04/11/05

The blatant hypocrisy of the U.S. government when it comes to its campaign to export 'democracy' is hard for even the most 'pro-American' forces in a country like Venezuela -- or Mexico -- to swallow, and in the former, the opposition is quick to deny that their strings are being pulled from Washington. Far from exporting 'democracy,' the U.S. government is building an Empire on which the sun never sets: a network of bases, U.S. government-financed NGOs, and compliant client regimes that will provide launching pads for further expansion. Yes, the economic policies of Chavez and the Mexican PRD will impoverish their respective countries and lead to the consolidation of a new elite based on some form of state socialism: but the U.S. is only discrediting free-market policies by seeking to impose them, either at gunpoint or via a U.S.-financed -- and directed -- fifth column...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5516

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp