Vzla: Recall likely to be bloody

At this moment, the possible ratification process and the very recall election are unimportant. The government counts on the guns in hands of the civilians, international support from the neo-socialism and the majority of the Armed Forces. This is "the mother of all wars." But there are battles yet to come. After the February 27, 2004, tragedy, crime and perversion will continue harassing peace. The media have contributed to create a fictitious freedom leading to many protests and causing serious problems that have kept a dictatorship from strengthening and growing. This dictatorship would possibly have generated conditions for a civil war. It is clear, then, that this polarized politics-war will be followed by an armed confrontation.

Meanwhile, a non-aligned majority is expecting to go beyond the wars and the deaths. It is a community of nearly 40 percent of the Venezuelans, who do not support any of the polarized blocs and feels that the solution of the problems requires the elimination of this government and this opposition and the installation of a new way of constructing the society.

Read the entire essay. It's very good. Bear this in mind, too. The recall is likely to be bloody because the stars are aligned for the socialist governments in South America — with a socialist government in Spain — and lead by that aging communist lion, Castro, to consolidate power in order to form an anti-U.S. bloc intent on challenging the U.S. with nuclear weapons. Consider this report:

Since the days of FDR the U.S. has pursued America’s "Good Neighbor policy," aimed at fostering close ties and friendship with the nations south of the Rio Grande.

But today that policy is in shambles as one major Latin country after another has fallen to anti-American leaders who admire Fidel Castro. Behind the growing anti-U.S. atmosphere is a carefully planned and executed drive to turn South America into a Marxist stronghold challenging the U.S. and eliminating every shred of its influence there.
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And while the White House feels all warm and cuddly about Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's economic policies, he is busy plunging his nation into communism and allying himself with Castro and Castro's puppet in Venezuela, Chavez.

Moreover, there is friction between the U.S. and Brazil over new U.S. security measures that include photographing and fingerprinting foreign visitors. Brazil has retaliated by imposing similar measures for U.S. travelers entering crime-ridden Brazil.
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But these are merely symptoms of the turmoil in U.S. relations with its southern neighbors. The danger lies in the steady advance of a Latino version of the Soviet Union.

Already three major South American countries are infected with the Marxist virus: Venezuela, a major source of oil for the U.S.; Brazil; and Cuba, where Fidel Castro is acting as the midwife for communism’s rebirth.
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Brazil is the locus of the newest Marxist threat to the region. As NewsMax.com has reported, since "Lula" da Silva took office in January, 2003, Brazil has become a new staging area for communism in our hemisphere. It has toyed with becoming a nuclear threat.

Working behind the scenes is Lula's foreign policy adviser, Marco Aurelio Garcia, a notorious hard-line Marxist operative and founder and executive secretary of Sao Paolo Forum, a coalition of leftist parties and revolutionary movements dedicated, he admits, to "offsetting our losses in Eastern Europe with our victories in Latin America."

In an article he wrote about Marx's "The Communist Manifesto," he concluded: "The agenda is clear. If this new horizon which we search for is still called communism, it is time to re-constitute it."

In other words, rebuild shattered world communism in Latin America.
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Brazilian-American Gerald Brant, a former candidate for federal deputy (Congress), wrote that in his native land, "a country of significant social inequalities, Marxism in Brazil has always been a force, but it has never been as close to realizing true power in this country as it is now. By abandoning the traditional Marxist strategy of launching an armed insurgency and revolution, Brazil's Workers' Party, known as the 'PT,' has been able to effectively elaborate a 'Gramscian' [inspired by renowned Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci, widely read in PT circles] strategy of penetrating the key institutions of civil society and democracy first, and then using the legitimate authority conferred by elections to abridge constitutional restraints to establish a Marxist state."
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The Times reported that Brazil would resist a plan by the International Atomic Energy Agency that would allow for spot inspection of nuclear sites.

In addition, "Brazil has announced that by mid-2004 it expects to join the select group of nations producing enriched uranium and that within a decade it intends to begin exporting enriched uranium. But it is balking at giving international inspectors unimpeded access to the plant that will produce the nuclear fuel.

"Government officials say efforts to enrich uranium are entirely peaceful in purpose … as a peaceful nation, Brazil, which has the world's sixth-largest known deposits of uranium, should not be subject to the same regimen of unannounced spot inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that Iran and Libya have recently accepted."

Brazil has refused to allow inspections that would reveal the capacity, characteristics and scope of the equipment developed by its navy to enrich uranium. These inspections, if allowed, would assist in determining whether Brazil is indeed seeking the enrichment of uranium for peaceful purposes or is pursuing a weapons program that many officials within the Brazilian government have occasionally alluded to in the past.

These are indicators of movements toward development of nuclear weapons.

Luiz Vieira, president of Nuclear Industries of Brazil, admits that the technology developed by the navy's Sao Paolo Technology Center could be used to build an atomic bomb.