Castro & Chavez Will Attend Inauguration Of Uruguay's Socialist President

[Itsthetruth]

TimesOnline
February 28, 2005

Castro joins Latin American Left to celebrate first win in Uruguay
By Tom Hennigan
Bush policy of isolating Cuba backfires

URUGUAY, once South America’s most prosperous country, plays host to an unlikely gathering of left-wing leaders tomorrow as it prepares to break with 170 years of history and swear in its first socialist President. Tabaré Vázquez, a 65-year-old professor of medicine who was elected last October with 50 per cent of the vote, will be inaugurated as head of the Broad Front coalition, whose biggest component is a party founded by the former Marxist Tupamaro guerrilla movement.

The new head of the country’s Senate is José Mújica, a former Tupamaro leader who was held in a deep well for seven years by his military captors who said he would be executed if the guerrillas killed any more military officers.

With Uruguay joining most of its neighbours in voting the Left into power, Washington loses one of its few remaining close allies in the region. The most visible sign of this change will be the attendance at the handover of Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader and the US’s arch-enemy in the region.

Also expecting a warm welcome in Montevideo is Venezuela’s populist President Hugo Chávez, described by Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, as a destabilising influence in the region.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1504140,00.html

[Skink]

1. Today's book talk on CSPAN...

John Perkins implied that S. American countries are starting to get on the band wagon of not repaying loans given to their past Dictatorial regimes. What's next kicking out any U.S. interests that have been installed as debt repayment.
This I think is where we will take our killing machine next.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Next up, Bolivia.

Evo Morales of Bolivia's "Movement to Socialism" is a strong contender to win the presidency in 2007.

Latin America, first victim of neoliberal globalism, is leading the world towards a new internationalism.

[Stirk]

3. We're watching the early stages of the decline of US power.

Not that I think that's bad. Overall I believe that imperialist governments are bad for everyone save a very small minority. Ultimately, a decline in US international influence may be the best thing that's ever happened to the average US citizen.

It is interesting to watch- particularly the changes attitudes toward international debt. The American Empire is largely built on illusions and monetary fraud.

[Selatius]

4. Corporatists still eye South America with greed

If the bottom line is the end goal, then they will be tempted to attack and undermine all these countries, probably through covert means. Venezuela, Brazil, and now Uruguay will have to band together and form a bloc to ward off US intervention.

[K-W]

5. The backlash from washington is going to be UGLY

Get ready for a pile of bodies forming in Latin America. The foriegn policy establishment does not abide self deterimination for the Americas.

[paineinthearse]

6. .

:kick:

Will be one to watch.