Chilean President Ricardo Lagos: Will he be the next Allende? [View All]

EDIT~ I meant to ask if you thought that the US would arrange the same sort of "End" for Lagos as we did for Allende.

The 20 year marking of the brutal CIA/Kissenger/Bush? attack on the Allende Presidency, which led to 17 years of Pinochet Fascism (and a renewed interest on my part), has eventually led that country back to a Socialist President, Lagos.

He's quite a person who has elite US university degrees and actually knew Allende as well as risked his life protesting Pinochet's "Iron Heel".

A great interview with this man is available here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/pdf/int_ricardolagos.pdf

An exerpt:

INTERVIEWER: Do you believe that the term "socialist" used to describe you is an adequate term or a bad term?

RICARDO LAGOS: I think it's adequate. I mean, what "socialist" means is the very old aim of mankind to live in a world where you have some kind of social justice, where everybody has equal opportunities. Now, 200 or 300 years ago, the differences between the haves and the have-nots occurred over the ownership of land. One hundred and fifty years ago, the difference was what Mr. Marx used to say was the ownership of the means of production. How can you explain today the difference between the haves and the have-nots when you have a Mr. Bill Gates? Apparently today what explains the difference mostly is education, creativity.
In other words, if you want to be socialist today, I would say that education is the most important.
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A very compromised view in my opinion, it ignores massive populations, but...

I personally think that Lagos is an amazing individual...Yet I wonder how his reforms will last against a continuing/persevering financial elite that will constantly load the media with images counter to the ideals that he (The People) believes in. Throw in the International banking pressures to create "Privatisation"/Oligarchy and I wonder how this Fabian (Legislative, "Democratic", Socialism) Socialism can be sustained.

The Chilean "Elite" will eventually consolidate corporate media power against him and the people of Chile.

TV will send out both the benign wealth worship, so common to America, as well as load the news with anti-Lagos propaganda.

How is this to last?

How is any permenant societal progress to be achieved with the damnedable Corporatised TV in every private and public space?!

I don't have the answers, just questions tonight...