Latin America's fascist rats scurry to Washington, salivating over the new Puke Congress...

[Peace Patriot]

I just read a most shocking report of a U.S. Congress-hosted event in Washington. The plaguey fascist rats of the southern half of our hemisphere--the coup-makers, the killers of democracy, the tyrants, the terrorists, murderers and oppressors of the poor--have mobbed into the capitol, to join with the scum of our Diebolded Congress, such as Connie Mack and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and architects of war, torture and mayhem, such as Otto Reich and Roger Noriega, to create the narrative for the U.S.-funded/organized "dirty wars" of the 21st century!

The white separatist rioters and murderers from Bolivia were guests at this meeting! The leader of the recent rightwing coup d'etat attempt in Ecuador was the star of the meeting! The president of Fox News affiliate Globovision--a fugitive from justice who is rabidly anti-Chavez--gave a speech to the assembled plotters. Thor Halvorssen was there! IAPA's Alejandro Aguirre! Former USAID directors. Former U.S. drug czars. The American Enterprise Institute. The Council on Foreign Relations. Fascist groups from Miami. Groups with Cuban terrorists on their Boards.

This cesspool, this garbage dump, this putrid assemblage of human flesh eaters smells lots and lots of money for making corpses, smells their own power standing atop of a mountain of dead leftists in their home colonies, drools over their dreams of Reagan Redux and can barely contain their fanged joy at the ascendance of equally bad animals to major chairmanships in the U.S. Congress.

'Democrats' were also present--as the reporter points out: the mice in this dung heap (--the losers, the weak, the ones who let Jim DeMint (SC-Diebold) run U.S. foreign policy in Latin America). The author doesn't call anybody rats or mice or drinkers of human blood. Her description of this horror show is too dry for my taste. But it nevertheless screams, in its own way, and I am grateful to her for that silent scream. She just uncolorfully reports what nobody in the corpo-fascist press will tell you: the shit going on in Washington.

The ghost of Reagan walks!--he of the two-hundred thousand slaughtered Mayan villagers in Guatemala, and the tens of thousands of slaughtered Nicaraguans, El Salvadorans, Hondurans and other peasant farmers, trade unionists, human rights workers, priests, nuns, journalists, academics, mayors, community activists, political leftists, poor people. The biggest rat Puke of all has risen from his grave to inspire more unspeakable acts. The 'Democrats' creep back into their mice holes, and the Rats rule.

---------------------------

US Congress to Increase Aggression Against Venezuela, ALBA Countries
By Eva Golinger
November 19, 2010
http://www.chavezcode.com/2010/11/us-congress-to-increase-aggression.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. This should be interesting. Latin American governments can't afford to let these scums

stick their snouts into their internal national life. ng

I hope these filthy neo-cons get their fascist meddling jammed right back in their faces. Someone's going to have to teach them it's better to stay the #### OUT of other people's business. Teach them in ways they won't be able to forget.
Apparently there's been a maggot stampeded to Washington, D. C. Hope it will be clean again, some day.

Appaling news, but certainly expected. I wait daily for karma to knock these a-holes flat. They've had a date with the process of cause and effect, NEXT PHASE, a long, long time.

[flamingdem]

14. Stop the Snouters!

That about describes it, oinkers nosing around looking for feed.

[BolivarianHero]

2. I have my opinion on how Morales should deal with Bolivia's White population...

I don't want to get myself banned, though, so I'll spare you all the details. Waco is an inspiration.

[Bacchus39]

3. exterminated in other words?? n/t

s

[BolivarianHero]

4. Maybe that's a bit much...

If they don't back down though, they do need to suffer an extreme bout of political and social marginalisation. The majority stood up and if the Apartheidistas won't listen, they should be forced to.

[Mika]

5. Ship them to Miami. The city would feel like home. Lots of Apartheidistas here.

Unfortunately, US leaders pander to them
.

---

[ChangoLoa]

7. Both of you agree, I see. nt

[Mika]

8. Agree with what?

Spin it.

-

Do you really need me to point out my cynical sarcasm for you?

[ChangoLoa]

6. "an extreme bout of political and social marginalisation".. just for the whites

or for all the opponents without racial discrimination ?

In your idea, how would an extreme bout of political and social marginalization be like ?

[BolivarianHero]

9. Well for one...

A taste of the racism and the marginalization that they had forced the indigenous majority to suffer for decades.

[naaman fletcher]

10. two wrongs make a right? nt

[BolivarianHero]

11. They're still killing and public humiliating indigenous people...

The Morales administration should take decisive action to prevent this from continuing. If a few White people have to suffer in the process, it's a small price to pay for fixing this larger problem.

[naaman fletcher]

12. Why not just treat people as individuals?

Try people who kill others as murderers. Your argument is the same as the republicans who argue for discrimination against muslims.

[BolivarianHero]

13. All right...

But White Bolivians who deal with the Republican Party to subvert their country's sovereignty should still be locked away for a long time.

[naaman fletcher]

15. I agree.Nt.

[ChangoLoa]

19. But why the racial discrimination?

Why don't you just limit to "Bolivians who deal with the Republican Party"?

It's pretty clear that "white USAns" did a lot worse than "white Bolivians"... and it's a hell of a lot to say. So much they did, that the indigenous peoples almost became a relic of the past in their country. So what should we do with them according to you?

[Judi Lynn]

20. So much vicious crap has happened in just the short time we've been looking for news from Bolivia

after Evo Morales was elected.

Don't forget that the European descended assholes made it illegal for indigenous Bolivians to walk upon the same sidewalk their taxes go to maintain. They were forced to walk in the streets and could walk on the sidewalks only long enough to enter stores to buy merchandize. This was practised until the revolution in 1952.

They also could not vote before that time. You remember reading, no doubt, of the great numbers of people who walk MILES to the closest voting centers in the present. My God, what they have done to these good people.

Here's an interesting snip concerning Hugo Banzer, just ONE of the monster Presidents in modern history, and I should add that since this tiny portrait of Bolivian President Hugo Banzer was published in 1995, Hugo Banzer was elected for the first time and served part of another term before withdrawing due to his terminal cancer. During that time he still managed to privatize Bolivia's water supply, and hand it over to a subsidiary of US-based Bechtel, which raised the cost of water so high poor Bolivians couldn't afford to use water, and when they started trying to collect rain water in cisterns, barrels, etc., the company attempted to get the right to charge them for COLLECTED RAINWATER. When they protested, ran into the streets to protest this unbearable action against them, the government brought out snipers and shot into crowds of Bolivians, murdering one young man, blinding someone, injuring many, then proceeded to chase people into their homes, beat them, arrest some, and torture anyone they could haul into their jails.

The people won the Cochabamba water war.

Here's a look at the early portion of the career of President Hugo Banzer:

COLONEL HUGO BANZER
President of Bolivia

In 1970, in Bolivia, when then-President Juan Jose Torres nationalized Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by US interests, and tried to establish friendly relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union, he was playing with fire. The coup to overthrow Torres, led by US-trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary Hugo Banzer, had direct support from Washington. When Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications, US Air Force radio was placed at their disposal. Once in power, Banzer began a reign of terror. Schools were shut down as hotbeds of political subversive activity. Within two years, 2,000 people were arrested and tortured without trial. As in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, the native Indians were ordered off their land and deprived of tribal identity. Tens-of-thousands of white South Africans were enticed to immigrate with promises of the land stolen from the Indians, with a goal of creating a white Bolivia. When Catholic clergy tried to aid the Indians, the regime, with CIA help, launched terrorist attacks against them, and this "Banzer Plan" became a model for similar anti-Catholic actions throughout Latin America.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html

It would be truly important to start looking into the astonishing history of human degradation, humiliation, vast, wide-scale brutality, massacres, torture, standard hatred, slavery, social ostracism, mockery which has been inflicted upon the indigenous people of Bolivia by the Caucasian invaders for hundreds of years by first the Spanish, then by waves of other European people, including Nazis fleeing Europe after the 2nd World War, and Nazi collaborators from Croatia, etc., as well. A mob of them live in Santa Cruz, and they have a Santa Cruz Youth Union composed of Caucasian and half-Caucasian thugs who beat indigenous people viciously, carrying clubs with spikes embedded in them, going into indigenous neighborhoods and beating the citizens, terrorizing them when and wherever they find them. A Santa Cruz wealthy Croat whose family came to Bolivia right after WWII ended, many believe to escape prosecution as Nazi collaborators gives out bats to these criminals from his office. He's one, if not THE wealthiest landowners in Bolivia.

http://www.bolivia.com.nyud.net:8090/noticias/autonoticias/ImagenNoticia84446.jpg http://grupoapoyo.org.nyud.net:8090/basn/files/ujc_esvastica.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_DG1kRSZUUco/R2vjZ3-JSwI/AAAAAAAAABE/QiJaf8ZgtFU/s400/Union+Juvenil+Cruce%C3%B1ista+nido+de+pandilleros.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com.nyud.net:8090/3076/2404048352_29df4cb7ce.jpg http://www.radiomundial.com.ve.nyud.net:8090/yvke/files/img_noticia/t_80985182_381.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com.nyud.net:8090/2132/2071347727_b75d0ec6b4_o.jpg http://www.aporrea.org.nyud.net:8090/imagenes/2008/05/t_0073_142_copia.jpg http://files.nireblog.com.nyud.net:8090/blogs3/meiderdaniel/files/union-juvenil.jpg http://files.splinder.com.nyud.net:8090/855924071c3dc978f59313f7dd7d399d.jpeg http://2.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_LvP4mWx84Tk/SGOl5I2wEEI/AAAAAAAAH9M/p2pyTbbj2Gs/s400/1209928083395bolivia%25202dn.jpg http://www.radiomundial.com.ve.nyud.net:8090/yvke/richedit/upload/2k7eba163104.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_LvP4mWx84Tk/SNJb90PkncI/AAAAAAAAKiM/s0XQDWdvCKs/s400/84786_detail.jpg

http://www.pueblos-originarios.com.ar.nyud.net:8090/img/foto_principal_articulo_nota5.jpg

Unión Juvenil Cruceñista acts against decent people

http://1.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_LvP4mWx84Tk/SUEEBy4ec-I/AAAAAAAAQlk/_kFYq7W7LuM/s400/t_20080503elpepiint_5_175.jpg http://www.ciaramc.org.nyud.net:8090/ciar/imagenes/imgBoletines/bol203/ruben%20y%20branco.jpg

Croatian-"Bolivian" sponsor of Santa Cruz Youth Union, Branko Marinkovic
7 October 2010 Last updated at 15:45 ET
Bolivian newspapers protest against planned racism law

Several major newspapers in Bolivia have made a joint protest against a proposed anti-racism law which they say threatens press freedom. Their front pages were blank but for the slogan: "There is no democracy without freedom of expression."

~snip~
Mr Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, has rejected the concerns, saying he is determined to approve the law without modifications. He said freedom of expression was protected, but could be used as a pretext for racism.

"The time has come to eliminate the practice of racism in Bolivia because it is the most undemocratic practice in the world as it does not respect equality between citizens," he said.

The anti-racism law is supported by organizations representing Bolivia's indigenous communities, which have suffered severe discrimination dating back to the Spanish colonial era. The legislation is being considered by Bolivia's senate, where Mr Morales's supporters have a majority.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11497489

~~~~~
BOLIVIA: Local Indigenous Leaders Beaten and Publicly Humiliated
Franz Chávez

LA PAZ, May 27 (IPS) - Bolivia may have its first-ever indigenous president, but racism is alive and well in this country, as demonstrated by the public humiliation of a group of around 50 indigenous mayors, town councillors and community leaders in the south-central city of Sucre.

~snip~
A mob of armed civilians from Sucre, partially made up of university students, then surrounded several dozen indigenous Morales supporters, including local authorities who had come from other regions to attend the ceremony and were unable to leave the city after the event was called off.

The terrified indigenous people, who had sought refuge in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Sucre, were stripped of their few belongings, including money, identity documents and watches, and forced to walk seven kilometres to the House of Liberty, a symbol of the end of colonial rule in Bolivia, which was declared there on Aug. 6, 1825.

In the city’s main square in front of the building, they were forced to kneel, shirtless, and apologise for coming to Sucre. They were also made to chant insults to Morales like "Die Evo!"

More:
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/05/bolivia-local-indigenous-leaders-beaten.html

[rabs]

16. A call for assassination and declaration of war on ALBA

That gathering of such unsavory characters in the U.S. Capitol building last week caused a big stir in Latam, which the MSM media apparently seemed to miss.

On Saturday in Caracas, Chavez gave a speech (Eva G. was in attendence and Chavez praised her for the article) in which he once again said there is a plot to assassinate him being concocted (he singled out Guillermo Zuloaga of Globovision as the principal conspirator).

The speech by Connie Mack at the conference also is being taken as an open invitation to kill Chavez.

--------------------
“Second, I think this idea that both Administrations have had, as it relates with Hugo Chavez, is almost “hands off” and “let us sit back and let him be on his own,” or maybe that Hugo Chavez is crazy. I don’t buy into either notion, I don’t think he’s crazy and I don’t think an approach to “leaving him be” is going to work.

“Hugo Chavez is a threat to freedom and democracy in Latin America and around the world. He’s a threat when it comes to human rights, terrorism, narco-trafficking, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. So, I don’t see how we, as the U.S., can continue to fight for freedom and democracy around the world and not take Hugo Chavez head on.

“I would hope as we go into the next majority, and as the chair of the subcommittee, that we would do just that, and take Chavez on, because it’s not good for anybody to support narco-trafficking, to support the destruction of the freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and it’s not good for terrorist organizations that are going to be moving into our hemisphere with an open slate through Venezuela. This is a threat all of us understand, and I hope the American people understand more and more as we move forward.

------------------------

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen words are being taken as a "declaration of war" against ALBA

----------

Hugo Chavez’s systematic attacks against private property rights, freedom of the press, independent political beliefs, and an independent judiciary;
Daniel Ortega’s unconstitutional pursuit of perpetual power and relentless marginalization of the media and press;
Evo Morales’ coca-driven agenda and growing alliances with Iran and Russia;

And, Rafael Correa’s anti-American posturing, questionable constitutional reforms, and proposed communications reforms;

--these actions, are no longer just threats, but rather today’s reality.

Democracy is under siege in these countries. Human rights are ignored. U.S. and regional security are compromised.

These rogue rulers initiated their campaigns for absolute power years ago and as a result, the people of these nations are living day after day in increasingly oppressive societies.

The implications of this reality demand that the United States carry out a responsible and effective policy toward the Hemisphere that will advance U.S. interests.

---------------------

[Peace Patriot]

17. I hate for my warning to be true, that the Pentagon has a war plan for Latin America,

with Venezuela as Target #1 on their Big Dartboard, and the Pukes and their billionaire backers intend to install a 2nd Bushwhack "war president" to implement it. This rhetoric from the Miami Mafia and allies--this narrative of evil dictators that is being furthered--is the culmination of more than five years of this crap about Chavez and other leftist leaders, from the corpo-fascist press, the U.S. State Department, the CIA and other agencies of the U.S. government. Those of us who have been paying attention know that this is a psyops/disinformation campaign and that it has been amazingly long term and intense, probably because of the difficulty of painting Chavez, Morales, Correa and others as "dictators." But it is virtually a repeat of the "WMDs in Iraq." In that case, the Bushwhacks had a bad guy to demonize. In this case, they don't--so they've had to work at it very hard, with noticeably tyrannical methods, including "the Big Lie," a Stalinist technique of repeating something over and over and over again until most human minds collapse before the onslaught and lose their power to disagree. The "Big Lie" becomes "reality" by default.

I have had the shudders for some time that this was no simple political/foreign policy stance on behalf of our multinational corporate/war profiteer rulers. It has been too elaborate, too intense and much too monomaniacal. The fact that our corpo-fascist press NEVER prints ANYTHING positive or even neutral about the Chavez government's notable accomplishments rings my alarm bells.

There is absolutely NO objectivity about Chavez in the editorial decisions (what to print and how to frame it) or in the writing of 'news' stories by ANY corpo-fascist 'news' source, including once-prestigious news organizations like the the NY Times and the BBC. In the "old days" of my youth, one would expect them to make some effort to present both sides, if for no other reason than that of maintaining their credibility and respect as news organizations. Their bosses might hate Chavez as a socialist and leader of the Latin American rebellion against U.S. bullying and exploitation, but they would print at least a few pieces revealing, for instance, that Venezuela's election system is honest and transparent, that poverty was endemic in Venezuela, prior to the Chavez government, and that the Chavez government has made ENORMOUS progress in reducing poverty, etc. But I have seen NOTHING--nada!--of balance, or even an attempt at balance.

This isn't just shocking, as to the state of journalism in the U.S. and the "western press." It shows every sign of being orchestrated and of having a psyops/disinformation purpose--that is, a pre-war purpose. Combined with the Pentagon's increasing activities and placement and securing of war assets in the region--most particularly in an arc surrounding Venezuela's northern oil provinces and Caribbean oil coast--the intense lies about Chavez become more than lies. They seem intended primarily to soften the American public's collective brain about another oil war. That is my fear. And my fear is further stoked by my knowledge of the NON-transparency of OUR election system--how easy it will be for corpo-fascist forces to oust Obama and put a more enthusiastic warmonger in the White House.

I also think that the corpo-fascists who are running things have been frustrated as to stealing Iran's oil, partly because of nuclear powers China and Russia (who get oil from Iran) and partly because of the sheer difficulty of invading and controlling Iran. Venezuela must look like a 'sitting duck,' by comparison. It is close by, right on the Caribbean. It is not militaristic (contrary to the propaganda). And it's bordered by a U.S. client state, Colombia, where life is cheap and U.S. military dollars have flowed in the billions.

And the Chavez government has given great "offense" on this very matter--oil--in addition to all their other "crimes." Venezuela--which possesses the biggest oil reserve on earth (twice Saudi Arabia's, according to the USGS)--is trading in oil multilaterally--with many partners--and very much on Venezuela's terms, with Venezuela getting 50/50 profit deals with the multinationals (the result of the Chavez government's tough bargaining) and the new profits going to Venezuela's social programs--education, health care, etc. This enrages entities like Exxon Mobil and the oil-hungry Pentagon and globalization profiteers. They want oil and now they are forced to COMPETE for it!

I think that the Bushwhacks thought that they had an easy segue of the war on Iraq into the war on Iran, found out otherwise and are now targeting Venezuela and Ecuador instead. Because of the solidarity of Chavez friends and allies such as Lula da Silva in Brazil and the Kirchners in Argentina, and for other reasons--Chavez's genuine support among Venezuelans--Chavez has not been easy to take down. But the campaign to do so is escalating, as evidenced by this scumbag fascist meeting in Washington.

Our rightwing DU posters sometimes needle me about having predicted a U.S. war on Venezuela, which I have never done. I have only reported in detail what I pick up reading between the lines in the corpo-fascist press, and paying attention to alternative sources of information--for instance, with regard to the U.S. military buildup in the region--and that it looks like a war plan to me. When and if this war plan will be implemented requires a crystal ball. I can't say when or if it will be. Also, this change from Uribe to Santos in Colombia SEEMS TO BE a change toward peace. It is possible that our multinational corporate/war profiteer rulers decided to try massive USAID funding of rightwing groups instead, and CIA dirty tricks and other non-war means toward their ends--including slimy coup plots like the one in Honduras. But Connie Mack's and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's incendiary rhetoric at this official gathering of terrorists and warmongers is extremely worrisome. These Miami Mafia tools do tend to speak in incendiary terms as a rule. That needs to be taken into consideration. But the entire meeting had that tone. This was not just these two spouting off. It was more like a gathering of forces for the political side of a war, rather like the "Project for New American Century" which laid the ground work for how to turn 9/11 into an oil war.

Very disturbing, too, has been the Democratic leadership's collusion on the preliminaries of war, much like the Clinton presidency prepared the way for the Bushwhack war on Iraq. They have acquiesced to the Pentagon's military buildup. They have spouted the same propagandistic lines. And when Jim DeMint pressured them on Honduras, they not only caved to a coup d'etat, they became its enablers and provided its cosmetics. They are really no obstacle to war. And they seem to have given up on democracy itself, considering their silence about the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines.

All I'm saying is BEWARE, and get informed, and don't be led like sheep down another bloody road. Maybe "We the People" can't stop this war, if our rulers decide to perpetrate it, but at the very least we can try not to be fooled by it.

[Judi Lynn]

18. The right wing played Clinton like a violin, he was their total puppet on Latin American policy

Their ranks have had intense interaction for decades with the racist US right-wing.

You may recall the grotesque campaign strategist Alex Castellanos, who devised the pathetic "DemocRATS" ad campaign, during the _Bush-Gore 2000 Presidential campaign. He is also the one who pulled that horrendous tv commercial for Jesse Helms out his ass trying to illustrate black people were taking jobs from white people due to affirmative action. He's one of the Cuban reactionaries. Also, recall how godawful MANY Cuban right-wingers _Bush stuffed into his administration.

Cuban right-wing reactionaries of course go all the way back to the Bay of Pigs, Operation Condor, international hit squads, the CIA, the Contra war in Nicaragua, drug running for the CIA, and the Watergate Burglars, etc., etc., etc. The filthy campaign strategist Roger Stone who has created a living hell for Democratic candidates, and involved in the dirty trick which got Dan Rather fired, is married to a Cuban "exile" winger, not to mention Hillary Clinton's brother Hugh Rodham who is married to a Cuban right-winger immigration attorney in Miami.

Do you remember the photos Mika has posted showing the Cuban "exile" ex-CIA, and Miami godfather, Jorge Mas Canosa, who fancied himself the next Cuban President, who meddled in the war in Angola himself, who influenced Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton? He wielded a deadly power in Florida politics, and over those 3 presidents, and controlled and manipulated many Conressmen and Senators, sometimes even changing anti-embargo people, like N.J. Senator Robert Toricelli to a PRO-embargo Senator who sponsored his own dirty bill intensifying pressure on the Cuban economy, the Torricelli Act, or "Cuban Democracy Act", if you can believe that contemptible term!

From Wiki:

The Torricelli act also known as The Cuban Democracy Act is another part of the United States' long running embargo against Cuba. The law was enacted in 1992, on an initiative by Robert Torricelli, who was then a member of the United States House of Representatives, and supported by Senator Bob Graham. The act was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush just before the 1992 elections. It was then put into force under President Bill Clinton. The Torricelli Act made the economic embargo on Cuba more severe than it had previously been. It prevented food and medicine from being shipped to Cuba. The only exception was humanitarian aid.

The Torricelli act was the first significant change in US Cuban relations since the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, by then-president John F. Kennedy and the subsequent economic embargo. The Act represents a dramatic aggravation of economic restrictions against Cuba. The original embargo didn't prevent food and medicine sales for the sake of appearing to be different than the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, which the USA heavily condemned at the time. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the comparison no longer prevented the United States from doing the same.<1> The intended goal of the Torricelli act, as described by Torricelli, was to paralyze the Cuban economy, in the hopes that after a few weeks would lead to the fall of Cuban president Fidel Castro.<2>

Contents
The Torricelli act forbids American companies, including subsidiaries abroad, from engaging in any trade with Cuba. Foreign ships using American ports were not allowed to travel to Cuban ports for a period of 180 days, in hopes of causing economic collapse. Foreign ships returning from Cuba were also interned. Moreover, it also forbade Cuban families living in the United States from sending any cash remittances to Cuba.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torricelli_Act

There's a hideous history involving these monsters. No mystery whatsoever in why the Cuban people wanted them OUT of their government, and out of Cuba. Pure racist, classist dirtbags.

Once their death grip on Florida's politics, and Florida's 29 electoral votes is finally broken, and it will be when the old original Batistiano monsters and their immediate spawn have all died, it will cripple the power of the right-wing's rancid, fetid, homicidal, genocidal attitude toward the people of Latin America.

The young ones aren't political, they disagree with the murderous idiot first wave Batistiano "exiles", and the new Cuban immigrants generally are totally opposed to anti-Cuban sentiment from the US, like the embargo, and travel ban, etc.

Having Ileana Ros-Lehtinen running the Congressional Foreign Relations committee is one of the worst blows yet. And to think our President postponed working to rid the world of the travel ban, embargo until it was too late. Damn.

[flamingdem]

21. The journalist Carlos Facio says Mexico is also part of the plan via the drug war nt

[Judi Lynn]

23. A stunning wave of violence immediately followed the installation of the Mérida Initiative,

AKA "Plan Mexico." Instantly.

No doubt we are going to see his observation made more and more apparent every coming day.

No wonder certain elements are determined to see the Mexican people won't be allowed to elect a truly representative man of the people for the next President.

[flamingdem]

25. The Merida Initiative is something to research, who knew what was behind that

.. well other than George Bush.

[Demeter]

22. I rec your post, which deserves its own thread

[dipsydoodle]

28. ditto

:thumbsup:

[Judi Lynn]

24. Connie Mack seems to feel Latin America is the stage for his making his "bones"

as a voice for the radical right-wing's ambitions to seize control of the countries which are moving to develope their own solidarity and cooperation.

[Judi Lynn]

26. Kicking.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[subsuelo]

27. As far as I can tell, the event was not covered by msm at all

Anyone care to speculate why?

[social_critic]

29. Too specialized?

They are more worried covering the Wikileaks bruhaha, and the fight over Taxes, extending unemployment benefits, and the dream act. Even Iraq and Afghanistan are being ignored. So why bother to say much about a bunch of right wing types sitting down to talk?

Got to remember, in the US foreign policy is made by the President as dictated by powerful lobbies, and Congress doesn't have as much clout as it wishes it had - it's influenced by the same lobbies. Latin America doesn't have that much for these lobbies to worry about, so it's a backwater. Now, if they thought they could start a war in which our Armed Forces could use up a lot of weapons and ammo, then of course they may get interested.

But the truth is the US is like Neo in the Matrix when it comes to fighting in Latin America, it's too powerful for anybody to mess with the big dog, and there wouldn't be enough bullets used. So the deal is no deal, no interest with some exceptions tied to policitians who collect payola in Miami.