Subimperialismo petrochavista
Oswaldo Barreto
TalCual
30 Junio 2005
¿Qué le objetan, en conjunto, Hugo Chávez y Fidel Castro a la Alalc (Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio) ? Lo que han dicho una y mil veces, que semejante asociación de los países del hemisferio americano no es otra cosa que un dispositivo planificado por Estados Unidos para ejercer aún y profundamente su dominio imperialista sobre las sociedades que conforman este hemisferio. Y por eso, en defensa según ellos de la independencia y la soberanía nacional, la rechazan en bloque: la Alalc es para ellos una manifestación más del imperialismo americano.
Imperialismo.
Y recordemos que por lo regular se habla de imperialismo americano para denunciar y estigmatizar la voluntad de los estadounidenses de imponer a todas las sociedades del hemisferio sistemas económicos y regímenes políticos que ellos consideran acordes con sus intereses, con sus exclusivos intereses.
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¿Y qué es lo que busca Hugo Chávez, apadrinado por Fidel Castro, con este repentino y masivo acercamiento a los países que conforman la cuenca del Caribe?
¿Quién que haya observado con alguna atención el tinglado con que se ha montado ese precitado encuentro pomposamente denominado “Primera Cumbre Energética del Caribe” podrá negar que se trata justamente de un expediente para imponerle a todas las naciones que forman el Caricom y el Caribe hispanoparlante, ni más ni menos, que la forma de procurarse y de utilizar la energía? ¿Se ha consultado previamente a las instituciones que legítimamente representan los intereses y visiones de las diversas naciones caribeñas en esta materia?
No, en Puerto La Cruz se ha convocado a los más altos mandatarios de esas naciones para expresarles que Hugo Chávez les ofrece su panacea energética, el petróleo y el gas de Venezuela, con la respectiva receta donde se prescribe explícitamente la dosis, la manera de usarla, la forma de pago, sin mencionar, en cambio, los efectos secundarios del precioso bálsamo.
Esta manifestación de la voluntad de Hugo Chávez, tutelada por Fidel Castro, en un aspecto tan vital para todos los pueblos de la región, ¿no es una forma de imperialismo?
De imperialismo reducido, por ahora, a una zona específica, y propulsado con el único recurso con que, por ahora, cuenta. Subimperialismo petrolero, en suma. Fase suprema, como veremos, de la hegemónica ambición castrista.
(Oswaldo Barreto, TalCual, 30 Junio 2005)
"By the way, I am not anywhere close to a socialist lib. I am a Christian."
This individual is confused, impearilism is to behave in a manner that controls and effectively steals land from other natives.
neo-imperialism is to control and effectively steal resources rather than actual land itself.
Notice the emphasis of 'take'. What Chavez is practicing is called realpolitk, is it moral? it is up to you to decide but all nations do so. The relationship between the US and LA is nowhere near the scale between Vzla and the Caribean, for one thing I have yet to see Vzla invade anyone ever.
oops sorry for the quote above it was in my clipboard buffer 
, interesting sidenote I found that comment made by a right winger to be quite comical.
the real quote was this.
"Esta manifestación de la voluntad de Hugo Chávez, tutelada por Fidel Castro, en un aspecto tan vital para todos los pueblos de la región, ¿no es una forma de imperialismo?
De imperialismo reducido, por ahora, a una zona específica, y propulsado con el único recurso con que, por ahora, cuenta. Subimperialismo petrolero, en suma. Fase suprema, como veremos, de la hegemónica ambición castrista."
Flanker--there you go again, letting nasty 'facts' get in the way of a good polemic.
"Facts' are for 'pussies' who can't exist in a world of corporate-induced delusion and dreams of world granduer directed by the US empire.
Why do 'the people' always get in the way of true democracy?
who knows gringo loco, who knows..
LOL.
OW, have a nice relaxing weekend, its much deserved.
US print media is up to its shenanigans again this time by way of TIME magazine with an article entitled:
Tracking Hurricane Hugo
Venezuela's President Chavez idolizes Castro, rails at Bush and leads Latin America's leftist wave
By TIM PADGETT/CARACAS
Here are some snippets:
When Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela, talks about the Bush Administration, he does so with invective that can be both bellicose and sophomoric. Since he became President in 1999, Chávez has publicly, in Spanish, called Bush an a______who is trying to assassinate him. He has referred to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as an "illiterate" who has a crush on him. Chávez often airs his attacks on Aló Presidente, a weekly, hours-long television call-in show from the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. His fulminations are such a hit with Venezuelan supporters that Chávez has broadened his audience. During a recent live broadcast, he exhorted people across the region to join his anti-U.S. campaign. "Latin America," he said, "is done kneeling to take orders from the White House."
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Yet for all that, Chávez is not, so far, a dictator. But he has one thing that Castro did not, and that is why his rhetoric is being taken more seriously from the barrios of Caracas to the hallways of Washington. Chávez controls the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is the U.S.'s fourth largest foreign supplier. As oil prices hit $60 per bbl. this summer, his government reaped a multibillion-dollar windfall.
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There is so far no evidence that Chávez is financing the rippling revolts. But while the Bush Administration continues to regard Chávez as a "negative force," as Rice calls him, some U.S. officials feel it is time to stop dismissing him as a hothead with a dubious popular mandate--especially because he is likely to win another six-year term next year.
The author cites that Chavez seems autocratic but concedes he was democratically elected many times over. So although everything is up to snuff on the democratic front the author decides he’ll throw in what has, to this point, been nothing more than a defeated population of opposition members cries of lamentations, dare I say suffering. So why then? Nothing more than to put a negative spin, a mark of seemingly ugliness on what is thriving democracy.
Next up, the author states unequivocally that there is no evidence of the Chavez Government supporting the tide of left leaning victories across Latin America and in Bolivia especially. Yet, the author makes mention of this as if to plant a seed in the mentality of the reader – an old trick – following up the non-claim with strong words from Condoleeza Rice where she refers to Chavez as a negative force. Well Im no physicist but this body in motion, and I don’t mean just in Venezuela, has already gained its momentum. Itll take more than the words of the servile Rice to stop its momentum. With an engine of poor and disenfranchised peoples with a history of being subjugated, the body in motion is like a freight train and the opposition like a cow on the tracks. Hamburger anyone?
Here is my favorite:
Chávez and his allies have mounted an assault on U.S.-backed free-market reforms that are allegedly widening the gap between the region's rich and poor.
There is no alleged anything in the gap widening due to market reforms. It is a recognized fact. This guy is good at sneaking in those little words that change the meaning of a sentence. Purposefully done to mislead – subconsciously.
http://www.time.com/time/
magazin...1079480,00.html
Thats strange, they are reversed.
anyway 1st is 2nd and 2nd is fisrt
Yet for all that, Chávez is not, so far, a dictator.
There is so far no evidence that Chávez is financing the rippling revolts.
"So far" is the key here. It makes it possible for the author to spin the lies without any need to back it up with evidence. Classic rhetoric.
Yeah Elliv - that is what I mean it guides the reader into believing what is not true, because the expectation is that it will happen soon or so it would seem.
In reality however there is no reason to believe that any of those claims are true simply because the "so far" or words like it have been said since day one of the Chavez tenure. So when is this mythical time supposed to happen? If the author wanted a good concrete story based on facts that reads like a phantasy turned reality - all he need do is tell the story of how Chavez came back to power after the coup. Brought back by the people who voted him in - That story, my friends, is Disnyesque in nature. Its happy, has intrigue, conspiracy, compassion, and the good guy wins. But Best of all, it acutally happened.
Médicos suficientes y capaces
Para Romano, los bajos sueldos y una infraestructura hospitalaria deficiente limitan la labor del profesional de la medicina.
La calidad de estos médicos se equipara con la de los mejores del mundo
DANIEL RICARDO HERNANDEZ
EL UNIVERSAL
Egidio Romano, director del Centro Internacional de Ecología Tropical del Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC) y ex presidente de este organismo, es de los que piensa que "los médicos formados en las universidades locales están absolutamente capacitados para cubrir las necesidades en todo el territorio nacional".
Sin embargo, el galeno precisa que estos profesionales ameritan lo que es ya un clamor ancestral y repetitivo: "Buenos sueldos y garantía de seguridad especialmente en aquellas zonas donde la salud tiene difícil acceso; es poco probable que cualquier médico quiera estar en un sitio donde esté en peligro su integridad".
...En este sentido, Romano subraya que "es difícil decir que el médico venezolano tiene un estereotipo; no es que no se quieran meter en los barrios, sino que tradicionalmente no se les ha brindado las condiciones mínimas ni la infraestructura adecuadas".
The Displaced Venezuelan Dr:
WHA WHA WHA - They dont have the proper roads for me to take care of the poor. WHA WHA WHA those evil foreign Doctors have taken my expected, traditional clientele that has made my family rich on the ills of the poor.
"Uuuuyyyy al barrio? que va! y si me rompo una uña?"
Where were these spoiled brats before the Misiones started? Why all of sudden do they cry out now "ay dios me han quitado el trabajo" citing infrastructure as the reason why they couldnt go in. I don’t know the Mision Dr.s seem to be getting in with no problems. IS the problem a logistical one? Yes and No, the real reason is it was not worth the effort for the privileged doctors to go into the barrios is because they “traditionally” had the business come to them. The breaking of tradition can be equated with the breaking of the soul of these opportunists who get rich off the poor.
http://
calidaddevida.eluniversal...rt_05405A.shtml
"Where were these spoiled brats before the Misiones started?"
Going on strike all the time and letting people die like dogs outside hospital emergency rooms because they refused to attend to them. Chavez was smart enough to do an end run around them and they don't like it. Too bad.
Elliv - ""So far" is the key here. It makes it possible for the author to spin the lies without any need to back it up with evidence. Classic rhetoric."
Pulpo - "In reality however there is no reason to believe that any of those claims are true simply because the "so far" or words like it have been said since day one of the Chavez tenure. So when is this mythical time supposed to happen?"
You definitely hit the nail on the head. Even though they can't point to anything that actually makes Chavez a dictator they have to some how work the word into the story. And did you pick up on the word "autocratic". They like that adjective. Its ambigious enough that they can slander someone with it without having to actually demonstrate anything.
The wire service reports just point up the fact that these are imperialist, anti-humane entities whose goal it is to provide biased news so as to further indoctrinate the US and 'first world' masses, those whose credulity has a willfully ignorant component to it.
Never forget the willful factor in the dissemination of propaganda. The contradictions are way, way too huge for thinking people with self-respect to swallow the distortions with chewing on it for a long time.
Sorry, while I despise the corporate/capitalist media, the masses that allow themselves to be take up by the thrall of the propaganda do not get let off the hook so easily.
All this goes to show that revolutionary people must engage in developing the necessary modes of information gathering and dissemination for a sucessful project to thrive and outcompete the jackels of human oppression and immiseration.
If you want a good lesson on how the propaganda machine works just read Gunson and Dudely's latest smear on the Ven. government. They heavily imply that the Bolivarian gov. is allowing drug exportation by not being vigilent enough--all this while the public record shows an increase in seizures on the part of the Ven. gov.
No, the revolution will never get the benefit of the doubt by these whores with laptops. I have disabused myself of the notion that I should expect anything different--thus I am never dissapointed.
But I am a 'Taliban'--on April 13th, 2002, if I'd of had my way, the Venezuelan corporate media would have been destroyed and the oligarch journalists that gave sustainance to the coup would have been put on trial long ago.
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