Washington Refuses to Call Off Its Dogs in Honduras

It's very clear to me from the link that what I've been saying about the Venezuelan government, it's president and governing party will show up in this film. Vi
 
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It's encouraging to see that Latin Americans are not duped by warmed over US Gunboat Diplomacy, 19th century redoux by Mr. Smiley Face. The Puppet-in-Chief, Chief Vampire of the Empire.
 
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Democratic voters seem to like "buzz" and "fame" and "celebrity," so I'm hopeful whatever of that which Oliver Stone has will lead some of the Obama-philes to question U.S. Latin policy if only because Mr Stone is a CELEBRITY.
 
It's very clear to me from the link that what I've been saying about the Venezuelan government, it's president and governing party will show up in this film.  Viewers will not see a raving lunatic bent on world domination.  They'll see a very bright and professional head-of-state with a strong cabinet who has managed to blend concepts of socialism and classical (capitalist) economics in a way that promotes steady growth and equitable wealth creation, not concentration.  I'm an obsessive so I can go on at length about the policies of Ministro Rodriguez, etc, but Americans will get the bigger picture.
 
On green technology? Venezuela's about 5 years and $40 billion ahead of the USA.
 
Here's the thing about Hillary Clinton and Latin America.  She has a bit more of a reflexive openness culturally to the ways of other countries and governments in person than Bush, Obama, Biden, Holbrooke, Powell, Rice, or even Bill Clinton, have.  Though she and Chavez are aware that they are not the others' friend in the slightest, they are able to speak honestly to each other and to share a laugh now and then.  That's it.  I suppose if she could act on her own wishes, she be more peaceable, but it's hard to know where Hillary Clinton begins and K-Street ends.  She's merely the nicest and maybe brightest person of a very bad bunch.
 
There is not a chance in hell that Chavez, Correa or Morales are going to let the IMF back into their countries when each won the presidency promising to kick them out and then delivering on those promises.  Fernandez de Kirchner has tightened up quite a bit and is less receptive to US and IMF lies now.  Lugo will be strong in Paraguay as long as he can deliver economically.  The people like freedom and only imperialism by the US can screw that up.  Chile is a special situation because of Michelle Bachelet's moral authority.  She took Nelson Mandela's path footstep-by-footstep.  If she can meet with Robert Gates as her guest in Chile after what she went through in the political prison, more power to her. I personally couldn't do it.  But that's why these non-violence absolutists like Mandela and Bachelet are special.  Nevertheless, while she may have allowed more concessions to Pinochet's party (and Kissinger) than I would have, she has the highest favorability ratings of any head-of-state in the world, so when she nationalized the copper industry into CODELCO American journalists did whine they way they did when Chavez's government merely made the shareholders of Banco Mercantil a buyout-offer!
 
Everyone knows what's what and who's who down here.  So, whatever NPR say or PBS or the networks or CNN or any of them say is just nonsense.  They make it up as they go along or they're told what to say.  Obama wants a Free Trade Agreement with Colombia certainly while Uribe is president because there's a very good chance that he'll lose this third election (which is happening through the same process Chavez used to get a chance at a third term and the same process Zelaya had considered using).  Piedad Cordoba is on the short list for the Nobel Peace Prize and she's got way better credentials for it than Al Gore or Henry Kissinger!  She's through with Obama.  She gave him a chance to listen to Jim McGovern and Bill Delahunt on this and start a peace process and he blew her off.  I haven't heard her on the news or read about her in the paper or seen on her website the name "Barack Obama" at all.  She knows he's her country's worst enemy.  And she opposes IMF rules on sovereign nations.
 
With Eric Holder and Gregory Craig up to their eyeballs in this Chiquita mess, I don't trust Clinton or Obama or anyone connected with the Clinton, Bush or Obama administrations to do anything but cause more problems in Colombia if given a free hand.  As much as I'm for national sovereignty, I think American intentions are so malign that a strong UNASUR presence is needed to counter Clinton or Obama or Steinberg or Restrepo or whoever every step of the way.  If that's Chavez, it's fine by me. Bachelet or Lula de Silva or even Tabare Vazquez might "play" better in the US corporate media but we're long past worrying about that.  The game has officially started.  This can't be done through public relations and the press anymore.

From Pepe Escobar, "US Arc of Instability Just Gets Bigger,"

 
"The US has already set up three military bases in Colombia, plus a dozen radar stations. Now this will be upgraded by the Colombian government to seven bases, one of them - Palanquero - with air access to the whole hemisphere. Seven bases in Colombia is a natural Pentagon response to the US losing the Manta base in Ecuador, and losing its grip on now leftist Paraguay. Washington already trains the Colombian armed forces, special forces and the national police.

The infamous Fort Benning-based School of the Americas, the flagship US training ground for ultra-repressive military dictatorships, that is, the "School of Assassins", re-baptized in 2001 the Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Cooperation, trained not only over 10,000 Colombians, but the coup leaders in Honduras as well. "
 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KI03Df01.html
 
It's encouraging to see that Latin Americans are not duped by warmed over US Gunboat Diplomacy, 19th century redoux by Mr. Smiley Face.  The Puppet-in-Chief, Chief Vampire of the Empire.
 
p.s. Biden is saying the "stimulus package" has ushered in the end of a recession instead of the beginning of a depression.  Exhibit A in American delusion.  I'm asking Santa for Rosetta Stone under the Xmas tree, so I can learn Spanish or some foreign language real soon and skip town before the empire flames out.  Looks like Lying Biden didn't get the memo the US Imperial Government is BANKRUPT and the dollar decoupling is underway, the rising tide will soon wash ashore in Amerikka.  Sadly, our vanity, hubris, depravity, militarism won't be sufficient to stem the tide.  Reality will soon meet rhetoric; it won't be a pretty date.
 
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090614_the_american_empire_is_bank...
 
There are meetings being held Monday and Tuesday (June 2009) in Yekaterinburg, Russia, (formerly Sverdlovsk) among Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The United States, which asked to attend, was denied admittance. Watch what happens there carefully. The gathering is, in the words of economist Michael Hudson, “the most important meeting of the 21st century so far.”
 
I called Hudson, who has an article in Monday’s Financial Times called “The Yekaterinburg Turning Point: De-Dollarization and the Ending of America’s Financial-Military Hegemony.” “Yekaterinburg,” Hudson writes, “may become known not only as the death place of the czars but of the American empire as well.” His article is worth reading, along with John Lanchester’s disturbing exposé of the world’s banking system, titled “It’s Finished,” which appeared in the May 28 issue of the London Review of Books.
 
“This means the end of the dollar,” Hudson told me. “It means China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran are forming an official financial and military area to get America out of Eurasia. The balance-of-payments deficit is mainly military in nature. Half of America’s discretionary spending is military.  (And 70% of GDP is CONSUMPTION) The deficit ends up in the hands of foreign banks, central banks. They don’t have any choice but to recycle the money to buy U.S. government debt. The Asian countries have been financing their own military encirclement. They have been forced to accept dollars that have no chance of being repaid. They are paying for America’s military aggression against them. They want to get rid of this.”
 
China, as Hudson points out, has already struck bilateral trade deals with Brazil and Malaysia to denominate their trade in China’s yuan rather than the dollar, pound or euro. Russia promises to begin trading in the ruble and local currencies. The governor of China’s central bank has openly called for the abandonment of the dollar as reserve currency, suggesting in its place the use of the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights. What the new system will be remains unclear, but the flight from the dollar has clearly begun."
 
Welcome to the Multi-Polar World and the collapse of the American Imperium. In about 4-5 years we'll be asking the Missionaires in Latin America to send us clothes, medicine and bottled water.

That means essentially "you reap what you sow."  Nobody in Latin America was fooled from about two weeks after the election onward.  There had been agents-provocateurs in La Paz, Bolivia, from the CIA, who tried to foment some popular rebellion against the Morales government.  Morales dealt with it with way more patience then was merited, but I think that until the coup in Honduras, Chavez, Correa and Morales, especially, have been willing to give the USA quite a bit of slack in the line in the hopes that finally the US media will stop the propaganda at least against them and tell the true story about their governments.
 
Well, two weeks after Obama's election, the CIA started the same stuff up again in La Paz, trying to infiltrate unions, and trying to convince members of Morales's own party that Morales was Raul Castro's puppet and all that nonsense.  What it really had to do with was a government-owned natural gas field whose exploration rights Morales was putting up for international Dutch auction, instead of giving US and UK interests some sweetheart deal, as the previous government had.  So, Obama in his cheesy way makes a big to do about a "new beginning" with Morales and calls him to say all these nicities and Morales says "Mr Obama, I congratulate you on your victory and I identify with you a lot being the first Indigenous president of Bolivia, but please stop causing trouble in La Paz and just stay the fuck out of Bolivia."  I knew it was going nowhere good.  The Caracas Harbor episode followed that.  And whatever reporting you got about Obama at the America's Summit and the pictures of hugging Chavez and all that, it was a lie.  The local reporting told a very different story.  A story about Obama beginning with his "moving forward" lecture and instead of going over marvelously as CNN reported, it infuriated everyone there and everyone right, left and center across Latin America.
 
There's a "manners culture" here which acts as a social glue.  One of the absolute rules of social conduct nevermind diplomatic conduct is that YOU NEVER CRITICIZE OR LECTURE A STRANGER. NEVER! Every six-year old child knows that.  In the audience when Obama did that, were many heads-of-state and opposition leaders who had even recently been political prisoners of US-backed regimes: Bachelet, Chavez and Simon, the most prominent among many.  To say in this forum to strangers who had overcome the horrors of their imprisonment to be leaders in new democracies is an offense far, far, far, worse down here than the stupidest remarks made by the stupidest people at these phony Town Hall medical things. 
 
Condoleeza Rice tried that at a forum at the National University here in Panama and the students literally chased her all the way to the airport! Martin Torrijos was their president at the time and his father was assassinated by the CIA and for her to come and say how glad she was that Panama had "moved forward" from the communist dictatorship of Omar Torrijos was, well...I have no words for what that was.  I'm just glad that I was working when that happened because I'd have joined the students in a second.  I would give Martin Torrijos a lot of credit for patience, too, for ALLOWING her to get safely back on that plane after saying what she said about his father.
 
That's just Obama's offensive WORDS.  Honduras and Plan Colombia have the whole region on tilt right now.  Hint: don't be an American tourist in Latin America any time soon.  My son is only 10 and he has nightmares now about being invaded.  I'm a well-off guy and hardly a radical of any kind, but I'm telling you that the US government can only push this stuff so far.  Whatever divisions there are within even the client states like Colombia and Peru will dissolve at some point and be focused where they should be. Nobody wants that.
 
Instead of congratulating themselves for Obama's "wonderful" way with "them" (Latinos), Americans should consider backing-off and just conducting normal trade (without these onerous FTAAs and the IMF) among neutral countries. Instead of trying to snatch a natural gas field in Bolivia, why not make THE HIGH BID in the open auction instead? They should try a little cooperation and look for mutually good solutions instead of all this self-congratulation coupled with violent imperialism.  It's not 1974 anymore.  The US is an enormous net debtor to Latin America.  Without firing one bullet, MERCOSUR could devoid itself of its dollar holdings and add INFLATION to your RECESSION just using their trading accounts on the ICE and CME.  That would affect everybody up there,  unfortunately, good peace loving, reasoning people, such as the writers and commenters here, as well as Americans who don't want imperialism in their name even if they don't think about these issues. 
 
The world knows who the villains are.