VHeadline commentarist Kenneth T. Tellis writes: Whatever the news says about Colombia, it is far from a democracy, because it is not governed by Colombians but by satraps named by the White House. This is very similar to what was happening in Nazi occupied Europe during World War II. Hitler named his handpicked Gauleiters to govern occupied countries. So, what Colombia has at present is a Gauleiter named Alvaro Uribe Velez who governs Colombia in the name of the President of the United States of America.
We have to understand the reasons why the new generation of Latin American leaders oppose being puppets for a foreign ruler.
Take Venezuela's leader, why does he oppose the U.S.? Because he has seen through the haze of American imperialism and wants his country to obtain the benefits of all that produced within Venezuela, and that includes the OIL. Now, that is what really makes the U.S. mad at him.
Now why should the U.S. be mad at a man who seeks to better the lot of his own people? Because the profits are not going to U.S. Corporations but to the people of Venezuela, who really own them. What's so hard to understand about this method? If the U.S. wants to buy oil from Venezuela it can, as long as it pays the market price as other countries do.
What the U.S. has not realized is that Venezuela belongs to its people, not even Chavez owns Venezuela. So why complain at all? Let Venezuelans reap the benefits of their resource rich country and help others in Latin America raise their standards.
Chavez is not an enemy of the U.S., but he is a friend of Latin American freedom first and foremost.
Want to understand Venezuela better, understand how Venezuelans think and how their leader thinks, that is the real answer.
Kenneth T. Tellis
kenttellis@rogers.com
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What everyone has to become clear on is how exactly, in detail, the U.S. and other ruling-classes manipulate the bourgeois-democratic process and essentially rig elections (those that matter to them, anyway). The first thing is to simply call them on it -- because if people don't see there is a counter-claim, they simply assume that matters are as the bourgeoisie claim: on the up-and-up.
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