Peru Says Chavez Backs Domestic Revolt

[Mugu]

By ANDREW WHALEN

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Hugo Chavez has been accused of using Venezuela's oil riches to meddle in Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Nicaragua. Now, Peru's president says the Venezuelan leader may be doing it here by funding militants and anti-poverty centers that preach populist revolution.

In recent weeks, Peruvian police have arrested nine people the government alleges are militants bankrolled by Venezuela. And the head of a Congressional investigatory committee accused Venezuela of supplying funds to outreach centers he says agitate against the government. President Alan Garcia supports the ongoing investigation into the centers.

Venezuela and allies Bolivia and Ecuador "want to destabilize Peru so that our country adheres to their type of thinking, so that Peru fails," said the government's lead anti-terrorism prosecutor, Julio Galindo.

Venezuela vehemently denies the allegations, and denies funding Peruvian militants or the anti-poverty centers. Venezuela's ambassador in Peru, Armando Laguna, said the government should "ask me to leave Peru" if it finds proof.


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[ananda]

1. Oh no. How dare any leader be..

.. a force against poverty and unfairness.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. that BASTARD!

it's not like we support political movements in other countries.
:eyes:

[Joanne98]

3. Peru must be repaying Bush for their trade agreement..

Something we will half to UNDO next year.

[JohnnyCougar]

4. Yeah....BS

It's astonishing what people on the US payroll will blame on Chavez down there. What an evil man, that Chavez. Working to care for Peru's poor since Peru themselves ain't doing a thing about it.

[Peace Patriot]

5. Venezuela, and the Peruvian poverty centers, deny any such funding,

and it is only the rightwing opposition (the minority) in Argentina, Bolivia and Nicaragua that has picked up this "talking point." The governments of these countries are making no such claim or objection. And who we are going to believe--rightwing fascists in league with the Bush junta, or leftwing governments elected by the people in fair, honest, transparent elections, after long hard work on grass roots organization among the poor majority?

And, frankly, it wouldn't bother me in the least, if it were true. Venezuela's money, in Peru, helping the poor, would be a lot more legitimate thanour money--millions of our tax dollars--through Bushite fingers, to the rich, to rightwing political groups, to coup plotters, to fascists, to 'brownshirt' thugs, to assassins, doled out from USAID-NED and other budgets, and it would be a lot more legitimate than the $5.5 BILLION (our tax money) in Bush/U.S. military aid to the worst government in South America--Colombia--for mass slaughter of labor leaders, peasant farmers, political leftists, human right workers and journalists--and, lately, for bombing Ecuador and trying to destabilize the region, in a Bushite plot to regain global corporate predator control of the oil in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina.

Venezuela has the right idea--using the oil money to bootstrap the poor, to build and staff schools and medical centers, start small businesses, build needed local infrastructure, rebuild agricultural food production and local manufacturing, and to encourage maximum citizen participation in government by funding the "missions" (local councils in control of federal grants). Venezuela has also spurred the creation of regional institutions, such as the Bank of the South, to drive the World Bank/IMF loan sharks out of the region (which it is successfully doing). It is in Venezuela's interest to have healthy trading partners, and neighboring governments also committed to social justice and regional initiative. This was plainly demonstrated in Venezuela's help to Argentina to get them out from under onerous World Bank/IMF debt. Argentina is now well on its way to recovery--after being destroyed by the World Bank/IMF--and has become a good trading partner for Venezuela, Brazil and other countries.

So it's good regional policy, as well as being the right thing to do--to use the oil money not only to create a booming economy in Venezuela (10% growth rate, with the biggest growth in the private sector, not including oil), but to improve the region and to assist other countries in creating good societies, with economies that benefit everyone, not just the rich and wannabe rich, and the fascists and militarists favored by the Bushites (and collusive Democrats).

"Free trade" and World Bank/IMF financing are extremely destructive to vulnerable third world economies. Peru is going to find that out--is finding that out (given the mass protests they've been having). They are furthermore going to find out just how destructive and corrupt the phony, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" is--a "war" that is welcomed by the rightwing in countries with massive, poverty-stricken, disenfranchised populations--Mexico, Colombia, Peru--governments that want the guns and the helicopters to fight their war on the poor. The progressive countries are rejecting this "war on drugs" militarization of their societies. The U.S. "war on drugs" always, somehow, leads to more and more drug trafficking and weapons trafficking and violence. The South Americans are finally realizing this. And that is one major reason why Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia are hated by U.S. war profiteers--they have outright rejected this militaristic approach, and, as a consequence, are actually succeeding in stemming drug traffic (--and are no doubt interfering with some Bushite/CIA trade routes in the process).

So, to repeat, who gives a fuck if Venezuelan oil money is going to anti-poverty groups in Peru? The only people who care about this are the greedy and the disreputable.

AP often uses the passive tense, in news article sentences, to convey the latest Bushite/global corporate predator "talking points" on South America. Notice it here, in their first sentence...

"Hugo Chavez has been accused of using Venezuela's oil riches to meddle in Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia and Nicaragua." - the Associated Pukes (AP)

The passive tense almost always signals dishonest writing, and ill intent--intent to deceive. Here, they want to give the impression of some sort of widespread outcry against "meddling" by Venezuela, when, in truth, it's just the fascists--the rightwing coup plotters and Bushite dirtbags--the usual suspects--in orchestrated "outrage."

I don't call "AP" the "Associated Pukes" for nothing. They are as disreputable and dishonest as the global corporate predators they shill for.