Is the United States so upset with the leftward-tilt in Latin America and especially its growing independence from the Washington, that it’s trying to frame Hugo Chavez?
“No one can take seriously the evidence revealed by the police of Interpol on the basis of an investigation conducted into a criminal action like that carried out by President Uribe’s government on Ecuadorian territory.
All indications are that South America’s real “crime” is that its people have opted to break with the tradition of governments who have acted to further the mandates of imperial power and elect leaders who are strongly committed to their own people and exclusively serve the interests of their own nations.”
By Francisco Arias Cárdenas
Translated By Miguel Guttierez
May 19, 2008
Venezuela – El Universal – Original Article (Spanish)
Never have so many coincidental events marked the lives of our people than during the days we are living through today. These are times of turning points, of forks in the road and of contradictions between various interests that come to the surface and here and there, show themselves.
About three weeks ago, the Brazilian defense minister, on a tour of our nation and other South American countries, carried a proposal for a military alliance for the South American continent. This proves that if one dreams the impossible, one can live to see those dreams come true.
Just a few days later events occurred that we are only now beginning to grasp. On the one hand, first we heard of the [U.S.] Fourth Fleet . Then, Interpol presented the contents of the alleged computer that that is said to confirm charges made by the government of President Uribe [Colombia], which was allegedly captured in Ecuador after the territorial violation of that nation.
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