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Bush’s “loudmouth” now wants to “save” Latin America
BY PATRICIO MONTESINOS—Granma
daily staff writer—
IN a display of protagonism
highly characteristic of his personality, the former
president of the Spanish government José María Aznar
has just proposed himself “the savior of Latin
America,” in the face of what he called the
“populist tide” currently extending through that
region.
The overthrown Spanish leader
announced his new ultra-right self-proposal at the
weekend after visiting George W. Bush, head of the
U.S. regime in Washington. Aznar considers Bush as
his most faithful ally and one of the few “friends”
that he can count on these days.
Bush’s “loudmouth,” as Aznar is
known in Spain after supporting the illegal U.S. war
on Iraq, in a clear allusion to his submission to
the White House occupant, has assured that he is
prepared to lead a crusade against the advance of
the left in Latin America.
What Aznar has not asked himself
what he has to lead the so-called struggle in Latin
America that he spoke of in an interview with a
Chilean daily.
Neither did he make any allusion
to the methods that he would employ in his announced
crusade, whether it would be via force or with new
invasions, or by means of installing murderous
military dictators like those imposed and backed by
Washington in that region in the last century.
The only point on which he was
more or less precise is that the right wing in Latin
America is disappearing and feeling inadequate.
Of course, at no point did he
mention that it was he who led the Spanish right,
the Popular Party, into a historic setback in the
2003 general elections, a defeat that that political
formation has not been able to assume after two
years in opposition.
For Spanish and Latin America
analysts in Madrid, Aznar’s vociferous self-proposal
is nothing more than a fit in search of
international leadership given his current lack of
recognition in his country, which he does not
hesitate to discredit daily on his trips abroad.
The same sources agree that the
former president of the Spanish government, who took
many Latin Americans into the war on Iraq and who
must at some time be brought before the courts
charged with crimes against humanity, does not enjoy
any prestige in that region.
Experts
also agree that in his latest burst of protagonism
Aznar is only fulfilling the precise instructions of
Bush who, in passing, has been unable to do much in
the face of the leftist advance in Latin America.
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