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government--a government with a 67% approval rating, despite a U.S.-Bush supported and funded white separatist secession movement among the country's minority rich, whose fascist thugs rioted the other week, machine-gunned some 30 unarmed peasant farmers, destroyed government and social group buildings, occupied an airport, and blew up a gas pipeline. U.S.-Bush embassy collusion with these fascists is why Morales threw the U.S. ambassador out of Bolivia as this rioting erupted. UNASUR--the new South American "Common Market" (sans the U.S.), facing its first crisis--U.S. interference in Bolivia--backed the Morales government 100%, with a unanimous vote; sent a commission to Bolivia to negotiate a peace and prevent the split up of Bolivia, and initiated an investigation of the murders.
There is no question that the Bushwhacks have used the "war on drugs" to fight political wars, and to instigate and plan hot wars, in South America, as well as to nazify whatever societies they can get their claws into, such as Colombia. What is amazing and heartening is that the South American victims of this corrupt, failed, murderous program--the small farmers, and the peoples whose sovereignty is being violated, are fighting back. It won't matter that Joe Biden is one of the biggest supporters of the "war on drugs" military/police state boondoggle. Likely Obama accepting him on the ticket was one of the ways that Obama could get the Corpo/fascist stamp of approval, and avoid getting whacked (literally, or by the Corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies), or getting Diebolded. You think anyone can even get near the White House without war profiteer and global corporate predator approval? Ha!
But South America is going its own way, at long last--and it really doesn't matter what Barack Obama or Joe Biden think of it. They can't stop it. It is a profound and historic democracy movement whose time has come.
I was reading about the peasant farmers who recently evicted U.S.-Bush "war on drugs" personnel from their region, in Bolivia--for living in luxury, not helping farmers and colluding with the rightwing coupsters. They don't approve of cocaine or the drug gangs and crime that go with it. But they defend the small farmers' right to grow a few coca leaves--a traditional indigenous medicine (highly nutritious; used for chewing or for tea)--and Morales, who was a poor coca leaf farmer himself (and still heads the coca leaf farmers union) supports that view. (He campaigned with a wreath of coca leaves around his neck!) They said the U.S. "war on drugs" does nothing to stop the cocaine trade because it fails to make this distinction, as well as being corrupt and political (anti-Morales). They said they have "our own ways of dealing with" the cocaine trade and farmers who are collusive with its criminal syndicates, and did not elaborate. These are outstanding organizers--the coca leaf farmers. They are also ORGANIC FOOD FARMERS (and ferociously oppose the "war on drugs" spraying of pesticides on small farmers to eradicate coca leaves--a Big Pharma boondoggle, to add to the war profiteer boondoggle). The way they farm requires cooperation, friendship, neighborliness and a high degree of organization, as well as thousands of years of accumulated environmental and agricultural knowledge. I have no doubt that their methods of stopping the cocaine trade are very effective, and are akin to their political and community organization.
These poorest of the poor, these indigenous peoples, these small peasant farmers--in Bolivia and other countries--are transforming the South American social, political and economic landscape, all for the better. And the Bushwhacks and their predatory pals--Exxon Mobil, Monsanto, et al--are hellbent on eradicating not just their coca leaf plants, but their democratic and environmentally sustainable way of life. But the Bushwhacks are only the avantgarde of global predation and horribly unsustainable living. Our Democrats are very much on board that death-train--that is destroying the planet and will destroy the human race with it. The South American campesinos are a force than can de-rail it, and war against them is a requirement for anyone aspiring to become emperor of this entirely bankrupt, hypocritical, lying, out-of-control Corpo/fascist empire.
Michele Batchelet, president of one of the more Corpo-friendly leftist countries in South America (Chile), last week told a joke to a group of U.S. investors. She had just come from chairing the meeting of UNASUR that gave Morales unanimous backing. She said, "Do you know why there has never been a coup in the United States? Because there is no U.S. embassy in the United States."
This, from a center-left president! If you watch South American events, you know that Batchelet negotiated sea access for land-locked Bolivia--settling a 130 year old dispute that has gravely interfered with cooperation between these two countries. And it was preliminary to Brazil (center-left) and Venezuela (left) putting up the money to build a highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through Bolivia, which will make Bolivia a thoroughfare of trade from Africa/Europe to all of Asia, and up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Brazil and Argentina, Bolivia's biggest gas customers, helped the Morales government renegotiate Bolivia's gas contracts in a way that DOUBLED Bolivia's gas revenues (from one billion a year to TWO billion) (--ironically, one of the reasons for the white separatists' Bush-stoked greed; leftists create prosperity; fascists come in and loot it). In view of events like these, Batchelet's daring to make a joke at the Bushwhacks' expense--to U.S. investors, in the U.S.--is not so surprising. It is a sign of the times. And any dreams that our extremely corrupt national political establishment may have, of picking and and choosing among "good leftists" and "bad leftists" for "dividing and conquering" in South America, and continuing this typical arrogant U.S. attitude (expressed by Obama) that Latin America "needs U.S. leadership," are going to be utterly dashed by this new reality in South America (and, increasingly, in Central America). Democracy has succeeded in South America, despite every effort by the U.S. to snuff it out, and the result has been a tidal wave of cooperation and integration among these many democratic, leftist countries. The question is, can democracy be recovered here, and will we be able to integrate with them on a basis of fairness and respect?
More questions: Will Obama & co. proceed with fairness and respect toward countries that have been treated so ill by our government and our Corpos in the past? Or will they move the Forever War not just to Afghanistan, but to the southern half of our own hemisphere? Or--another possibility--will the Bushwhacks trap them into such a war, before they leave office--as the CIA tried to do to JFK with the infamous "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba? It is notable that Obama opposes the Bushwhacko Colombia "free trade" deal. On the other hand, he has called Venezuela "a rogue state." What is that lie FOR? Venezuela is part of--and a key leader of--the democracy movement in South America. It is a better democracy than we have here, with far, far more transparent elections, and far more citizen participation and real power over the government. Center-leftist Lula da Silva has said, "You can criticize Chavez on a lot things, but not on democracy." Why does Obama spout Bushwhack lines that have no basis in facts or reality, and that the leaders and peoples of South America know to be lies?
Well, whatever Obama, or our Corpo/fascist rulers, may intend has become largely irrelevant, in the face of the founding of UNASUR and what that means, as to the cooperative, collective power of South America, unified at last--or well on its way--Simon Bolivar's dream.
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