The Anti-Empire Report #114
I once wrote about Chilean president Salvador Allende:
Washington knows no heresy in the Third World but genuine
independence. In the case of Salvador Allende independence came clothed
in an especially provocative costume – a Marxist constitutionally
elected who continued to honor the constitution. This would not do. It
shook the very foundation stones upon which the anti-communist tower is
built: the doctrine, painstakingly cultivated for decades, that
“communists” can take power only through force and deception, that they
can retain that power only through terrorizing and brainwashing the
population. There could be only one thing worse than a Marxist in power
– an elected Marxist in power.
There was no one in the entire universe that those who own and run
“United States, Inc.” wanted to see dead more than Hugo Chávez. He was
worse than Allende. Worse than Fidel Castro. Worse than any world
leader not in the American camp because he spoke out in the most
forceful terms about US imperialism and its cruelty. Repeatedly.
Constantly. Saying things that heads of state are not supposed to say.
At the United Nations, on a shockingly personal level about George W.
Bush. All over Latin America, as he organized the region into
anti-US-Empire blocs.
Long-term readers of this report know that I’m not much of a
knee-reflex conspiracy theorist. But when someone like Chávez dies at
the young age of 58 I have to wonder about the circumstances.
Unremitting cancer, intractable respiratory infections, massive heart
attack, one after the other … It is well known that during the Cold War,
the CIA worked diligently to develop substances that could kill without
leaving a trace. I would like to see the Venezuelan government pursue
every avenue of investigation in having an autopsy performed.
Back in December 2011, Chávez, already under treatment for cancer,
wondered out loud: “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented the
technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?”
The Venezuelan president was speaking one day after Argentina’s leftist
president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, announced she had been
diagnosed with thyroid cancer. This was after three other prominent
leftist Latin America leaders had been diagnosed with cancer: Brazil’s
president, Dilma Rousseff; Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo; and the former
Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“Evo take care of yourself. Correa, be careful. We just don’t
know,” Chávez said, referring to Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, and
Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, both leading leftists.
Chávez said he had received words of warning from Fidel Castro,
himself the target of hundreds of failed and often bizarre CIA
assassination plots. “Fidel always told me: ‘Chávez take care. These
people have developed technology. You are very careless. Take care
what you eat, what they give you to eat … a little needle and they
inject you with I don’t know what.” 1
When Vice President Nicolas Maduro suggested possible American
involvement in Chávez’s death, the US State Department called the
allegation absurd. 2
Several progressive US organizations have filed a Freedom of
Information Act request with the CIA, asking for “any information
regarding or plans to poison or otherwise assassinate the President of
Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who has just died.”
I personally believe that Hugo Chávez was murdered by the United
States. If his illness and death were NOT induced, the CIA – which has
attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders, many successfully
3 – was not doing its job.
When Fidel Castro became ill several years ago, the American
mainstream media was unrelenting in its conjecture about whether the
Cuban socialist system could survive his death. The same speculation
exists now in regard to Venezuela. The Yankee mind can’t believe that
large masses of people can turn away from capitalism when shown a good
alternative. It could only be the result of a dictator manipulating the
public; all resting on one man whose death would mark finis to the process.
Source: williamblum.org
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