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> Colombian and Peruvian Elections Prove Stalin Was Right

8 June 2006, 15:12

Mr Lendman wrote: "On May 28, we’re supposed to believe the Colombian people rejected a more moderate or democratic alternative and instead chose to reelect right wing hard-liner and close Bush ally Alvaro Uribe Velez who had to arrange for the constitution to be changed to allow him to run in the first place."

If Mr Lendman had been reading the Colombian press and following the local polls over the past few months, he would not be surprised with the election outcome. The nation is foursquare behind Uribe Velez.

It may be a shock to Mr Lendman that Colombians don’t share his political views. Many American leftists feel a "white man’s burden" to help their poorer neighbors to the south install Marxist-based - as opposed to market-based - economies.

I’ll share some more bad news. Colombians, by a large majority, are opposed to legalizing drugs, abortion on demand, and homosexual "marriage", all things which socialists such as Mr Lendman usually favor quite strongly. There is obviously a cultural gap between Colombian society and the society imagined by U.S. leftists. But don’t give up hope - Gramsci lives, and given time, his methods can be effective in Colombia has they have been in the U.S.