House of Paine

uncle sets the stage--chavez counters

wonder of wonders


the ever more cohesive

hugo  and fidel 
          show

          is not getting
 any higher  marks 
                 in washington

                              then 

                                    any of the other
                                               fidel combos 
over the last 45 years 


like 

the danny - fidel   solidarity hour  

 or

                 dark bishop  goes fidelista 

or  

                   the manley- castro  soul-theatre 

or 

  for that matter 


big sal's 
            cuban style 
                            red chile 



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The US strategy 
  against
 southern neighbors

(especially
  the spanish  speaking ones )

never changes..........

go in there 
     land on em  hard

do em up  
   every which way

and keep right
 on doin em up 

thru   army dictators 
and   
   mass elected
       nits alike ...
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now theres always

new and changing conditions 

leading to latin nations 
           changing places  

between
 front and back burners 

                  of course they do ..... 

                               conditions  are always
                                           changing 

  one decade its the southern cone 

       the next its  the central bridge 

then its the andes 

blah blah blah......
                                                right... ? 


since 1960 or so

theres been only one constant
front burner 
       latin  nation

fidel's cuba 

when 
cuba itself isn't 
        the prime target

cuba is 
 the  boogie man 

 
           uncle  uses
                  "the fidel threat"
        to  play  dirty 
         any  where else 
             in spanish america 
                                   he wants 


well
 for the last few years
 its been venezuela 
   along side  cuba 
             on 
   the  front burners
  
                 

venezuela 
         with its lucious 
                             oil patch 
and 
  its
      self proclaimed
             second  bolivar 

             el presidente 
                     (for the moment)

                    hugo  chavez 



heres where
the present 
   "good neighbor  " 
yankee interference  is focused 
                    

latest stage:

a joint US-Colombian move 
                         
to make over

  Venezuela's state system   

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heres a fine  old rads 
  up date
          
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 " First of all Washington 
and the Uribe
government in Colombia
 have  strengthened
 military bases surrounding 
the Venezuelan border

----------- remember uncle's
       in columbia already
swat-ing the FARC

   an armed  red-narco outfit 

" klass struggle kandy men "-----------------


 Secondly "trial military incursions" 
involving both Colombian military
 and paramilitary forces
 continue to occur 
    on a regular basis
 ­ testing Venezuelan defenses

--------- 

note:
"para military "
         formations
are mostly "off duty"
               military formations
gettin a chance 
to let their hair down 

ie
     death squads------------------

 Thirdly the US has provided 
nearly $3 billion dollars
 in military aid to Colombia

-------- vide above notes ----------------


along the way 

 tripling  the size
 of its armed forces
 (to over 275,000)

and
  wildly beefing up   
its air force 
 (helicopters, fighter bombers  etc etc etc )

----------- anti narco wars are aerial wars ---------------

besides 
 providing
this " advanced military technology"
  uncle has also sent down 
  several thousand  military specialists
  both official
              and "contracted"

 Fourthly Washington has recruited 
the Gutierrez regime in Ecuador

 invaded Haiti

and
 established military bases 
in Peru 
and 
the Dominican Republic
-------------------- 
part of the global package 
vide chip johnson on uncle's 
                                recent spate
                   of  new  base building 

a post kold war 
               re-deployment 
ie 
one
an advance into former soviet
russian under-belly 

and 
two
into  " latin  safe  areas" 
       to bolster 
the   regime change
              pressure game   --------------- 


Fifthly 
 on the more or less
 covert side 
Colombia is milking
 the "countra-dictions"
              inside 
         the hugo governing elite

example  
  a  joint
 military-intelligence cooperation agreement
 signed with hugo's
            Ministry of Defense

            makes a nice cover 
 
besides   providing
 the US with "inside information"

 the  bi-national
military

"tight intermingle"

 serves
 as a decent
                 port of entry 
                        
where 
the colombians brass hats 
         can fish 
         for any and all 
             Venezuelan army issimos 
                       eager  
                  to counter
                       their fearless leader
                                            Hugo  "
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final solution


if or when 
  it comes 
  to applying 
the final  
       knuckle drill

uncle has adopted .... 


 a "triangular strategy"
 


1) A military invasion 
     by and  from Colombia 

 2) a US   stealth intervention 
    (air and sea  support 
 plus dark op
           special forces 
 to assassinate key officials)

 and 

 3) an internal uprising 
by infiltrated terrorists 
and military traitors
 supported by key 
     media
 financial
 and petrol 
              elites 


------------bing bing bing

 
seize state power

 expell  the Cubans 

and
 break  all  hugo's naughty
 promises to the small fry"----------------



----------but one step at a time ...

               first off....---------------------


" before launching
 this concerted military action 
 Washington has designed 
a propaganda campaign 
     against 
the Cuban-Venezuelan alliance "

---------in particular.....------------

"using
   Venezuela's attempts 
  to rectify
  (with cuban help)
 its enormous 
     military deficit
             with Colombia 
         as proof of hugo's 
        napoleonic ambitions "     
 --  ie ------
   " raise  the specter
 of Venezuela's planned "subversion" 
of  
as many of her  Latin American neighbors as possible "

( i.e.
ala ortega 20 years ago
vis a vis honduras el salvidor et al )

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" The key to US policy 
is to prevent Venezuela
          from joining Cuba 
as an alternative paradigm 
 to the US neo-liberal crap shoot " 
                        

--------------  maybe this
phrasing
           is too sure of its righteousness
                too pat 

          might it not  
           un-intentionally
                 play  uncle's game 

does it not lend itself
      
         to manipulation

         couldn't it more then just
         " sound  
             like"
           this  new duumvirate
                        is  expansionistic ? 
                         

what we leftoids 
   see as progresive 

liberals 
          and other dough heads
  can be persuaded 
               is really a  velvet prelude 
to armed  red aggression 

perhaps
its better that
  one present thisdeal 
as  hugo playing
             bridge maker....

   for a  savy
            new edition 
                 of fidelismo 
                  to cross over 
                  "to join
                   with his neighbors"
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"  don't  let the yankee imperialists 
            stop cuba from joining  us"

rather then

"you guys  oughta
   get tight with
                 fidel  
                     like i have "

but shit what do "we"  know ...
---------------------
on another front....

haunting  over the bolivarian  revolution 

is  .....

" US aggression 
now in a new phase of escalation      
as hugo's  
       agrarian reform expands"

--- as ithe struggle often goes
   this agrain front
       is the make or brake

    if hugo transforms 
  the countryside

builds a solid mass base 
              of yeoman farmers ......

like the jacobins of old 

 he can not be 
   up rooted from outside

and if he fails
cuba or not
 his movement  is gonzo -----------------


" Cuba's  support 
for Venezuela's social welfare programs
 has consolidated mass support
 for the Chavez regime"

------------ yes but this is so far mostly
                                  urban ...--------------

 "this  is a main base 
of defense 
or the radicalization 
of the process."

---------------- true 
but momentum must be maintained 
and the footing of the revolution 
is best planted on 
a million "free"  peasant family plots --------------


  --------to repeat my deepest conviction
for the ump-teenth time


even in an hyper urbanized 
        third rate set up 
                    like venezuela
even with oil up the wazingee 

the pivot 
   of a successful
sustainable 
      social revolution
           i believe
           remains......

 a popular land "ownership"
           victory in the countryside  --------------

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               more  notes 
       for friends of hugo and fidel



------------ we good guys 
  need to explain 
        the big nasty whys

and not sugar coat 
or bluster past
the sharper bits 
      of a   deal like hugo's into 

its a law of our era

that 


 " righteously
            battling   external
                            subversion 
                  often leads 
                     to  aninternal  emergency

              a  protective security  morph

better  known as 
                        "  a state sponsored civil  closure "

                 or 

                     " a popular lock down "


                            

                      this "choice"
                      can force itself 
                         on any revolutionary
                                              gubmint 
 
                             even one
that would dearly love 
  to stay open
 and would do so 
if it would be left alone 
to  deal
            with the societies  own
                                  exploiting klasses
                              mano a mano ....


                         but mr and mrs chomsky
                             with imperial beasts afoot ..... 

               the choice becomes 
                   "close down  openness "
                                 or "wake up dead "

                                         
that  and much else
must be spelled out 
over and over
to 
the "wouldn't it be nice "
                                  bunch

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and heres
      case 73 
             of 
                the   same  sharp corner


                     face it
they must
             if the      hugo  movement
                is to keep truckin forward 

sooooooooooooo
    we  my friends


like so many lame little john the baptists

must prepare 

the  first world's 
              decent people
                  for the  coming show down

                 and the nearly inevitable
                  national
                    in-closing 
 
                         
                       
                       

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so to recap


uncle has made his moves
and
 hugo has made his counter moves

 moves that
 include dancing with fidel  

but since fightin off BIG SAM

may   entail


 "closing the place some"

at least
 to the free flow         
   of certain 
  well heeled  foreigners
      and 
     prolly also.....
 
        a certain measure
         of  gun point type
                  internal tidy -ing  up

and  other harsh type
          human  error prone 
              preventative maintenance  ...

well
 we friends of social prpgress

                need 
   to keep up 

             the prop work 



cause  
 god knows 
             what 
        over seas  black flowers 
                     this crop dusting by uncle may bring .....

as in 
maybe 
like mugabe 
 
hugo facing
       
             plummeting 
           first world  
                 nyt type
                     "goo goo "  approval  ratings....

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in any case theres this brightness  

  the andes  region
       is especially 
        klass ruffled  these days


 from  bolivia  to peru 

          and on into  
              coke soaked 
                      colombia itself 

 
   now its not prudent
  to expect 
     a prole klass-nice 
                       outcome 


but 
what if....

the recent brisk
      yankee manipulation 
        of colombia 
          and behind her
              the  rest 
             of the andes  region 
                         back fires

what if 
instead of hugo 
goin down 

iribe sudden seems on the verge 
of a topple himself 
 
say to
   a  ever more aglomerative
  farc -cored popular  front .....

 though the godess
               cleo 
        admits to 
                     no 
                         real national dominos



at least 


heres where cleo can

comes across

             for  social  progress


and if it happens here

 maybe it 
 saves
          hugo's project 



maybe 
a yankee empire
    pre occupied  
    with  re-active strokes 
                 
(  ie  uncle suddenly
finding himself 
just barely able
   to keep other latin states
                      around there
                from falling 
                      prey 
           to   red vultures ......)

maybe 
just maybe

  that might 
               allow venezuela 
               to remain 
                   a fallen angel 

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   viva hugo viva fidel 

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