Red Terror Empire in South America?
January 10, 2003
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By Toby Westerman
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Marxist ideology is threatening to turn South America - America's "backyard" - into a continent-wide enemy, over a decade after the much-touted "collapse of communism."
South America's rapid descent into leftist ideology coincides with U.S. deployment of thousands of regular military and reserve personnel to the Middle East for a possible assault and prolonged occupation of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Reports of the pronounced Marxist tendencies of Brazil's newly elected president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - known popularly as Lula - have received little attention in the U.S. media from the right or the left.
The strategy which Lula and his allies follow includes forming a continent-wide anti-U.S. coalition, close cooperation with communist China, and the adoption of North Korea as a social-political model.
Brazil, known as the "green giant" due to its vast expanse of undeveloped territory, is the largest nation in South America, as well as one of the continent's leading economies.
Lula's foreign policy is directed against the U.S. Under Lula, Brazil will conduct a "diplomatic and political offensive" against the "hegemony of one country [the United States]," according to a recent report on the Internet version of the Italian news daily, La Stampa.
While major U.S. media have played down the possibility of Lula turning against the U.S., Lula and his associates have had a "diplomatic and political offensive" against the U.S. "as an objective for the last 4 years," revealed La Stampa.
Lula's tactics include giving Brazil a "key leadership role in South America" by achieving domination of the South American trading association, Mercosur, and by close cooperation with pro-Marxist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and long-time communist icon, Fidel Castro of Cuba.
Castro has struggled for years to win Latin American over to Marxist ideology, and since the mid-1990's he has used communist China as a model for Cuban development. Cuba and China have close economic, military, and espionage ties.
The Chavez government holds communist North Korea in particularly high esteem.
Chavez's Education minister, Hector Navarro has joined with other Chavez ministers in praising North Korea for having "achieved a strong economy" where "socialism survives," according to an article on the anti-Chavez Internet site, MilitaresDemocraticos.com Navarro has also expressed the Chavez government's "solidarity" with Cuba, Algeria, and Iran.
Chavez has often been accused of aiding communist rebels operating in Colombia, as well as the al-Qaeda terror network. A popular uprising in Venezuela is attempting to oust the Marxist president, but the outcome remains in doubt. [see also the INAToday.com article Oil crisis, threats - in America's "backyard" ]
Lula's formal connection with communist rebels and organizations predates his election to office. In March 2002, Lula's Workers' Party established a solidarity committee with the communist rebels of Colombia, and in 1999 the Party declared a "strategic partnership" with the Communist Party of China, according to an article published on the Internet site of the Cuban American National Foundation (www.canf.com).
Behind the schemes of Lula, Chavez, and Castro, stands the looming figure of communist China, with its influence extending throughout the Southern Hemisphere, most notably in Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Panama Canal.
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