Chavez to FTAA: "Go Back to Hell"
As indicated earlier. I do not purchase, except for emergencies, any gasoline products from Exxon-Mobil, Shell, BP-Amoco, Chevron or Texaco. I tend to purchase Citgo gasoline because it is rfom Venezuela, the country presided by Hugo chavez whome I have a lot of respect for. over at ZNet I ran across this nice piece that demonstrates that Chavez understands just what is going on.
Quote:
We finished our conversation as the President walked in. Hugo Chavez is not one for subtleties. "FTAA is the PATH TO HELL," said Chavez.
He meant this in the deepest theological sense. What is at stake for Chavez is Latin America's mortal soul. "I have seen children shot to death," said the president, "not by an invading Army but by our own nation's soldiers."
Chavez was referring to February 27, 1989. While the Northern Hemisphere was celebrating the impending fall of the Berlin Wall, "another wall was going up," he explained, "the wall of globalization." That day, the army massacred Venezuelans, young and old, during a demonstration against diktats of the International Monetary Fund imposed on that nation.
FTAA is far more than a trade document. It's not just about fruit and cars that we sell across borders. FTAA is an entire new multi-state government in the making, with courts and executives, unelected, with the power to bless or damn any one nation's laws which impede foreign investment, foreign sales or even foreign pollution.
If you call yourself an activist and you drive a car and have a Citgo gas station near you, then you have no excuse for not supporting Chavez with your wallet.
Links:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=4601
(17 years of informed commentary)
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