in Argentina). The global corporate predators' narrative of this election completely ignored the REALITY of political, economic and social conditions in the region, and the overwhelming and very deep TREND toward self-determination, democracy, and social justice.
Watch out for some such false narrative if Amlo loses, and even if he wins. And if he wins, the Bush junta and global corporate predator interests will stop at nothing to undermine and destroy his administration. I don't think they will succeed. They failed in Venezuela (where they went so far as to back a military coup, and are even now pouring U.S. taxpayer dollars into the tiny rich oil elite political opposition, in violation of Venezuelan law--to no effect; Chavez and his government continue to have widespread popular support). They have failed everywhere, even in Peru, where they failed to get a rightwing candidate to back, and had to settle for Garcia, because of the powerful grass roots Leftist movement that is in development there, and everywhere in Latin America. And if Amlo loses, expect corporate narratives of the abject defeat of the Leftist trend. They will paint it this way even in a close election, as it promises to be (--just as they did with the Kerry/Bush "official results"--fascists don't care if half the population--or whatever manipulated "official result" they come up with--disagrees; the reins of power are all they need, and, once they have them, they feel free to commit massive thievery and illegal war, opposed by--somehow mysteriously--70% of the population). The Bush junta DESPERATELY wants to smash this Latin American Leftist movement, and, if Amlo loses, they will say they have (as they did re Peru). But it will STILL BE THERE, waiting to pick up the pieces after ANOTHER corporate predator government (Calderon). It is not going away. It is the future.
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"The time of the people has come." --Evo Morales
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