Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Latin American countries rushing to defuse the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years
Latin American countries are rushing to defuse the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years after Ecuador and Venezuela cut ties with Colombia, deployed troops to the borders, and issued warnings of war in the wake of Colombia's airstrike Saturday on leftist rebels based in neighboring Ecuador.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Spin, spin, spin, spin, spin.
ReplyDeleteMan, these people are NOT our friends, these reporters and "analysts" and whatever. They can't even get the captions on their fotoz right, ferkrissakes.
In whose interests is it to "defuse" this and other crises, really? Those who want to maintain the status quo -- that's who. It's not actually in the interests of socialists, workers, farmers and revolutionaries to go back to the way things were before. In fact, América Latina is not the Middle East: never was, and never will be. What these stooges here are trying to gloss over is their -- justifiable -- fear that in an open class polarization across the continent which could come out of this showdown, the forces of socialism would knock the supporters of imperialism clear out of the ballpark, permanently. Because the masses of América Latina are not the historically demoralized, atomized forces we see in the benighted Middle East today.
And so we really don't want these international bureaucrats to succeed in their hi-profile meddling. In fact, we actually want matters to reach a head. Just like the imperialists do, as a matter of fact. Only with a different outcome than they anticipate...