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Chavez to Assad: We should speed up the birth of a new world order

dandelion salad | 23.10.2010 18:42 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

The alliance between the anti-imperialist countries of Latin America and the Middle East is asserting itself.

Chavez and Assad hold a joint press conference in Damascus, 21 October 2010
Chavez and Assad hold a joint press conference in Damascus, 21 October 2010




1) Chavez to Assad: We should speed up the birth of a new world order (21 October 2010)

2) Chavez to Ahmadinejad: Today is the end of imperialism. It’s very close (20 October 2010)

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 http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2010/10/21/314726.htm


excerpts from:

President al-Assad: Israel not ready, unwilling to make peace…
President Chavez: our alliance with Syria based on amity, support to Syria’s right to restore occupied Golan

SANA, 21 October 2010


President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said Venezuela’s support to the Arab issues is continuous everytime and everywhere.

President al-Assad’s remarks came in a joint press conference with President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez following their talks.

“Syria’s relat ions with Venezuela consolidate its ties with South America and vice versa,” said President al-Assad.[...]

”The current world order is figuratively called ‘order’; but it is rather disorder as said on many previous occasions. This world order is governed by power and domination instead of justice and principles.”

President Chavez commented ”We should speed up the birth of the new world order which is being born today to reach a multilateral and balanced world in terms of economic, cultural, political and military sectors.”

”Thanks to the efforts of millions of people and leaders like the brave and wise President al-Assad, we will reach this new world in the coming few years and we’ll forget all about the old one which is built on domination and repression.”

President Chavez added ”We are setting up an alliance with Syria built on amity between the Syrian and Venezuelan peoples,” stressing that great things are built only on emotional and spiritual bases.

President al-Assad stressed that “Syria shares Venezuela’s rejection of any intervention in the internal affairs of our countries and regions as well as the other neighboring and surrounding countries.”

The President said “It is difficult to separate the bilateral relationship from the relationship between the two regions due to the existing exchange and integration as the link between the bilateral and regional sides in this relationship is directly but not inversely proportional.”

For his part, President Chavez stressed Venezuela’s support to Syria’s right to restore the occupied Golan, adding that “I hope the day will come when I will be visiting Golan after its liberation.”

”Syria’s joining the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) as a guest member will help bolster the relationship regionally…and signing the regional alliance today is inseparable from our relations with Venezuela,” President al-Assad said.

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 http://www.presstv.com/detail/147520.html


Ahmadinejad, Chavez highlight unity

Press TV, 20 October 2010


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez have underlined the need to expand cooperation in fighting imperialism.

Ahmadinejad and Chavez on Wednesday highlighted enhanced cooperation between Iran and Venezuela as a key factor in standing up to the enemy.

Ahmadinejad said that cooperation between the two countries was of “high significance.”

He said that the two countries were “united to establish a new world order based on humanity and justice.”

President Ahmadinejad condemned the expansion of militarism as well as the interference of bullying powers in Latin America.

Chavez, in turn, called Iran-Venezuela ties as a “strategic alliance” and described his visit to Tehran as significant in showing the depth of relations between Iran and Venezuela.

“Imperialistic countries are trying their best to stop our progress … But the more we resist and the more we try, no matter how hard they try or how much they threaten us, they will move toward graveyard by their action,” Chavez said.

“Today is the end of imperialism. It’s very close,” he added.

Chavez also reiterated his strong support of Iran’s independence and condemned threats of military action against the country.

The Venezuelan president arrived in Iran on Monday for a three-day official visit, with the goal of boosting ties between Tehran and Caracas.

This is Chavez’s ninth visit to Iran since taking power in 1999 and comes almost one year after President Ahmadinejad paid a visit to Venezuela.

Iran has developed amicable relations with numerous Latin American countries, including Venezuela.

Iran’s soaring popularity in Latin America has dismayed the United States, which has been engaged in a tireless global campaign to isolate Tehran over its nuclear program. Washington considers Latin America as its “strategic backyard.”

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related link:


Media blackout regarding Fidel Castro’s speech on the implications of nuclear war

by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 21 October 2010

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/media-blackout-regarding-fidel-castros-speech-on-the-implications-of-nuclear-war-fidel-castro-message-against-nuclear-war/

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from the archives:


Five Latin American countries condemn the U.S. and its allies for their militaristic aspirations against Iran

CASMII, 18 July 2010

 http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/10551


Fidel Castro: An incident could set in motion an all-out nuclear war against Iran

by Fidel Castro Ruz, CASMII, 16 July 2010

 http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/10549


Brazil slams UN Security Council Sanctions Resolution against Iran

CASMII, 9 June 2010

 http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/10314


Clinton: Latin American countries should think twice about establishing links with Iran

Dandelion Salad, 12 December 2009

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/clinton-latin-american-countries-should-think-twice-about-establishing-links-with-iran/


US escalates war plans in Latin America

by Rick Rozoff, Dandelion Salad, 23 July 2009

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/colombia-us-escalates-war-plans-in-latin-america-by-rick-rozoff/

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[video] Hugo Chavez talks to Russia Today

23.10.2010 18:53

Tom
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President Chavez talks to Russia Today

23.10.2010 19:20




Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talks to Russia Today

15 October 2010

 http://www.youtube.com/v/EJ5Zz29zF6k?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999

Tom
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[video] President Chavez talks to Russia Today

23.10.2010 19:33





Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez talks to Russia Today

15 October 2010

 http://www.youtube.com/v/EJ5Zz29zF6k?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999

Tom
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Behind the coup in Ecuador – The attack on ALBA

23.10.2010 22:05

member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)
member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA)

[Note: Honduras withdrew from ALBA in January 2010, 6 months after the US-sponsored military coup in June 2009]
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Behind the coup in Ecuador – The attack on ALBA

Eva Golinger, 1 October 2010
(translation: Machetera)


The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya energized it and gave it the strength and confidence to strike again against the people and revolutionary governments in Latin America.

The elections of Sunday, September 26th in Venezuela, while victorious for the Venezuelan United Socialist Party (PSUV), also ceded space to the most reactionary and dangerous destabilizing forces at the service of imperial interests. The United States managed to situate key elements in the Venezuelan National Assembly, giving them a platform to move forward with their conspiratorial schemes to undermine Venezuelan democracy.

The day after the elections in Venezuela, the main advocate for peace in Colombia, Piedad Córdoba, was dismissed as a Senator in the Republic of Colombia, by Colombia’s Inspector General, on the basis of falsified evidence and accusations. But the attack against Senator Córdoba is a symbol of the attack against progressive forces in Colombia who seek true and peaceful solutions to the war in which they have been living for more than 60 years.

And now, Thursday, September 30th, was the dawn of a coup d’etat in Ecuador. Insubordinate police took over a number of facilities in the capital of Quito, creating chaos and panic in the country. Supposedly, they were protesting against a new law approved by the National Assembly on Wednesday, which according to them reduced labor benefits.

In an attempt to resolve the situation, President Rafael Correa went to meet with the rebellious police but was attacked with heavy objects and teargas, causing a wound on his leg and teargas asphyxiation. He was taken to a military hospital in Quito, where he was later kidnapped and held against his will, prevented from leaving.

Meanwhile, popular movements took to the streets of Quito, demanding the liberation of their President, democratically re-elected the previous year by a huge majority. Thousands of Ecuadorans raised their voices in support of President Correa, trying to rescue their democracy from the hands of coup-plotters who were looking to provoke the forced resignation of the national government.

In a dramatic development, President Correa was rescued in an operation by Special Forces from the Ecuadoran military in the late evening hours. Correa denounced his kidnapping by the coup-plotting police and laid responsibility for the coup d’etat directly upon former President, Lucio Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez was a presidential candidate in 2009 against President Correa, and lost in a landslide when more than 55% voted for Correa.

During today’s events, Lucio Gutiérrez declared in an interview, “The end of Correa’s tyranny is at hand,” also asking for the “dissolution of Parliament and a call for early presidential elections.”

But beyond the key role played by Gutiérrez, there are external factors involved in this attempted coup d’etat that are moving their pieces once again.


Infiltration of the Police

According to journalist Jean-Guy Allard, an official report from Ecuador’s Defense Minister, Javier Ponce, distributed in October of 2008 revealed “how US diplomats dedicated themselves to corrupting the police and the Armed Forces.”

The report confirmed that police units “maintain an informal economic dependence on the United States, for the payment of informants, training, equipment and operations.”

In response to the report, US Ambassador in Ecuador, Heather Hodges, justified the collaboration, saying “We work with the government of Ecuador, with the military and with the police, on objectives that are very important for security.” According to Hodges, the work with Ecuador’s security forces is related to the “fight against drug trafficking.”


The Ambassador

Ambassador Hodges was sent to Ecuador in 2008 by then President George W. Bush. Previously she successfully headed up the embassy in Moldova, a socialist country formerly part of the Soviet Union. She left Moldova sowing the seeds for a “colored revolution” that took place, unsuccessfully, in April of 2009 against the majority communist party elected to parliament.

Hodges headed the Office of Cuban Affairs within the US State Department in 1991, as its Deputy Director. The department was dedicated to the promotion of destabilization in Cuba. Two years later she was sent to Nicaragua in order to consolidate the administration of Violeta Chamorro, the president selected by the United States following the dirty war against the Sandinista government, which led to its exit from power in 1989.

When Bush sent her to Ecuador, it was with the intention of sowing destabilization against Correa, in case the Ecuadoran president refused to subordinate himself to Washington’s agenda. Hodges managed to increase the budget for USAID and the NED [National Endowment for Democracy] directed toward social organizations and political groups that promote US interests, including within the indigenous sector.

In the face of President Correa’s re-election in 2009, based on a new constitution approved in 2008 by a resounding majority of men and women in Ecuador, the Ambassador began to foment destabilization.


USAID

Certain progressive social groups have expressed their discontent with the policies of the Correa government. There is no doubt that legitimate complaints and grievances against his government exist. Not all groups and organizations in opposition to Correa’s policies are imperial agents. But a sector among them does exist which receives financing and guidelines in order to provoke destabilizing situations in the country that go beyond the natural expressions of criticism and opposition to a government.

In 2010, the State Department increased USAID’s budget in Ecuador to more than $38 million dollars. In the most recent years, a total of $5,640,000 in funds were invested in the work of “decentralization” in the country. One of the main executors of USAID’s programs in Ecuador is the same enterprise that operates with the rightwing in Bolivia: Chemonics, Inc. At the same time, NED issued a grant of $125,806 to the Center for Private Enterprise (CIPE) to promote free trade treaties, globalization, and regional autonomy through Ecuadoran radio, television and newspapers, along with the Ecuadoran Institute of Economic Policy.

Organizations in Ecuador such as Participación Ciudadana and Pro-justicia [Citizen Participation and Pro-Justice], as well as members and sectors of CODEMPE, Pachakutik, CONAIE, the Corporación Empresarial Indígena del Ecuador [Indigenous Enterprise Corporation of Ecuador] and Fundación Qellkaj [Qellkaj Foundation] have had USAID and NED funds at their disposal.

During the events of September 30 in Ecuador, one of the groups receiving USAID and NED financing, Pachakutik, sent out a press release backing the coup-plotting police and demanding the resignation of President Correa, holding him responsible for what was taking place. The group even went so far as to accuse him of a “dictatorial attitude.” Pachakutik entered into a political alliance with Lucio Gutiérrez in 2002 and its links with the former president are well known:


“PACHAKUTIK ASKS PRESIDENT CORREA TO RESIGN AND CALLS FOR THE FORMING OF A SINGLE NATIONAL FRONT

Press Release 141

In the face of the serious political turmoil and internal crisis generated by the dictatorial attitude of President Rafael Correa, who has violated the rights of public servants as well as society, the head of the Pachakutik Movement, Cléver Jiménez, called on the indigenous movement, social movements and democratic political organizations to form a single national front to demand the exit of President Correa, under the guidelines established by Article 130, Number 2 of the Constitution, which says: “The National Assembly will dismiss the President of the Republic in the following cases: 2) For serious political crisis and domestic turmoil.”

Jiménez backed the struggle of the country’s public servants, including the police troops who have mobilized against the regime’s authoritarian policies which are an attempt to eliminate acquired labor rights. The situation of the police and members of the Armed Forces should be understood as a just action by public servants, whose rights have been made vulnerable.

This afternoon, Pachakutik is calling on all organizations within the indigenous movement, workers, democratic men and women to build unity and prepare new actions to reject Correa’s authoritarianism, in defense of the rights and guarantees of all Ecuadorans.

Press Secretary

PACHAKUTIK BLOQUE”


The script used in Venezuela and Honduras repeats itself. They try to hold the President and the government responsible for the “coup,” later forcing their exit from power. The coup against Ecuador is the next phase in the permanent aggression against ALBA and revolutionary movements in the region.

The Ecuadoran people remain mobilized in their rejection of the coup attempt, while progressive forces in the region have come together to express their solidarity and support of President Correa and his government.

Eva Golinger
mail e-mail: evagolinger@gmail.com
- Homepage: http://machetera.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/behind-the-coup-in-ecuador/


"New World Order", eh?

24.10.2010 04:38

Does this mean Chavez is the Antichrist? If so, the most incompetent one since the Iranian guy in Whoops Apocalypse.

Conspiracy watch


chavez the antichrist?

24.10.2010 19:32

Conspiracy watch

come on. Surely Obama is the antichrist?!

Alessandro Borja


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