| Monday, June 19, 2006 |
| Muscling Venezuela |
The Bush administration is twisting arms south of the border to prevent our LatAm "friends" from backing Venezuela for an open seat on the U.N. Security Council. Doesn't that make it all but certain that Caracas will win?
To be honest, Venezuela has already won the face off with the U.S. in one significant way:
Since the US oil regime is into the privatization of profit as fully as it is into the socialization of risk, their definition of tactical success must be the ability to lift oil from Iraq at pleasure. They can stand the loss of a few lower-class soldiers; Blacks from the urban ghettoes or the sons of Mexican agricultural workers or else the children of unemployed industrial workers in the Midwest. But our plutocracy cannot hide from itself or from anyone else its inability to lift that oil.
And therein lies the key to the defense of the national territory of the Bolivarian Republic.
Whatever else is done to defend Venezuela, and whatever else is done, make sure the gringos get less oil from Venezuela than they formerly did. And there you go.
Tags: Venezuela, Americas, Hugo Chavez, Politics, Oil |
posted by JReid @ 8:13 AM   |
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