From The
Idiot Factor:
Lately the US has
been very supportive of people protesting their governments. After all
protesters are fighting for democracy in such countries Hong Kong and Venezuela .
Our governing leaders have all given full support to these protesters. They
have vilified the governments they are protesting.
US meddling have had the backing
of millions of conservative people all across the US .
After weeks of hearing about theses protests from the media—it appears as if no
one in the US would
dare to oppose the protesters in these countries.
After almost a year of protests
in Venezuela ,
in which the US has
backed an opposition protest leader Juan
Guaidó as that country’s president, it would seem as if
left-wing governments are the only place where such protests have taken place.
Now after all this time, it seems
that right-wing government are now under attack by protesters. Currently in
Chile, the government of billionaire Sebastian Piñera has
deployed the army to crush nationwide demonstrations against inequality sparked
by a subway fare hike.
In Ecuador ,
indigenous peoples, workers and students recently brought the country to a
standstill during 11 days of protests against the gutting of fuel subsidies by
President Lenín Moreno as part of an IMF austerity
package.
Venezuela’s
Nicolás Maduro and the old-guard left around the world are
celebrating Chile ’s
violent street protests as evidence of the alleged failure of free-market
capitalism.
And is there any news coverage of Ecuador or Chile ?
So far I have heard nothing by the mainstream press. It is as if these protests
never happened.
But there are some news outlets
that have been paying attention to the way our mainstream press have treated
those who protest right-wing governments. According to a news outlet
called Fair:
Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean , people are rising up against
right-wing, US-backed governments and their neoliberal austerity policies.
Currently in Chile ,
the government of billionaire Sebastian Piñera has deployed the army to crush
nationwide demonstrations against inequality sparked by a subway fare hike.
In Ecuador ,
indigenous peoples, workers and students recently brought the country to a
standstill during 11 days of protests against the gutting of fuel subsidies by
President Lenín Moreno as part of an IMF austerity
package.
One might expect these popular rebellions to receive
unreservedly sympathetic coverage from international media that claim to be on
the side of democracy and the common people. On the contrary, corporate
journalists frequently describe these uprisings as dangerous alterations of
“law and order,” laden with “violence,” “chaos” and “unrest.”
This portrait contrasts remarkably with coverage of
anti-government protests in Venezuela ,
where generally the only violence highlighted is that allegedly perpetrated by
the state. In the eyes of Western elite opinion, Venezuela ’s
middle-class opposition have long been leaders of a legitimate popular protest
against an authoritarian, anti-American regime. Poor people rebelling against
repressive US client
states are considered an unacceptable deviation from this script.
‘Crackdown’ in Venezuela
Corporate journalists have never been able to contain
their enthusiasm for the right-wing Venezuelan opposition’s repeated coup
attempts, which are regularly cast as a “pro-democracy” movement (FAIR.org, 5/10/19).
In 2017, Venezuela ’s
opposition led four months of violent, insurrectionary protests demanding early
presidential elections, resulting in over 125 dead, including protesters, government
supporters and bystanders. It was the opposition’s fifth major effort to oust
the government by force since 2002.
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Already Bolivia’s
President Evo Morales gave a press conference, recently, in
which he warned that a right-wing coup attempt is being carried out so as
to stop the full counting of votes, and annul the result of a recent
presidential election, which gave Morales a first-round victory.
Considering the type of meddling
the US has
conducted in Venezuela ,
it is not a stretch of the imagination to believe the US is
trying to overthrow Morales’ government. He is following the same kind of
socialist policies as Maduro. Unlike Maduro he is very popular and his economy
has been very successful. Considering the kind of anti-socialist meddling we
have see from President Donald trump, it is likely we will see the same kind of
absurd accusation against Morales as we have seen in Venezuela .
Trump and his ilk are working
hard to eradicate socialism from Latin
America . Trump has admitted
that. It is unlikely to work in all of those countries. We have seen
how ruthless and barbaric Trump is. He may have pulled US troops out of Syria to
allow the Turkish government to
destroy the PKK. Trump has admitted he thinks the PKK is worse than
ISIS (the Islamic State).
So while much of the rest of the
world has seen stodgy right-wing oriented governments pushing out any kind of
left leaning governments, the left is still alive and well in Latin America . As leftist here in the US we need to keep
supporting left leaning governments, such as Cuba , Nicaragua , Venezuela and Bolivia , as well as
supporting anti-right-wing protesters in Ecuador and Chile .
Not all these governments are saints. The government of Daniel Ortega, in Nicaragua ,
may lack legitimacy. But we need to keep the US from
interfering in that country. We need to support socialism and oppose US interference.
2 comments:
Hola!
“¿Por qué vuelve Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?”
NODO50.
Todos estos actores son los mimos con las mismas, aún ALLENDE fue más lejos que enfrentó las armas de la reacción, de los imperialistas y de la burguesía chilena, sin un plan de contraataque y muchos menos una estrategia defensiva ni ofensiva. Se apoyó en el pueblo para las elecciones a sabiendas que las elecciones no transforman ni tumban sistemas. No aplicó la sentencia de Mao: “ el poder nace del fusil “, desatendió esa regla, la despreció y puso en el matadero a las masas revolucionarias que tampoco entendieron y se dejaron llevar por el revisionismo liderado por ese viejo Matusalén de FIDEL CASTRO (Cuba-plataforma de intervención del imperialismo ruso) que ya había declarado que la lucha armada ya había perdido su poder histórico palabras que practicó ALLENDE y que las repitió otro estupido convencido de semejante burrada HUGO CHÁVEZ y esos mismo siguen convencidos de sus estupideces CORREA, EVO, ORTEGA, CRISTINA, etc. Todos estos asquerosos han proporcionado la prolongación de la liberación del proletariado, la abierta explotación y opresión de los pueblos que controlan y por consiguiente la estabilidad de los sistemas capitalistas. ESTOS ELEMENTOS TRAFICAN CON LOS INTERESES DE LOS TRABAJADORES engañando con UNA CRUEL MENTIRA: SOCIALISMO. ESTOS MAGOS DE LA MENTIRA echaron a la basura la ciencia del MLM y se dedicaron a forcejear con la burguesía imperialista por agarrar el botín de la economía de estos países.
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