by the El Reportero news services
Paatricia Espinosa
The governments of Ecuador and Colombia have dismissed any prospect of reconciliation in the short term. Instead, they are engaging in an acrimonious exchange of accusations, Ecuador insisting that Colombia, by leaving its border areas uncontrolled, enables the persistence of crossborder hostage-taking, and Colombia claiming that there is still a strong, tolerated Farc presence in Ecuador.
Both sides have been stretching the facts and switching around their arguments.
Right snatches symbolic victory in Chilean elections
The ruling Concertación and the opposition coalition Alianza por Chile claim that they won the municipal elections on 26 October. They both have a point.
The Alianza has the most to celebrate. It recorded its first electoral victory since the return to democracy 18 years ago by winning the mayoral elections, taking some of the biggest and most emblematic municipalities in the process.
The Concertación, however, won a greater percentage of the vote in the elections for council seats a more accurate gauge of party political support ahead of presidential elections in December 2009.
Russia is back and Latin America is its new play ground
For almost two decades, even long after its turn around in 1999, the Russian elites continued to believe in the West, much longer than they ever should have.
To that end, Russia refrained from encroaching on the American playground, Latin America.
With the Monroe Doctrine, the US has seen to Latin America, especially to Central America, as it’s personal play ground, where national governments are over thrown as would be and policies are shoved down everyone’s throats as desired.
The area was kept hands off by Russia, even while the West continued, driven primarily by the Anglo-Americans, to surround and encapsulate Russia from all sides.
Outside of some weapons sales to Venezuela or some nice words to Cuba, Russia was gone from Latin America and with no plans on returning.
That all changed, of course, as so many other things did, when the Anglo-American Trotskytes, the Neocons, attempted to restart the Cold War and to renew their sagging fortunes. They poked the bear, not directly, but by using their proxy Saakashvili. What they found was not a hibernating bear but the renewed Russian Imperial eagle of the Holy Third Rome.
That point was driven home all the more by the endless stream of relentless lies that fl owed forth. With the lies came the malice that had previously been ever so lightly disguised, except that it was disguised no longer.
Now even the Russian liberals were shocked and dismayed by what they found that the West, particularly the Anglo-Americans really were, once the fairy dust settled from their eyes.
Now no sphere is off limits and Russia has roared back into Latin America. The response?
The response both from the Anglo-Americans and the Latin Americans has driven one thing home clearly not only to Moscow but the world: the Anglo-American Empire is teetering. It is not over, it is not dead but it will cede territory as it starts its long retreat. In other words, except for some words and confusion there has been no response from the Trotskyte Neocons.
From the Latin Americans, the response is loud and clear.
- Cuba is in talks about setting up air defense, new Russian bases and a space center.
- Mexico is Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa for trade talks and political cooperation.
- Nicaragua has come out in support of Russia’s recognition of Abkhazia and S.Ossetia by also recogniz- ing them, as it too seeks to get closer to Moscow.
- Columbia has sent Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos to discuss combined military efforts against terrorism, drugs and possible equipment deals. Columbia is looking at fi ghters and helicopters and radar systems, just like the ones Venezuela bought.
