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For the past months and ending yesterday on
March 5th, La Hojilla, a
Venezolana de Televisión programme, took on
the task of selecting facts and sentences that
exactly reveal the imperialist scheme of doing
to Chavez what was done to Milosevič after the
genocidal Kosovo Conflict: to have him tried by
the International Criminal Tribunal.
Last night after midnight Cuban time, in other
words, just today, when I heard official press
releases given by a group of officials who are
dealing with the pertinent legal procedures in
Colombia, I had absolutely no doubts. This is
no secret. It is a battle of pre-packaged
opinions. I very much had in mind La Hojilla’s
excellent summary as I write these lines.
What has been said about Chavez recently? He
was elected by a popular majority vote.
Immediately there is an addition: just like
Hitler. Of course this doesn’t explain what we
know all too well: that Hitler was the genuine
product of the capitalist system, that this was
expressed through the Treaty of Versailles and
the sanctions it imposed –I have already
mentioned this before in a reflection- , and
these magnified the nationalist sentiments in
the fledgling German Republic. Fascism murdered
countless numbers of people. Chavez never
killed anyone, he has been elected several
times, and the most incredible insults to him
are published and distributed daily in all the
media. They will never make the President of
Venezuela accept this.
Once the U.S. government was certain they could
destroy missiles in mid-air from California by
using space satellites, they were unashamedly
speaking about atomic war and not covering up
their intent to rule the world with blood and
fire. They spend trillions of dollars on weapons
that contribute nothing to satisfy the
necessities and the well-being of humankind;
quite the opposite, they maintain a constant
state of tension in the world economy; like the
bandits in the American Wild West, they force
countries to hand over their money or their
lives.
Listening for hours to the economists assembled
in Havana to discuss globalization and the
problems of development in a civilized manner,
one can appreciate the tremendous clash of ideas
and the contradictions surging with increasing
vigour and complexity in today’s world. I keep
a good number of facts in my mind which, quite
certainly, were dealt with at that meeting.
The solidarity with the people of Ecuador which
was expressed at that conference is, by itself,
extremely valuable.
The President of that nation, Rafael Correa,
stated today that if the Organization of
American States “does not condemn the aggression
on his country, we will have to throw it into
the garbage heap of history”. “We must make
decisions tomorrow in Santo Domingo in order to
clearly condemn the aggression against Ecuador”,
he added. I heard these two declarations not
just in the televised interview with Correa.
They also appear in several of the news cable
agencies.
The seriousness of the problem created by the
U.S. government cannot be under-estimated.
Yesterday, Bush gave his support to the
Republican candidate McCain who is committed to
the Iraq War and enjoys dropping bombs on the
civilian population, is opposed to any kind of
negotiation and swears he will uphold the
economic blockade against the Cuban nation. Two
days ago, the cables informed us about some of
Bush’s new measures to further expand the
blockade against Cuba on the Internet.
What can the peoples of Latin America, who would
like their sovereignty to be safeguarded, hope
for from the Empire?
Can such a tyranny which is so damaging to the
peoples of the planet be sustainable or not?
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 6, 2008
6:32 p.m.
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