The Smackdown of Condoleezza’s Agenda Came On The Week

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of her Latin American Tour


http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1277.html


Democracy Triple Play: Ecuador to Mexico to the OAS

The Smackdown of Condoleezza’s Agenda Came on the Week of Her Latin American Tour


For U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, her photo-op tour of Latin American nations last week was supposed to mark a comeback for flailing U.S. policy in the region. Instead – as she jet-hopped from Brazil to Colombia to Chile to El Salvador – the week brought a chain reaction of defeats for her government’s impositions on other lands and victories for the democracy that surges from below.

A quick review of the week’s hemisphere shaking events:

* On Friday, April 22, Ecuador’s US-backed president, Lucio Gutiérrez, dissolved the Supreme Court to save two corrupt former presidents from prosecution. The people took to the streets (as Luis Gómez reported here), Congress rebuked him (Gómez redux), Lucio backed down. But for the Ecuadoran president it was already too late….

* By Saturday, April 23, Lucio had to resign in disgrace and seek asylum in the Brazilian Embassy. Later last week, he slipped into Brazil, as the new president of Ecuador, Alfredo Palacio, came to power amid speculation that, having learned from the mistakes of his predecessor, he will bring Ecuador, now, into the “axis of good” led by Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil, in the growing coalition of South American nations – a veritable South American Union – no longer willing to take orders from above. “Ecuador could become the next member of the new left movement that is sweeping across South America if the local indigenous communities are allowed to help fill the country’s new political vacuum,” notes an April 21 analysis by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs.

* Meanwhile, Mexico has spent recent days inching closer South to the pro-democracy axis as well. On Friday the 22nd, a judge threw out the federal government’s nuisance case against Mexico City Governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aimed to block the popular man they call El Peje from running for president in 2006. The Court told Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha to go back to the drawing board and prepare a better case, and rejected the maneuver by which the prosecutor called in political opponents of López Obrador to pay the governor’s bail against his will, so that Macedo and his boss, President Vicente Fox, could avoid the heat that would indubitably have come by putting the political superstar El Peje in jail.


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[KlatooBNikto]

1. The Domino Theory of People's Power is ascendant in Latin America.

Condi can no more stop that power than King Canute could turn back the tide.

[KoKo]

2. Interesting article, thanks.....eom

[yebrent]

3. This is great news! Recommended.

It is good to read of the positive change going on below us. Especially when there is so much bad news here and elsewhere in the world.