We must continue down walls of silence and complicity hiding bureaucracies, means that (un) informed and right-wing political parties (and even though I weigh, left as well) that take advantage of any opportunity to destabilize the popular and national governments democratically elected by popular will.
the conservative right has serious "obsessions" that can not overcome in any way, "obsessions" are sadly stoves, enhanced, heightened by the Empire. These "obsessions" are the driving force and action, because nothing else matters to preserve their "benefits" of class, caste, social position to which they belong by force, selfishness and human mediocrity.
"Poverty, progress, purity, the landscape, the city, the seasons, death" are also part of the individual and universal code of those obsessions oligopoly that both disturb, but the loss of privileges is what they most fear, because they die if they can not keep wasting, wasting, comfortably removed from what the rest of point of order system that gives them all a few and the rest does not give you anything, just crumbs, leftovers from the big "cake" planet's productive.
On September 30, 2010 there was an attempted coup in Ecuador. It was, as told several media outlets in Latin America, an "institutional crisis", a fight between the Executive and Legislative juridisccional but an insurrection open a branch of the first National Police, whose troops make up a small army of 40,000 men against the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, which is none other than the legitimately elected president. Nor was it that said Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, "an act of police misconduct." In general, all media oligopolies gave a distorted version of what happened yesterday, carefully avoiding talk of a coup attempt or anything resembling it. Instead they referred to a "police revolt" which, obviously, makes the events of Thursday in a relatively minor story, business and the media to hide the truth or distort it, using old tricks on the right, always interested in downplaying rainfall and outrages committed by their supporters and to magnify the errors or problems of their opponents (remember what they said the international media the making of a television channel by "supporters" of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela? "The atrocities and the media held convictions of those responsible, and less-of the attempt?). So is well to recall the words spoken Friday October 1, 2010 by President Rafael Correa when he characterized the incident as a "conspiracy" to commit a "coup of state. " Conspiracy because, as was most evident in yesterday, there were other actors who voiced their support for the coup in the making: perhaps they were not effective in the Ecuadorian Air Force, and not the National Police, which paralyzed the International Airport Quito and the small provincial airfield used for flight? And there were no political groups that came to support the coup in streets and squares? Was not own lawyer of former president Lucio Gutiérrez one of the lunatics who broke into the premises of the National Television Ecuador to cut the transmission? Did not perhaps the Mayor of Guayaquil, and great rival of the president Correa, Jaime Nebot, it was a power struggle between an authoritarian and despotic character, strap, and a police sector, wrong in its methodology but who was in the right in their claims? This false equidistance between the parties in conflict was an indirect confession of their complacency about current events and their deep desire to get rid of her, so far at least, impregnable political enemy. To say nothing of the regrettable regression of the movement "indigenous" Pachakutik, in the midst of the crisis made public his call to "indigenous movement, social movements, democratic politics, to form a single national front to demand the ouster of President Correa. "Surprises come life," said Pedro Navaja, but no such surprise when one takes note of the generous contributions of the USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy have been doing recent years to "empower" Ecuadorian citizenship through their parties and social movements.
It was a small isolated group within the police who tried to strike but a set of social and political actors to serve the local oligarchy and U.S. imperialism, never forgave him Correa had ordered the eviction of the base United States had in Manta, the sentence grassroots public who tried to put the U.S. in Colombia, Correa asked to audit their government of Ecuador's foreign debt, and worst of all, joining the ALBA Ecuador, among many other causes. Incidentally, the Ecuadorian police many years ago, like others in the region, has been educated and trained by his U.S. counterpart. Have they included some kind of civic education, or the necessary subordination of the armed forces and police to civilian authority? Not appear. Rather, it updates the need to end without further delay, to "cooperation" between the security forces of the majority Latin American countries and the United States. We already know what they teach in those courses (courses beginning in the School of the Americas).
Can it happen again? Sure. Because the fundamentals of the coup have deep roots in Latin American societies in the United States foreign policy toward this part of the world. As I said yesterday, if we review the recent history of our countries is found that the coup attempt took place in Venezuela (2002), Haiti (2004), Bolivia (2008), Honduras (2009) and Ecuador (2010), ie in four (removing Haiti) countries characterized by being home to significant processes economic and social transformation and also for being integrated into the ALBA. In contrast, no right-wing government was disturbed by the coup, whose oligarchic and imperialist political sign is hidden. Could anyone believe a coup in Peru of Alan Garcia, Santos's Colombia or Chile, Piñera? Of course not, in other countries without the right rules, anything is possible. So the world champion of the violation of human rights, Alvaro Uribe, with its thousands of missing people, their graves, their "false positives" - never had to worry about military uprisings against him during the eight years of his mandate. De los cinco intentos de golpe de estado que hubo desde el 2002, tres fracasaron y sólo dos triunfaron, el de Haití y el de Honduras en contra de Manuel Zelaya. El dato significativo es que su ejecución fue sorpresiva, en el medio de la noche, lo cual impidió que la noticia fuese conocida hasta la mañana siguiente y el pueblo tuviera tiempo de salir a ganar calles y plazas. Cuando lo hizo ya era tarde porque Zelaya había sido desterrado. Además, en este caso la respuesta internacional fue lenta y tibia, careciendo de la necesaria rapidez y contundencia que se puso de manifiesto en el caso ecuatoriano.
El día de ayer dejó ver algunas cosas interesantes. Que la rapidez de reacción democrática y popular es esencial to clear the sequence of actions and processes of the coup, which is rarely anything but an intertwining of initiatives that, in the absence of obstacles that stand in their way, they reinforce each other and succeed. If no response is immediately popular the feedback process, and when I want to stop it is too late. In addition, the coup is always disorienting power being given first, in those circumstances there is no time for doubts or fears, you should counterattack immediately, not with the open guard, but with determination and forth. Yesterday, we saw that, not only internally, but at the regional level mobilizations were felt. Another important fact is the operation of social networks, before the (mis) information media and censorship imposed by the Coup, social networks work great to cross these obstacles presented by magnifying the information, bringing news from remote locations and unite not only the people in question, but the people of the region. The participation of an international organization like UNASUR is an important ally of the people and democracy, rapid meeting of top leaders and they unanimously condemned the coup leaders took power, isolated from the rest of the world and aid others rights, other oligarchies and the Empire could have earned him.
The time is near Strike could be effective, as mentioned by the President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner "this time the bullets sounded close," very close and were very clear. We must be alert, be on guard, not rest on our laurels, deeper social changes, so that never again another coup to remove a president elected by popular will and the achievements of the people lost in another long night of terror.
To Victoria Siempre ...
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