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From the Vol.1,No.11 issue of Electronic Intelligence Weekly

IBERO-AMERICAN NEWS DIGEST

Brazilian and Argentine Leaders Push LaRouche Solution in Their Respective Countries

In Brazil, the Ferreira Neto program of the national television network, CNT, on May 16 broadcast a half-hour interview with Dr. Eneas Carneiro, a prominent cardiologist and friend of Lyndon LaRouche who is polling 3-5% electoral preference now for the October 2002 Presidential elections. The Ferreira Neto program is widely watched by Brazil's intellectual and political elite.

The central message of Dr. Eneas' interview was the bankruptcy of the neoliberal model. The international financial system is bankrupt, he stated, and that is why American politician Lyndon LaRouche, a Presidential candidate in the U.S. country, argues that what is needed, is a New Bretton Woods conference, to fundamentally reorganize and replace the present bankrupt model.

Brazil's National Treasury is drained of 10 billion reals a month by payments on its domestic and foreign debts, he explained, and therefore Brazil is heading straight into becoming another Argentina. That is why we must break with the system, Dr. Eneas asserted, as he first argued 10 years ago—and since then the situation has only worsened. That is what Argentina must do, too, he advised, adding that the Argentines have Col. Mohamed Seineldin, whom he has visited in jail.

Speaking of Argentina, Dr. Eneas noted that President Rodriguez Saa had tried to break with the system, but was not permitted to do so—and none of Brazil's Presidential candidates is ready to break with the system. The candidate of the "leftwing" Workers Party, "Lula," is already making his commitments to the international financial system. Asked about the Free Trade Accord of the Americas, Dr. Eneas said he had nothing against integration projects, but they must respect national sovereignty, and cannot favor the multinationals.

In the course of the interview, Dr. Eneas commented that it was not possible that an attack of the sophistication of Sept. 11 could have been carried out without the aid of the United States' own security system, echoing Lyndon LaRouche's charges that the attacks of Sept. 11 represented a coup attempt from within the U.S., against the Bush Administration.

In conclusion, asked what he would do as President, Dr. Eneas answered that he would emphasize economic independence, above all, and second, a return to basic, traditional, Classical education, because in today's computer age, we are producing functional illiterates.

In Argentina, the political prisoner Col. Mohamed Seineldin, the hero of the Malvinas War was asked yet again, in the course of a radio interview, about Lyndon LaRouche; he answered, as he has often done before, that LaRouche is the only one with a policy for "building," while everyone else has a policy that destroys. (Reportedly, polls now show 20% support for Seineldin for President, although he tells everyone he's not interested in the post.)

Mexico's Fox Tells U.S. He Must Get Something for Home Front

Mexican President Vicente Fox is telling the Bush Administration that he has to get something to show the home front, or they might "lose control of the hemisphere." In New York City for the UN Conference on Children, Fox sounded a desperate note when he spoke at a private dinner hosted by the Council of Americas on May 9. His foreign policy is "under attack" in Mexico, he said, and U.S.-Mexican bilateral relations have "stalled." His primary message during this trip, he said, was to make the U.S. understand that at this point, no special relationship between Mexico and the United States is possible, if an immigration accord legalizing the status of millions of undocumented Mexican immigrant workers is not reached. Such an accord "will be the litmus test of our true commitment to a new and closer relationship."

The failure to reach an immigration accord "inevitably affects our ability to fufill a more constructive role throughout the hemisphere," and if Mexico cannot play this role, he went so far as to say, this "could contribute to a possible loss of control in our hemisphere."

Fox's speech was taken as warning that he might have to dump his Secretary of Foreign Relations, Jorge Castaneda, a key globalist asset in the project to finish off Ibero-America's sovereignty, should the Bush Administration not deliver an immigration accord—a demand which President Bush, even should he wish to, is not in a position to ram through Congress.

The heat on Fox is such that he announced also that his government will file suits before the International Labor Organization and the Inter-American Human Rights Court, protesting the March 2002 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that Mexican illegals in the United States have no guaranteed labor rights. The Fox government's failure to protest that Supreme Court decision when it was handed down, was one of the reasons cited by the Mexican Senate, for its decision to deny Fox permission to leave the country for a planned visit to Canada and the United States this past March.

Venezuela's Armed Forces Divided, Chain of Command Disintegrating

Prior to April 11 (when he was ousted in a coup, only to be shortly thereafter reinstated), Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dismissed the opposition as, essentially, a foreign put-up job, while his Revolution had "the guns, rifles and tanks" behind him. But since April 11, when the military deserted him, he cannot trust his own shadow. More than 600 officers are reportedly under investigation, and without commands at this time. This is said to include 11 of the Navy's 47 admirals, 20 of the 43 Air Force generals, 34 of the 70 National Guard's generals, and 60 of the Army's 100 generals.

Open expressions of anger are increasing, as Chavez carries out a broad purge, promoting colonels to posts traditionally held by generals, and captains to those held by admirals, with the only criterion being their loyalty to him. An uprising was said to have been barely averted in one leading base in Valencia last week, when a Chavista colonel with a mediocre career was appointed to head up a brigade, replacing a general. The general refused to hand his command over to the colonel, so two separate ceremonies were held, one for the general's leaving the command, and another for the colonel's assumption of the post.

No Truce in Venezuela, Amidst Provocations

In a flagrant provocation to the opposition and to the United States, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosted Argentine terrorist Hebe de Bonafini on his weekly talk show "Hello, President" on May 12, called for beefing up his "Bolivarian Circle" shocktroops; the deployment of those shock troops on April 11 was a decisive factor in turning the military against Chavez, who raved on his program that he would stay in power until 2021.

Hebe de Bonafini is the founder of the Argentine Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who was held up internationally as a "human rights activist" until her lusty support for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States made her too hot to handle. In an Oct. 9, 2001 interview on Argentina's Radio 10, Hebe declared she was happy, very happy, about the destruction of the World Trade Center towers and the attack on the Pentagon, "because, for once, blood is going to be avenged. Yes, it made me happy, and I will repeat it again. For the first time, the United States was made to pay for what it has done for all its existence."

This witch was invited to Venezuela by the Chavez majority in the National Assembly, who wished her to join a Truth Commission to investigate the events of April 11-12, during which Chavez was ousted temporarily in an abortive coup. Hebe refused the invitation to join the Commission, on the grounds that those who participated in the coup against Chavez should simply be jailed.

Chavez's May 12 radio performance reveals how even the appearance of a truce between the forces which fought for control of the Presidency from April 11 to 14, is gone. The two sides are preparing for the next confrontation, which all agree could happen at any time between now and Independence Day (July 5), when, traditionally, changes in the military High Command are completed.

Colombian Narcoterrorist 'Paramilitaries' Offer Kill-the-Guerrillas Videogames

The United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) are the second-largest narcoterrorist force in Colombia, with some 8,000 fighters battling the narcoterrorist FARC for control of territory and the drug trade. The AUC portrays itself as "right-wingers," but a visit to several of the AUC websites—very high-tech, at least two available in English as well as Spanish, evidencing a lot of money behind them—exposes a bestial mentality no different from the FARC or ELN terrorists whom they "oppose."

The home page of one site posts six to eight photographs of AUC mercenaries in military gear, rifles pointing at the viewer. It is indistinguishable from any Soldier of Fortune-type mercenary propaganda, except that the photos are set off against a background filled with a drawing of the map of South America in which the widest point of South America (from Peru to Brazil) is drawn as a fist grasping a rifle—a map made famous as the symbol used by numerous of the Cuban-spawned "Che Guevara" terrorists of the past three decades.

The website of one of the bands making up the AUC, the "Elmer Cardenas Bloc," is lifted from the utopians' perpetual-warfare games. New Age military music, broken by the sounds of explosions, accompanies the flashing video which opens the page, proclaiming: "An Illusion Which Grows: A Colombia in Peace, Dignified, and Free." A link on this site, labelled "Enjoy yourself," offers two murderous video games. In one, players shoot at faces of FARC leaders moving as in your typical, fairground "throw a balloon at the clown" game. If you don't hit anyone, the game tells you: "You need to improve your aim. Practice again." The other is a cartoon scene of a FARC attack on a poor town. Players are told: "Your mission is to keep the police station from being totally destroyed, killing the largest number possible of these heartless criminals."

Land-for-Debt Schemes Threaten Argentina's Territorial Integrity

Argentine President Eduardo Duhalde announced May 12 that he is "studying" the possibility of offering state-owned lands to bank depositors, whose funds are frozen in the despised "corralito". This would replace an earlier plan, now rejected as too costly, whereby the government would have offered its own bonds for the frozen deposits. "The state has thousands and thousands of properties," and "millions of hectares" that could be made available to depositors, Duhalde said. Other options mooted in the press, include the state's selling the lands outright and using the cash to repay depositors whose funds are frozen.

The question is, to whom would the land be sold? George Soros? Ted Turner? The World Wildlife Fund? Or, what's to prevent depositors who receive land, from turning around and selling it to the highest bidder?

Lands which had belonged to the national railroads, managed by the state agency ONABE, are considered to be "good raw material for future real estate developments," the Argentine daily Clarin commented. Former Presidents Carlos Menem and Fernando de la Rua, had "voluminous files on what could be done" on those lands. In fact, the Argentine construction multinational Techint, the George Soros-controlled real estate holding company IRSA, and cement magnate Amalia Fortabat (David Rockefeller's friend), had gone in on a deal for a major real estate development project on the property close to the Retiro train station, in Buenos Aires, but had to drop it as the economic depression deepened.

This insane plan is exactly what Peronist leader Juan Labake warned of, in a special report entitled "Debt for Territory," published in April 2002. Labake situated the strategy to swap debt for state assets, as the culmination of a strategy first enunciated at the secret Vail, Colorado meeting in 1983 exopsed by EIR at the time. Swapping Argentine debt for land in the mineral-rich Patagonia region is under active consideration by Anglo-American financial interests, he charged. This, he warned, is accompanied by a vicious psychological-warfare campaign which portrays Argentines as incapable of governing themselves, leading to such proposals as that made recently by MIT Prof. Rudiger Dornbusch, who argued that an international team of prominent economists should be brought in to run the country's finances, since the Argentines are incapable of doing so.

As evidence that these schemes are being discussed, Labake pointed to a recent survey carried out by the Jorge Giacobbe & Associates consulting company, in which residents of the Patagonian province of Chubut were asked such questions as: "Would you support the idea of Argentina handing over its rights to the Antarctic as payment of the entirety of the country's foreign debt?" "Would you support handing over Chubut-owned lands in payment of all of the province's public debt?" "What is your view of the proposal to have Argentine finances be managed by an official of the IMF, or some other international agency?"

Labake warned, moreover, that if the state-run Banco de la Nacion were privatized, as the IMF demands, the new owners—most likely to be linked to foreign creditors—would be positioned to seize enormous tracts of the country's fertile lands by foreclosing on mortgages that bank holds, just as the formerly state-owned Banco Hipotecario Nacional (National Mortgage Bank) is now doing with thousands of people who can't make their mortgage payments.

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