Personally while I share the concerns I think the request is misguided. For two reasons...firstly most newspapers and magazines in North America are corrupted, or as Dr. Chomsky puts it, servilely obedient to the American powers that be...and are unlikely to print such letters or give them much attention. More importantly though, the seeming 'bad news' is actually good news in disguise as it indicates a growing hardening of resistance in Latin America to centuries of American bullying, intimidation and war-crimes in their continent......The Latin Americans are finally standing upto the US and telling it to go fuddle its own duddle......
While this may lead to shorter term problems for them as the American government will undoubtedly retaliate against any efforts to sabotage such American acts of 'democracy-promotion' as attempted assassinations of the leaders of Venezuela and Bolivia or the fixing of elections to suit American corporate interests - in the long term the Latinos can only win as the Americans face increasing defiance not only in Latin America but in Asia and the Pacific as well....Old foe Russia is also in an oil-generated resurgence...
The beginning of the end of American domination of the world is now seemingly at hand......this can only bode well.....
The Empire will strike back at Latin America and other 'rebel forces', but its days are numbered.....its 'enemies' grow stronger, its strength is ever drained by its crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ones it has recommenced in Iran....
Latin America Rebelling Against US Interference Now
**Venezuela Solidarity Network**
*September 12, 2008*
*EMERGENCY RESPONSE NETWORK*
*Latin America Rebelling Against US Interference Now!*
*We are in a very dangerous and fluid period regarding US-Latin America relations.**
*Over the last few days a number of serious incidents have occurred, some related and possibly all related:*
*1. A civil rebellion led by right-wing separatists in the Bolivian prefecture of Santa Cruz have taken at least eight lives and caused millions of dollars of economic damage.*
*2. Bolivia expelled US Ambassador Philip Goldberg for his support of the uprising*
*3. The US declared persona non grata Bolivia's ambassador to the US*
*4. A coup plot against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was exposed including video showing three military officers plotting the coup.*
*5. Venezuela expelled US Ambassador Patrick Duddy, giving him 72 hours to leave the country.*
*6. The US declared the Venezuelan ambassador to the US persona non grata in retaliation.*
*7. The US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) cited two current and one former high Venezuelan official for allegedly providing weapons and material support to Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.*
*8. Russian military jets visited Venezuela.*
*9. Today Honduras told the new US ambassador not to enter the country. Will other Latin American countries follow suit?*
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*This is an escalation of worsening relations with Latin America that include US support for the failed 2002 coup against Venezuelan President Chavez, an attempted assassination, attempt involving shots fired into a caravan that was supposed to have been carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales, and more recently a suspicious fatal helicopter crash of the helicopter in which Morales usually flies.*
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*This is on top of electoral interference in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and currently El Salvador. US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) are the two agencies primarily responsible for the US efforts to manipulate other countries' elections. Bolivia is the greatest recipient of USAID money in Latin America and was expelled by one prefecture (state) a few months ago after civil society groups complained of its support for the right-wing and frequently racist's opposition. USAID and NED are investing heavily in Venezuela and Nicaragua's upcoming local elections and is deeply involved in El Salvador's presidential campaign in an effort to stop the election of FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes who has a commanding lead in the polls. Visit www.cispes.org
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*These incidents are the result of centuries of US policy toward Latin America and specifically the result of reckless policies of the George W. Bush regime. We need to demand that the US government take no further action to exacerbate what are already dangerous situations that could easily spin out of control involving tragic losses of life and spiking oil prices as we in the North enter the heating season.*
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*The Venezuela Solidarity Network calls on you to be prepared to take action in the coming days. Immediately we ask you to call your Congress person and Senators to demand that the US not escalate the crisis and that it stop intervening in other countries sovereign affairs. The Capitol Switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Demand that your elected representatives find out and reveal the extent of US payments to Bolivian opposition groups as advocated today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.**
*Write letters to the editor pointing out that this crisis is the result of seven years of reckless and immoral foreign policy initiatives of the Bush regime as well as making the point that the US government should not escalate these crises. For additional background information visit*
*http://www.rethinkvenezuela.com/index.html and http://soaw.org/article.php?id=1678 *
*http://www.vensolidarity.org
/This ERN Action Alert was prepared by the Venezuela Solidarity Network. The basic purpose of the Venezuela Solidarity Network is to increase communication among groups that oppose US intervention in Venezuela, support the right of the Venezuela people to self-determination, and support the Bolivarian revolution. The Venezuela Solidarity Network also seeks to enlist additional progressive groups into Venezuela solidarity work, and to facilitate our ability to unite in joint actions. /
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