Some words to our readers
Contents:
Some words to our readers
Thanks from Phillip Agee
News from Venezuela
No soup for you: Cubans denied
opportunity to receive their Grammys
A feather in the cap of an
evildoer: Castro receives highest honor
bestowed by the American Indian Movement. Crazy Horse
is smiling.
Some words to our readers
First of all, I want to thank all of you who wrote
to me and expressed support for this column. Your creative
and perspicacious comments provide me with the
energy to work as hard as I can to bring you relevant information
concerning the America that has it's veins open.
I believe that the future belongs to those
that have the vision and the "cojones" to fight for it, and the best future
that
I can imagine is the world that embraces it's
diversity. Those of us that live in what was once called the "New World"
should take on the responsibility to move history
forward. The New World does not exist in a geographical location,
it is a place in the mind, and it is a place
that integrates the ancient and authentic with the new and innovative.
It is a
place that is dynamic, where birth and death
fuse together and produces a coherence, which gives our lives meaning.
The word America still casts a shadow of promise
and future, but the institutions of today's America are corrupt.
The U.S. Empire (BFEE) has betrayed it's republican
roots (I use the word republican in its original meaning…that which
is a representative democracy). Also, the vast
majority of Ibero-American nations are bled to dire consequences by the
oligarchs that serve their masters in the White
House, and in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations.
What we
have today is a cabal that controls our destiny,
this cabal includes the corporate interests of many nations in this hemisphere.
In this cabal the White House gives the orders
and the junior partners in the south go along so as to earn their blood
money.
In consequence, the majority of the people living
in Latin America are being bled dry of their wealth in natural resources.
Any Latino who knows her/history can only feel
disappointed at the big brother Uncle Sam. It was he who lit the path
for revolution and democracy in this hemisphere,
and then turned against his nieces and nephews when they sought to
follow the same path.
The Romans originated the Republican form of government
700 years before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. After a cabal
of Roman Oligarchs assassinated Julius Caesar,
the republic was quickly transformed into an empire. The empire sired
leaders of ill repute such as Tiberius, Caligula,
and Nero.
The founding brothers that birthed the American
Revolution established the second Republic in the history of humanity.
If you walk around the monumental buildings of
Washington D.C., there is no doubt that the intellectual progenitors of
the American experiment were inspired not just
by the ideas of John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau, but also by
the example of the Roman Republic. South of the
U.S. a movement of Freedom Fighters made up of slaves, freedmen
and Creoles in Haiti (at that time known as Santo
Domingue), took up the cause of liberation, and the republican form
of government. Inspired by the American Revolution,
and the subsequent French Revolution, the Haitians established
a black Republic, and immediately abolished slavery.
Unfortunately, when Napolean Bonaparte took power in France,
he reestablished slavery in the French colonies,
and began an imperial policy against Haiti, which submerged that nation
in a maelstrom of more than a hundred years of
solitude. The nascent American Republic in North America did not
defend the Republic of Haiti, but instead participated
in the embargo of Haiti, and so took the side of the slave owning
capitalists in the United States.
Since then the foreign policy of the U.S. has
consistently pursued a policy of dominance towards the nations of Latin
America,
and has opposed any independence movement that
they themselves did not control.
Ok, enough of my pedantic rant! I will continue
at a later time with my history lesson, and I invite all of you to comment
on what you have just read. Let us now go to
the Current Events section of this page.
Thanks from Phillip Agee
First of all, I received an email from Philip
Agee thanking me for linking his article on Cuba to Bartcop. Mr.
Agee lives
in Havana, and if any of you want to visit Cuba,
you should first visit his website, which is found at www.cubalinda.com
News from Venezuela
Last week the supporters of Venezuelan president
Hugo Chavez held the largest march in the history of that nation.
Following the demonstration Vice President Jose
Rangel, stated that "…this is a courageous and hopeful demonstration
which powerfully supports this revolutionary
process." The massive march in support of the Chavez revolution was
a
response to a march that was held several days
before by the anti-Chavez forces, which are promoting a referendum
to recall the President.
By the way, according to the new Venezuelan Constitution,
the President can be recalled only if more people vote for
the recall than those that voted to elect him.
For the anti-Chavez forces to successfully recall the President, they will
have
to convince a significant number of working class
Venezuelans to side with the class of Venezuelans that have looted the
country for decades. Of course, the private media
in Venezuela is Fox News on steroids, and the litany of lies that they
have promoted, deserve to be recorded in the
"Almanac of Hell". Nevertheless, the fact that Hugo Chavez has so far
survived the machinations of the
"Evil Empire", and it's minions, demonstrates that the Bolivarian Revolution
may
have enough stamina in it's legs to triumph over
it's enemies.
We will keep watching.
One more thing regarding Venezuela:
There are 4 private media networks in Venezuela,
and the revolutionaries have nicknamed them "las cuatro jineteras
del apocalipsis". The word "jinetero" means
horseman, and in Spanish the phrase "los cuatro jineteros del apocalipsis"
translates as, the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
In Spanish, words are masculine or feminine, and the inventive Venezuelans
by inserting "jinetera" which is the feminine
version of "jinetero", but is also slang for prostitute, into the famous
biblical reference,
have come up with the perfect metaphor to describe
the media whores that pollute the debate going on.
OK, let's proceed to the next story:
No soup for you: Cubans denied
opportunity to receive their Grammys
The Latin Grammy's were held in Miami on Wednesday,
and the Bush government made sure that none of the Cuban musicians
nominated for Grammy's were allowed to participate
in the ceremonies. It is an outrage that in the supposed land of the free
more
than a hundred Cuban musicians were denied the
opportunity to participate in the awards ceremony which pretends to represent
a genre of music which is by far the most popular
in our hemisphere. It is especially outrageous when you realize that Cuban
music
is to Latin music what R and B and Blues, is
to Rock and Roll.
Follow this link and read all about it:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030903/us_nm/leisure_grammys_cuba_dc_4
Moving right along:
Since we have a cowboy as president, let's see
whom the injun's are currently supporting.
A feather in the cap of an
evildoer: Castro receives highest honor
bestowed by the American Indian Movement. Crazy Horse
is smiling.
Read all about it. This article speaks for itself.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/agosto03/vier29/antiterrorismo.html
Okay, enough for now. Next time I will explain
why MECHA, the organization to which Cruz Bustamente was a member in
his college years is not a racist organization.
In other words, I will destroy the Republican canard, which attempts to
depict
Mr. Cruz Bustamente as a racist. Also, I am always
eager to respond to any of your queries at: Mbumba@aol.com
Hasta La Vista Baby!
Javier Hernandez-Miyares