Dear friends,
I have to admit that I am absolutely heartbroken at the news coming out of Latin America. Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia – everywhere the people are struggling against what has been known as “Yankee imperialism” for decades. The pendulum of history has swung back and forth many times in Latin America. I remember the civil war in Argentina just before the coup of 1976, I was still a kid, but I remember it all. Then the coup, the vicious and ugly “dirty war”, the disaster of the (just!) war for the Malvinas, then the years of “democracy”. Rivers of blood, and still the new era of freedom and peace everybody kept hoping for did not come. Now, four or five decades later, the people of Latin America are still dying and suffering under the yoke of a CIA-installed and CIA-controlled comprador class which would gladly sell their mothers and daughters to Uncle Shmuel for a few bucks.
And yet.
And yet 40 or 50 years are short when seen from the point of view of history, other struggles in history have lasted much longer. So, as a poignant reminder that we will never lose hope, nor will we ever accept oppression, here is a song by Pedro Aznar whose beautiful lyrics will be understood by everyone from Patagonia to Mexico’s northern border (including my Brazilian friends) and which beautifully expresses the hope common to all of us!
Venceremos!
The Saker
PS: if somebody had the time to translate these lyrics into English, I would be most grateful.
UPDATE1:
I just got this video with translated subtitles from a friend (thank you!!!) which I now can share with you:
UPDATE2:
When I first thought about posting this, I also wanted to include another video of hope: Girgos Dallaras singing “Haste Siempre” with Al Di Meola on the guitar, and now that Amarynth has mentioned this song in comment I decided to also post it. Enjoy!
Hurricane
The clear waters of the day shining on the wheat field
Morning of grapes and wine remembering peacetime
The cold taste in the dawn the bread warmer than the sun
I think of the cold that now inhabits my heart
There is the same great sadness in the eyes of the people
because steel arms hold us like dams
But what they don’t know, what they will never know
is that here in our land, from the mountain to the sea,
a light breeze is blowing that will become a hurricane
Ah, but they don’t know that one day it will be a hurricane
Friend keep your mind alive and attentive to deception
that the fair and accurate time will sound sooner or later
Let your young children know that this journey is hard and long,
that neither pain, wood or time bend a wild heart
Google Translate
What a wonderful song. Muy típico – the rhythms pluck the heartstrings.
There is a movie called The Milagro Beanfield War – an lovely and innocent fable with a very earthy bunch of characters. If you can download and watch, it really expresses the sense of the people and is really funny too.
Venceremos!
The artists will not be silenced and will continue singing the songs of liberty.
https://saker.community/2018/08/17/not-silenced/
Dear Amarynth!
You did not know that, but the Milagro Beanfield War is one of my two absolutely favorite movies (the other is “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovskii).
What is so beautiful about Milagro is that it is not a “Hispanics vs Yankees” movie, it is purely one of good vs evil, and good has many forms!
Hugs
The Saker
I love Stalker (talk about prescient) and would add Dersu Uzala, the Siberian taiga/tiger epic.
Agree, absolutely..!!! :)
I prefer mirror….more elegeic…hmmm…stalker….the travellers on the back of a native guide who is really in tune with the situation could be symbolic of Ukraines endless seeking through a post apocalytic desolation of their own making only finding confirmation of their own disillusion and the truth of themselves they must face?
Well worth reading Takkovskys book sculpting in time eg chapter role of spirituality by the artist.
Mulga mumblebrain Socialism is losing so badly in Latin America, now even China is being evicted from there by the USA. Morales was ousted purely because he was trying to setup a deal with China for lithium mining instead of just with the USA.
You see Saker was right when he warned people not to substitute their childish wishful thinking for real analysis: Saker did warn that the USA is still very powerful and to not underestimate them.
I have to hand it to the Russians, ASEAN, the Indians, CIS, and Indonesia for being much more shrewder than the gentle and naive Latin Americans. The real tragedy is Brazil that the people voluntarily voted a simplistic leader over Lula who delivered real tangible poverty reduction.
Other centers of power like ASEAN, CIS, Russia, India and Armenia continue to build up both their military, political autonomy and soft power capacities but Latin America just continues to neglect these areas.
Sadly Anglo colonies like Australia as well as the EU are a lost cause, collapsing under the weight of their own decline and corruption.
I never thought the Pink Tide in Latin America would last long. The reliance on the corrupt sham of ‘liberal democracy’ ensured that. The only free country in Latin America is Cuba, because it had a revolution, and the murderous Rightwing scum were flushed down the sewer to the USA, the greatest cess-pool of them all. This time Latin America will probably descend into a Hell of civil war between the 1% of compradore bloodsuckers, and the 99% of ‘dispensables’.
Cuba is terrifically poor mulga, the people there don’t have the freedom to setup their own businesses easily or have a deed to their property. You speak in either idealistic or despondent extremes and seems to miss the nuances of the reality they live under.
In the last forty years it is the moral collapse of society in Austfailia that is most marked. To gain the votes of those who it intends to screw, the Right in politics and the fakestream media has promoted hatred of various groups, to garner the votes of the worst in society. They don’t even vote out of greedy self-interest so much as out of hatred, or Moslems, unionists, Greens, gays, feminists, refugees, welfare recipients etc.
Amarynth,
I couldn’t get the book out of my mind for quite some time after reading it in the ’90s,its characters are hilarious!
Tranquilino Jeantete especially.Qué Mìlagró!
Lovely book.
These U.S. foreign polices in the Middle East and Latin America are not only completely evil, but completely stupid, insane, and also completely counter-productive for our country. Paul Craig Roberts pointed out that NAFTA was started not for the export of U.S. jobs for cheaper labor, which did in fact occur, but so that the banking sector would be openned up to the predatory banking system that has destroyed America as well. The bankers cannot tolerate nations that will not pay them a bank tax, AKA interest. It is sheer laziness, incompetency, predation, greed, and usuary. Then of course there is also the oil and these MFers think that private for profit corporations, at the expense of the citizens, rather than the citizens should own the resources in their own countries, which they democratically decided to nationalize, precisely like Saudi Arabia did, where I believe 70% of citizens recieve ARAMCO welfare. We never hear of the dangers of socialism or communism in Saudi Arabia though! Fact inconvenient! My guess is that many Saker readers have read Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins, if not, I highly recommend it. Reading it marked a turning point in my life.
Sorry, actually the King did it in Saudi Arabia, but it is nationalized and socialized there.
You bring up a. Excellent point about state owned resource companies and universal welfare in Saudi Arabia as well Qatar, UAE, etc being totally acceptable to “free-market* jihadis in neocon circles of the US deep State, but for some reason it’s unacceptable if Latin Americans institute far tamer policies.
Don’t be so down on the situation in Lat. Am. remember that the neoliberal idiot in Argentina just got booted out and also remember that Lula just got released, and somebody is funding countercolor revolution in Chile against the neoliberal incumbent. So… Hopefully Lula has learned not to be so naive as to give his opponents quarter the next time.
Dear Sir The Saker.
Greetings from mx. I translated to English the video that you requested and posted in my Youtube channel for you. thank you for give us a message in a form of song. Here the link and enjoy it!.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzZPY5_wXAA&list=PLmGvi4CFZMalR2tVOSEvyH7-JGRimBo4k&index=17&t=0s
Time ago I expresed my intention in bringing some help with translations (spa-eng) but the mess of a life I have didn’t allow me to guarantee a constant participation so I had to backtrack, I’m really sorry for that.
In the meanwhile, I offer this in which I try to take out or reshape some poetic figures that wouldnt make much sense in english, kind of a interpretation in english (Google translate got it right in a great part):
Las aguas claras del día brillando sobre el trigal
>> The clear blue sky shining above the wheat fields
Mañanas de uvas y vino recordando tiempos de paz
>> Mornings of grape harvest and wine, calling back for peaceful times
El gusto a frío en la aurora el pan más tibio que el sol
>> The cold feeling at sunrise, bread warmer than the sun
Yo pienso en el frío que ahora habita mi corazón
>> I think about the cold that I feel in my heart now
Hay en los ojos del pueblo la misma enorme tristeza
>> There is the same great sadness in the eyes of the people,
porque los brazos de acero nos frenan como represas
>> because steel arms are holding us like dams
Pero lo que ellos no saben, lo que no sabrán jamás
>> But what they don’t know, what they will never know,
es que aquí en nuestra tierra, de la montaña hasta el mar
>> is that here in our land, from the mountains to the sea,
sopla una brisa ligera que va a volverse huracán
>> a light breeze is blowing, that will become a hurricane.
Ah, pero ellos no saben que un día será un huracán
>> Ah, they don’t know that one day, it will be a hurricane.
Amigo conserva tu mente viva y atenta al engaño
>> Friend, keep your mind alive and awake to deception
que la hora justa y precisa sonará tarde o temprano
>> because the right and precise time will call sooner or later.
Que sepan tus hijos pequeños que es duro y largo este viaje,
>> Let your kids know, that this is a hard and long trip,
que ni dolor, madera o tiempo doblegan un corazón salvaje
>> that neither pain, wood or time can break a wild heart.
In other news, here in Chile things look promising, there have been some pathetic attemps from the political class to hijack the movement but that has failed miserably until now. If news you see around talk about “accords/negotiations between government and oposition” please don’t consider that the people is backing or feel represented by such “oposition”, athough we can recognise opportunities from it. We discredit and despise the complete political class, even the “pseudo-lefts”. There is 3 big political blocks here: Right/center-right (combined), the traditional left (radicals, socialists, comunists -but they still just act or behave as a center-left or “systemic left”, comunists have been doing some job compensating, still we dont trust them), and the new left (post-marxists, greens, trostkysts et al, maybe our version of the US “democratic party”).
The actual movement is very broad and you would see at the heart of it what youn can call the “chilean middle class”, a big part of the population that is simply tired of breaking its back working and just getting pennies from it. We are in a country where the costs of living are similar to those in Spain or even some parts of the US, but with almost zero social services and rights guaranteed by the state, and all of that with median (not average, god, the inequiality!) salaries akin to what you could see in Paraguay or some african countries.
We are fed up with the system, we are fed up with our comprador elite, we are fed up with the political partners-in-crime class, we are fed up with the security/police forces, and we are fed up with everything whats going on around, of being deceived over and over again. To some degree, this is like the speech-unrest in the film “Network”, athough without a clear head or leader to point and break/kill, and more radicalized, see below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug
The feelings in the street are sovereignity, dignity, unity and patriotism, and the symbols allowed there, are mainly the national-related ones: the chilean flag, the mapuche people’s flags and some other localist flags. And there are 2 songs deeply associated with the movement:
“Dance of Those Left Over”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DUqkbBSeo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YklpiCIwB5g (decent quality subs)
“The Right to Live in Peace”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xRSfjCyrg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhPqQhHGFM (good quality subs)
Cheers, and wish us good luck!
Thanks much Pelantaro, for this update. Yes, I wish you the best of luck and I will sing the songs with you!
“Viva Victor!” “Siempre!”
Thanks for your kind words, amarynth
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
Hi Pelantaro
I spoke yesterday with a friend of mine who has *excellent* knowledge of Chile and how told me “Andrei, this time around, its everybody, from the Mapuche to the middle-class of Santiago, everybody is really angry and determined”. He also added that only the recent defeat of Marci (whom he considers a high level Italian Mafia boss) will save Argentina from a similar explosion of violence.
I hope that he is right.
Good luck and stay safe!
The Saker
Thanks for your reply, Saker!
We have been following carefully what was going on with Macri’s Argentina (interesting info that one about the mafia connections) and we hope the best for our argentinian brothers, but I don’t think we have a comparable reality. First they have broad (although not perfect i guess) guarantees and coverage for health, education and pensions. Many chileans actually go to Argentina to get free high-quality education, and in some parts (the very south mainly) they have to go there for health. Second, they actually had a real option. Peronism has a strong patriotic and sovereignist component. Our political class, wherever you look at it, has absolutely nothing that you could define as “patriotic” or “sovereign”.
On the other side, athough there is violence, there is not as much havoc as the press tries to show in order to criminalise the movement. The manifestations are broadly pacific, and when there are attacks against property or destruction of any kind, one has to do a careful job trying to identify its origin and purpose because there are more than one “destructive force” in the streets:
> Police inteligence (false flags, a lot of them, I myself had the chance to see police operatives dressed as “radicals” -but with boots and a military-special-force-kind body build and agility lol- running away from the people denouncing them for a failed attemp to start a fire in a supermarket). Some public infraestructure affected (like metro stations) were attacked in shadowy circumstances and with “estimated losses that would require more than 6 months and millions to repair”, only to be working again just fine in a couple weeks.
> Anarchists, they think that destruction and chaos could be a useful way of doing, by now they have been judicious in order not to earn popular rejection, so they dont attack small business nor common people property.
> Oportunists, common gangsters/felons, and low education/income/oportunities peoples. The crimes are usually petty or against chilean big corporations/banks or the police, and when there is looting, its usually for food in big-chain supermarkets near middle to low income neighborhoods/cities. They have been earning some degree of support from the people in the movement after deaf reactions from the government and political class, and sharp violence from the police especially directed against the pacific demonstrators in order to intimidate and kick them out of the streets.
Cheers!
Apparently, the first act of this woman running Bolivia was to replace the high command of the military with her cronies. The strategy of the U.S. in Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, and elsewhere always seems to come down to coopting the military. Did Morales put up a good fight against this coup? I can’t really tell.
No,he did a Yanukovitch. But then,he really had no choice. Bolivia is a landlocked country,surrounded by Brazil,Paraguay,Peru,and Chile.Every one of them is a US minion.As we saw when Mexico sent the plane to save Morales.And it was forced to land, because for a while none of those countries would allow it to overfly their territory. There would be no way for outside help to come in.Had he built a “peoples army” during his terms in office.And purged all those with US ties from the military.He might could have survived the coup. But instead he played the “democracy game” with them.He was successful with it for years. But he like so many others (listen up China and Russia) don’t understand the thinking in the US. As long as you leave the US with the slightest ability to subvert those with influence in your country,they win.At the timing of their choice,they will use those people.Five,ten,twenty,years down the road.That doesn’t matter,they will use them to overthrown your government,and replace you with a stooge.We saw that in Ukraine,in Chile,in Brazil,in Argentina,etc. And we are seeing the attempt (still an open question) in Venezuela,Iran,Iraq,Lebanon,Georgia,Hong Kong,as well as of course Bolivia.Even when they fail at first,they never stop.Just by causing chaos in the target country.Not letting them do anything but battle that chaos,they win again.It’s almost as good as the coup succeeding.You are hurt badly,and you lose support,inside and outside your country.The “world media” savages you.So by the next coup attempt you are more of a victim.Unless target countries realize the US playbook’s rules,they can’t defeat them.A country “must” be willing to play “for keeps” to defeat the US.Purge the US stooges in your country,from the start.Make sure your intelligence agencies are loyal to your government.And that they are 24/7 watching for US infiltration,and co-opting people in your country.Once you find that,take action to stop it.Don’t let it fester,until its too late to stop it. The US is a master at playing the democracy game. They’ve been at it for decades. Never,ever,think they won’t turn it on you anytime they want to. It’s interesting that this time in Bolivia they used a women as their pawn in the game. Thinking that by using a women,they can cancel Morales advantage in the liberal press of his being an indigenous.They can play “identity politics” now .They’ve got lots of experience with using that inside the US.
Brilliant!
Thanks for this summary,Uncle Bob.
I can’t tell for sure how resistant Morales was to the coup. Sometimes it seems like he was being conciliatory with them. One thing is for sure; this opposition has zero interest in democracy, because there were plans for new elections in a few weeks without Morales. This coup was unnecessary if the only issue was Morales’ extra term.
Most of these CIA regime change operations come down to cooption of the military. As a matter of national security, countries should “CIA-proof” their militaries. Christian Fundamentalists also seem to be part of regime change these days; the fundamentalists were key to Bolsinaro’s pseudo-election in Brazil.
Yeah you’re right Bob, just like the west/US use the rohingyas (who are willing accomplices thanks to their blind loyalty to Sunni wahabbi ulema and due to their leaders licking the feet of the Saudi and Qatari wahabbists out of religious tribalism) to subvert Myanmar. It seems the Myanmar military has implemented the very thing you advise and purged these”western” proxies, even Ang San Suu Kyi seems to be aware of the situation you’ve outlined and that might explain her tacit approval of her country’s rohingya policy.
As you can see from the Burmese/Myanmar example, they have successfully prevented the designs of very forces you mention in your comment.
Glad you’ve seen thru rohingya ruse.
@ Uncle Bob
Even when they fail at first, they never stop. Just by causing chaos in the target country. Not letting them do anything but battle that chaos, they win again. It’s almost as good as the coup succeeding.
Precisely. This is exactly what they did, but to a much-much larger scale of course, to Communist Russia via WWII. If you can’t beat them – and they nearly did – you decimate (weaken) them for years to come. Whichever way you slice it, to them, this was a win. Destroying half of Europe in the process – where socialist ideas were starting to flourish at the time – was a massive bonus too.
This is why this is one of my pet-peeves against Peter Lavelle – mentioned again today in his show – and his mantra that US Foreign Policy is “a failure.” No it isn’t, it is designed to destroy the competition, namely *any* socio-economic political system (mostly Socialism/Communism, and anything that resembles them) that is capable of rivaling – i.e. offer a workable alternative to – their mobster-capitalist internationalist Crime Syndicate system. In other words; what they essentially do is kneecapping, they force people to ‘sleep with the fishes’ but on a colossal scale, that’s their “foreign policy,” so then “free-market” advocates can go on claiming idiotic things like: socialism doesn’t work :/
It’s all part of the same vile continuum.
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PS: great to read you, Uncle B.
TL2Q
Good analysis, Bob.
Yet, like many other who blame Morales for not creating a people’s army and ridding police and military of company assets, that is where you do not seem to understand one thing: he could not do that.
Morales was never going to be allowed to build even the slightest resemblance to a people’s militant corps, let alone a people’s army. They would have built a huge propaganda war against him for that. Morales is not Chavez. He does not come from the army.
As for ridding his forces of company assets, virtually impossible. Even SEBIN in Venezuela still struggles with that, and if the Bolivarian Republic has survived so far it is due in no small part to the fact that superb Cuban Counter Intelligence has been working really hard from the very beginning. But Cubans can go around in Venezuela freely, as they have the same physical types and even speech with Caribbean intonations. That could not apply to Bolivia at all. Cubans would not be welcome there.
No, as you well point it out, Morales only option was to try to, if not beat them, at least keep them at bay playing their ‘democracy’ warped game, for as long as possible. And there is where you find Morales crucial mistake: falling into the typical Latin American caudillo trap: feeling indispensable. EGO. Even his referendum on continuity was a step too far. Not only that, but he lost it! Referendum said no. But still he went and manipulated Supreme Court to manipulate shit and run again. Colossal mistake.
His ego did not allow him to understand that his time was due. That he had played an excellent hand with great results for the country and that he had to stand aside being a winner! He had very excellent people around him to continue his work, while he started the monumental task of building himself up as a political powerhouse behind any presidency to come. He had his excellent VP Alvaro García Linera to run, he would have won no problem. Or Adriana Salvatierra. David Chokehuanca was another excellent choice, but this time they needed to defuse the racist card and bring in a non-indian.
Morales knew very well this would happen, but his ego did not allow him to plan the best strategy. Yeah, CIA and all, so what? They are jackals and are always around. But in the stupidity of their assets and the immense popular movement now against them you can see they are really not very good at it and always depend on your mistakes to make their moves.
…gracias, Hermano.
Un abrazo desde Baires..!
The people who inhabit the land known as Los Estados “Unidos” also suffer from “Yankee imperialism”, but the populations within and abroad have been skillfully indoctrinated not to see it, even though they look straight at it every day even as it beats the hell out of their souls. The core the problem might be understood as a relationship between a minority of psychopaths, the Abusers, and the vast majority of their victims, rather than as a competition between political, economic or cultural sub-groups that is constantly argued back and forth.
Los E. U. cities have been transformed into an oppressive, ugly, depressing landscape of strip malls and four lane highways. (Read JH Kunster’s piece: “The Landscape Of Despair: How Our Cities And Towns Are Killing Us”) The population lives in an open-air prison, restrained not by iron bars, but by debt and usury – residential debt, credit card debt, automobile debt, medical debt, education debt, plus tolls, taxes, licenses, permits. The population is under constant surveillance. The food which is mostly salted sugar (a slave’s diet) is contaminated with GMOs. The population is constantly exposed to video screens of various sizes that emit steady, subtle propaganda. “Officials must be obeyed.” “Officials will always solve the crime.” “Officials are sacred and unassailable” “Take The Oath and Wear The Uniform” “Trump is NOT an official” “America is free” “America is a place where everyone wants to live”
Fact is, the psychopaths have been transforming Los Estados Unidos proper into The Plantation. The media controversies surrounding immigration and border protections are part of a marketing baiting strategy which aims to pack as many human souls onto the Plantation as possible before the Dollar crashes. Then the Real Wall will go up and everyone trapped inside will become the certified indentured property of the plantation owners, The Abusers, just like cattle. Every soul will have a (cell phone IP) number. Every soul will have a benefit-cost ratio value assigned. Negative values will be culled from the human herd. Every fighting soul will continue to be indoctrinated into various military campaigns of aggression against other countries, which in the minds of The Abusers, are merely Competing Plantations that are unable to use their own resources as productively as the Abusers. And so they must be brought to heel. For Freedom (pronounced Free Dumb).
Consider carefully that light breeze which will become a hurricane. It may just signify a new set of psychopaths replacing the old ones. Or not. The question is: how long will the majority remain susceptible to the charms of their Abusers?
Well said. I was in a regional Ohio city recently and, while driving around (as there is no other way to get anywhere) through the endless strip malls and gas stations and fast-food outlets, I asked myself: “Did the people who built all this frenetic retail world set out to make it as absolutely ugly and soul-crushing as it possibly could be?” It certainly looks like they did. I’m not sure what would make it uglier, but maybe “Bladerunner”-style blimps with advertising passing overhead among the really remarkable grids of chem-trails in the sky could do it.
Of course, any driver can be pulled over by police and legally robbed of their cash. They call it called Civil Asset Forfeiture. No crime need be committed nor charges brought against the citizen. Possession of cash is enough. It is, pure and simple, official robbery. Sometimes they take away the children in the back seat as well. Banksters are inside collaborators by immediately reporting to police those customers who just made a substantial withdraw. This is merely one of many, many rape, robbery and murder scams that USAians must tolerate everyday from its ruling class. No, you will not hear about these crimes on conventional TeeVee nor print media.
Now if the person were instead Jamaica and the cash were instead bauxite, you see it is the same result.
The Abusers just come around and take what they want.
You’re right (along with Kunstler): It’s the ugliness, stupid!!
Katherine
This is another great translation sent to me by a faraway friend:
The dew shines on the wheat fields
The mornings of grapes and wine remind us of peacetime
The bite of the cold at dawn, the warm bread in the sun
I think of the cold that now dwells in my heart
There is in people’s eyes the same immense sadness
because steel chains hamper us
But what they don’t know, what they’ll never know
is that here on our land, from the mountains to the sea,
Blows a light breeze that will become a hurricane.
Ah, but they don’t know that one day it will be a hurricane.
Friend keep your mind sharp and attentive to deception
because the right and accurate time will come sooner or later
Let your young children know that this trip will be long and difficult,
And that no pain, no yoke, no time, never submit a wild heart
Saker have you ever listened to “Look on the Bright Side” by the Trinidadian Calypsonian Black Stalin? Worth a Listen.
it is a hard, it is a hard rains gonna come… (Dylan). By the way my post name is one of my favorite movies by Tarkovskii with “My name is Ivan” also by him and “The seven Samurai” by Kurosawa.
I came across this article today:
https://alethonews.com/2019/11/19/bolivia-more-than-68000-fake-twitter-accounts-supported-coup/
Bolivia: More Than 68,000 Fake Twitter Accounts Supported Coup
teleSUR | November 19, 2019
More than 68,000 fake Twitter accounts were created to support the coup d’état in Bolivia, revealed a recent study by Julián Macías Tovar, head of social networks for the Spanish party Podemos…
This sounds like something the CIA would do. Will the OAS complain?
Nah-that would be the Israelis.
Hurricane
The clear waters of the day shining on the wheat field
Morning of grapes and wine remembering peacetime
The cold taste in the dawn the bread warmer than the sun
I think of the cold that now inhabits my heart
There is the same great sadness in the eyes of the people
because steel arms hold us like dams
But what they don’t know, what they will never know
is that here in our land, from the mountain to the sea,
a light breeze is blowing that will become a hurricane
Ah, but they don’t know that one day it will be a hurricane
Friend keep your mind alive and attentive to deception
that the fair and accurate time will sound sooner or later
Let your young children know that this journey is hard and long,
that neither pain, wood or time bend a wild heart
Viva Chile!!!!!!!
Longlive venezuela!
Never quit, Bolivia!
Long live to Latin american warrior Lula da Silva!
Mighty Storm
By Pedro Aznar
Trans. Roy Jiménez
Clear waters today are shining
over the golden wheat fields
Mornings of grapes and salutes
remembering our peaceful past.
When we face freezing dawns,
the bread is warmer than the sun;
I think of the cold chills we’re facing
and how they are chilling my heart.
(Chorus)
There is in the eyes of the people
the same enormous blues
Because there are arms made of steel
That could stop us just like dams.
But there is thing they don’t know
And the thing they’ll never know is…
that here in our land,
from the mountain to the sea
blows a light gentle breeze
that will be a mighty storm
Ah, the thing that they’ll never know is…
it will be a mighty Storm.
Friends keep your minds clear,
And attentive to all deception
That the just and right hour
will ring sooner or later
Let all the children know well
that the road is long and hard
but neither pain, wood or season
will crush a wild righteous heart!
(Chorus)
Do you feel that breeze picking up?
Read the article from “The View From Olympus: A Big Win for 4GW” at traditionalright dot com
The takeaway:
“The drug cartels represent the future in many respects. They do not seek to replace the state or openly capture it, which would make them vulnerable to other states; rather, they hide within its hollowed-out structures and are protected by its formal sovereignty. They make lots of money while states go begging. They provide social services the state is supposed to offer but does not. Their highly-motivated forces with flat command structures have a faster OODA Loop than the state’s. And locally, they often appear more legitimate than the state.”
People do not need to sell narcotics to take advantage of this structure.
Thanks everybody.
Because the prospects is will need extra forces in the future to break up, to shatter the chains.
The chains we now try to progressively gettin entangled into – and when in one or two decades the Asia countries will be the ”Cities shining on the hill”.. for every other ones to admire and mimic… our children can get consumed in a tremendous effort to disintangle first.
I wish I ´m wrong.
Here is another interesting news item on Bolivia:
https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1196151246748606466
In case it was missed: U.S. embassy vehicle licence plate 28-CD-17 participated in the police operation in which Cuban doctors in were unjustly detained in La Paz, Bolivia.
The view from afar has its limitations. I am on the ground in Brazil and have spent the last few weeks speaking with all sorts of people. A few were from the upper middle class, but most were working class living on the minimum wage, or close to it.
Brazil is, as always, full of problems and poverty. Inequality is always in your face here. My experience is that people who work (remembering that most are on a “salary” of a couple hundred USD per month, or maybe 1.5 to 2 salaries if they are extremely fortunate) are not, I repeat, not happy Lula was released from prison. They are disgusted and demoralized. They understand full well that Lula and his sons are corrupt and became wealthy off of the backs of the workers. Do they like multi national corporations? No – they understand there is no light there either.
Those who do not work at all were happy with Lula and Dilma because of the handouts instituted. But those who work are the losers. They are taxed mercilessly. One waiter in a restaurant pulled out his pay statement to show me. I tell you, it was heart wrenching and unfair beyond belief. Later I asked a friend who works with businesses how personal taxes were for him. His answer? “Only people with a bad accountant pay taxes.”
All those years of Lula and Dilma did nothing for the masses of workers, and now Bolsonaro has the reins. The problems remain, but from what I have seen, there is no reason to celebrate Lula/Dilma as saviors. They are corrupt politicos like the rest. They just handed out the money of those who work (at practical slave wages) to those who do not work at all. There is no virtue or altruism in it at all. Just power and election politics.
The people working for and loving their families are the real heroes of Brazil. Beautiful people, really, but with a mighty hard row to hoe.
My favorite (Klezmer :) version of Hasta Siempre, Comandante
https://youtu.be/2TPBQxAwddI
RT has this interesting info about the Bolivia coup:
Evo Morales: “USA goons who pulled coup threatened to burn public servants ALIVE if they stood by me”.
‘Fascist’ opposition targeted officials’ relatives
Morales described the tactics employed by the country’s opposition to gain power as “fascist”; it included attacks, blackmail and intimidation. “They burn the homes of officials down. The police do nothing and then join the protesters.”
The ex-president said the demonstrators targeted the relatives of his allies to make them resign from their positions.
They threaten the wives of public servants, saying: ‘If your husband doesn’t leave, we’ll burn you alive.’ The wives call their husbands in tears and eventually they quit.
This happened to President of the Chamber of Deputies, Victor Borda, who had his brother taken hostage, and to union leader Theodoro Mamani, who was told that his wife and daughter would be executed, according to Morales.
He said that the betrayal by the Bolivian military became a huge shock for him as he’d had “great” relations with all of its top commanders before the coup.
“I was sure that there were patriots and anti-imperialists among the military. But it turned out that some commanders only served those who paid more. I was surprised. I just couldn’t believe this.”
The military commanders had lost some of their influence while he was in office and “couldn’t forgive us for this,” Morales suggested.
This song is a Brazilian song from the beginning of the 1980’s, written by Kledir Ramil and José Fogaça (which was mayor of Porto Alegre) and sang by the duo of brothers Kleiton e Kledir.
I like the Spanish version, the use of the word ‘Hurricane’ makes the lyrics stronger.
In Portuguese I may translate the chorus as:
But what they don’t know,
Don’t know yet, no,
It’s that in my land,
A palm above the ground,
Blows a light breeze,
That will turn into a big turning.
Ah, but they don’t know,
That will turn into a big turning.
Viração
Nas águas claras do dia
À sombra dos cereais
Manhãs de trigo e de vinho
Lembrando o passado e a paz
O gosto e o frio da aurora
O cheiro macio do pão
E eu penso no frio que agora
Habita meu coração
Nos muros nos olhos do povo
Habita a mesma tristeza
Porque os braços de ferro
Nos prendem como represa
Mas o que eles não sabem
Não sabem ainda não
É que na minha terra
Um palmo acima do chão
Sopra uma brisa ligeira
Que vai virar viração
Ah mas eles não sabem
Que vai virar viração
Amigo guarda tua mente
Bem viva atenta e sem medo
Que a hora certa e precisa
Virá mais tarde ou mais cedo
Ensina a teus filhos pequenos
Que é dura e longa a viagem
Que a dor, a madeira e o tempo
Não dobram um coração selvagem
Nos muros nos olhos do povo
Habita a mesma tristeza
Porque os braços de ferro
Nos prendem como represa
Mas o que eles não sabem
Não sabem ainda não
É que na minha terra
Um palmo acima do chão
Sopra uma brisa ligeira
Que vai virar viração
Ah mas eles não sabem
Que vai virar viração.