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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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