Assassination of Hugo Chavez
March 6th 2013
By Terrance Nelson
Vice Chairman of American Indian Movement
Former five term Chief of Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation
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I have read the article posted in your website written by Greg Grandin. http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/8040
I was in Iran five months ago in October 2012 and in Iraq in April
1998. I believe the death of Chavez is an assassination. Chavez was a
leader who tried to free his people from the grip of people who will do
anything to keep the consumer hostage. In the fall of 1998 oil was $15 a
barrel and gasoline was 89 cents a gallon. I was called a dupe of
Saddam by western media. We posted a video called A War On Children.
Our latest video is What
Can You Buy With 5 Trillion Dollars Anything You Want April 2012. The
key information in the new video is that $500 billion per year is paid
by the United States to oil producing nations. In ten years, five
trillion dollars will be paid to oil producing countries for foreign
oil. The movement of trillions of American dollars to other countries is
a great concern for the security of the United States.
What
the world saw about the Iraq wars was the physical attacks but the real
target was the economy of Iraq and the Iraqi Dinar. In 1990, prior to
the first war the Iraq Dinar was worth three and half American dollars.
By the time we got there in 1998, it took 1,450 Iraqi Dinars to buy one
American dollar. Saddam Hussein was a homicidal maniac and a perfect
foil to carry out an economic war against Iraq.
The
current threat of war against Iran is touted as preventing Iran from
acquiring the nuclear bomb. The real target however is the Iranian Rial,
the currency that must be driven into oblivion in order to try and
keep the American dollar safe. The killing of Libyan leader Muammar
Gaddafi affects the value of the Libyan currency. The Arab Spring
ensures the American dollar in those countries is wasted on infighting.
The deaths in Syria is deliberate.
Last
week, I was in South Dakota where we paid $3.85 per gallon of gasoline.
Americans are extremely patriotic. President Obama in his
Presidential debate with Mitt Romney said that the United States spends
as much money on the military as the next ten largest military countries
in the world combined. American do not question their government, they
are held hostage to fear of the "terrorists". Fear mongering keeps the
world hostage to oil. Forbes just released the current list of the
richest people in the world but the trend was well established years
earlier.
As of 2007, the top 1% owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, the next 19% had 50.5%, which means 20% of Americans owned 85% of all wealth in the United States. The bottom 80% of Americans had only 15% of the wealth in their control.
In December 1995, the United Nations released a
study finding that 567,000 Iraqi children died in the first five years
of economic sanctions. Few cared in the west about half a million dead
Iraqi children, we just blamed Saddam. Today, the economic sanctions
against Iran is causing untold deaths of Iranian people as Iran is
forced to buy pharmaceuticals with cold hard American dollars. The
economic sanctions against Iran is working. The target has always been
the collapse of the Iranian economy, the fear of the Iranian bomb is
just the ruse. Israel has 200 nuclear bombs, 100 of them target Iran.
The deaths of millions of Iranians will not bother us here in Canada and
United States, anymore than the deaths of millions of children dying in
Iraq or in Africa. The death of Hugo Chavez will not cause America any
grief, it is acceptable to most Americans.
Since the United States left Vietnam, the Vietnamese
who suffered horrendous atrocities during the war have not killed any
Americans. Left on their own, Vietnam has not sent terrorists across the
ocean to kill Americans. Iran wants to avoid war with the United
States. If the goal was peace, the United States would leave Iran alone
or partner with them in stabilizing the Middle East. This will not
happen anytime soon, the real target is to force Iran and other oil
countries to spend their accumulated American currency. Chavez believed
in freeing Venezuela from the grip of the IMF and American corporate
greed. The death of Chavez is one of a long list of leaders who opposed
the west. Democratic election does not ensure the respect of the
Americans who feel threatened by leadership in other countries that want
to free their people from international economic bondage. Drones are
not the only means of assassination.
In the United States, Americans need to wake up, to
question their government. The truth is that the Arabs and other oil
producing countries are not the ones causing $4 a gallon gasoline in the
United States. As long as Americans continue to see the world through
the filtered bias of the major US news networks, there will be no
sympathy for leaders like Chavez. Chavez is a hero to the people of
Venezuela and to other nations wanting to free themselves from being
held hostage to greed.
Chavez cannot Rest in Peace unless others take up
his cause. As you hand over your money to the cashier for your
gasoline, think about where the money you pay for gasoline goes. Think
of the price paid by others for our dependency on foreign oil. First
Nations in Canada also pay a price for American dependency upon foreign
oil. In the Tarsands of Alberta, the environmental devastation of an
area the size of France affects not only the land but every aspect of
the lifestyle of indigenous people. Chavez sent fuel oil to poor Native
Americans in the Dakotas. The same Dakotas today negotiate with the oil
companies and governments that covet the Bakken oil fields.
A few years ago, I met with Venezuelan Embassy staff
in Ottawa. Two other First Nations leaders bowed out of the meeting,
their fear was tangible. One man who was not afraid to travel was
American Indian Movement leader Vernon Belcourt. Belcourt not only went
to Venezuela and Cuba to meet the leadership of those nations, but he
also met with Muammar Gaddafi. Vernon Belcourt died five years ago after
traveling to Venezuela. On his death bed, Vernon Belcourt joked by
saying, "the CIA finally got me".
Chavez was a hero. We wish the people of Venezuela
peace and in their tears, that they remember Chavez's death need not
only be a matter of grief but a celebration for a man of courage who
lived his life to the fullest. God will greet him with open arms.
