LATIN AMERICA

JUAN PABLO CARDENAS—El golpismo de la derecha venezolana lo que sí ha logrado concitar es el apoyo de los gobiernos adictos a la Casa Blanca, de la OEA y de los grandes medios de comunicación que en el mundo y en Chile se descubren tan afines en su orientación editorial y con tan poca capacidad de mostrar los acontecimientos de Venezuela con un mínimo de independencia y dignidad. No se trata, ciertamente, de apoyar o defender a Maduro, sino de mirar con alguna independencia y ecuanimidad lo que sucede en Venezuela o al menos ofrecer más espacio a la diversidad informativa, de la que tanto Chile carece y pone en entredicho su pretendida democracia.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—Since wholesale slander and defamation of leaders or entire nations in the imperial crosshairs is standard operating procedure, an evil that never fails to materialise, by now, anyone or any group intending to make serious changes anywhere on this planet without the consent of the Global Godfather in Washington, should brace themselves for a veritable cascade of lies and vitriol soon to come crashing on their heads, a campaign that will prove unrelenting.

ABDRE VLTCHEK—I am writing this essay in the city of Puebla, in Mexico. You know, the people of Mexico just recently voted, and overwhelmingly, they elected the left-wing Presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. For three weeks I travelled all around the country. I spoke to hundreds of people. Most of them were hopeful; most of them were instinctively longing for socialism. Usually, they do not call it ‘socialism’, because for decades they were told not to use this word in any positive context, but what they describe when they dream, is clearly a form of socialism, nevertheless. But how can they define the position of their country in the world, or even their own position inside their country? You turn on the television set, and all you see is CNN in Spanish (‘Mexican edition’), or the extreme right-wing FOX, or some corporate-owned local TV station. Almost all international news in Mexican newspapers is taken from the Western press agencies. Can socialism be built like this, based on the Western indoctrination, disinformation system?

JAMES PETRAS—The changes in Argentina and Brazil represent examples of extreme regressive transformations directed at reversing income distribution, property relations, international alignments and military strategies. The goal is to redistribute income upwardly, to re-concentrate wealth, property- ownership upward and externally and to subscribe to imperial doctrine.