Argentine president backs Chavez

[Judi Lynn]

Last Updated: Thursday, 22 February 2007, 11:19 GMT
Argentine president backs Chavez

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During his visit to Venezuela, Mr Kirchner said his country along with Venezuela and Brazil had to build a space in South America that guaranteed dignity and justice.

Argentina would gladly join a Bank of the South proposed by Mr Chavez to finance regional projects, he said.

"It cannot be that it bothers anyone that our nations become integrated," Mr Kirchner said.

"Much has been said recently that... in {Brazilian} President Lula's case or in my case that we had to contain President Chavez - an absolute error."

The US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns has said his country can work with the left-leaning governments of Argentina and Brazil, but Venezuela is "another matter".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6385459.stm



US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Well

there is a big F you to Bush!Hope America is ready for a Socialist South and Latin America...things are gearing up for progressives to gain office in Paraguay and Guatemala as well. Politics are even begginning to move slightly left here with the Progressive Caucus gaining new members and a Socialist in our senate.

[rman]

2. "Venezuela is another matter"

Right. So, how much oil is there in Brazil and Argentina?

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. Yep. It's successful.

[theaudacity]

3. he looks like "Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy"

[Judi Lynn]

4. His Mustache Period was memorable, wasn't it?

It's hard to tell him from Che Guevara, etc!

[theaudacity]

5. Yeah, I really have a hard time telling Bush Administration Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns..

and South American Leftist revolutionary Che Guevara apart. Gets me every time.

[peacetalksforall]

6. HOOORAAY! DIGNITY and JUSTICE. What a nice break in the

day. GO FOR IT - Central and South America - get those World Banks off your back - support each other and work for your people who have been messed with to the extreme for way too many decades.

DIGNITY AND JUSTICE. WHAT BEAUTIFUL WORDS and CONCEPTS!!!!!!!

Light in the day.

[Peace Patriot]

7. Now why would the Bush Junta want to "contain" President Chavez?

I mean, besides the horrible idea of the people of a South American country benefiting from their own natural resources?

It must be because Chavez is a "dictator" and a threat to democracy--that well known Bush "family value."

Or could it be because of the Bolivarian revolution--that nasty idea of that nasty character who stole slave owners' rightful property (slaves) in the 19th century and wanted to create a "United States of South America." Horrors upon horrors would follow. Indians running things. Good God!

Or could it be because Chavez is hoisting the Bush Junta on its own petard--using some of the profits from their fraudulent oil market that they rigged to their own benefit, to, say, bail Argentina and Ecuador out of onerous World Bank debt, so they don't have to obey US/Corporate Reich bankers any more on social policy or Corporate resource theft?

Or could it be the Bolivarians have exposed the murderous US "war on drugs" for what it is--a fascist boondoggle and covert war on leftists and peasants? The impact on military and prison-industrial corporate profiteers could be devastating. Imagine a world in which the price of "illegal" drugs dropped by 95%! Jehovah save us!

Or could it be that the ideas of self-determination, transparent elections, majority rule, economic justice and grass roots participation in government are actually good ideas, and are therefore sweeping through Latin America like a mighty river?

Just WHAT are they seeking to "contain" in seeking to "contain" Hugo Chavez?

All of these things, plus this: They want to absolutely kill off the reality that it's not Hugo Chavez at all, who is "causing" South America to reject Neo-liberalism (global free piracy). It is the people of South America who have seen through it, and who are electing leaders in country after country after country who reflect their views and to whom they have given a mandate for justice and self-determination. Simon Bolivar's dream.

That's what scares the bejeebers out of the Bushites. Government of, by and for the people.