The Backyard

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Working constantly toward furthering positive, participatory democracy is the key to curbing North American domination.

The Backyard
El Nuevo Diario, Nicaragua
By Carlos Corea Balladares
Translated By Clarke Reid
2 December 2013
Edited by Bora Mici

Leaders in the United States have abandoned their iron-fisted domination of Latin America to bury themselves in invasive and taxing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and currently, Syria, ever since the attack on the Twin Towers. At least that was the pretext used to pursue new goals in the Middle East. Since then, popular democratic movements in our continent have made progress.

The operations of the U.S. military and its allies, France England, in the Middle East, have become a political, diplomatic, military and economic quagmire for the leaders of the global, capitalist-imperialist system. The widespread crisis in Europe and bankruptcy in the United States, in the former economic power of Detroit for example, reflect this failure.

The system has responded with compulsive survival tactics — pursing military and geopolitical goals that have led to control of oil riches and other natural resources in emerging countries fighting for their economic and political independence. This context frames the new outlook U.S. leaders have toward Latin America.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Latin America is the backyard of the United States, although, previously, he had also announced the end of the Monroe Doctrine without much ado. Constant visits by political honchos from the United States, like Obama, to the Summit of the Americas in 2009 and Costa Rica in May of 2013; Vice-President Biden and the secretary of state to Colombia and Brazil; the formation of the recent Pacific alliance with governments allied with the U.S. against the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas; the deepening of the crisis and militarization in Colombia; espionage against Brazilian president Rousseff; and attempts at destabilization and assassination of Venezuelan President Maduro are red flags that U.S. political hawks are preparing a counter-offensive against Latin American liberation and emancipation processes.