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...their coup was "intended to prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States" (--quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile). He probably picked it up from his U.S. School of the Americas military "trainers" or in confabs with the rightwing planners of the coup here (Sen. Jim DeMint, SC-Diebold, John McCain, who has telecommunications interests in Honduras, John "death squad" Negroponte, et al*). And that is exactly what the U.S. strategy (i.e., transglobal corporate ruler/war profiteer strategy) is all about in Latin America: creating a "circle the wagons" region, in Central America/the Caribbean, against the "communism" of universal free education, universal free medical care, good wages/benefits, workers' rights and other social progress that has spread like a wildfire throughout South America. The Honduran people will be denied these things--and will be, and are being, brutalized and some of their leaders murdered--to prevent this "New Deal" tide from sweeping north to our border. (Indeed, the Bushwhack infusion of billions of our tax dollars into the "war on drugs" in Mexico is more than likely part of this strategy--a means of militarizing and brutalizing Mexican society to prevent a Leftist political victory in our border country.**)
Venezuela was the pioneer of this "New Deal" movement. They are now "THE most equal country in Latin America," on income distribution, according to this year's UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean. When the Venezuelan people successfully turned back the U.S. (Bushwhack)-supported rightwing/military coup attempt there, in 2002, and when the Chavez government successfully allied with the Leftist government of Argentina (which was resisting U.S./World Bank/IMF rape of Argentina's economy), they ignited hope throughout the region and Leftist governments were soon being elected in Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua and other countries, and these countries then began to form a strong and historically unprecedented regional alliance, pulling the region together to exercise collective economic and political clout. It is against this new Leftist-inspired alliance--as formalized first in UNASUR (all South American countries, no U.S.) and more recently in CELAC (all Latin American countries, no U.S.)--that the U.S. must strategize if it is to serve the goals of those who run things here (U.S.-based transglobal corps, war profiteers and banksters).
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*(The rightwing/military coup in Honduras occurred six months into the Obama administration and there are strong signs that it was of Bush Junta design and may have been sprung on Obama in order to undermine his stated policy of "peace, respect and cooperation" in Latin America. Jim DeMint, SC-Diebold, a first term senator, ran the coup in Washington and blackmailed Obama on his LatAm appointments to try to force him to support the coup. The Obama/Clinton response--whether by choice or by being trapped (I'm still not quite sure, maybe a bit of both)--was to instigate a rigged, U.S.-run election in Honduras to confirm the rightwing choice of presidents in power, amidst widespread brutality against Leftist leaders--trade unionists, advocates of the poor, etc. The Pentagon is now building more U.S. military bases in Honduras and the power of U.S. transglobal corporations has been greatly enhanced. Also, one of the first acts of the coup government was to withdraw Honduras from ALBA, the Venezuela-Cuba organized trade alliance of small countries in the Central America/Caribbean region. The Obama administration's bad response to the Honduran coup greatly soured their relations with Brazil and throughout the region.)
**(The Left came within a hairsbreadth of winning the Mexican presidency in the 2005 election. The U.S. subsequently instigated this "war" in which some 50,000 people have been murdered. Frankly, I think that the Bush Cartel was using the U.S. "war on drugs" to consolidate, not to end, the drug trade. It had a dual purpose--in Mexico, in Colombia and probably in Honduras--to crush the Leftist movement and to better profit from the illicit trade. When they tried this in Bolivia--via the U.S. embassy and the DEA, which were specifically allied with the white separatists against Evo Morales' Leftist government--the entire continent of South America pulled together to back up Morales, who had thrown the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of the country. It was the formative moment of UNASUR. I am not sure if the Obama administration is this dirty. I tend to think that they are not but that the Bush Junta filth has greatly complicated the Obama/Clinton main goal in the region--U.S. "free trade for the rich." Obama/Clinton may not be intent on achieving that goal with bloodshed, "war," excessive corruption and destroying democracy but the goal itself compromises them, puts them on the wrong side of history and inclines them to coverup and gain from horrible Bushwhack polices. There is considerable evidence that they have helped to coverup Bush Junta crimes in Colombia including complicity in mass murder and illicit trade. When the U.S.-funded/trained Colombian military drove 5 MILLION peasant farmers from their land with extreme brutality, this favored both the big drug lords and corporations like Monsanto, Chiquita, Drummond Coal, Exxon Mobile, Occidental Petroleum, etc. Obama/Clinton may not favor the former but they most certainly do favor the latter.)
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