RC TV Theft is One of Chavez's Crimes
June 4, 2007 The Editors of ECrisis once again commend The Wall Street Journal's Mary Anastasia O'Grady today: her piece about Hugo Chavez's dictatorship in Venezuela is superb. The newspaper provides her explanation and interview on FOX News. "Maria Anastasia O'Grady explains why the Venezuelan president's cancellation of RCTV has incited the country's residents here and you can read the article here.
Another superb analysis of Chavez's impact of the now-gone quality of life under communism is from the LONDON TIMES here. As we have said on numerous occasions here, sustainable quality of life is evaporating under authoritarian clamp downs while the suffering goes unremarked.
Today, the remarkably self congratulatory, utterly useless OAS Annual Meeting in Panama has over 100 draft agenda items and supposedly a focus on biofuels for sustainable development. Even the U.S. Department of State announced before the end of May, 2007 a direct cash grant to freedom fighters in Latin America for legal aid, medical aid if they are fighting for human rights. The U.S. Department of State announces that it is funding freedom lovers and NGO activists to re build democracy in Latin America. We call this ....a bald lie and a harmful claim because, as anyone living in Latin America knows.....the U.S. backed NGO groups, with a very very small group [almost non-existent] of exceptions, are mostly all aligned with the Soros groups and would not know structural democracy if it hit them on the head, let alone perform to build democracy's sustenance. As such, they are completely unworthy of one red cent from the USA, especially because the Soros groups, led by the Barack Obama and Clintons' best funding vehicle, George Soros whom Insulza calls " a statesman" [when he is not] do now claim to be a front line group attacking the sovereignty of Israel even as they are actively fighting against Alvaro Uribe's positions of principle. The Soros groups, funded by Soros plus the UN and the OAS with US AID sound like a kissing cousin to the Iranian mullahs. Indeed, they appear more and more as if they are actively participating in the Venezuelan-Iranian marriage of convenience where bigamy of purpose exists to rent asunder common sense. Not one red cent should go to these campaigners of hatred and murky mischief.
Valiantly, the OAS planned for their annual June 2007 event and their web site listed agenda reveals that the Soros groups and the Carter Center are leading the agenda for non governmental agencies.Valiantly, Insulza welcomes the head of the United Nations and the OAS agenda promises to feature renewable energy, bio mass energy in Panama. Of course all adolescent boys can tell us a lot about naturally occurring renewable gas, high on the OAS agenda in Panama now.
The world expects better from the OAS revelers in Panama and certainly a lot more than naturally occurring bio energy chats. The real story from the OAS is how Insulza stiffed freedom lovers from Venezuela and Ecuador by denouncing their facts in order to avoid Chavez's threats to secede from the "OAS family." Hugo Chavez's trump card- extortion- sets the tone for his public acts. And Insulza, always the third level Chilean functionary, surrenders all claims to legitimacy to assuage his real bosses who have nothing whatsoever to do with the vast majority of Latin Americans whom he is supposed to represent. Comes now Secretary Rice to tell us before the OAS that she is worried about the end of freedom of expression in Latin America.
While we ponder the temerity of "leaders" from the Americas who have left the real story/the real facts unremarked, Secretary Rice now has the harder point to make....that democracy dies when any of its four pillars are broken. Freedom of expression is but one of the four. Rule of law is every bit as critical for without rule of law, there can be no viable trade and no sustainable economies of any growth with Latin America. But what Secretary Rice has failed in her position is to review the facts: her own teams have beavered away to fund and support anti Rule of Law/anti-democracy activists and projects. This horrible track record has brought about an end to free trade behind the best intentions of free traders and has satisfied the very vocal pro-union protectionists with whom there is profound common cause even though Mexico, Canada, Chile and the CAFTA nations benefit mightily from ejob creation from nhanced trade. Today, the neo communist political groups enjoin the anti rule of law efforts to denounce diplomacy's finest hours and rip further the fabric of comity among nations for fun and profit.
Maybe adolescent boys around the world do understand the real agenda in front of the OAS: renewable gas. There is a lot of it in Panama today and a lot of silly boys believing that what they do here now is applicable to global events. Real leaders would be well advised to focus on real issues, which is the real agenda before the OAS: the four pillars of democracy and what should be done when three Latin nations have ripped up all principles of democracy. Instead of passing the buck and wringing their hands, these bilious blow hards of gaseous states of confusion will craft working groups and more hot air. They call this urgently needed "political space." We say the space is actually their space- empty rooms of empty, hollow rhetoric- from men and women who failed to act on principles before their eyes.
- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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