This piece from Manuel Valenzuela, originally posted April 3, 2007, is just one of a large number of similarly excellent analyses at his site, www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com/, such as "The Great American Catalyzing Event," about the burgeoning 9/11 truth movement, and a new piece today, 5/1, "Enter the Empire." Readers are encouraged to keep an eye on this wonderful blog. Mr. Valenzuela has been published at various alternative news sites and was interviewed in April by Michael Wolsey on Visibility 9-11 and by Kevin Barrett on 9/11 and Empire. An audio narration in mp3 format of this essay is also available here.
It's for reasons like the subject of this article that the US wants to drive Hugo Chavez from power. The US-abetted failed coup attempt of a few years ago was simply the continuation of a long policy of destabilization of countries who dare to defy US "guidance" on economic matters. Defying the US with respect to the nationalization of oil is a particularly cardinal sin.
This time, however, the coup didn't work. An emboldened and strengthened Chavez emerged from it to become the face of the South American resistance movement. This long-awaited move to re-nationalize the nation's oil industry is critical for breaking the grip of corporate rule and returning true national sovereignty to Venezuela.
We know another country that needs to restore its national sovereignty.
"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving
their
just
powers from the consent of the governed ... That whenever
any
Form
of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of
the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government,
... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, ... evinces a
design
to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right,
it
is
their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards
for their future security." Declaration of Independence, July 4,
1776.
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