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Carlos Alberto Montaner
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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After World War II, when Stalin set out to conquer Europe, Harry Truman faced. With the help of the diplomat George Kennan designed what was then called''containment strategy.'' There are registered since the creation of NATO and the Bretton Woods economic agreements, to the Marshall Plan and the launch of Radio Free Europe. That was the beginning of the Cold War, the United States formally gained by forty years later, in 1989, when the Germans brought down the Berlin Wall collapsed shortly after all the Eastern bloc, including the USSR itself, which surprisingly ended up disappear.
to a tiny scale, with some grotesque features and without the danger of nuclear weapons, Latin America today is experiencing a similar experience, but nobody seems to notice or nobody seems to care. Mr. Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, with the cunning advice La Habana - greatest experts in the manufacture of prison - and barricaded with billions of petrodollars, Moscow now claims to be the twenty-first century has been launched with some success to political conquest of Latin America. Has already scored a few victories - Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua - as you put your eyes in Paraguay, Guatemala and El Salvador, the next countries placed in the sights of his rifle neopopulist indefatigable.
The problem is that Chavez has no opponent. United States can not want to try to stop it. The key objectives of Washington in the region are only three: try to prevent the flow of illegal immigrants, drug trafficking and to reduce buy some raw materials at market price if good they are sold. If Latin Americans are bent on committing suicide like lemmings, these rodents regularly drown thousands in the sea, no one knows exactly why, is something you do not lose sleep to almost no one in America.
Brazil also wants to play the role Chávez. Brazil has never been a real regional power. Lula also lives in the midst of the sharpest ideological dissonance. Is a reasonable and prudent ruler, but grew up singing the nonsense of the left. As such people are born with chromosomes disrupted, Lula has a radical and collectivist soul housed in a democratic body that recognizes the virtues of market.
with Argentina is the same. Peronist Nestor Kirchner and Peron is the ideological grandfather of Hugo Chávez. All nonsense and nonsense invented by Peron more than half a century have resurfaced now magically in the hands of Venezuela. Kirchner certainly thinks that Chavez is an insufferable tropical parrot, but can not adversity without betraying his own origins.
For different reasons, Mexico's Felipe Calderon also will choose to ignore his Venezuelan counterpart uncomfortable. He came to power very weak in the electoral struggle against Lopez Obrador. You do not want to open a battlefront against the vociferous international carnivorous left while attempts to defeat the powerful drug gangs operating in the country. Too many wars to free them simultaneously.
The major Latin American countries, then, will fold their arms. Is there someone who can step forward and lead the Latin American resistance to this imperial spasm impoverishing and dangerous anti-democratic? Perhaps there is one: Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica. Arias has enough talent and training to realize that the risks are enormous. The expansion will increase exponentially chavismo poverty and conflict in the region. And Arias has the courage and fortitude it takes to face a much more powerful adversary. In 1987 won the Nobel Peace Prize for successfully imposing his peace plan for Central America and the criteria against U.S. threats. Who is not daunted by Ronald Reagan can not be afraid of Hugo Chavez.
Costa Rica, naturally, has no resources to this fight alone, but Arias has enough leadership and recognition as to call for democratic resistance to other governments concerned about the progress of Chavez, Uribe's political weight, Garcia, Saca Berger and, perhaps, Bachelet, the president of the Chilean prudent. Everyone knows that the fire will go out in a few years, but the wisdom advises cope collectively, put out the flames among all and try to prevent it spreading. This is how governments behave responsible. So West won the Cold War.
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