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And Chile. I have lived there, on different occasions, some 4 years in total. And again -- Chile has stunning nature, deep culture, tremendous poetry, literature, excellent food and wine.
15. BM: As you have travelled all around the world, which country do
you
think is doing the best for its citizens?
AV: There are actually two questions hiding inside your question:
First: Which country is doing the best for its citizens, at the expense of plundered and colonized countries? Answer to this would be: definitely almost entire Europe
Second: Which country is doing the best for its citizens
without plundering the world? The answer is: Bolivia, Cuba, China, Russia,
Iran, North Korea (to the extend possible), Venezuela (to the extend possible
under the terror implanted from abroad.
16.
BM: What is your insight to break the strangle hold of imperialism?
AV: One cannot negotiate with fascism and imperialism.
Oppressed, plundered countries, have to unite and fight.
The first round of struggle was already won, in the past. For instance, heroic Vietnamese nation defeated both the French colonialists, and the US imperialists, militarily.
But then, the Western imperialists regrouped. Emboldened first by successfully dividing China and Soviet Union, and then by ruing Soviet Union under that nitwit Gorbachev and criminal alcoholic Yeltsin, they grabbed again what they lost, shouting "Peace, Peace!", meaning "do not dare to fight us, just accept and submit!"
Imperialists can be defeated. It was clearly demonstrated in Syria, and now both China and Russia are standing firm, confronting Western threats, provocations, sanctions and intimidation.
One should never show the weakness, when faced by Western terror.
Look at the planet; look what happened to the countries that surrendered, knelt: look at that horror in Indonesia, in East Africa, in the Middle East, Southeast Asia. Look at India after it began worship market fundamentalism. Is this the world that we want? If not, all anti-imperialist forces should unite and fight.
And we should never expect that the Western public joins us.
Western public is spoiled by privileges, and it does not have any left wing,
anymore, only self-promoting, weeping discussion clubs. Countries truly
fighting against Western imperialism have almost no allies in the West.
17.
BM: What is your insight about the rise of autocratic leaders like Trump n
USA, Modi in India, Bolsonaro in Brazil? Do you think there is a pattern?
Some underlying current?
AV: Yes. In confused nations, where Western masters, right-wing mass media and education systems successfully manufactured obedient and self-centered, spineless band of so-called 'elites', what can be expected? They smeared the left, put left-wing parties and movements under the microscope, and brainwasher or at least confused the voters.
Believe it or not, great majority of people even in the countries that were governed by left-wing governments, like Brazil or Ecuador, had almost no access to left-wing media. Horrible propaganda outlets like CNN in Spanish or FOX in Spanish, are 'informing' the citizens. In Brazil, the situation was very similar, or worse.
For years, I was warning about this. The left has to 'invest' into its media, education, even counter-propaganda outlets.
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