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Subject: U.S. State Dept. working overtime
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:36:17 +0200
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The constitutional assembly of Venezuela, under the leadership of
President Hugo Chavez, is busy replacing that country's fourty year old
false democracy with a new government made up of doctors and teachers
which promises to give the country back to the people.
Unlike Cuba, Venezuela is not an island dependent on natural resources and
manufactured goods from abroad. Venezuela is the third largest petroleum
exporting state in the world. Two thirds of the petroleum the U.S. imports
comes from Venezuela.
Hugo Chavez, voted into power by 80% of the Venezuelan electorate, is the
reason why world gasoline and diesel fuel prices are going up. The new
constitution, meant to be completed and enacted within two months, is
startlingly revolutionary and at the same time very democratic. However,
the CIA and CNN are doing all they can to pass off Chavez and the
constitutional assembly as an impending communist dictatorship and threat
to regional stability.
Here are some of the articles to be introduced into the new constitution
called "La Soberanisima" being forged in Caracas:
1. The Republic of Venezuela considers null and void all treaties, pacts or
concessions that could estrange, damage or lower territorial soveirgnty and
integrity.
2. The state will organise a planned economic system with the participation
of social sectors in order to assure an equitative development. The right
to property will be guaranteed. (a planned economic system means communism
to the IMF and World Bank).
3. The Venezuelan economic system rejects dogmatic extremism's, and its
development will be situated in a balanced point between state and market,
between public and private, between national and international, and must
strengthen the country's autonomy or independence.
4. A referendum process will be introduced, as much for consultative
purposes as well as for revoking elected authorities.
5. A new Supreme Court of Justice will be created with its constitutional
chambers. Judges will selected by merit in competed examination. A
Republican Moral Advisory will be created.
6. The public financing of political parties is prohibited.
7. The people's right to civil disobedience will be recognised and
constitutional democratic order re-established.
8. National public power will be conformed by the Legislative, Executive,
Judicial, Electoral and Moral Advisory.
9. Latifundiums (or large land estates) will be prohibited.
The newspapers in Spain and South America are calling it "Chavezism". Hugo
Chavez, president of Venezuela, is meeting with the leaders of the FARC
revolutionary army in Columbia and even Bogota is giving in to the
overwhelming popularity Chavez has found in Columbia as well as in
Venezuela. He has met repeatedly with Fidel Castro and has even adapted
some of the Cuba's institutional forms. Of course Venezuela could easily
resolve all of Cuba's energy problems, however, this would mean breaking
the US enforced embargo against Cuba. And, as if all this was not enough
for the U.S. State department to worry about, yesterday the president of
Nicaragua suggested in public that that country should consider having a
referendum for a constitutional assembly similar to that of Venezuela's.
Today Chavez begins a diplomatic visit to Panama where U.S. forces are busy
pulling out of the canal zone which is to be given back to this
strategically located country by year's end. Panama has also refused to
renew lease to the US Army's notorious School of the Americas which has
been proven to have been teaching terrorism and torture to Latin American
armies for 50 years. The U.S. army has also been unable to convince any
other central or south American country to host the school in their
territory so it is being downsized and moved to Puerto Rico.
Does anyone have any details on Chavez' environmental policies?
There may be some great environmental benefits.
Also today:
Japan given WTO permission to prohibit GMO from USA
Japan has come to an agreement with the World Trade
Organisation (WTO) to prohibit U.S. grown genetically manipulated corn and
soybean from the Japanese market. Europe banned them months ago. Now US
farmers have stockpiles of this corn and soybean nobody in any other
developed nation in the world wants. Hence, by days end the German
Deutchebank, Europe's biggest, recommended that its clients sell any and
all stocks in Monsanto, Dupont and other genetic engineering or "Life
Sciences" companies based in the US..
For close to a month now French farmers have been demonstrating in and
around and even barricading McDonald's restaurants protesting against U.S.
tariffs on French cheeses meant to be a counter action against Europe's ban
on genetically manipulated grains.
I'm not EF Huton but if you are interested I predict losses across the
board on Wall Street starting tomorrow and continuing indefinitely. But
look at it on the bright side, I also predict that U.S. corn, soybean and
meat prices will be plummeting. I'll bet by next week Big Macs and
Whoppers will be 99 cents again. Americans will be eating ten a day.
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Venezuela: Globalisation countered by legislation of govt of Pres. Hugo Chavez + Japan given WTO permission to prohibit GMO from USA
by way of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Tiller ACF-PGAN) Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:49:53 +1000 (GMT+1000)
