Una Voz Dulce
Posted: October 28, 2008 Filed under: No Obama | Tags: No Obama 7 Comments
I picked this off Jack Tapper’s blog because I found this woman’s voice to be authentic and touching. Just thought I’d share it with you.
Hello to all Americans, my name is Gabriel and I live in Honduras, Central America. An Obama Presidency for me is very scary.
Ever since FDR every US President except Jimmy Carter has had a Super-Power Mentality about the role that the United States needs to play in the world. Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama believe that the USA should be an Equal-Power not a Super-Power in their relations with other countries. In a debate with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama said that the problem with the Unietd States, is that the USA thinks they are above everyone else, and that the United States sgould be at the same level with everyone else.
I have to Strongly disagree with that Statement. The President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, is not at the same level as corrupt, narco dictators such as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
The United States of America is a symbol of freedom and liberty throughout the world, and if the President of the United States meets with dictators such as Chavez without any preconditions, then that kills any HOPE that I have that it is going to be different here in Latin America. That one day we will be able to live in a democracy that works and where we are free to express our opinions about our leaders and our leaders without punishment or reprimand.
The United States of America is a symbol of freedom and liberty throughout the world, and if the President of the United States meets with dictators such as Chavez without any preconditions, then that kills any HOPE that I have that it is going to be different here in Latin America. That one day we will be able to live in a democracy that works and where we are free to express our opinions about our leaders and our leaders without punishment or reprimand.
Hugo Chavez is trying to destroy the democracy which has been so difficult for us to mantain, and in which many people gave up their lives for the freedom that we are still trying to achieve, one of these people was grandfather.
If the President of the United States, meets with these dictators, then he legitimizes that everything that they are doing and everything that they have done, is justified in the eyes of the international community.
Since I have no say, I beg the people of the United States not to vote for Barack Obama. He will make that great country of yours, that country that represents hope and freedom throughout the world, the greatest country in the world, he would make it weak and equal to countries such as Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Please do not kill the only hope that I have in my country’s struggling democracy. Hugo Chavez is spending millions of dollars trying to cause a civil war here in Central America, and for our countries to go to the left and become communist. I beg you, do not let Hugo Chavez win this fight. Let democracy and liberty prevail.
Thank you very much for your time…
Since I have no say, I beg the people of the United States not to vote for Barack Obama. He will make that great country of yours, that country that represents hope and freedom throughout the world, the greatest country in the world, he would make it weak and equal to countries such as Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Please do not kill the only hope that I have in my country’s struggling democracy. Hugo Chavez is spending millions of dollars trying to cause a civil war here in Central America, and for our countries to go to the left and become communist. I beg you, do not let Hugo Chavez win this fight. Let democracy and liberty prevail.
Thank you very much for your time…
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Anyone who thinks that the US is a “symbol of freedom” in Latin America needs to talk to some actual Latin Americans. Or read some history. Or both.
ben : she is a latin american… she’s a honduran …
What’s her social class and ethnic background?
And I ask that because a rich person whose family benefitted from the many American-installed banana republics will probably have a less realistic view than someone who had family members “disappeared” by them.
What does the phrase “yanqui go home” mean to you?
Ben
Take a look at the number of central americans who go through hell,including being held for ransom in Mexico to get here. If you are making up your mind by the public displays then you probably think that Hitler was the best thing to ever happen to Germany. After all, look at how the media and the populace applauded him.
Having just returned from Venezuela– living and working there, I can tell you that Chavez is no dictator. He has a 70+% approval rating. While some industries and aspects of the economy have been nationalized, private markets are alive and well. The areas that have been nationalized are based in raw material development and agriculture. My understanding is that the world over, mineral rights belong to the state, with the exceptions of the U. S. A. and Canada. The majority of the media outlets are privately owned, by the powerful who want to get rid of Chavez. Did you know that another coup attempt was discovered just last month?
That is not to say that everything is hunky-dory in Vzla. It isn’t. There is a history of governmental corruption that extends well before Chavez was ever elected. It is still there. There is a problem, not limited to Vzla, of good ideas getting stalled by political opposition at a different governmental level (state or municipal) or by simply not having the qualified people to put the programs into action. There are also successes that never would have been realized under a derechista government. I could go on and on, but suffice to say, that Chavez, and any leader with some power who openly opposes U. S. aggression, is a target of corporate media. Did you know that one of the opposition advisors prior to the referendum last year was Dick Morris? Yes, that Dick Morris. Don’t believe everything you read or hear on television.
I also lived and worked in Guatemala for awhile in the 90s. That was under a rightest regime and during the civil war. I was on a “chicken bus” that got stopped by the army. All of the indigenous men were forced off the bus at gunpoint. I think the army didn’t shoot them for two reasons: there were several foreigners on the bus, and they might not have had bullets in their guns.
I’ll take Chavez anyday over Bush, McCain, Reagan, Obama, Kerry, …
WP,
People come here because they like money. Money which, in many cases, could not be obtained in their home countries because of all of the coups, tyrannies, dictatorships, autocrats, “authoritarian” regimes, assassinations, genocides, and occupations which the US govt and local stooges carried out, funded, or supported. They remember those things, and many of the South and Central Americans that I have met here despise the federal govt (even more than I do, which is saying something) for very good reasons.