Thursday, September 20, 2012
Ousting Hugo
The loss of the United States banana republics due to the democratic resurgence in Latin America has peeved Washington for some time, but the successful US-backed coup in Honduras and violent disturbances by US-backed thugs in Colombia evidently give Hillary hope. As Lee Brown writes in Upside Down World, the State Department has its eyes firmly set on helping stage a coup in Venezuela should democratic elections there fail to oust US arch rival Hugo Chavez.
