
Mr. President, Simon Bolivar wrote on August 5, 1829: "The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of Freedom." Prophecy confirmed a thousand times today. Liberator's warning came true not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, condemned by their geographical proximity and its enormous wealth to pillage the U.S. suffer and his legions of marines. Since World War II, the voracious predator of the new rule was universal and continues to commit crimes against humanity and call for freedom human rights of their victims. Your country, Mr President, that forged copies inspired by noble patriotic republican principles has become an empire heartless, bloody and rapacious, hated and feared in the world.
wars and invasions, bombings of civilian populations, coups, plots and political assassinations, torture in secret prisons, sabotage, terrorism, propaganda campaigns and money to destabilize governments, fabrications to justify the occupation of countries rich in oil, gas and other minerals, food and medicine blockades to submit the sovereignty and dignity of small and weak nations, and above all, his unbridled spirit of plunder, make U.S. odious symbol of derision in the law of nations. How far is now home of the noble spirit that animated the Declaration of Independence in 1776! The proclamation of Jefferson and his colleagues that "all men are created equal", was lost in the darkness of betrayal. You, sir, is something quite different to the country that the Founding Fathers dreamed. You are the head of an empire that threatens the world with their desperate quest for raw materials and energy resources to feed an economy that recognizes no other limit than the maximum gain. This irresponsibility is driving humanity to hunger and disaster. The contempt of his nation by the laws of nature threatens the existence of the planet and runs environmental solidarity rules that ensure the presence of the human couple on earth. His administration, Mr. President, has continued the U.S. policy making warmongering empire. More than one country, his is a military stronghold. Corroborates the defense budget this year to 553 billion dollars and an additional 117,800 million to support the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You do not speak on behalf of the 155 million Americans who want a peaceful world. Much less does it for the thousands of trade unionists and young people these days have moved in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states to protest against laws that reduce pensions and wages. You speak on behalf of U.S. 400 that Michael Moore has said that "with the same amount of wealth that half of all Americans." That fat formidable and indefatigable, who has done their part to spread the reality of U.S., says: "We have delivered our precious democracy to a financial elite. Wall Street, banks and Fortune are the rulers of this republic "(1). This reality-that of capitalism, we live also in Chile. We are about 17 million a mixed population, which, however, discriminates against Indians, brown and black. Our country suffers same distortions that affect you, among other reasons because it strives to imitate. In Chile an elite in power. Its members have enormous fortunes and listed in Forbes' honor roll. Luksic Fontbona widow Iris has 19,200 million dollars. Horst Paulmann, 10,500 million, the Matte, forest owners and power plants, 10,400 million and the President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, his fortune increased to 2,400 million last year. This insatiable minority controls the media and private education, which educate the majority of children and young Chileans. Thus achieving the same massive deception that Moore mentioned in his speech Madison: that the poor "vote for the party that protects the rich because 'you could be one day one of them'." The social support of the ruling elite in Chile is a supposed middle class, alienated by consumerism and balances on the credit card. This makes it easy access to automobiles, home appliances, phones, travel and entertainment whose profusion to create the illusion of an egalitarian society. Hiding behind the curtain three and a half million poor and destitute, and nearly 700 000 young people who neither study nor work. A considerable proportion of the population are prisoners of the drug. Chile, as you know, is one of the ten most unequal countries in the world. As you can see, Mr. President, Chile will feel at home. In a way, be perceived if the thick wall of security permits, "our country is a crude imitation of you. But you are the rule and we the colony. The economic and social model imposed on us by the military state terrorism and businessmen in league with multinational corporations, was the top prize of U.S. intervention. The oligarchy that helped spark the coup is the same as that now governs the country. It has not stopped it at any time for almost 40 years. For it has been valid regardless of military and political right and center-"left." The latter ruled for 20 years and not even ruffled the neoliberal model. By contrast, ended up transferring to the private sector of what remained in the public area. That
riffraff, Mr. President, are your friends in Chile. Be careful with them. It is unfortunate, Mr. President, you traverse the same winding road that already had their predecessors. Has not corrected the treacherous policy toward Cuba that led the ten past presidents. The blockade of the island, you know, is an unjust arbitrariness that violates the human rights of the Cuban people. It says United Nations every year, not that his country is aware of it. This is an insult and an affront to Latin America and the Caribbean because it tramples the sovereignty of a sister nation. Moreover, his government has been deaf to the global call for freedom for five Cuban prisoners in U.S. defendants to prevent terrorist actions against Cuba was brewing. The belligerent attitude of his government in Venezuela is another embarrassing fact of imperial policy. His attempts to destabilize the government of President Hugo Chavez repeated the same pattern of foreign intervention that lived in Chile in 1973 and Honduras in 2009. You seem not to understand that in Latin America and the Caribbean has been reborn a current social and political demand participatory democracy, justice and equality. It is a movement of people tired of fictions democratic to the extent of oligarchic interests. His upper-demand, is always unity and integration of Latin America and the Caribbean.
That's what Hugo Chavez is the Venezuelan people and the poor and excluded the continent. The Bolivarian Revolution has a line of continuity of two centuries the Latin American and Caribbean political history. Comes from the liberators who challenged and defeated the colonial power, including our Bernardo O'Higgins proclaimed "better to die standing than live on your knees." That was the fighting spirit of the chiefs and indigenous and mestizo soldiers early struggles for independence. It's the same spirit that was reborn in Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, and now runs through the plains of Venezuela and the jungles and mountains of Ecuador and Bolivia. In 1960 a great American, the sociologist C. Wright Mills, Listen Yankee wrote. The Cuban Revolution. It was an attempt to understand U.S. this historic event. But the U.S. did not listen. Would you pay attention to brave Americans like Noam Chomsky, James Petras, Michael Moore and many other intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, religious ministers, scientists, trade unionists, etc., Which honestly address his nation awakens to the reality. If you attend these voices, understand why the classic shouting "Yankee go home "the American president will continue listening to the doomsday of imperialism. Yours sincerely, Manuel Cabieses
DONOSO is Director of "Punto Final"
(1) Michael Moore speech in Madison, Wisconsin, 5/3/2011.
(Published in "Punto Final", Issue No. 729, March 18, 2011)
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