Bush and Rice Encounter the New OAS Pro-Democracy Buzzsaw

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Tue, 7 Jun 2005 19:59:07 -0400

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From Narco- News

Bush and Rice Encounter the New OAS Pro-Democracy Buzzsaw

 

Yesterday, United States President George W. Bush and his Secretary of

State Condoleezza

Rice went to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to deliver lofty but worried

speeches to the assembly

of the newly independent Organization of American States (OAS, in its

English initials).

 

It was the first OAS meeting inside the United States in 31 years, a

fact that Secretary Rice

noted when she reminisced: " The last time the OAS met in the United

States, some 31

years ago, it looked a lot different than it does today. Of the 23

member states, 10 were

military dictatorships. "

 

While taking that walk down amnesia lane, she and Bush kept mouthing

the word

" democracy " as if dropping the name of an important friend who they

really don't know

that well. The irony was not lost on the Latin American delegates.

There, in Florida (hardly

a poster state for electoral " democracy " after the last two simulated

presidential elections,

rife with Floridian fraud, in the U.S.) Rice waxed poetically about

the times of dictators but

neglected to recall that every one of those tyrants was installed and

forcefully propped up

by her own government – from Chile to Argentina, to Brazil to Bolivia

to Uruguay to

Paraguay, where a Washington-authored plot named " Operation Condor "

slammed the

boot down upon South American dreams of freedom.

 

Even in the so-called " democracies " of that era, such as Mexico and

Venezuela, the violent

repression against authentically democratic and civil rights

movements, the assassination

of their leaders and journalists, the censorship of their press, the

training of their military

brass in torture techniques at the US's " School of the Americas, " and

the maintenance of

keeping a few in power while the majorities suffered were the daily

bread of U.S. policy.

 

Indeed, many of the same U.S. officials found today in the Bush

administration, including

key members of Rice's own staff, were directly involved in the 1973

Chilean coup, the

military waves of terror from Sao Paulo to San Salvador, the

CIA-sponsored cocaine

trafficking to form a slush fund for paramilitaries in Nicaragua in

the 1980s… and yet

there she was, speaking of once upon a time in América, as if her

administration had any

kind of authority at all to speak of " democracy " and instruct Latin

Americans how to

practice it.

 

The Latin American nations yesterday, at that Florida meeting,

rejected the Orwellian

vision of Bush and Rice, with their newfangled turn of phrases in

which " democracy, " to

them, means setting up new ways to impose their will upon the

democratic aspirations of

their neighbors to the South.

 

Countries that only a few years ago could have been counted on to back

any U.S. venture

in the Organization of American States – countries like Argentina,

Brazil, Chile and even

Mexico, which in this blessed year of 2005 has finally halted its

lurch away from Bolívar's

country called América and stood together again with the South

American and Caribbean

nations – told Bush and Rice that they don't accept their version of

making impositions

and calling it " democracy. "

 

And the new chairman of the Organization of American States, José

Miguel Insulza, of

Chile, rebuked the U.S. proposal to create mechanisms of force over

individual nations.

(Remember just a few weeks ago when the Commercial Media told you that

Rice claimed to

have struck a deal to elect Insulza, as Narco News alone explained to

you that Insulza had

been elected, to the contrary, to stand up in favor of Latin American

democracy against

the anti-democratic aspirations of the Bush administration?

 

If you missed that report, " Democracy Triple Play: Ecuador to Mexico

to the OAS: the

Smackdown of Condoleezza's Agenda Came on the Week of Her Latin

American Tour "

(Narco News, May 1, 2005), here's the link:

 

http://narconews.com/Issue37/article1277.html