Julio Huato wrote: http://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/n137883.html
translated into English by Google: > Caracas, Jul. 03 ABN .- The President of the Bolivarian Republic of > Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, accused sectors of the American right of being > behind the coup that his withdrawal from the Honduran president Manuel > Zelaya. In this regard, the Head of State said that these groups are > "challenging" to President Barack Obama with these actions against the > Central American country. He assured that this nation is divided by powerful > organizations that comprise a "horrendous military, industrial, financial, > terrorist and drug trafficker." However, the leader of the revolution, ruled > out the possibility that the U.S. dignitary [Obama?] keep some connection > with the events in Honduras on Sunday, but urged it to take a tougher > position against the de facto government that was established in land of > Morazán [Honduras]. < Back when there was a revolution in Nicaragua, Senator Jesse Helms _et al_ had an independent track to influence events. So the idea that the right wing has its own ways of intervening in Latin America makes a lot of sense. Imperialism -- specifically the maintenance of the power of the hegemonic country within the imperialist system -- does not always involve the direct intervention by the US government. Being the country that's "on top" means that various political forces (e.g., Helms) within the center have the ability to play their games in the periphery, helping their allies for their own political purposes (pushing religion, ideology, drugs, etc.) (I believe this happened under the Roman empire, but my historical knowledge is weak this morning.) Sometimes the official government's policies are helped by such Helmsian efforts, but sometimes not. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
