Latin American Axis?
Posted on 01/29/2003 3:02:10 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Iraq, North Korea, and now Brazil is the latest hot spot for U.S. foreign policy, but you wouldn’t know it from reading the press. The new president of Latin America’s largest country was backed by the Communist Party of Brazil, and he has publicly acknowledged its support. But the word "communist" didn’t come up in stories in the New York Times and Washington Post about the inauguration of Luis Inacio da Silva, known as "Lula." The Post and Times said he was a "leftist." Associated Press said he was "a former radical who had espoused socialism."
Da Silva may not be a card-carrying Communist, but he comes close. His supporter, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, was at his inauguration, along with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who has made common cause with Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi of Libya. Andres Oppenheimer in the Miami Herald commented that, "Whatever his friendship with the two leaders, da Silva has seen the disaster they have brought on their countries. Cuba is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, with an average wage of about $17 a month. Venezuela is one of the richest but mired in political and economic upheaval."
For the time being, it appears that da Silva will agitate for "debt relief" from international institutions, foreign aid, and favorable trading terms from the U.S. On the other hand, in October a dozen U.S. congressmen sent a letter to President Bush noting that da Silva has been a critic of Brazil’s adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The letter also said that he cooperated with the Castro regime to establish a leftist group called the Forum of Sao Paulo. It has become a vehicle for leftist and communist parties throughout the hemisphere.
The Militant, the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, said a meeting of the Forum in 1996 featured José Ramón Balaguer of the Communist Party of Cuba, who attacked "North American imperialism." The Forum passed resolutions expressing solidarity with Libya and North Korea. Lula attended this event, and Chávez of Venezuela came for the first time. U.S. representatives came from the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), the Committees of Correspondence, Democratic Socialists of America, Freedom Road Socialist, and Socialist Workers Party.
The Militant reported that, "The Forum took note of the growing immigration from Latin American to the United States and a recent rise in the struggles for immigrant rights in that country. Angela Sambrano, representing CISPES, gave a special presentation at the Forum on the subject." CISPES favored the cause of the communist guerrillas in El Salvador.
The Militant quoted her as saying, "In the United States, they accuse immigrants of being the cause of the economic crisis and other evils." But the number of Latinos in the United States is growing and could have decisive weight. Sambrano said, "We have the capacity to be a political force." So Lula is not only in our own back yard, his followers are on American soil. Socialists and Communists are working together in North and South America.
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The difference between Lula and Chavez is that Chavez is more honest about the Communist Anti-American nature of his politics. Lula couches his rhetoric in liberal terms of "social justice" and other commie code words. The sissies at the economist love that sort of crap. By the time Lula consolidates his own control over Brazil, it will be too late.
Com-symps like you post them if they praise Commies. Why don't you post the article that expose Chavez and Mugabe for the insane maniacs they are. Becasue you are only interested in defendeing communists, not exposing them.
I read the economist cover to cover every week. I just don't bother to post their stuff here because this is a conservative forum. The Economist may be conservative for limey mama's boys, but that's not saying much. If they had any clout, England wouldn't be run by Labour Sozi's
As for the Wall Street Journal, why don't you post an op-ed from them that praises Lula? Good luck finding one.
As for the disparity between Lula's establishment bootlicking and his Marxist rhetoric, that's nothing new. It clearly demonstrares that Lula is not on the people's side at all. Guess what? Marxists are never on the people's side. Wall Street Execs funded the Bolshevik revolution. The Globalists running the World Bank are a bunch of redistributionist Fabians. Typical Pressure from above and below, while the middle class is squeezed out of existence.
Not entirely. For example, if you wanted to post a negative article about Chavez. Here's one:
A divided country self-destructs
You're right that this will destroy the middle class
You don't get it because you don't understand the right at all. We want freedom and economic stratification. Inequality is the price of freedom. We should have the freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail.
It is the left who despise the middle class and want it destroyed because of the envy in their hearts. The left wants economic enslavement and equality of universal poverty. They are the deluded tools of the super-rich financiers who want to maintain their own monopoly on wealth. Ever heard of Friedrich Engels? Armand Hammer? Bill Gates Sr.? Do you really think these elites supported Socialism out of the goodness of their hearts?
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While Washington is preoccupied with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a Fidel Castro protege taking power in Brazil Jan. 1 is threatening to restart the country's nuclear bomb-building program in a direct challenge to U.S. power in Latin America.
Brazil's new president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, swept to victory at the head of his hard-left Workers' Party by ripping the U.S. at every turn, by promising to expand the military in South America's largest country and by turning it into a nuclear power.
"Why is it that someone asks me to put down my weapons and only keep a slingshot while he keeps a cannon pointed at me?" da Silva asked in a speech to his generals in October. "Brazil will only be respected in the world when it turns into an economic, technological and military power."
Brazil had a nuclear-weapons program but abandoned it when Fernando Cardosa was elected president in 1994. That program, ironically, saw Brazil forge alliances with both China and Iraq.
Da Silva has said he will work toward closer relations with China, which has already demonstrated its interest in Latin America with extensive investments and even military presence in Panama.
Da Silva received the support of the Communist Party in Brazil and is personally close with Cuban dictator Castro and Hugo Chavez, the hard-left president of Venezuela. He has attended conferences with Latin American terrorists, such as the drug-smuggling FARC guerrillas of Colombia and the Tupac Amaru in Peru. He has known Castro for more than 25 years and has praised him as "a great hero."
Chavez, opponents say, has brought Venezuela to the verge of bankruptcy with massive spending on social programs. He has cracked down on demonstrators who say his presidency is turning into totalitarianism, while unemployment skyrockets and the national currency deteriorates. Some say the nation is on the verge of civil war, but Chavez refuses to submit to new elections.
Brazil already has a massive $250 billion debt and is depending on the International Monetary Fund for a bailout.
A group of Republican congressmen wrote a letter to President Bush warning of da Silva's nuclear threat, but, so far, the White House has not commented on Brazil's nuclear and military ambitions.
Since his election, da Silva has issued a "clarification" of his bellicose remarks, saying he does not intend to develop nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, some in Washington are beginning to raise concerns about the potential for an alliance of Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela.
"As the United States continues to fight its war on terrorism, this development in our own back yard could represent a devastating second front," said one military intelligence analyst.
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