En relaci�n a [PEN-L:1529] Re: Re: pomo or the economy?,
el 8 Sep 00, a las 17:29, Michael Perelman dijo:
> On Democracy Now today, Juan Gonzalez suggested that the money for
> Colombia may be in part a preparation to "Allende" Chavez.
>
Certainly. It is quite obviously thus. But this time they are not
facing an Allende.
Salvador Allende was the greatest Chilean of them all after the great
losers of the Independence generation (Rodr�guez, Carreras,
O'Higgins, all of them defeated by the Valpara�so clique that found
ultimate expression in Diego Portales). I cried silently for weeks,
out of rage and impotence, when he was overthrown, not only for Chile
and my Chilean friends, but also for my own country: the Chilean
coup spearheaded an attack on Argentina which was beginning its march
forward towards national revolution and socialism after the wave of
popular upheavals of the late 60s / early 70s.
But Allende, the great man of social reform, the nationalizer of
copper and communications, the doctor who knew from the very
beginning that medicine was a social endeavour and not a technical
operation, was at the same time all too Chilean, too "democratic
formalist", and too little of a Latin American unifier. Those were
basic traits of the socialist government in Santiago that the
imperialists and the oligarchs very intelligently put pressure on in
order to overthrow it. In isolation of neighboring Argentina and
Per�, in isolation of Bolivia, not even imagining that a bold policy
in the sense of lightning unification could be attempted, Allende was
partly prisoner of the limited nationalism of the Chilean formation,
a nationalism which, among others, nurtured the pride of the armed
forces that had defeated both Bolivia and Per� during the War of the
Pacific (on behalf of British capitalism, by the way). This was not
the most serious limitation of the Unidad Popular, but I am stressing
it here because the great difference between Allende and Chavez lies
precisely here, in the consciousness of the necessity of an
unification.
Chavez will not stay enclosed in Venezuela. If they wage war against
him, he will appeal to mass mobilization both in Venezuela and
_across the borders_. As I stated elsewhere, even though I know that
the intervention in Colombia means the beginning of what will perhaps
be the bloodiest and most tremendous war Latin America has ever been
forced to wage (and wars have usually been terrible here), at the
same time it means the beginning of the end to American imperialism.
They managed to get out of Southeastern Asia. If they begin a
Colombian Viet Nam they will be swallowed by the Latin American
anaconda. They will find out, after long years of apparent victories,
that they are in the belly of the beast, surrounded of streams of
digestive enzimes and corrosive acids, and subject to persitaltic
movements of a magnitude nobody can imagine today.
And Chavez will be one of the winners, at last.
Let them come, let them come and begin their long road towards Hell.
N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky
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