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</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">A message to the
interventionists and Venezuelan traitors to their homeland <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#A80000"><a href="http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=24481">http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=24481</a><br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>VHeadline commentarist Carlos
Herrera writes:</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3> Make no mistake,
the hundred of thousands of Venezuelans from all corners of the country,
who support the Bolivarian Revolution, their President Hugo Chavez ...
and who are in the streets of Caracas today in a gigantic march to defend
the national sovereignty ... will <b><u>not</u></b> hesitate to take up
arms and join with our armed forces to defend themselves against
<b><u>ANY</u></b> imperialist pretensions. Whether it be to overthrow the
democratically-elected government or to annex our oil and gas reserves.
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<li>The enemies are not new - the Colombian and Venezuelan oligarchy
with their interests tied with the northern empire.</font>
</ul><font face="arial" size=3><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>We are not talking about the
Colombian or North American people who are as peace-loving as we are ...
but of the governments of Uribe and Bush and the transnational interests
of the USA. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>If there is an armed conflict in
Venezuela, rest assured that the traitors to the “Patria”
<i>(homeland)</i> who have been calling for intervention from the United
States for five years or more will not escape the wrath of the common
people.<br><br>
When Chavez returned to Miraflores in the small hours of 14th April 2002,
the “first and most important thing” he said was, “that everyone
<i>(still in the street) </i>should go home.”<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000"><u>Why did he say
this?</u> </font>
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<li><font face="georgia" size=3>He was afraid that the millions in the
streets would destroy the urban areas where the rich and well-off live
who had backed the Carmona coup. </font>
</ul><font face="arial" size=3><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>Historically, the common people
initially led by Boves in 1814, set out to liquidate the oligarchy of the
day, the <i>“mantuanos.”</i> Even though Boves was Spanish, he rallied
the masses to commit the wholesale slaughter of the <i>“mantuano”</i>
class, since the masses were seeking social equality and freedom from 300
years of oppression. Thus, their enemy were the <i>mantuanos</i> and not
the Spanish empire ... at that point in history. <br><br>
According to the ex-president of the Dominican Republic<i> (the late Juan
Bosch)</i> in his excellent historical work “<i>Bolívar y la guerra
social” (Bolivar and the social war)</i>, he maintains that one of the
main reasons why Bolivar decided to lead the liberating independence
armies of Venezuela to the south ... finally to Alto Peru, nowadays
modern Bolivia ... to free other oppressed nations, was so that they
would not liquidate the ruling classes in their quest for justice and
equality by initiating another social war as in the <i>“Año Terrible”
(Terrible Year)</i> of 1814. Bolivar sensed that this thirst for revenge
was still unabated in the masses, so the only solution was to lead them
on to liberate Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. <br><br>
Bolivar was first a “mantuano” due to his wealth and social class and
then a revolutionary after the loss of the II Republic in 1814, when he
realized that he had to have the support of the masses to defeat the
Spanish imperial power. However, he soon realized that the masses still
regarded the ruling <i>mantuanos</i> as their main enemy, and not the
Spanish crown, after the liberation of Venezuelan in June 1821 at the
battle of Carabobo. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2><b>The realization of who is the real
enemy to social justice, freedom and self-determination is still in the
collective memory of the millions of Venezuelans living in
poverty.<br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=3>Since 2002, their democratic will
has been continually disrespected by the Venezuelan and Colombian ruling
classes ... as well as the US ... by constant attacks on the
revolutionary process backed by their votes, and the President they have
chosen to lead it.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=2 color="#A80000"><b>Any further major
“problem” on the scale of the 2002 coup of the oil industry sabotage
(especially it involves the fascist boot treading on the sacred soil of
the homeland), could trigger a backlash not wanted by anyone. <br><br>
</b></font><font face="georgia" size=4>History often points to the future
and repeats itself.<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5 color="#A80000">Uribe could be
Santander, Bush Monroe and Chavez...?<br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=3>The latter does not need naming but
his dream has the cornerstone in place of South American unity against
the imperialist exploiters and murderers of the north, symbolized by
George W. Bush and his administration of virtual “oil tycoons.”<br><br>
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<dd>The Venezuelan people does not</u></b> need to be told to defend its
country, and will take up arms spontaneously, when required. Memories of
what happened on April 12-13 (2002) as well as in the first weeks of
December in the same year have been conveniently forgotten by the
international agitators.<br><br>
</dl><font face="georgia" size=3>Just as Bolivar almost disregarded the
motivation of the 19th century masses to rid Venezuela of the
<i>mantuanos</i> ... when he was thinking of expelling the Spanish
imperialists ... the present day destabilizers do <b><u>not</u></b>
simply understand the history of the Venezuelan people ... or the latent
historical forces in their collective memory that will drive them forward
in the case of any sort of foreign intervention. <br><br>
</font><font face="georgia" size=5>Carlos Herrera<br>
<a href="mailto:Carlos.Herrera@VHeadline.com">Carlos.Herrera@VHeadline.com</a><br>
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