US: BOLSTER FREE TRADE AREA OF THE AMERICAS VS CUBA-VENEZUELA TIE
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
While US attention centers on New Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and other points East, there’s a dark cloud forming right under America’s nose. It’s Cuba kissing up to Venezuela, hugs-and-kisses mutual amorous.
If America is asleep on this matter. peril could loom.
According to Reuters’Anthony Boadle, "In the last five years, Venezuela has become a vital economic lifeline for Cuba's cash-starved government, partly filling the void left by the Soviet Union's collapse with vital supplies of oil on very favorable terms."
There were all sorts of eatery celebrations attending the politic nuptials between the two countries’ heads of state. Speeches ad infinitum delivered with Castro’s Fidel Castro holding forth at the podium, per usual. But what was the backdrop to all this festivity is the strength derived from these two nations intent on undoing America’s power presence in this hemisphere.
Castro proclaimed loudly and clearly that the Free Trade Area of the Americas is dead, done, over and out. America admits that FTAA surely needs some bolstering. If that is reality maximum, then on with the bolstering show. Soon. Like now. No time lag. No denial.
"Oil exporter Venezuela drew closer to Cuba on Thursday by establishing subsidiaries of its state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and a government bank on the Communist-run island.
"Presidents Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, who are seeking to build an alternative to the U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas -- from which Cuba is excluded -- attended the launchings in an upbeat mood.
"’We are very pleased. This is a historic day,’ said Castro, 78, dressed in his customary military uniform. Said Chavez: ‘We have been building this brick by brick, like a house.’"
The two nations’ heads of state are concluding that America is too preoccupied elsewhere, particularly in warding off Muslim killers international to take care of crucials right up against America’s own doorstep.
Take Warning: America.
America needs oil. America needs oil producing countries’ cordiality.
India and China forge new ties. Russia and China forge new ties. Now Cuba and Venezuela forge fresh ties. These nations are out to set America off-balance in planetary power strategies. They are not content to sit idly by while the most powerful nation on Earth continues to continue.
Of course, Muslim leadership is intent on doing in America. However, New Iraq is a proving ground for democracy planting in a previous Muslim dictatorship. Afghanistan likewise.
Yet now we have a front piece just begging for America’s scrutiny — in-depth: Cuba and Venezuela.
"Castro declared the FTAA dead in a three-hour speech in which he said the U.S. proposal for a single free-trade bloc of the Americas was an ‘anexionist plan’ aimed at plundering Latin American resources.
"’What's left of the FTAA is just pieces, bilateral agreements,’ Castro said of the hemispheric free-trade plan, which has met with growing resistance in Latin American societies disillusioned with the promises of free-market capitalism."
No time to waste, America. No time to waste.
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While US attention centers on New Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and other points East, there’s a dark cloud forming right under America’s nose. It’s Cuba kissing up to Venezuela, hugs-and-kisses mutual amorous.
If America is asleep on this matter. peril could loom.
According to Reuters’Anthony Boadle, "In the last five years, Venezuela has become a vital economic lifeline for Cuba's cash-starved government, partly filling the void left by the Soviet Union's collapse with vital supplies of oil on very favorable terms."
There were all sorts of eatery celebrations attending the politic nuptials between the two countries’ heads of state. Speeches ad infinitum delivered with Castro’s Fidel Castro holding forth at the podium, per usual. But what was the backdrop to all this festivity is the strength derived from these two nations intent on undoing America’s power presence in this hemisphere.
Castro proclaimed loudly and clearly that the Free Trade Area of the Americas is dead, done, over and out. America admits that FTAA surely needs some bolstering. If that is reality maximum, then on with the bolstering show. Soon. Like now. No time lag. No denial.
"Oil exporter Venezuela drew closer to Cuba on Thursday by establishing subsidiaries of its state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and a government bank on the Communist-run island.
"Presidents Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, who are seeking to build an alternative to the U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas -- from which Cuba is excluded -- attended the launchings in an upbeat mood.
"’We are very pleased. This is a historic day,’ said Castro, 78, dressed in his customary military uniform. Said Chavez: ‘We have been building this brick by brick, like a house.’"
The two nations’ heads of state are concluding that America is too preoccupied elsewhere, particularly in warding off Muslim killers international to take care of crucials right up against America’s own doorstep.
Take Warning: America.
America needs oil. America needs oil producing countries’ cordiality.
India and China forge new ties. Russia and China forge new ties. Now Cuba and Venezuela forge fresh ties. These nations are out to set America off-balance in planetary power strategies. They are not content to sit idly by while the most powerful nation on Earth continues to continue.
Of course, Muslim leadership is intent on doing in America. However, New Iraq is a proving ground for democracy planting in a previous Muslim dictatorship. Afghanistan likewise.
Yet now we have a front piece just begging for America’s scrutiny — in-depth: Cuba and Venezuela.
"Castro declared the FTAA dead in a three-hour speech in which he said the U.S. proposal for a single free-trade bloc of the Americas was an ‘anexionist plan’ aimed at plundering Latin American resources.
"’What's left of the FTAA is just pieces, bilateral agreements,’ Castro said of the hemispheric free-trade plan, which has met with growing resistance in Latin American societies disillusioned with the promises of free-market capitalism."
No time to waste, America. No time to waste.
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