Duque working in concert with American Imperialism and its
regime change operation in Venezuela has been called out and exposed. The
report appears in The Guardian, a publication largely in alliance with the
Atlantic Establishment. And yet when it comes to Latin America their editors
are clearly comfortable pursuing stories that American media are less likely to
emphasise.
This comes at a time when the Ecuadorian crisis is being
downplayed. The Hong Kong protests receive around the clock coverage while
Ecuador is mentioned briefly as the last story on a BBC Newshour bulletin and
mentioned only briefly (and in biased fashion) by outlets like NPR. People are
actually dying in Quito. The official death toll is seven but many believe it
is much higher and the fighting and unrest grew so bad that president Moreno
actually had to remove the government from the capital city.
To be fair, outlets like the New York Times and Washington
Post have covered this story but the main 'pop' news outlets (if we can call
them that) such as the major television channels have spent less time focusing
on Ecuador even while they've given excessive coverage to Hong Kong.
And why is this? It's tied in with the pseudo-intelligence
and propaganda being pushed by figures like Colombia's Duque. There is an
active campaign in Latin America to rollback the so-called Pink Tide. And it's
been largely successful. Venezuela represents the biggest setback and yet even
'setback' must be qualified. While the government hasn't been ousted, the
society and economy have been effectively destroyed.
Correa, the former president of Ecuador while not of the same
dissident calibre as someone like Evo Morales or the now deceased Hugo Chavez
nevertheless irritated Washington with his policies and his sheltering of Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange in the London Ecuadorean embassy. Moreno his successor is
effectively a Washington proxy and thus his brutal crackdown on the protests in
Quito is getting a media pass. If anything US officials are condemning the
protestors. Is it a stretch to suggest that if the police in Moscow were
behaving as the police in Quito there would be extensive news coverage and loud
condemnations being heard in every Western capital?
These things have to be remembered as we watch the news.
There is a value to the information and the footage made available but
mainstream outlets cannot be trusted. Some like CNN are particularly bad. FOX
is of the same calibre though with a different emphasis. The BBC represents
another angle. It's very informative at times but also very biased when it
comes to its coverage of certain issues.
There's a real conflict going on in Latin America. Brazil,
Ecuador and Venezuela are the front lines. Colombia, Washington's chief proxy
in the region was also the scene of conflict for many years and even now is in
danger of falling back into a state of guerilla war and campaigns of
counter-insurgency.
Duque, a US asset is along with figures like Brazil's Jair
Bolsonaro leading the charge. But in this case, his machinations and those of
Langley have been exposed. With the FARC more or less out of the picture the
focus has turned on to the lesser known ELN rebel group and the tensions with
Bogota are being used to re-kindled the failed fires of the Venezuelan regime
change operation and its leader, the now pathetic figure of Juan Guaido.
Was the flawed dossier simply a mistake, a case of non-vetted
photographs? What of the ABC report claiming to show fighting in Northern Syria
that was exposed to be footage from a North Carolina shooting range? Are these
simply mistakes?
One wonders.
It also needs to be remembered that the Ecuadorian protests
are a result of austerity policies on the part of Moreno, primarily with regard
to fuel subsidies. What motivated these moves on the part of Moreno? All agree
the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a key part in this. This is
how the IMF works. It forces austerity on poor nations, and forces open their
doors to Western corporations. This is how nations are subjugated and these
policies are implemented by surrogates such as Moreno who are handsomely
compensated.
And yet what is the IMF? Along with the World Bank, these two
financial organisations are powerful tools in the hands of the Western
Corporatocracy. Yes, other nations beyond the West hold membership but a study
of how these organisations function, vote, establish and execute power
demonstrate they are rigged toward Western domination. This is why China and
others have sought to establish rival institutions, which themselves represent
a real threat to Western power.
And yet the financing for these loans comes ultimately from
the private sector and large financial institutions, the banks that dominate
Wall Street and the stock exchanges in places like London, Paris, Frankfurt and
Milan. Once again, those who profit from these markets, from these stock
indices are benefitting from their policies and machinations. The next time you
look at your 401K, think about the dead people on the streets of Quito, or
people dying in Africa because of manipulated food prices and ask yourself some
questions about blood money and usury.
When farmers and other working poor whose livelihoods have
been destroyed by trade deals and forced globalisation throw in the towel and
head for Europe or America... what should we think of those with stock
portfolios and jobs connected to this Establishment as they cry foul and call
on state violence to block these people, these refugees of imperialism from
entering the West? And what do they get when they get here? For most it's
paltry work, hand to mouth living and broken families. It's a tragedy but given
the complexity of today's world few are able to really understand what's
happening or take it in.
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