Magda Hassan Wrote:US refuses to accept Venezuela election result


Posted: Apr 17, 2013 4:09 AMUpdated: Apr 17, 2013 4:09 AM

By MATTHEW LEE
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is refusing to accept the official results of Venezuela's weekend presidential election, which gave victory to the protege of the country's late leftist leader Hugo Chavez.
The State Department said Tuesday that a full recount of the vote and an investigation into alleged irregularities were needed, given the close tally that almost evenly divided the country. On Monday, the U.S. had called for a full recount before results were certified but the election commission went ahead with certification without one.
The State Department said it was "difficult to understand" why the commission certified ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro as the winner in the absence of a recount, which challenger Henrique Capriles is demanding.
It also condemned post-election violence that has killed at least seven people.
http://www.wistv.com/story/21993116/us-refuses-to-accept-venezuela-election-result

Quote:The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose real name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was politically involved in many ways throughout his life in the fight for social justice and equality. While living underground and in Argentina after he had openly and repeatedly criticized the Chilean government and its violent repression of a miner's strike, he wrote his defining, extensive, and acclaimed work, Canto General. I recently came across the mention of the poem below, "United Fruit Co.", which is part of the Canto General while reading the biography of Ernesto "Che" Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson. Neruda wrote this poem in 1950 to bring attention to injustices brought upon the native populations of Central and South America that were a result of American companies (and the U.S. government with the help of the CIA) and dictators throughout the region who exploited their labor and forcefully suppressed democratic movements.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

United Fruit Co.

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other corporations.
The United Fruit Company
reserved for itself the most juicy
piece, the central coast of my world,
the delicate waist of America.

It rebaptized these countries
Banana Republics,
and over the sleeping dead,
over the unquiet heroes
who won greatness,
liberty, and banners,
it established an opera buffa:
it abolished free will,
gave out imperial crowns,
encouraged envy, attracted
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tachos flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies sticky with
submissive blood and marmalade,
drunken flies that buzz over
the tombs of the people,
circus flies, wise flies
expert at tyranny.

With the bloodthirsty flies
came the Fruit Company,
amassed coffee and fruit
in ships which put to sea like
overloaded trays with the treasures
from our sunken lands.

Meanwhile the Indians fall
into the sugared depths of the
harbors and are buried in the
morning mists;
a corpse rolls, a thing without
name, a discarded number,
a bunch of rotten fruit
thrown on the garbage heap.

AS WRITTEN IN SPANISH

La United Fruit Co.

Cuando sonó la trompeta, estuvo
todo preparado en la tierra,
y Jehova repartió el mundo
a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, y otras entidades:
la Compañía Frutera Inc.
se reservó lo más jugoso,
la costa central de mi tierra,
la dulce cintura de América.

Bautizó de nuevo sus tierras
como "Repúblicas Bananas,"
y sobre los muertos dormidos,
sobre los héroes inquietos
que conquistaron la grandeza,
la libertad y las banderas,
estableció la ópera bufa:
enajenó los albedríos
regaló coronas de César,
desenvainó la envidia, atrajo
la dictadora de las moscas,
moscas Trujillos, moscas Tachos,
moscas Carías, moscas Martínez,
moscas Ubico, moscas húmedas
de sangre humilde y mermelada,
moscas borrachas que zumban
sobre las tumbas populares,
moscas de circo, sabias moscas
entendidas en tiranía.

Entre las moscas sanguinarias
la Frutera desembarca,
arrasando el café y las frutas,
en sus barcos que deslizaron
como bandejas el tesoro
de nuestras tierras sumergidas.

Mientras tanto, por los abismos
azucarados de los puertos,
caían indios sepultados
en el vapor de la mañana:
un cuerpo rueda, una cosa
sin nombre, un número caído,
un racimo de fruta muerta
derramada en el pudridero.

Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro tells John Kerry to get out of here'

Quote:Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably.This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Obama proud to follow and revive the criminal imperial arrogance of the United Fruit Company.

Quote:The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose real name was Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was politically involved in many ways throughout his life in the fight for social justice and equality. While living underground and in Argentina after he had openly and repeatedly criticized the Chilean government and its violent repression of a miner's strike, he wrote his defining, extensive, and acclaimed work, Canto General. I recently came across the mention of the poem below, "United Fruit Co.", which is part of the Canto General while reading the biography of Ernesto "Che" Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson. Neruda wrote this poem in 1950 to bring attention to injustices brought upon the native populations of Central and South America that were a result of American companies (and the U.S. government with the help of the CIA) and dictators throughout the region who exploited their labor and forcefully suppressed democratic movements.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

United Fruit Co.

When the trumpet sounded
everything was prepared on earth,
and Jehovah gave the world
to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, and other corporations.
The United Fruit Company
reserved for itself the most juicy
piece, the central coast of my world,
the delicate waist of America.

It rebaptized these countries
Banana Republics,
and over the sleeping dead,
over the unquiet heroes
who won greatness,
liberty, and banners,
it established an opera buffa:
it abolished free will,
gave out imperial crowns,
encouraged envy, attracted
the dictatorship of flies:
Trujillo flies, Tachos flies
Carias flies, Martinez flies,
Ubico flies, flies sticky with
submissive blood and marmalade,
drunken flies that buzz over
the tombs of the people,
circus flies, wise flies
expert at tyranny.

With the bloodthirsty flies
came the Fruit Company,
amassed coffee and fruit
in ships which put to sea like
overloaded trays with the treasures
from our sunken lands.

Meanwhile the Indians fall
into the sugared depths of the
harbors and are buried in the
morning mists;
a corpse rolls, a thing without
name, a discarded number,
a bunch of rotten fruit
thrown on the garbage heap.

AS WRITTEN IN SPANISH

La United Fruit Co.

Cuando sonó la trompeta, estuvo
todo preparado en la tierra,
y Jehova repartió el mundo
a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,
Ford Motors, y otras entidades:
la Compañía Frutera Inc.
se reservó lo más jugoso,
la costa central de mi tierra,
la dulce cintura de América.

Bautizó de nuevo sus tierras
como "Repúblicas Bananas,"
y sobre los muertos dormidos,
sobre los héroes inquietos
que conquistaron la grandeza,
la libertad y las banderas,
estableció la ópera bufa:
enajenó los albedríos
regaló coronas de César,
desenvainó la envidia, atrajo
la dictadora de las moscas,
moscas Trujillos, moscas Tachos,
moscas Carías, moscas Martínez,
moscas Ubico, moscas húmedas
de sangre humilde y mermelada,
moscas borrachas que zumban
sobre las tumbas populares,
moscas de circo, sabias moscas
entendidas en tiranía.

Entre las moscas sanguinarias
la Frutera desembarca,
arrasando el café y las frutas,
en sus barcos que deslizaron
como bandejas el tesoro
de nuestras tierras sumergidas.

Mientras tanto, por los abismos
azucarados de los puertos,
caían indios sepultados
en el vapor de la mañana:
un cuerpo rueda, una cosa
sin nombre, un número caído,
un racimo de fruta muerta
derramada en el pudridero.

Magda Hassan Wrote:Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro tells John Kerry to get out of here'




By
The Washington Times
Thursday, April 18, 2013

U.S.-Venezuelan relations took a turn for the worse Thursday, as Secretary of State John F. Kerry called for a recount in the presidential election that Nicolas Maduro just narrowly won and the president-elect responded that Mr. Kerry should just mind his own business.
"It's obscene, the U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela," Mr. Marduro said, as United Press International reported. "Take your eyes off Venezuela, John Kerry. Get out of here. Enough interventionism."
Mr. Kerry called for a recount during remarks to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill and also hinted that the U.S. might not recognize Mr. Maduro as the rightful leader.
"We think there ought to be a recount," he said in the UPI report. "I don't know whether it's going to happen. … [But] obviously, if there are huge irregularities, we are going to have serious questions about the viability of that government."
Mr. Maduro's response was blunt.
"We don't care about your recognition," he said, as UPI reported. "We have decided to be free and we will be free and independent, with or without you."
On Monday, Mr. Maduro the late President Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor was declared winner of the special election, with 50.8 percent of the vote, UPI said. Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles won 49 percent, only 262,000 votes behind.
The president of the country's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, affirmed Mr. Maduro as the winner on Wednesday.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/18/venezuelan-president-elect-nicolas-maduro-tells-jo/#ixzz2QrVV79ZC

Quote:Capriles called Correa irresponsible

Featured News, Politics, World | Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Source:: EFE
Yesterday at a press conference, the former presidential candidate and leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Henrique Capriles, described the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, as "irresponsible", for saying that he is a "coup maker", and also ensuring that he supported the coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002, during an interview with Ana Pastor for the Frente a Frente program of CNN.
"Statements made by the Ecuadorian President are unacceptable, and irresponsible," said Capriles. "Mr. Correa (…) crossed the line, he has no right to qualify any Venezuelan and he must respect our country," he added.
Also, Capriles insisted that "the coup makers are others" and told Rafael Correa to present evidence, "because if he doesn't, he would be a liar, irresponsible," said the opposition leader, who yesterday warned the Ecuadorian president to "not get involved in the internal issues of Venezuela."

Meanwhile, Maduro defended his Ecuadorian counterpart. "Move forward brother President Correa, soon we will see each other to continue uniting our beautiful South American peoples of Ecuador and Venezuela," said the president.