Targeting Hugo Chavez

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He champions human rights. Has no secret prisons. Doesn't invade his neighbors or practice torture. He's a true social democrat and the reason Venezuelans overwhelmingly support him in elections independent monitors judge free, open and fair.

But O'Grady keeps hammering with accusations that "the Venezuelan ambassador (to Bolivia) travels the country handing out checks to mayors who support President Evo Morales." In Colombia also for "pro-Chavez Senator Piedad Cordoba recently (with) a PDVSA subsidiary (donation of) $135,000." Nicaragua as well "where the old Sandinista Daniel Ortega is now president (and Chavez) is supplying 60 - 70% (of his crude) through a program that allows Mr. Ortega to pay only half the bill....Nicaragua's state oil company Petro-Nic sells the oil to private companies and collects the full value."

O'Grady's says one-fourth of this revenue goes for "giving away goodies like kitchens and houses ahead of yesterday's municipal elections (to buy votes she implies)," and much of the rest is for an Orgega "slush fund government critics say." Something similar is going on in El Salvador, she claims and continues:

"The Duran case has blown the lid off Mr. Chavez's covert Argentine activities. But his imperialist ambitions go far beyond that country (and) he may get away with it." If she means spreading Bolivarianism, let's hope so and that its spirit takes root in America. What country is more in need at a time its leaders plan even greater world domination with hardened repression for enforcement.

Through a secret new scheme now revealed. To unleash IMF orthodoxy globally - "austerity, sacrifice, deregulation, privatization, union busting, wage reductions, free trade, the race to the bottom, prohibitions on advanced technologies," and to crush the human spirit along with it.

To make Venezuela and all countries banana republics. Its workers serfs. Its industry destroyed to empower corporate giants. Mostly American ones. To suck global wealth to the top. To render freedom, democracy and Bolivarianism dead letters. To use agents like O'Grady to support this "best of all possible worlds."

Those in the know must expose her. Back leaders like Chavez for the type world all humanity wants. It's there for the taking but won't ever come down from the top. A message all readers should consider. At a perilous time in our history staring down the likelihood of the greatest ever world economic crisis with imperialists in Washington planning to milk it to maximum advantage. It's for freedom loving people everywhere to stop them.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM - 1PM for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national topics. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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