Obama says ‘days of meddling’ in Latin America are past
Source: BBC News
Obama says days of meddling in Latin America are past
18 minutes ago
US President Barack Obama has told Latin American leaders that the days when his country could freely interfere in regional affairs are past.
He was speaking just before the seventh Summit of the Americas was due to kick off in Panama City.
Mr Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro will meet face-to-face for the first time since a December detente. But their much-anticipated meeting could be overshadowed by tensions between the US and Venezuela.
Mr Obama told a forum of civil society leaders in Panama City that "the days in which our agenda in this hemisphere presumed that the United States could meddle with impunity, those days are past".
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-32261550
leveymg
(36,418 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)They are doing a better job of screwing up their own country than the best 1950's CIA agents could dream of.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)burrowowl
(17,907 posts)Honduras or etc.
BS Obama!
Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)It's pretty doubtful all Latin America, which has witnessed US intervention in all their internal affairs, are going to be looking the other way with this, no matter how much money the U.S. pours into opposition groups in order to destabilize the leftist governments.
At some point, U.S. Americans are going to learn enough about what has been happening to start demanding their tax dollars stop going to these countries to fund destabilization efforts, sometimes violence against the citizens who want democratic leaders, and all people having hope outside the narrow, tiny, racist white oligarchies who want the US to overthrow their democratic leaders, so they can resume stealing their countries blind again.
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project_bluebook
(411 posts)then all bets are off.
Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)No one helps the wealthy, murderously greedy, criminally insane racist bigots who've swindled their fellow humans blind, and wormed their way to power, in Latin America more than a good old racist ghoul in the White House sending them boatloads of money, and instructors to refresh their memories in torture of political prisoners, like one of the first torture teachers who became famous in his lifetime: Daniel Mitrione, who taught torture in Brazil and Uruguay.
The more anyone learns about him who hasn't already known, the more astonished he/she is in discovering the US was busy sending torture specialists to the Americas as far back as Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency in the 1950's.
rpannier
(24,506 posts)That doesn't mean the US won't meddle
And what is Washington's definition of 'meddling with impunity' anyway?
Larry Engels
(387 posts)That can go on just the same.
Cal33
(7,018 posts)could go in militarily and make a grab for their oil or some other natural resource
come under "plain meddling?"
Larry Engels
(387 posts)We would own up to our meddling and take responsibility, based on our excuse. It's that simple!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)Oops! Sor-ry! No biggie! Our bad.
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)at Ft. Benning, Georgia, moved there after some time in Panama.
Lots of the School of the Americas graduates have become war criminals in their own Latin American countries after graduation. What an accomplishment.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)You know, kind of like Academi used to be Xe Services, which used to be Blackwater?
(And before that, it was probably Sturmabteilung)
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)americannightmare
(322 posts)in Venezuela is stabilized, then I'll know that 'promise' has been fulfilled. Otherwise, it's just meddling without impunity, whatever the hell that would look like - probably very much like the current meddling...
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)They've been using the same US sabotage excuse for years now without producing any kind of significant proof to back it. Obviously they're just trying to find a scapegoat for their problems. Just look at any other LatAm country, none of them are using the chavista model of governance.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)All ready for his speaking career
jwirr
(39,215 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)jalan48
(14,146 posts)Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)vlakitti
(401 posts)Over 100,000 Guatemalan people dead in the 1980s due to Reagan. Worse than Henry Kissinger's coup in Chile by far, worse than El Salvador. All of them awful, and carefully planned.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)Honduras went straight to the pit of hell in a handbag immediately after they did it, and US Congress people swarmed down there to throw their floppy arms around the coup President Micheletti, led by Cuban "exile' Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Continual political heavy violence since then, when it started with curfews to force people to stay in their houses all night so they couldn't protest without getting shot, and protesters getting kidnapped by black suv's with blacked-out windows, ending up tortured, and sometimes tortured and murdered, thrown out into fields, and the streets.
Nothing like a right-wing coup to hurl the poor people into a living nightmare. Meanwhile, this administration continues to send foreign aid to this hell-hole. At least the tiny few super-wealthy oligarchs who supported the coup are doing great, as they expected.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)I'm very skeptical.
Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)Hating the Latin American people is dear to their racist, fascist hearts.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)characterizes the rhetoric from Latin American leaders about US imperialism as a matter of opinion, as if there isn't a voluminous historical record, detailing US conduct, and as if dominion over the entire Western Hemisphere isn't enshrined in policy doctrines, like the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary.
I sure wish we valued education more highly
JonLP24
(29,346 posts)including the media
Much thanks to GrumpyComrade
22WEISBROT Mark, Venezuelas Struggle, Widely Misrepresented, Remains a Classic Conflict Between Right and Left in The Guardian, March 4, 2014. Consulted on http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/venezuelas-struggle-widely-misrepresented-remains-a-classic-conflict-between-right-and-left on March 3, 2015. ; BHATT Keane, U.S. Destabilization and Media Distortion in Venezuela (Interview) on NACLA, on February 25, 2014. Consulted on https://nacla.org/news/2014/2/25/us-destabilization-and-media-distortion-venezuela-interview on March 3, 2015; PARTYKA Nicholas, On the Recent Crisis in Venezuela: Confronting the US Media Narrative about the Crisis The Hampton Institute, on July 2nd, 2014. Consulted on http://www.hamptoninstitution.org/us-media-and-venezuela.html#.VPXfIywnzF8 on March 3, 2015.
The Media Effect: How the News Influences Politics and Government
https://books.google.com/books?id=f4JiYcdq-NsC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=us+media+saudi+arabia&source=bl&ots=BR_Hx1Wu4V&sig=Qu5hJYPMrDAfzQjzj7aZLF7sWkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nwgpVd7QMNDhoATf1oCQDg&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=us%20media%20saudi%20arabia&f=false
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Plenty of folks on DU react to insinuations of US meddling in the region with charges of 'oh you're a conspiracy theorist' when the historical record is quite clear.
Some folks may just not know the truth, but it's hard to believe if they spend so much time on DU and other political news oriented sites that they don't know even recent history.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)playbook. That goes without saying of course, all of the world has experienced both first hand.
Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)roamer65
(36,905 posts)This country has never given up on, nor will give up on the Monroe Doctrine.
After Cuba went communist, it morphed into an idea of containment.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
Judi Lynn
(161,952 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Mandatory Marijuana
By the looks of those sour faces though, they could really could have used a few joints at that meeting. We really might have made some progress......