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<span class="cat-date-line4">By Margaret Kimberley, <a
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September 25th, 2014</span><br>
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<h2><big><big><big>“Maduro’s enemies at home have declared war on
their own government and people.”</big></big></big></h2>
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<p><big><big><big>In the Bronx, New York, Venezuelan president
Nicolas Maduro reminded black Americans what they have
lost as a result of following misleaders and worshipping
Barack Obama. Before corporate dollars and Barack Obama
delivered a crippling blow to black politics, African
Americans were in the forefront of opposition to United
States foreign policy.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>More than any other group in the country, black
people could smell a foreign policy rat as soon as it was
spawned by Washington. Any claims of dangers to American
interests were met with skepticism and outright disdain.
Every declaration of criminality from the Gulf of Tonkin
resolution to Operation Just Cause to Operation Iraqi
Freedom were known to be frauds meant only to keep the
rest of the world under America’s thumb.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was
the great liberator of his country and as such earned the
enmity of the United States government. Venezuela was an
independent nation but not independent of the dictates of
imperialism. This country never rejected Manifest Destiny
or the Monroe Doctrine and still sees itself as entitled
to rule over all of North America and South America and
indeed the whole world.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>Nicolas Maduro has made mighty efforts to
continue the Chavez legacy. He has been met with terrific
opposition from the same domestic interests who tried to
undo Chavez and by the United States and its allies.
Maduro’s enemies at home have declared war on their own
government and people in an attempt to make Venezuela
ungovernable and bring down the Bolivarian revolution.</big></big></big></p>
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<h5><big><big><big>“This country never rejected Manifest Destiny
or the Monroe Doctrine.”</big></big></big></h5>
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<p><big><big><big>Maduro is to be applauded for not succumbing to
United States pressure and protecting his nation from
intrusions and interference. At the same time he has
continued the Chavez tradition of making common cause with
people here in this country who also want to see a just
world free from imperialism and the inequality that
creates so much suffering.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>Chavez began the practice of using the Venezuela
owned Citgo oil company to help not only his countrymen
and women but impoverished people here as well. In this
country, so often called “the richest country in the
world” the safety net is frayed and in some places
non-existent. Many people in this rich land live without
adequate heat or in places like Detroit, even without
water. If Venezuela had an extra supply of that, they
would surely lend a helping hand.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>Maduro does the same and he used the annual
United Nations meeting in New York as an opportunity to
speak to Americans who understand and support the need for
people around the world to be free of United States
domination. At Hostos Community College in the Bronx,
Maduro <a
href="http://telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelas-Maduro-Meets-with-Bronx-Community-Leaders-and-Residents-20140923-0069.html"
target="_blank">explained his presence there</a>.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>“This meetings enable us to see us, to talk,
about social struggle …in essence we are the same, you
people here in the Bronx and in the United States, and
in Venezuela, we´re the same, these meetings let us see
that, recognize it.”</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>So many lies they tell about Venezuela, whose
only crime is to … try to transcend capitalism, they
declare us sinners because of our right to dream, to
build humanist socialism.”</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>“In essence we are the same, you people here
in the Bronx and in the United States, and in
Venezuela.”</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>Maduro has reason to reach out to Americans as
the United States continues its tradition of subverting
the institutions it claims to support whenever they
deliver an unwanted result. Venezuela should have no
trouble taking its rotating seat on the United Nations
Security Council representing Latin America and the
Caribbean, but in 2006 the Bush administration pressured
other nations to vote no. Venezuela was deprived of the
rights that a United Nations member state is supposed to
have.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>Now the <a
href="http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10928"
target="_blank">corporate media</a> are following the
Obama administration in attacking Venezuela. The
Washington Post called Maduro “the economically illiterate
former bus driver.” Maduro quite rightly responded by
labeling the paper’s assertion racist and made it clear
that their little barbs would not dissuade his country
from exercising its rights which the United States feels
no need to respect. The <a
href="http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/theatrics-to-come-on-the-u-n-security-council/"
target="_blank">New York Times</a> urged that another
nation challenge Venezuela’s seat. Without a hint of irony
the Times claims to want to spare the world from “petty
theatrics” should Samantha Power have to sit next to Maria
Gabriela Chavez.</big></big></big></p>
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<p><big><big><big>The path to liberation is not just national, but
international. High crimes are committed here and abroad
and all of them must be exposed and opposed. On the same
day that Maduro came to the Bronx, Barack Obama began
bombing Syria and Iraq. A Venezuelan voice on the Security
Council, even temporarily, would expose American crimes.
That is why leaders like Nicolas Maduro are important and
why black people must reclaim their history of supporting
them.</big></big></big></p>
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