Even if we Build it, they will Come...

Studies published by the Brookings Institute and others, comparing illegal border crossings before and after the southern border fence was built have come to the conclusion that the success rate is virtually the same for illegal aliens whose most recent crossing occurred before the border was regularly monitored, and those crossing during the period when the border fence had been in place. In other words, the recent border enforcement build-up seems to have made little or no appreciable difference in terms of the clandestine illegal entry into the United States. These studies show that it will obvious take a lot more than a fence to hold off the huge human tsunami expected to be banging on our southern border fence during the next crucial five years.

“If you build a 50-foot fence, I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder”.

As the nefarious Venezuelan de facto dictator, Hugo Chavez, and his leftist ALBA Alliance become more and more aggressive toward pro Washington democratic governments in the region, illegal immigration into the U.S. will become much more than a simple social problem. Authoritarian leftist dictators in the ALBA dominated countries of Latin America will undoubtedly bankrupt their countries and the repressed and hungry populations will look to “El Norte” as we’ve witnessed with the inner tube and boat people of the failed Cuban 50 year old Castro dynasty.

The U.S is presently in the initial early stages of a hemispheric struggle for ideological supremacy in the Americas with the socialist ALBA Alliance formed by Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. It is clear that during the past ten years, the U.S. focus was on Middle Eastern oil and on chasing Osama bin Laden around the block. During this time of U.S. neglect toward Latin America, the balance of power in the hemisphere shifted and now instead of only Cuba to deal with, we have an anti American alliance that includes eight Latin American countries, and the nefarious leadership of the Sandinista, Miguel D’Escoto, in the once neutral and unbiased Organization of America States.

There have already been early warning shots across the bow with the popular but failed uprising against the Paraguayan ALBA president, Fernando Lugo; the recent and important electoral defeat for the ALBA regime in Argentina; and the ouster of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. It is to be expected that Hugo Chavez and his ALBA acolytes will not let these precedents stand because his entire organization could become the collapsing dominoes of the 21st Century.

The drums of war are already beating subtly on the horizon in our southern hemisphere, and it’s up in the air whether President Obama is the man for the job. Before us and in the coming years, we are facing a confrontation that will be imposed on us whether we like it or not, and the longer we flip flop indecisively the stronger and more unified our enemies will become.

Sensing blood in the water, China and Russia are already watchfully circling the skies and making inroads. Russian naval forces including their ultra modern missile frigate, Peter the Great, have been conducting joint maneuvers with Venezuela, and Hugo Chavez has recently purchased fleets of the modern Sukhoi-35 fighter bombers and other modern Russian weaponry. China has also recently given Brazil a ten billion dollar loan to further develop their oil refining capacity, and they have even offered to build Costa Rica a new soccer stadium.

An early signal regarding the Obama administration’s resolve and intent will be whether or not the U.s. joins the lynch mob condemning and further isolating the interim government of Honduras, or will we move to stop the meddling interventionist, Hugo Chavez…

Obama and OAS Silent and Acquiescent following lastest Abuses in Venezuela...

This weekend, Hugo Chavez agents violently forced their way in and silenced more than 34 radio and TV stations in Venezuela, in violence reminiscent or seen since the infamous 'Crystal Nacht'. During the weekend Hugo Chavez government ruffians aided regulators in revoking the radio and TV stations licenses while refusing to renew others.

In this most recent instance of blatant abuse of power and repression by the socialist de facto president, Hugo Chavez, neither the Organization of American States (OAS) nor the Obama administration were there to condemn the silencing and censorship of these news outlets. It would appear that the crimes committed by socialist regimes are shamelessly granted immunity and the people of Venezuela now have one more freedom restricted and their voices silenced.

It is common knowledge throughout Venezuela that more that 250 other radio and T V stations are “under investigation” as the tin horn dictator leftist president, Hugo Chavez, with impunity consolidates his nefarious grip on power by silencing all opposition and dissent.

Following the Chavez lead, his ALBA acolyte, Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, also stated that he too would regulate all radio and TV frequencies to conform to new and strict state censorship control. Although Correa gave no other specifics, the now accustomed silence to socialist abuses was deafening from the OAS and Obama camps.

In Venezuela, the only anti-Chavez voice of freedom remains the TV channel Globovision, that now faces this current crackdown on dissent that could force it off the air in the next few days. Chavez goon squads have been terrorizing the Globovision studios, tossing tear gas bombs and physically beating employees.
While Hugo Chavez and his ALBA Alliance openly intervene in the internal affairs of their neighbors while committing horrendous acts of human rights abuses in their own countries, the OAS and the Obama administration do nothing, not even slap a hand, while U.S. continental leadership erodes and our vowed enemies more steadily to fill our vacillating and timid response.

The U.S. needs to surpass the current doldrums that we seem to be languishing in, and define our policy toward Latin America for the 21st Century. We must again be that beacon of light on a hill, and counter act the forces of evil by working with our hemispheric allies in an equal partnership toward a mutually beneficial and exemplary prosperity.

Time is of essence, and by his perceived actions I don’t think that President Obama is up to the job of defining, defending and promoting our American values and our American way of life even among our natural continental allies and friends.

U.S. and ALBA in tug of war over ideological supremacy in the Americas...

With the June 28 military coup in Honduras, the agreement for five United States military bases in Colombia and the intensification of a propaganda campaign against Venezuela, “the big question is whether the US will look at launching an ideological war that will undoubtedly spread throughout the region, or whether it will decide to postpone such a scenario and attempt to continue dealing regular blows.

According to Luis Bilbao, director of the Venezuelan-based Latin America magazine, America XXI, “there is no other possible scenario.” Bilbao has accompanied Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to various regional ALBA meetings and he has worked with the Chavez government to help build the Union of South American Nations (Unasur). He said recent US moves, which included assisting the ouster of Hugo Chavez protégé, Manuel Zelaya, in Honduras was the result of the “increased political role of Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas Alliance (ALBA) in the region” this year.

ALBA, which was formed by the revolutionary socialist governments of Cuba and Venezuela, has grown and now involves nine countries from Latin America and the Caribbean. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, had taken that democratic country into the ALBA block, thus upsetting his Liberal Party, the US, and the democratic elements in Honduras. ALBA initially presented the façade of a fair trade bloc, and an alternative to the neo-liberal US-proposed Free Trade of Americas Agreement. Since then, ALBA has become an increasingly aggressive interventionist political vehicle for destabilizing and coordinating interventions in the internal affairs of the region’s pro-American democratic governments.

Two events clearly demonstrate the increased ALBA meddling and the resulting leftist shift in hegemony in the region. The participation of the ALBA group in the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago [held on April 17-19] is something without precedent. The ALBA group had met the day before to create a counter-document to the one that the US had already built consensus around. This resulted in an eruption of unexpected force, preventing the approval of the U.S. proposed document.

Due to the intervention of the anti-democratic ALBA bloc, a large number of other countries — that had already approved the final document — felt coward and did not want to appear to be signing onto a proposal in opposition to the position of ALBA. The second event occurred two months later, at the meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), where the ALBA plan was to accept the reincorporation of the fifty year old Castro Cuban dynasty into the OAS, on the condition that Cuba accepted Western democratic principles. Here, once again, the ALBA bloc erupted onto the scene ... and the proposed democratic plans for Latin America were defeated by the ALBA socialist block.

These unprecedented chain of events and the reversals to the projected democratic solutions provoked a situation where the balance of power in the OAS changed hands, from the US to the ALBA bloc. Clearly, this was something the US could hardly accept especially being the U.S. is the principle financier of a now socialist and anti-American left leaning OAS.

The Obama administration being completely outmaneuvered and lacking the political-democratic means to counter this socialist shift in the OAS, then put into motion a new phase of its policy toward Latin America; an alternative policy that had been prepared for in advance but contained and applied only in tentative and partial ways.

As the people of these Latin American countries, that had fallen into Hugo Chavez ALBA socialist camp, realized they had been duped and had now become part of the socialist camp, counter movements started gaining momentum throughout the region.. In Bolivia last September, a popular attempt proposed to divide the country and initiate a civil war if necessary, in order to bring down the ALBA socialist government of President Evo Morales. Unfortunately the plan failed and the country continues down the road of authoritarian socialist dictatorship. Less than a month after the OAS meeting, the ALBA president of Honduras was forcefully ousted from office. Within hours, ALBA moved into action and created that same change in the balance of power in order to condemn and isolate the Honduran interim government.

The OAS and the Obama administration could not support the removal of Zelaya, as ALBA had already launched a plan to counteract any legitimacy afforded to the interim government. Therefore, the OAS and the Obama administration immediately came out against the removal of the "legitimate" ALBA president, Manuel Zelaya. U.S. president Barack Obama was also duped and coerced to say he was not in favor of this so-called 'coup', in an ambiguous fashion in order to subtly support the interim Honduran government while verbally opposing it. The U.S. had naively been placed with its back to the wall and could not play the role of backing the democratic so-called coup, either openly or covertly.

Obama, with his back to the wall, had to come out and publicly stating that his administration was against the Honduran interim government, despite the different maneuvering such as using Costa Rican president Oscar Arias to head negotiations between Zelaya and the Honduran interim government The situation did not change and to the contrary it has become worse and more complex for the indecisive and vacillating Obama administration.

The question now remains whether the US will allow the interim Honduran government to fall, which would be another huge defeat and humiliation for the White House, or whether the U.S. will regain it's leadership role in this hemisphere and stop condemning and further isolating Honduras by joining the ALBA lynch mob, but rather put a decisive stop to Hugo Chavez and his ALBA acolytes from their blatant meddling and intervening in the internal affairs of their neighbors and pro-U.S. allies in the region.

Manuel Zelaya encouraged by Hugo Chavez will undoubtedly try to create a blood bath and place the blame on the military or business groups in Honduras. This tactic of creating martyrs and parading them up and down the sweltering streets before a crowd of salivating foreign journalists has been used time and again by the radical extremist left in Latin America to gain sympathy for their cause and condemnation toward the legitimate authorities.

It is clear that if the Hugo Chavez and his ALBA alliance unleash a massacre of the Honduran people, this confrontation could easily spill over into the rest of the countries in the region subjected to ALBA socialist repression. ALBA can not allow the ouster of their cohort, Manuel Zelaya, to stand, and will do all in their power to see that the Honduran interim government falls. The blustering interventionist, Hugo Chavez, has gone to the extreme of publicly warning Honduras of a military invasion if Manuel Zelaya is not reinstated as president.

Sensing the danger of the precedent set by the ouster of his ALBA acolyte in Honduras, Hugo Chavez has called for an ALBA military force to be created to counter any foreseeing aggression by the "Imperialst Yanqis." Besides upgrading his air force with fleets the latest Russian Sukoi SU-35 fighter bombers, Chavez has been conducting naval maneuvers with the Russian navy who have gladly accepted by sending among other navel forces, their most modern missile frigate, Peter the Great, to American waters. As the U.S. Bush administration was focused on Middle Eastern oil, and chasing Osama bin Laden around the block, China grasped the opportunity and took advantgage of the past ten years of U.S. neglect toward the Latin American region, and has offered to build Costa Rica a huge new soccer stadium, and they have given a ten billion dollar loan to the Brazilian oil company to become now one of Brazils principle trading partners. This, only a few years ago would have been unthinkable.

Chavez meanwhile has bolstered his oil rich economic power by dealing with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas in neighboring Colombia, and exchanging information and modern weapons for drugs thus creating in Venezuela a narco state in further detriment and debilitating U.S. policy in the region. Ten years ago, we only had Cuba to worry about, and now only Columbia remains our steadfast ally in the region. If these countries joined by Mexico join ALBA against us, the U.S. will be in a very precarious position. Most likely the most dangerous time in it's short history.

One other important role being played out in this hemispheric tug-of-war, is the role being played by Brazil's president, Ignacio Lula da Silva, who has maintained a quiet and neutral role in this ongoing hemispheric struggle, and is definitely not playing into the hands of Hugo Chavez or his ALBA Alliance. Brazil, up to know, has been busy developing their country and have recently discovered huge oil deposits that takes away the oil card that Hugo Chavez has accustomed to use to extort his neighbors. China is making inroads and in many instances replacing U.S. traditional interests in that huge South American country.

We here in the U.S. can not ignore this conjecture of fact and reality in the American continent, but neither can we ignore the results of this complex correlation of forces building up against us. The U.S. is in the process of building new military bases on the Columbian border with Venezuela, who is now arming the FARC narco guerrillas in Colombia; and we must also acknowledge and support the democratic movement in Paraguay attempting to bring down the ALBA President, Lugo. We need to create a snowball effect of falling ALBA dominos and reestablish true democracy in this hemisphere.

If insurgent wars were ever to break out in Latin America, ALBA’s response, according to Hugo Chavez, will be firm and definite. But beyond the official ALBA response, is the response of the extreme leftist radicals in Latin America. In a context of regional war, revolutionary armed forces would certainly reappear across Latin America, and these guerilla forces would try to intimidate the U.S. public with a barrage of propaganda, and use every imaginable clandestine and violent form of combat. But we must also understand that this would not be solely a U.S. fight, but we cannot ignore the democratic forces in each of these countries who only need to feel our support.

It is clear that a blood bath on the American continent is a very real possibility, and it will depend on what the U.S. and the Obama administration determines will be our foreign policy toward Latin America during the 21st Century. Also, it is undetermined whether Obama has the stomach needed for this type of action.

Albeit, it will be interesting to see if Obama has what it takes to come up from behind in this tug-of-war, or will it take a new and more decisive U.S. president to bring peace, unity, and prosperity back to the Americas.

Lou Dobbs ... A Challenge for the CNN...

Yes, it’s totally reasonable to conclude that Lou Dobbs has become more and more of a liability nightmare for CNN with his continuous anti Hispanic rhetoric that contradicts the networks "no bias" brand of news reporting.

It’s hard to understand how this toothy, piggy bank look-alike of a man can harangue the Hispanic community with his nightly drum beating and still maintain his network job.

I for one, stopped viewing the Lou Dobbs Program long ago, and switched to Univision because watching Lou Dobbs constituted only a banal continuation of the same warn out theme, blaming the Hispanic community or the illegal aliens for everything from sneaking atomic bombs into the country to the conspiracy theory of a Fifth Columnists silent invasion, where Mexicans nationals were sneaking in and taking back the lands that the U.S. took from them during the Alamo or the Mexican-American War or whatever.

I’m sure Lou Dobbs tries to do a good job of it; the problem for the CNN is that he doesn’t.

Obama campaigned on "Change" ... But his vison of change is Socialism...

Have we all heard about Hugo Chavez's most recent tightening of his power base; the de facto tin horn dictator and Obama leftist pal, Hugo Chavez, yesterday closed 34 radio stations that were beaming anti Chavez broadcasts.

At the same time, the chafarrote threatened to close another 250 radio an TV stations in a note sent them by the Venezuelan Telecommunications National Commission (COMATEL).

All this brazen illegality makes me wonder where the our politically correct, Barack Obama, or the OAS and world condemnation is toward this dictatorial censorship. Let's remember that the same eerie silence was afforded Daniel Ortega with his infamously fraudulent past election.

This outlandish hypocrisy that we are witnessing these days, and usual and expected reaction of those useful fools who are always ready with their lame excuses and finger pointing is always good for a laugh.

True, that I can laugh at these shameless government actions because I live far way and in this paradise on earth called U.S.A., but I have to pity the poor people living under those dictatorial socialist regimes that we are in fact supporting.

The problem is that if this type of political fraud continues in Latin America, which will obviously end-up breaking those fragile economies, we'll soon have a human tsunami banging and overwheloming our southern borders.

It's only fair that our leftist (Yanki Go Home) Latin friends should at least have the conviction to go to Cuba, but we all know they don't and won't.

Guess why Obama supports the ousted ALBA socialist Manuel Zelaya..

Manuel Zelaya wants to return to Honduras as president and then, of course, continue his efforts to be a big-time socialist dictator, a Hugo Chavez lookalike, and the surprising thing is that the Obama administration seems to want the very same thing.

It has, after all, supported this law-subverting macho-style child of privilege in his insistence on being reinstated to the office he held before being kicked out of it not in a military coup, not in some sort of illegal overthrow of a legitimate regime, but through the application of a specific law by a unanimous Honduran Supreme Court backed up by a virtually unanimous Honduran Congress.

The military did the deed, but this was not a military coup. The military was acting legally and under civilian control as it shipped Mr. Zelaya off to Costa Rica. It would have been better if he had been arrested and tried, but there is no doubt that legitimate Honduran institutions were aiming to sustain a hard-won constitutional order being seriously threatened by a politically fumbling, economically bumbling scofflaw aiming to use the populist politics of the left to bring about a dream of despotism.

Mr. Zelaya himself, a lover of cowboy hats, motorcycles and swagger, comes across in one account as an empty-headed, undereducated politician whose various ill-considered remedies for economic woes unsurprisingly failed to work, leading him to scapegoating and leftism and the discovery that demagoguery has its rewards.

Some of the poor cheered him on, causing him to disregard Honduras' constitutional provision and enforcing laws that say presidents can serve one term and one term only, that amendment of this provision is prohibited and that any attempt by a president to serve a second term will result in his removal from office. Mr. Zelaya tried anyway with a planned, nonbinding referendum on the provision. The dastardly, cowardly response would have been for the Honduran Congress and court to have hidden in the bushes, saying, uh, well, OK, the law is meaningless.

You can understand someone like Mr. Chavez pleading his case. That egomaniacal Marxist is in the oppressive process of destroying rights, legal traditions and the Venezuelan middle class. He is in the process of making the poor poorer in the name of anti-capitalist equality, and he would like company.

But dear heavens, how in the world can the Obama administration call for Mr. Zelaya's reinstatement while cutting off military aid and talking self-contradictorily about "restoring democratic order"? The expression of some concerns about process and, recently, of the Honduran government's censoring a media outlet run by a Zelaya friend would be understandable, along with urgings of peaceful courtroom proceedings. Surely, though, the administration would be more discerning than some governments about what is really going on -- we have always had a special interest in nearby Latin America -- and knows the mere fact of election is not democratic order.

Would it want to argue that "democratic order" would have been served by President Nixon's staying in office after his second-term landslide victory, no matter what?

One proffered explanation is that the administration is reflexively compensating for America's strategic backing of coups against any Latin American governments that might align themselves with the Soviets during the Cold War, but what hope is there for our officials if they cannot distinguish between now and then? It has been suggested, too, that there was an initial misreading of what had happened -- that this was like all those Latin American overthrows in the bad old days. But has the administration really been that thoughtless about something that matters so much?

Here is the concern - that the Obama administration obviously has deep, abiding sympathy for socialist solutions both in the United States and elsewhere and thinks Mr. Zelaya could be just what Honduras needs. Maybe that is a nutty conclusion and absolutely wrong. I hope so, and I hope the administration proves it wrong by changing its stance.

Obama went on to further condemn and isolate the democratic movement in Honduras by revoking the visas of the top interim government leaders. The premise is clear, "either Hondurans accept the socialist Hugo Chavez acolyte, Manuel Zelaya, for president or the U.S. will strangle the Honduran economy.

Who would have thought that Obama's vision of "change" was in fact socialism.

Raul Castro to U.S.: Communist Cuba will not change...

President Raul Castro, as spokesman for the Castro brother’s 50 year dynasty in the inner tube republic of Cuba said on Saturday he would not change Cuba's communist system to make peace with the United States, but repeated his willingness to discuss all issues with the island's longtime enemy.

What a surprise, of course the Castro brothers will never give up on their failed communist dynasty. The Cuban people can always inner tube over to the U.S., and where in the world would these two marxist clowns ever again hope to find such cushy jobs?

In a speech to the Cuban National Assembly, Castro acknowledged the United States under President Barack Obama was less "aggressive" toward socialist Cuba, but he expressed irritation with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for saying repeatedly that Washington expected Havana to make changes in exchange for better relations.

"I have to say, with all due respect to Mrs. Clinton ... they didn't elect me president to restore capitalism in Cuba, nor to hand over the revolution," said Castro, who succeeded his brother Fidel Castro as president last year.

"I was elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism, not destroy it," he added, prompting a long standing ovation from assembly members, most of whom are members of the Communist Party.

"We are ready to talk about everything, but ... not to negotiate our political and social system," he said.

Obama has said he wants to "recast" relations with Cuba and eased the 47-year-old U.S. embargo by allowing Cuban-Americans to travel and send money freely to the island 90 miles from Key West, Florida.

His administration has reopened immigration talks with the Cuban government that were suspended by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and recently turned off a news ticker on the U.S. Interests Section in Havana that Cuba viewed as an affront.

But Obama and Clinton have said further improvements depend on Cuba making progress on human rights and political prisoners.

"It's true there has been a diminution of the aggression and anti-Cuban rhetoric on the part of the administration," Castro said.

But he noted the embargo remained in effect and the ending of restrictions on Cuban-Americans had not yet been implemented.

Castro also gave the assembly more bad economic news, saying the government had cut its budget for the second time this year to confront the country's worst financial crisis since the 1990s.

He did not say how much had been cut, but said the Cuban economy, battered by the global financial crisis and three hurricanes last year, grew just 0.8 percent in the first half of 2009. He said growth of 1.7 percent was expected for the full year.

The combined economic shocks cut income from exports and forced the government to spend more on imports of food and other items, which has depleted the country's cash.
As a result, Castro said, "We've been forced to renegotiate debts, payments and other commitments with foreign entities."

The plan for next year, he said, calls for Cuba to have a "balance of payments, without deficit" and to put priority on producing products and services that bring hard currency.

The official newspaper Granma quoted Economy and Planning Minister Marino Murillo Jorge on Saturday as saying there would be more decentralization of the economy.

Castro's biggest reform since taking office has been the decentralization of decision-making in agriculture and putting more land in the hands of private farmers to increase food output.
He also has pushed for Cubans to be paid based on their production, with the aim of creating incentives for them to work harder.

Castro has also launched a fight against widespread corruption that he says is choking the Cuban economy. Before his speech, the National Assembly approved creation of the comptroller general's office, with powers to audit and control all government and economic activities.