Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Edge of the Wedge
President Obama’s decision to move US troops into Colombia, while distasteful to Latin America’s new democracies, is perhaps the edge of the wedge to be used in forcefully dividing neoliberal states from their indigenous nations. Leaders like Chile's President Bachelet may have stood behind Bolivian President Morales when it came to US-sponsored assassination attempts, but they are not likely to oppose North American corporations assisting them in plundering tribal peoples. As Obama himself has demonstrated, to be pro-corporate is, by definition, to be anti-indigenous.
