Chavez’s Proposal for an International Humanitarian Fund Welcomed

[Say_What]

Paragraph 20 of the Final Declaration of the summit states: “We welcome with great interest the initiative to create an International Humanitarian Fund, as a mechanism to finance special programs that contribute to alleviate the effects of poverty in the developed world.”

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The XIII Iberian American Presidential Summit finished last Saturday in Bolivia with a Final Declaration that emphasizes on social inclusion and social justice as the best way to guarantee the political stability of the region’s countries.

The summit brought together the Presidents and delegations of the 21 Latin American countries plus Spain and Portugal. Its Final Declaration also called for the strengthening of the State and the creation of mechanisms to allow more participation of citizens in public decision making.

President Chavez has been insisting at international forums about the need to promote participatory democracy as opposed to the representative democracy that most countries currently implement.

Chavez’s International Humanitarian Fund welcomed

The Final Declaration recognized that unfulfilled social demands are a source of political instability, and that new mechanisms must be created to alleviate poverty.

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1102

[nn2004]

1. participatory democracy

I guess if it didn't work under the name of socialism or communism why not change the name to "participatory democracy" and see if enough newcomers can be suckerd in to try it again. One way to end poverty is to drag everyone down to a common and shared misery to eliminate envy. All the leaders in high places need to do then is skim enough cash off the top to bribe the enforcers of "participatory democracy" into keeping everybody equally unhappy.

This "third way" is just another name for a system that has never worked.

[AP]

2. Hey, did you see this movie?

You REALLY need to see this movie:

[AP]

3. By the way,

Socialism is more about who controls the means of production. Participatory democracy is about who decides whose interests the government represents -- the representors' interests or the people's interests.

[Say_What]

4. They've tired of US style *democracy* and US puppet dictators

who only looked after US interests and murdered and tortured thousands of their people. Like this character for instance.

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GENERAL JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA
President of Argentina
Soon after the coup that brought him to power in 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla began Argentina's dirty war. All political and union activities were suspended, wages were reduced by 60%, and dissidents were tortured by Nazi and U.S. trained military and police. Survivors say the torture rooms contained swastikas and pictures of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. One year after Videla's coup, Amnesty International estimated 15,000 people had disappeared and many were in secret detention camps, but although the U.S. press admitted human rights abuses occurred in Argentina, Videla was often described as a "moderate" who revitalized his nation's troubled economy. Videla had a good public relations firm in the U.S., Deaver and Hannalord, the same firm used by Ronad Reagan, Taiwan, and Guatemala. Not surprisingly, his Economics Minister, Jose Martinez do Hoz, spoke, at Deaver's request, on one of President Reagan's national broadcasts in order to upgrade Argentina's reputation.

Videla also received aid from WACL, the World Anti-Communist League (see card 17), through its affiliale, CAL (Confederation Anticomunista Latinoamericana). CAL sent millions of dollars to Argentina from sources such as the Italo-Argentine Masonic Lodge P-2, an outgrowth of old U.S. anti-communist alliances with the Italian drug malia. As part of its WACL affiliation, Argentina trained Nicaraguan contras for the U.S. Videla left office in 1981, and after the Falklands Crisis of 1982 he and his cohorts were tried for human rights abuses by the new government.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/SouthAmerica.html

[BlackFrancis]

5. How are the campesinos getting "suckered"?

Maybe they just don't have anyone to explain to them the benefits of hoarding all the oil wealth of the country into a few families and all the public land to a few wealthy cattle farmers :eyes:

[Judi Lynn]

6. Interesting seeing a S.American president actually helping his PEOPLE.

Venezuela demands Bush 2 administration to reduce FTAA risk to poor countries

Venezuela is demanding that the Bush 2 administration should make the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) less risky for the Latin American region's poor countries since competition between Venezuelan and powerful multi-national North American corporations as envisaged under FTAA schedules would be tantamount to "a fight between a 12-year-old boy and Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)!"

President Hugo Chavez Frias decries the FTAA is a neo-colonialist project which, in reality, endangers free trade from a Latin American perspective ... "we are going to lead a battle, we are negotiating with the leaders of 34 countries in the Americas." (snip)

(snip)Venezuelan Production & Commerce (MPC) Minister Wilmar Castro is representing Venezuela at the FTAA talks in Miami where he will be resolute in maintaining Venezuela's stance against the currently formed FTAA proposal. On a home base, President Hugo Chavez Frias has already established programs granting low-interest loans to poor farmers to enable Venezuela to replace its 60% food imports with domestic production and thereby to eliminate a critical dependence on currency consuming foreign imports. (snip/)

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=13849