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Edited on Sat Apr-26-08 09:05 PM by Peace Patriot
with a lockdown of Congress and tens of thousands filling the streets with protests--are unrealistic, somewhat crazed nationalists who are obstructing progress--progress being multinational global corporate predators showing dumb Mexicans how things are done. They quote ordinary people on the Lopez Obrador side and a Harvard "expert" and anonymous "analysts" on the multinational side. And here's a fine pukism:
"Mexico's Cantarell oil field — discovered in 1976 and one of the world's largest — is drying up. Pemex reported a 2007 net loss of US$1.48 billion (euro98 billion) this week, as its revenues are drained to fund schools, hospitals and public works." --AP (emphasis added)
"Drained"! "DRAINED"! All those draggy schools and hospitals DRAINING profits that could be giving global predator CEOs hundreds of millions in bonuses for laying off workers. Society is a DRAIN on profits!
Bush has gone to great lengths in South America to regain global corporate predator control of the Andes oil fields, including, recently, trying to start a war between Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela, and supporting--and no doubt funding, arming and organizing--white separatists in Bolivia who want to split the gas/oil rich rural provinces off from the central government of Evo Morales--the first indigenous president of Bolivia--to deny benefit of those resources to the poor majority. The Bush Junta has spent $5.5 BILLION (our tax dollars) in military aid to Colombia, where they chainsaw union leaders and throw their body parts into mass graves, in order to retain this U.S.-friendly fascist enclave in the midst of a tidal wave of democracy and social justice that has swept leftists into power throughout the southern hemisphere, most recently, last Sunday, in Paraguay (of all places!), and in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
In many of these leftist democracies, the governments are "DRAINING" their revenues from resource extraction to bootstrap the poor majority--the best possible use of the resources. In Venezuela, for instance, which nationalized its oil long before the Chavez government, prior governments required only 10% of the revenues for Venezuela, and 90% to multinationals. The Chavez government has changed that formula to 60/40 in favor of Venezuela and its people ("schools, hospitals, public works")--a deal that Norway's Statoil, France's Total, British BP and even Chevron agreed to. (Only Exxon Mobil balked, and tried to strongarm Venezuela by seeking to freeze $12 billion in Venezuela's assets--an effort that Exxon Mobil just lost, in a London court.) Exploited people need strong, smart leftist leadership to fight these enormous battles with the global predators who seek to impoverish and enslave us all. And that's who they've elected, in leaders like Chavez, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Evo Morales in Bolivia, and Cristina Fernandez in Argentina and others.
This is what Mexico needs--something the Associated Pukes will never tell you. They need STRONG, SMART LEFTIST leadership to NEGOTIATE with multinationals--not Bush-ass-kissing wimps like Calderon. Maybe Mexico does need multinational technology, but ON WHAT TERMS? That is the question. Calderon will just give it all away--their rights to their own resources, their revenues, their future--like rightwing governments in Venezuela and other countries did for decades and centuries. Make a few people rich and fuck the poor majority.
Notice the AP framing. Notice the black-holes in what they choose to report. Don't be sucked in to the Bushite/global corporate predator point of view.
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