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The Smell of Sulphur in Latin America

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 11 March 2007

Governments USA South/Latin America

March 10, 2007

The Smell of <st1:City
w:st="on">Sulphur in Latin America

By Gatto

Bush doesn’t get it. The
MSM doesn’t get it, and most of the people in the <st1:place
w:st="on">United States
don’t get it. What it
is that they all don’t “get” is that The United States of America has no
friends in Latin America. We might have some
good relations on some occasions depending who’s in
power down there and up here in Washington,
but overall they don’t like us very much. I can hardly say I blame them. We
have been usurping legitimate governments in South America

for our own best interests. We try to wrap it into that all encompassing theme
of “Nation <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Building
” but you and I know what it
is...interference in other sovereign nations business, usually at their
expense.

No the MSN is calling the protests that center on George W. Bush a
confrontation between capitalism and socialism. It is no such thing. It is, for
all intents and purposes a warning to the United
States
to stay out of Latin America.
They stand under the banner of Hugo Chavez because he is one Latin American
leader that stands against Bush and his vultures ready to pick the ripening
fruit of successful semi-socialist Latin America.
The American government wants nothing except to see every leftist government in
Latin America fail, and it’s

citizen’s be damned, so the we can keep an economic stranglehold over the
hemisphere. It must gall Bush and his NeoCon partners no end to see Chavez sell
heating oil subsidized by the Venezuelan government to his own citizens. That
Hugo Chavez has done something that George W. Bush couldn’t do, and that was to
bring welcome economic relief to American citizens.

It must gall Bush even more to drive into a military base in The United States
and see gas stations run by The Armed Forces Exchange Service displaying the “<span
style='font-family:Verdana'>CITGO
” logo. That means that
every time a solder or sailor fills up his vehicle he’s putting money in
Chavez’s pockets. What should really scare Bush and Co.
Is that the Venezuelan people are finally seeing their natural resources coming
back to the people in the form of a vibrant economy instead of filling the
pockets of the robber baron’s in The United States.

The thing that should prey the most on Bush’s drug-addled, alcohol soaked
brain, is that not only Latin-Americans see Chavez as a statesman that he seems
to be, but that many people in his own country who think that Hugo Chavez has
the right idea. People like Chavez. When he made that remark in the United
Nations the day after Bush spoke about the smell of sulphur in the air, I don’t
think I was alone in agreeing with him. He called Bush “The Devil” and the
devil he is. Chavez seems to enjoy prodding Bush, and I don’t blame him, after
all it WAS the
American government that tried to engineer a coup that backfired in their face
because they didn’t take into account his popularity with his own people. A
mistake Bush is prone to, for this is a man that hardly ever takes the people
into account when hatching mad schemes. I guess he thought that the Venezuelan
people would just follow blindly as <st1:place
w:st="on">America
overthrew their leader. He
must have been quite surprised to see that unlike Americans that fall for every
lie his administration tells hook, line and sinker, these Latin American folks
actually took back their government an re-installed their popular leader.

So now Herr Bush is in Latin America. No doubt
one thing he will do is check on the Bush farmlands down there in case the
family has to flee the United States
as many Monarchies had to flee from Europe. I
think he is also down there to try to find a friendly face, someone that he can
convince of America’s good
intentions toward Latin America. Thinking of
that reminds me of Diogenes and his lamp.



Authors Website: http://liberalpro.blogspot.com

Authors Bio: Former Chairman of the now-defunct Liberal Party of America, Tim
is a retired Army Sergeant. He currently lives in <st1:place
w:st="on">South Carolina
. A regular contributor to
OpEdNews, he is the author of Kimchee Kronicles and is currently at work on a
new novel.

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