Chavez urges Latin America to withdraw billions from U.S. banks
Hugo Chavez urged Latin American countries to withdraw billions in international reserves from U.S. banks, warning of a looming U.S. economic crisis.
Chavez said this at the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of America (ALBA) summit in Caracas on Saturday 26 Jan 08.
(The word “Alba” also means “dawn” in Spanish.)
The summit is designed to boost Latin American integration, while countering U.S. military imperialism and “free trade” deals.
Cuba and Venezuela formed ALBA in 2001 to counter the Bush regime’s attempt to impose a “free trade” deal that would have enslaved all of South America. Bush’s FTAA (“Free Trade Area of the Americas”) failed, because Latin American countries had already been crushed by World Bank and IMF usury.
"We should start to bring our financial reserves here to South America," Chavez said. "Why does most of that that money have to be in the north?"
At the ALBA summit, Chavez and other leaders launched a new development bank to counter the World Bank and IMF. They also admitted the Dominican Republic into ALBA.
In attendance were representatives from Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Cuba (Chavez allies).
Also attending was Ahmad Sobhani, Iran's deputy foreign minister in Euro-American affairs. (Iran is a Chavez ally.)
Chavez said the U.S. empire has completely taken over Columbia.
Columbia’s dictator Alvaro Uribe is Bush’s strongest ally in South America, and is now Bush’s principle weapon against Chavez. Uribe gets the largest U.S. military aid package outside the Middle East, and he uses this cash to eliminate reformists, labor-leaders, and pro-Chavez elements. Leftist rebellion against dictatorship in Columbia has continued longer than anywhere else in South America.
The USA praises Uribe as an ally in the “war on drugs,” when in fact Columbian dictatorships provide the CIA and Israeli gangsters with cocaine, and also provide Jewish gangsters with emeralds.
FREE TRADE AS A WEAPON
In December 2007 the Bush regime got a “free trade” deal with the elitist rulers of Peru, plus a "free trade" deal with the rich leaders of Vietnam.
The Bush regime also has “free trade” deals pending with Columbia, Panama, and South Korea. However, the three latter deals have stalled in Congress, because most of humanity now realizes that “free trade” deals wipe out jobs, eliminate labor laws, impoverish the masses, and remove consumer protections. They also remove environmental protections.
However they enrich dictators, central banks, and multi-national corporations, leaving ordinary people with nothing.
“Free trade” deals are designed to remove tariffs and other restrictions, thereby establishing trans-national corporate / banking monopolies that eliminate free trade.
The Columbian "free trade" deal will be the largest in the western hemisphere since NAFTA. It will make more than 80 percent of US consumer and industrial exports to Colombia duty free. This will enable subsidized U.S. farming conglomerates to wipe out Columbian farmers. Trade between the USA and Columbia reached $11 billion in 2007.
All republican presidential candidates (except Ron Paul) support “free trade” deals. Obama, Hillary, and Edwards have “questions” about them, based on “environmental concerns.”
In 2006, the dictator Uribe signed a “free trade” deal with Bush, but the U.S. Congress has not yet ratified it.
The Columbian governent admits that over 700 Columbian labor leaders have been murdered since 2001 (25 of them in 2007). The AFL-CIO says the death toll is more like 4,000 in the last 20 years.
"There's not a country in the world where the list of martyrs is as long as it is in Colombia," said Carlos Gutierrez, head of the CUT labor umbrella organization, which represents Colombia's 530,000 unionized workers. (This Carlos Gutierrez, Columbian, is not to be confused with the Cuban Carlos Gutierrez. See below.)
Bush has threatened to force the “free trade” agreement on Columbia’s workers.
RICE FLIES IN
When the Bush regime learned about the ALBA summit in Caracas, he sent Cuntoleeza Rice to Columbia to bolster the U.S. image there, and to champion the “free trade” deal with Columbia’s dictator Uribe (who will become richer than ever if the U.S. Congress ratifies the deal).
On Thursday 24 Jan 08, Rice arrived in Medellin (Columbia’s second largest city) accompanied by nine Democratic Congress-people. They spent two days with Uribe, talking about the “free trade” deal, and about how to offset Chavez.
Since summer 2007, nearly 70 other U.S. congress-people have visited Colombia, led by high-ranking Bush regime officials like Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. All have been pushing for Congress to ratify the “free trade” deals.
(Carlos Gutierez is an anti-Castro Cuban. Bush hired him as U.S. Secretary of Commerce to ram “free trade” agreements through South America. On 11 January 2008, Gutierrez said the U.S. economy is in great shape, with rising wages, growing exports, and low unemployment. By contrast, the most economists admit that the USA is in a severe recession that will get much worse.)
Columbia’s dictator Uribe takes the visitors through dog-and-pony shows that reveal the “workers paradise” of Columbia (where the government routinely assassinates labor leaders).
At an air force base near Medellin, Rice stood beside Uribe and said, “I want to assure that you will have a good friend in the United States!”
The “free trade” deal is supported by trade organizations such as the Consumer Electronics Association, led by Gary Shapiro (naturally), who says “free trade” deals are crucial to the growth of U.S. jobs.
“Free trade is something we've taken for granted as an industry. For the first time in my career, I’m concerned about the future of free trade. In Congress, on television, and with some of our presidential candidates, free trade is no longer a given."
Shapiro called on Congress to ratify “free trade” agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea. Including a trade agreement with Peru approved by Congress in December 2007, those four countries represent about 124 million slave consumers.
One reporter asked why Americans should support free trade, when American jobs are being wiped out, imported toys contain toxic chemicals, and imported pet foods kill dogs and cats.
Shapiro said “free trade” might cause problems for a small number of workers, but many more U.S. workers have jobs because of free trade.
BUSH / COLUMBIA VERSUS CHAVEZ
Many forces in Columbia oppose the Bush-supported dictator Uribe. One is the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Columbia’s Chavez Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos claims that at least three FARC leaders live in Venezuela. Chavez blasted this claim at the ALBA summit.
The Bush regime and the European Union list FARC rebels as terrorists. Chavez wants the FARC taken off the terrorism list, but he does not give much support to the FARC, a Marxist gang that sometime supports Chavez, and sometimes opposes him, depending on expediency. For example, Venezuelan Marxists opposed the recent constitutional reforms. FARC guerillas also help supply illegal drugs in Venezuela, which Chavez wants to stop.
(Most of today’s Marxist gangs around the world are militias that claim to oppose dictatorships, but really seek power for themselves. They are unpredictable cults, often with female leaders. The unpredictability comes not from women, but from the cult status of the groups.)
Chavez gives more support to another rebel group in Columbia known as the National Liberation Army (ELN), which opposes Bush and the dictator Uribe.
At the ALBA summit, Chavez accepted a handful of coca leaves from his Bolivian ally Evo Morales, and chewed them in front of delegates. Chavez said coca was not cocaine, and blamed organized gangsters for converting it cocaine. The US recently accused Chavez of aiding the flow of cocaine from Colombia, through Venezuela.
Relations between Columbia and Venezuela were somewhat stable until November 2007, when pro-Bush dictator Uribe asked Chavez to stop mediating role in the release of FARC hostages. Now tensions builds every day.
The Bush regime is exploiting this tension to bolster Columbia as an ally against Chavez. In the last couple of weeks, Admiral Michael Mullen (chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff) and US “drug czar” John Walters have visited Uribe to discuss how Columbia can offset Chavez. Chavez says the USA and Colombia are plotting a false flag incident that will spark a war with Venezuela.
At the ALBA summit, Chavez blasted Colombia as a U.S. "imperialist" pawn. He said relations with Columbia could only deteriorate.
Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega, a Chavez ally, said, "The dictatorship of global capitalism has lost control."
The leaders signed a series of accords at the end of the ALBA summit, pledging cooperation in areas from energy to agriculture, plus a document denouncing "the warlike attitude of the U.S. government and its attacks against our governments."
Correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the first so-called "free trade" deal was with Israel, back in 1985 or so.
Mercosur-Israel trade deal likely delayed until 2008
Mercosur, South America's four-nation trading bloc, failed to clinch a historic free-trade pact with Israel on Thursday after a last-minute disagreement on freeing up trade for certain products, officials said.
The deal is now not expected to be completed until next year. It would be the first free-trade agreement for Mercosur, a market of nearly 250 million people covering most of South America, since its creation in 1991.
"We had a good meeting and made progress on most remaining issues, but we still have some work to do," said Evandro Didonet, a senior official in Brazil's Foreign Ministry. "If we don't close it in December, we will finish the agreement early in 2008. We are very close."
Didonet told The Associated Press that the differences concerned only a "limited number of products." He declined to elaborate.
Israel already has a number of trade agreements, including with the United States, European Union, Canada and Mexico.
But Mercosur _ comprised of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay _ has struggled in attempts to reach a deal with the 27-nation EU because of disagreements over how much to open up Europe's protected farm markets.
"It is something very important because it will be the first trade agreement for Israel in South America," Ambassador Itzhak Levanon told The AP.
Trade flows between Israel and South America are relatively small. The package is expected to facilitate freer movement of some goods traded back and forth, but is not expected to usher in dramatic commercial expansion.
Officials have declined to comment on what products or services the agreement would include.
In 2005, Mercosur started negotiations with the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council on a free trade zone that aimed to provide South America access to a lucrative import market. Talks with the group including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are ongoing, but have made little progress
Source: Wall Street News
And if the deal fails, how long before the "Anti-Semitic" canard is bandied about?
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This explains alot, thanks! Your contribution to our knowledge base here is appreciated brotha.
The Fascists have always had a strong foothold, South of America! It's not like all the Nazis are white or black! (more..olive) You've gotta know that COLOMBiA would be a favoured colony that subjugated and enslaved the natives, including their specialty; those people in the Brazilian rainforest! I don't have to remind you of..
That is why there is such strong opposition in South America! When China opened up, the pilgrims packed up their wagons & enslaved an entire race!
But now that relations with China are going downhill, and the fact that wages and cost of doing ETHiCAL business can ONLY GO UP (SiC); the beast now covets backup slaves' souls and preciouss possesssionss.
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"We don't own Mother Earth, we borrow her from our children".
-Crazy Horse (Lakota: Thaš?ka Witko, or "His-Horse-is-Crazy") was a respected leader of the Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life.
Yes, the U.S. plan for Columbia has four major thrusts: oil, drugs, “free trade,” and the annihilation of Hugo Chavez.
OIL
Venezuela produces 1.6 million barrels of oil a day. Columbia produces only forty percent less, and sells it to companies such as Occidental Petroleum, the fourth largest oil company in the USA. Columbia’s dictator Uribe lives in a gigantic palace, and lets foreign oil companies take 75 percent of the profits. Columbia is now the seventh largest source of U.S. oil.
DRUGS
Wherever the U.S. military or CIA gets involved, that place becomes a drug factory. Afghanistan is now the world’ s biggest producer of heroin. Columbia is now the world’s biggest producer of cocaine. Farmers impoverished by civil war and economic war (“free trade” deals) can only survive by growing drugs, which is part of the overall U.S. plan.
As the video explains, aerial defoliating in Columbia makes cocaine scarcer, thus increasing profitability and growth. Defoliation is not counter-narcotics; it is counter-insurgency. It is mainly done in places where people question the dictator Uribe. It is both selective punishment, and a tool for orderly cocaine production. (The CIA helped eliminate Pablo Escobar to eliminate drug competition.)
Farmers who need further punishment are liquidated by military, and by paramilitary death squads of the CIA-trained “United Autodefenses of Columbia" (AUC), sometimes helped by U.S. mercenaries. Victims include anyone who tries to organize labor unions or human rights organizations, or questions the dictator Uribe, or threatens the CIA / Uribe drug monopoly, or the U.S. oil monopoly, or whose skin is too dark. (Whole villages of African mixed people are liquidated for he sheer sake of ethnic cleansing.)
Columbia has been locked in a civil war for decades. This has driven people into cities, where they live in extreme poverty, leaving farmland for coca planters employed by the CIA and Columbia’s government. This process is accelerated by the U.S. chemical defoliation of crops. The Monsanto company’s “roundup-ultra” chemical is highly carcinogenic, and poisons the entire Amazon area, just as Monsanto’s “agent orange” poisoned Vietnam.
Not only is Columbia’s dictator Uribe one of biggest drug lords in the world, he also gets more U.S. military aid than anyone in the world except Israel and the dictator Mubarak in Egypt.
“FREE TRADE” AND THE COMING ATTACK ON VENEZUELA
Bush’s “free trade” deal will further wipe out labor unions and small farmers, making Columbia’s people so desperate that they will easily be manipulated (via false flag massacre) into a major war against Chavez. That’s why top-level military people from the USA (including the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff) have recently been visiting Columbia. Columbia’s own military chief of staff wears a uniform identical to the U.S. chief of staff’s uniform, which shows how close Columbia is to the USA.
Meanwhile in the USA, the endless “war on drugs” provides jobs for law enforcement. America has the largest prison population per capita in the world. Two thirds of all inmates are imprisoned on petty drug-related charges.
So it works out nice for everyone.
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One thing I learned from the video was the origin of this term “French Connection.” When France was defeated in Vietnam (1954), the CIA kept open a drug network run by tribal warlords from Laos. CIA aircraft shipped heroin from Vietnam to France. France shipped it to the USA. The "French connection" was the link between Southeast Asia and the USA.
Look for some major act of aggression real soon in Venezuela.
AAZ: As always, your analysis is spot on. It would be very interesting to see if there is any correlation between the oil and gas exploration areas of Columbia and the intensive U.S. spraying program. We all know that the Rothschild zionist model of Baku calls for clearing the local landholders off the land prior to oil, gas, and pipeline development. It's much cheaper to kill them than to negotiate with them.