What Really Happened at Mar del Plata - Out Foxed?

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http://www.counterpunch.com/bustelo11262005.html


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The Mar del Plata summit of the Americas wasn't called to discuss that rotting corpse, the imperialist Free Trade Area of the Americas, but to talk about job creation and sustainable development. Fox, acting his part of the imperialist cub (the translation of "cachorro" as "puppy" and now "lapdog" is an absurdity, because the obvious play was on Fox's name), promised his master he'd get the summit to get the FTAA talks restarted but he could not deliver, not even with the help of Uribe and Lagos. So instead the three imperialist stooges disrupted the summit to such a degree that the Saturday afternoon banquet and various press availabilities were cancelled, and the final communique did not come out until hours after the presidents had left town.

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Lula's walkout (which I suspect he coordinated with Kirchner, as the latter could hardly walkout given that he was the host) made the imperialist charade collapse. ` Fox was furious! He took on the plane with him back to Mexico Carmen Aristegui, a Mexican journalist of some note who now does a nightly gabfest for CNN en Español. And Fox pissed and moaned to the imperialist Corporate News Network how Kirchner was being a demagogue and playing to the bleachers and so on, and had a few nasty things to say about Chávez, too.

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Our Faux Fox was outraged! The honor of the entire noble race of traveling salesmen of imperialist sugar water was on the line. He *required* an explanation. When the Venezuelan response came back --privately--, but you don't have to be a psychic to know it was to the effect of "just what part of 'imperialist clown' didn't you understand?" our imperial cub threw up a hairball.

Immediately he went on CNN, both in English and Spanish, to demand --demand!!!-- a retraction, and gave Hugo Chavez an ultimatum: by this very night, at midnight, or else, or else ... what? He'd bomb Caracas? Invade the oil fields? Torpedo the supertankers? No, he'd expel the Venezuelan ambassador.

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1. Too Funny.

Our Faux Fox was outraged! The honor of the entire noble race of traveling salesmen of imperialist sugar water was on the line. He *required* an explanation. When the Venezuelan response came back --privately--, but you don't have to be a psychic to know it was to the effect of "just what part of 'imperialist clown' didn't you understand?" our imperial cub threw up a hairball.