You may not realize this. While President Barak Obama had visions of fairies, socialism, communism and plum pudding and a one-world order dancing around in his head, twelve South American countries united. Maybe this is part of his grand scheme, I wish he'd tell us.
Obama’s hope for a union of North, Central, and South America may come next, if he has his way, but in May, 2008 twelve South American countries joined hands.
They formed a confederation – like the European Union – consisting of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It’s called UNASUR (Tratado Constitutivo de la Union de Naciones Suramericanas).
Why this new confederation?
UNASUR’s aims are cultural, social, economical and political integration of the South American peoples. While no one is yet saying military integration, in time it is assumed this could also take place. However, one must notice what is going on in the various countries to witness the political division this organization has from within and it’s getting worse.
For example, months ago Hugo Chavez of Venezuela had his navy working with the Soviet navy, doing maneuvers, just a hundred miles off the shores of Key West, USA.
Following the Marxist pattern, and judging by what Obama is doing to America, Barak will be creating chaos everywhere. Then he will swoop down and replace anarchy with oligarchy led by you-know-who. Haven’t you noticed? He isn’t a big fan of our constitutional republic, of America, or of the American way of life.
One of his last campaign speeches said America was in for some "fundamental changes." Most Americans thought it was just so much political rhetoric. We didn’t then think he meant the trashing of our Constitution and the adoption of a statist oligarchy. And that’s precisely where we’re headed.
What kinds of things are being said in the new union of South America about a recent announcement that America, an outsider mischief maker to them, is leasing ten bases inside Colombia?
To U.S. negotiators, it should have seemed like nothing more than a contract renewal. For years America has aided the Colombians in ridding itself of the drug lords, who seem now to have moved to Mexico where drug use has been legalized.What is it that irritates the likes of Hugo Chavez so much? It’s a 10-year lease on space at seven Colombian bases that would improve the fight against drug traffickers and leftist rebels.
Hugo Chavez doesn’t like it. But he must understand that this is just a continuation. U.S. military has already operated in the country for years as part of Plan Colombia, $6 billion in U.S. aid that helped President Alvaro Uribe bring security to the violent nation. In this, there is no difference between Presidents Bush and Obama.
Watch Today's News - Plenty of Jingoistic In-Fighting.
The deal is done - just awaiting signatures, according to Colombia's foreign minister - and Uribe has no intentions of backing down at today’s UNASUR summit of South American presidents. But isn’t America’s timing curious?
Secrecy surrounding the U.S.-Colombia talks enabled Uribe's critics to publicly assume the worst, generating weeks of headlines by warning of a new Yankee menace to the continent.
Diplomats have spent weeks doing damage control since The Associated Press first reported details of the base agreement. That story quoted senior Colombian military and civilian officials who said the idea was to make Colombia a regional hub for Pentagon operations.
A U.S. military document described one of the Colombian bases, Palanquero, as a potential jumping off point for U.S. forces, noting that "nearly half the continent can be covered by a C-17 (military transport) without refueling."
U.S. officials have publicly stressed since then that the U.S. military will remain inside Colombia and only cross borders when invited by other countries.
But the explanation hasn't satisfied presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, and other leaders remain uneasy. Brazil hopes to see Uribe make written guarantees at the summit today but his aides say he won’t do that. Rather, he will point to agreements Chavez has with Russia, for example.
Chavez - who has repeatedly denied accusations that he supports Colombia's leftist rebels - said the deal loosed "winds of war." He warned that U.S. troops could use the bases to launch operations to unseat Latin American leaders like himself. Where’s the happy face of Chavez we saw at last winter’s summit, where he gave Obama his recently published book and smirked all the way back to his seat, thinking he had gotten one over on the Yankee president? But later when Obama nationalized GM and Chrysler, Chavez told Fidel Castro that Obama was making Marxist nations like Cuba and Venezuela look far to the right of Obama's America. Now he’s angry. He told his diplomats to prepare to break off relations with Colombia and talked of buying more Russian tanks.
Dmitry Medvedev should consider paying the U.S. a fat commission check for stirring things up in South America, resulting in new lucrative Russian arms sales "
"You can establish 70,000 Yankee bases surrounding Venezuela, but you aren't going to beat the Bolivarian Revolution!" Chavez declared this week.
Honduras is also unresolved, since the coup which ousted a popular dictator. Such political instability provides a pretext for spending big on defense.
Even before news leaked about the bases deal, Venezuela poured about $4 billion into Russian weapons to counter the threat Chavez sees from U.S. military aid to Colombia.
Ecuador is buying 24 Brazilian warplanes and six Israeli drones to keep a closer watch on its borders. Bolivia has opened a $100 million line of credit with Russia to buy weapons.
Citing a need for modernization, the 12 UNASUR nations spent about $51 billion last year on their militaries -up 30 percent from 2007, according to the Center for a New Majority, a Buenos Aires research group.
That's low compared to the rest of the world - U.S. spending alone is well into the hundreds of billions - but a steep burden for democracies in a relatively peaceful region struggling with poverty and economic crisis.
"None of this is good. The last thing the region needs is an arms race," said Markus Schultze-Kraft, a Bogota-based analyst with the International Crisis Group, a conflict-resolution organization. Their real worry is what if the U.S. puts nuclear warheads in Ecuador?
UNASURwill have a South American Parliament. It should be elected and based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, while the headquarters of the Union will be based in Quito, Ecuador.
http://www.comunidadandina.org/sudamerica.htmUNASUR website
http://www.comunidadandina.org/unasur/tratado_constitutivo.htmText of the treaty
Maybe while these twelve nations are at it today, they should sign non-aggression pacts to protect their individual sovereign nation territory. A South American Union doesn’t mean people won’t have arguments. Of course the EU has been in existence much longer than UNASUR, so we’re awaiting the announcement of other agreements such as visa restrictions lifted between countries, a common currency, and perhaps in the future maybe even a defense pact which includes a common military. But it is this writer’s belief that the Obama Administration has something far more nefarious in mind.
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