Chomsky Praises Venezuela

Steve Mather, Caracas: By providing subsidised oil and combustible fuel to people living in poverty in the United States, Venezuela is setting a great example to Latin America and the World in cooperation and solidarity, according to the U.S. writer and renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.

During a forum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, Chomsky mentioned the Venezuelan process several times as an example to the region and the planet because of its social politics which have had infinite success in education, medical assistance and in rescuing the dignity of Venezuelans.

"Venezuela successfully challenged the United States and this country [the United States] doesn´t like challenges, much less so if they are successful, and that is the core of the problem", said Chomsky.

Chomsky formed part of the panel at the forum entitled Terrorism: Its Origins and Consequences held earlier this month. It attracted students, researchers, politicians, intellectuals, journalists and social leaders, according to the Venezuelan Consulate in Boston.

Chomsky has, through his books and international talks, criticised the foreign policy developed by the Bush administration.

Although a Professor of Linguistics at MIT, Chomsky dedicates a large part of his time at university conferences, guilds and social organisations.

Chomsky indicated that the majority of U.S. citizens receive little or no information on the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution, led by the Venezuelan Hugo Chavez Frías, "because the media only emphasise the bad and ignore the positive."

He announced that he will visit Caracas at the end of October to participate in conferences and forums on the situation in Latin America viewed from the perspective of the United States.

United States protects terrorists

Chomsky also said that the United States, in accordance with the foreign policy of President Bush, "thinks it has the privilege to declare any person or country a terrorist."

And under that precept the US armed forces "should bomb Washington, because when the US government protects Luis Posada Carrile and rejects the extradition application from Venezuela for him they protect one of the most renowned terrorists in the continent."

Before the discussion opened the documentary Mission Against Terror was shown. It puts together testimonies and documents to investigate and denounce the illegal detention of 5 Cuban citizens in the United States.

The Cubans were carrying out investigative work against the terrorist activities of Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for blowing up a Cuban Airlines DC -8 on October 6 1974, in waters off the coast of Barbados, where 73 passengers perished.

Chomsky noted that Posada Carriles, ex-CIA agent was a fugitive from Venezuela awaiting judgement there for the attack on the Cuban plane.

Despite that, he was admitted into US territory and sent to El Salvador where, along with Captain Oliver North, he organised the Nicaraguan Contras among other activities.

"Now the Cuban terrorist is in a prison in El Paso and there has been no response to the Venezuelan extradition application. It all seems to be in limbo"

"Surely, tomorrow Posada Carriles will appear in Miami , Florida walking freely. There is a profound difference between what is said and what is done in the U.S. on the subject of terrorism", stated Chomsky.

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This is a proof that the U.S/CIA methods
to throw Fidel down from power hadn't
been very ethical,clean or constitutionally correct.
What is the difference between the KGB methods and the CIA methods?

None.The use the same methods but with
different political ideology.

And the reason the U.S's government is
angry at Hugo Chavez is finally somebody
else than Castro is fighting back.
George Bush hates Hugo Chavez because Chavez
reminds Bush a lot about himself.

[Marco Antonio Morín Kannee]

Proffesor Chomsky there are people in Venezuela dying just because chavez gives away oil. And you congratulate him for that; by god, one man versus 28M (not counting the persons in government). You are a Phd, I honor you for that, but to honor a person like chavez who puts down a whole country just for his grandeur,