donderdag 29 december 2005

Democratie in Latijns Amerika











Mijn vriend en collega Ronald van den Boogaard die vandaag voor het laatst het radioprogramma Wereldnet heeft gepresenteerd http://www.vpro.nl/programma/wereldnet/afleveringen/24497006/, schreef me onlangs in een email goed op te letten op Latijns Amerika. Daar is een omwenteling aan de gang. Tijdens de revolutionaire jaren zeventig hielp de VS er fascistische regimes in het zadel, maar door hun wreedheid en corruptie moeten die nu plaatsmaken voor democratische vernieuwingsgezinde regeringen. Dit tot grote schrik van Washington. Yifat Susskind, onderdirecteur van de mensenrechtenorganisatie Madre schrijft in het linkse Amerikaanse ZMagazine: 'Misery in the Name of Democracy. The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti.The Bush Administration is touting Iraq's December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East. But closer to home, the Administration has discovered that democracy has created a monster and that the monster is democracy. In Latin America and the Caribbean, popular movements are demanding that the United States' "gift to the world" make good on its promise of majority rule. That would likely disrupt a system-otherwise known as "free-market democracy"-that has benefited a small elite and worsened poverty for most people. The possibility has so alarmed CIA Director Porter Goss that he recently labeled the spate of upcoming elections in Latin America as a "potential area of instability."' http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=9339&sectionID=55 Of:
http://www.madre.org/print-/articles/int/usworkselections.html

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