by Sean Fenley   

“Celac is the greatest event in the last 200 years.” – Raul Castro, President of the Council of State Cuba

“The OAS is the meeting of the colonies with their empire, while the CELAC is the summit of peer countries in search of joint development, through the value of solidarity.” – Nicmer Evans, International Affairs Analyst

On the cusp of 2012 a gutsy band of insurgent countries — are coming together — and forming a communion of nations, which does not include either Canada or the United States. American New Agers, mystics, neo-shamans, and doomsayers may be waiting for a precious Mayan prognostication, but perhaps (without much fanfare) this much ballyhooed premonition has already come to pass. After all since Monroe warned the other Western powers not to extend their systems into Latin America; the US has viewed the continent as its virtual protectorate — or a doltish, subordinate and ancillary expanse.

When leaders have arisen who didn’t want to go along with the neo-Monroeian program, they have experienced phenomena as varied, as a coups d’etat — or their airliners, peculiarly, crashing into the Earth, and; for sure, the United States would do its level best, to make them a part of the past. Indeed, events against both Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales — of this nature — have been sufficiently documented, though not much at all, by the mainstream press. For Chavez it involved a strike of the bosses [1], and Morales an effort from the DEA. [2] One wonders what the Obama administration, might be busily working away at — if anything — cooking up in this regard? Just letting Latin America be, has not been a policy that is very familiar, to many (any?) of the administrations to the north.

It is what will be built — not destroyed — though, that raises the spirits of all well-seeking folks, who are viewing the so-called pink tide revolutions from afar. [3] As Morales put it, at the recent Celac gathering, “We have to establish the bases for a new model, for socialism, neo-socialism, living well, 21st century socialism or whatever you want to call it.” And his ebullient amigo, Hugo Chavez, eloquently stated, “For how long are we going to be the backwards periphery, exploited and denigrated? Enough! Here we are putting down the fundamental building block for South American unity, independence and development. If we hesitate, we are lost!”

Undoubtedly, hesitation, division, misdirection, interference, and perhaps even intervention — with its mascot for Wall Street at the helm — is what the empire will position itself for; and moreover, the former Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, can certainly attest to that. [4] Although, it’s nothing new, however, the Americans and the British — trying to break up unions that they oppose — and tear them apart. To proverbialize it, the fist is mightier than its lonely, isolated and disparate parts. Thus, hitting upon, of course, the very crux of what projects like Celac are entirely about.

United developing countries, is not exactly on the grand wishlist of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful states. Regardless of what their spokes-billionaires like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, would like — for the masses and the plebeians — to think. Ironically, if Celac achieves its goals — and its ambitions — then that is when we can expect, probably the most virulent, and infernal opposition from its “keeper” and “overseer” from the north. Of course, we should never forget what the malevolent Kissinger had to say about Allende’s Chile, that he didn’t understand why issues “[that] are much too important”, should be left to the Chilean people to determine for themselves.

Consequently, as I’ve stated, we really don’t have any idea, what the “left-liberal” Obama administration might be ginning up, preparing or daydreaming about. But conversely we do know what the Celac nations, are preparing, thinking and envisioning around — and we do wish them the very best. The best in their efforts to escape hegemony, and create survival; and a just, healthy, and a lengthy one at that, for all of the people of those states. [5]

Notes:

[1]http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2336
[2]http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/11/18/orchestrating-a-civic-coup-in-bolivia/
[3]http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2207
[4]http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/west_obama_a_bl.html
[5]http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/4748