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I think this may be prep for providing refuge to the rightwing paramilitary commanders and other fascists, in a couple of Latin American countries (the few rightwing dinosaurs that remain), who are now under siege in Colombia, with a huge scandal about their drug trafficking and mass murder of leftists and peasants, including (recently disclosed) a plot to assassinate Venezuela's President Chavez. The scandal is threatening to bring down the rightwing Uribe government, and directly involves the head of the Colombian military (upon which Bush has larded billions of our tax dollars in military aid), who was just implicated in the scandal--and Uribe's former chief of intelligence, just arrested, then released on a technicality by an appeals court. (There have been 9 other arrests--of a state governor and federal lawmakers--all aligned with Uribe.) Back in December, there was a plot by the Venezuelan wingers to disrupt the country after the election (which Chavez won, fairly and squarely, with 63% of the vote) and to attempt another military coup--a plot that the rightwing candidate for president had to to disavow. There is likely a connection between those Venezuelan fascists (the plotters--not sure about their candidate) and the Colombian fascists and paramilitaries. And if the OAS (now dominated by leftist governments), the Colombian prosecutors and/or Venezuelan authorities go after them, they may well need a nice cushy time-out in Florida. This may be part of the backup plan for what to do with them, following Bush's failed trip to South America. (They gave him the boot--even the rightwing president of Mexico publicly lectured Bush on the sovereignty of Latin American countries, and mentioned Venezuela in this context.)
I've seem some other Miami Herald crapola on the "plight" of Venezuela fatcats...ahem, refugees. Bear in mind that Venezuela has one of the liveliest political cultures in Latin America, the most transparent elections on earth, and is proceeding with its mixed socialist/capitalist economic program in a very careful way, and subject to the constraints of the Venezuelan Constitution, which is strongly protective of private property rights. Where the Chavistas want to do land reform--to help peasant farmers feed their families, to improve Venezuela's food self-sufficiency, and to return lands to indigenous tribes--they find lands that have no title or no clear title on them, and they adequately compensate landowners and businesses, where there is any question of confiscation. In short, they are not taking anybody's jaguars away; they were merely reforming. The reforms are beneficial, and are lo-o-o-o overdue. And they are doing this with the overwhelming support of the Venezuelan people--in a social justice revolution that is sweeping the southern hemisphere. It would most likely be the sour, selfish, spoiled, coup-plotting, rich elite--a rich elite that has exhibited zero sense of social responsibility in their own country--and the gangsters who feed their dreams of power--who find BushWorld attractive. The Miami Herald seems to be laying the groundwork for a Bush policy that will inflict people from the worst element of Venezuelan society on the rest of us, and permit them to re-group and plot further trouble.
Caveat: I'm not condemning all Venezuelans who want to immigrate. I'm just trying to figure out what the Bushites, and their lapdog press, is up to, with these articles. Their view of Venezuela is, of course, horseshit. It could just be a part of the corporate campaign against the Boliviarian revolution (independence, self-determination and regional cooperation for Latin America). But they could be planning to import criminals, thugs, drug traffickers and murderers to our shores--people who have collaborated with the Bush Junta, and are finding their own countries and Latin America in general hostile to their criminal activities.
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