36 - Fighting Back Against Right-Wing Violence & Multinational Corporate Domination: Three Latin American Leaders Draw A Line In The Sand

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🗓️ 6 April 2006

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It would be hard even for a right-winger to deny the long U.S. history of violent interference in the internal affairs of Latin American nations. Given that history, and the rapacious appetite of multinational corporations for extreme profits in overseas investments, it's heartening to see leaders in Bolivia and Venezuela, as well as the likely future leader of Mexico, acting forcefully to

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0:00.0	Last The Right!
0:02.0	The Right!
0:05.0	Last The Right!
0:07.0	The Right!
0:10.0	Last!
0:17.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 36 of Blast The Right!
0:22.0	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com
0:30.0	Today we're heavy on the foreign policy. The theme is fighting back.
0:36.0	Three Latin American nations are fighting for dignity and economic justice against the right-wing multinational alliance.
0:45.0	Oh, let's get right into it.
0:49.0	All over the globe, men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression.
0:57.0	I've discussed in previous podcasts how the U.S. fights against democratic elections when such elections threatened to put in power those the right-wing and the multidationals disapprove of.
1:12.0	The heck with democracy when it interferes with exploitation of third world natural resources?
1:19.0	Well, after they're elected, these progressive third world leaders have been fighting back against the right-wing multinational alliance.
1:30.0	This is happening among other places in Bolivia and Venezuela, where there have been some new developments that I want to tell you about.
1:39.0	And it's beginning to happen in Mexico as well, where the likely next president, a progressive, is fighting back even before he's elected.
1:51.0	My sources here are articles from the New York Times, the Interpress Service, and the Associated Press.
2:00.0	Let me apologize in advance for any mispronunciations and inconsistent pronunciations of Spanish words and names.
2:09.0	Some wonderful clips you'll hear interspersed throughout are of Martin Luther King Jr.
2:16.0	Sorry, there will of necessity also be representing the dark side, Bill O'Reilly, Newt Gingrich, Pat Robertson, and Dick Morris.
2:29.0	Some of these clips I put into a sound collage.
2:34.0	We'll start off first with Bolivia.
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