[Newspoetry] FW: [Sdas] Bad news from Ecuador

this email from Manni to the sdas list refers to the setback of the uprising
in Ecuador (for a moment, thousands of people took over the country,
installing a 3 person junta, including a representative of indigenous
people, which then stepped down so that the vice president could take over,
bowing to threats from the US (a popular uprising isn't considered
'democratic' enough))
--mark

 Despite my knowing that things are as they are, I can't help 
 being angry and saddened that the poor people of Ecuador have 
 been stopped before they really started (like the people of
 Chiapas), and that everything happened as I feared it would. 
 For all of us it has been reaffirmed, once again, that no   
  country has a chance to change their socio/economic structures 
 or to create new ones, least of all the countries of Latin
 America, as long as the United States is in a position of  
  control in this world.  For although it is global finance and 
 transnational corporations that are the beneficiaries of this
 control, it is the United States government that acts on their
 behalf and supplies the military might to protect their interests
 their interests.

 Excuse this emotional outburst.  It started building up after I  
 heard the Bishop of Quito last night on BBC saying he wanted to
 use BBC to let the world know that it was threats from United
 States that had ended the hopes of the people of Ecuador.

 I was reminded of something said by William H. Taft (27th
 president of the US) in 1912.  I quoted him as a motto for an
 article I once wrote on Nicaruaga:

 "The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at
 three equidistant points will mark our territory:  one at the
 North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the
 South Pole.  The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by 
 virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally."

 That was in the good old days.  Now the stars and stripes are
 no longer needed to mark the territory of the whole hemisphere 
 that in fact is "ours".......

                                       .....................Manni



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