With ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez appearing to call for armed U.S. intervention in Latin America, this editorial from Venezuela’s Tal Cual seems to be asking proverbially, ‘has the world turned upside down?’
Referring to the two leaders as ‘Chacumbeles’, which is a Cuban expression that means roughly “people who do themselves in,” the Tal Cual editorial says in part:
“For once in its long history of outrages against its ‘backyard,’ the Empire is behaving with discretion and prudence, distancing itself from the one Latin American military coup that it hasn’t had a hand in. And now we have the ‘anti-imperialist’ Chacumbele demanding that the Empire put its gangs into Honduras. … Since he doesn’t dare attack Obama directly, Chavez explains his conduct by pretending that he’s a “hostage of the Empire,” and for that reason, he cannot act himself.
“Equally pathetic, if not more so, is [ousted Honduran President] Zelaya. After all, like all oligarchs in his country, among whom he is the most conspicuous, he’s a long-time Pitiyanqui [little Yankee] himself. He has said nothing less than, ‘Obama, who has great power, must act in Honduras.’ It must be the end of the world. Zelaya wants to return to power riding a gringo tank.”
EDITORIAL
Translated By Douglas Myles Rasmussen
July 7, 2009
Venezuela – Tal Cual – Home Page (Spanish)
For once in its long history of outrages against its “backyard,” the Empire is behaving with discretion and prudence, distancing itself from the one Latin American military coup that it hasn’t had a hand in. And now we have the “anti-imperialist” Chacumbele demanding that the Empire put its gangs into Honduras.
[Editor’s Note: In Cuba, a Chacumbele is someone who meets his death by his own actions. The author is referring to Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. It is said that a Havana man named Chacumbele was a womanizer, and that one woman fell madly in love with him. Chacumbele ran around with other ladies, and so the first woman had a fit, and followed Chacumbele until she found him with his new lover, and proceeded to carve him up with a knife.]
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