Venezuela's FTA with the USA and Cuba's invasion
By Aleksander Boyd
London 14.06.06 | Hugo Chavez the disintegrator goes around the region
pointing out the so called servile character of other nations due to
their trade agreements with the USA. Violating all Venezuelan
constitutional precepts and international agreements he singlehandedly
decides to take our country out of the Andean Pact and the G3. Colombia
and Mexico are to be condemned for exporting goods and services to the
US, Peru and Ecuador ought not seek to sell its fish and bananas to the
Yanks whilst OXY is nationalised and Petrobras, British Gas et al are
sent similar warnings; in sum Chavez hurls abuse at elected presidents
of South American nations for doing what he does on a daily basis; i.e.
trade with the evil USA.
It is a bit rich for Chavez to make use of such argument, especially
when one takes into consideration that Venezuela has a de facto
perfectly working and extraordinarily profitable Free Trade Agreement
with the USA. The sole product that our country produces, a commodity,
is not subject to tariffs and trade barriers anywhere. The US, being the
biggest energy consumer, is all too happy in trying to meet its energy
requirements with Venezuelan supply. It does so and has done it for very
many years. So why the nonsensical and demonstrably fallacious stance of
the Venezuelan caudillo? The answer is in Havana...
Cuba's Invasion
During the 1960s the Cuban dictator tried, unsuccessfully, to invade
Venezuela. Historians recall the event as a personal feud between Castro
and the democratic leaders of the group that ousted the second to last
dictator of Venezuela, Marcos Perez Jimenez. Unsuccessful as he was, he
never stopped dreaming about conquering Venezuela.
After being pardoned for his coup d'etat and released from prison Hugo
Chavez travelled to Cuba where he was received with honours by Castro.
At the time Castro was recuperating from the Russian weaning, and from
the Venezuelan sky fell this provincial, moronic and utterly gullible
soldier who was already willing to surrender the riches and sovereignty
of Venezuela to him. Talk about good luck. It was only a matter of
making Chavez reach the presidency, which, most unfortunately, happened
in 1998 and all would be sorted. Indeed for all of Chavez's hollow
chauvinistic talk never in our contemporary history had a foreign
leader, let alone a dictator, so much leverage in Venezuela.
The current foreign policy is not dictated by the Venezuelan executive
but rather by the bearded one in Havana, who knows a thing or two about
poking fun at the international community. Incredibly for nearly 50
years Castro has been able to advance this idea of him being a victim of
the imperialists designs of Washington. And those who have bought into
the BS are yet to start criticizing Castro's own imperialist activities
in Africa, Central and South America.
Chavez's anti-imperialist discourse is not of his making. Rather he's
just parroting, like the devout, obeying soldier he is, the Cuban script
that has worked so remarkably well for the past 48 years. His notorious
'anti-US' stance and constant attacks to imperialism have gained him
notoriety all around the planet. But see revolutions are extremely
costly enterprises, especially when these are to be developed in
continent-wide frameworks. The Cuban revolution can not afford to
overcome another weaning, which would accelerate the demise, political
and otherwise, of Fidel Castro. For that reason Venezuela must be
protected at all costs and, equally, its riches must be taken away from
its rightful owners and be put at the service of the revolution.
That is why thousands of Cubans have been dispatched to Venezuela.
Similarly Chavez and high officials of his regime are constantly
travelling to Havana for consultations. International PR strategy is run
by Cuban spin doctors and Venezuelan lobbying activities are meant to be
conducted by Cuban diplomatic personel. The Cuban interference that we
are seeing nowadays in Venezuela is patently clear; to the point where
the Cuban Ambassador goes on state-owned TV to accuse Venezuelan
citizens and request apologies from them. The most unerving fact of it
all is that the so called 'patriotic' chavistas do not seem to be
bothered by the constant affronts of Cuban representatives. As someone
else stated is "Not an American Invasion; But a Cuban One!"
Venezuela's FTA with the USA not only props the oppresion of Venezuelan
people but funds instability in the whole continent. Will the democratic
leaders of other nations stress upon the ludicrous claims of Castro's
poodle?
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