Friday, April 25, 2008

Latin America: the attack on democracy


John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor

by John Pilger

Global Research, April 24, 2008
New Statesman

"Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia......."

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