Opinion
The aftereffects of communism failed to stain with red the gorgeous landscape of Bariloche. The increasing desire of the socialist army to put the free people of the hemisphere on their knees underlay condemnation to Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Colombia's lawful determination to fight against terrorism and drug traffic.

The Unasur summit was a warning sign. Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez gently prepared his arms. His aides-de-camp tried to corner a clever Colombian president who made a superb, clear presentation, showing to the world his moral and political strength as a decent representative of the heroic Colombian people.

Hugo Chávez showed up with his white paper. A document posted on several websites. We wonder whether a superpower with such technological and military capacity as the United States would be so clumsy as to display its presumed domination plot. Could anybody with at least an atom of intelligence believe that a nation accused in Latin America of scheming the coup against Salvador Allende, its actions in the Dominican Republic and Grenada, and its cooperation with iron-fist dictatorships in the Southern Cone would hand a strategic map aimed at vanquishing pseudo-communist governments in the hemisphere to its foes on platter?

All of the top-secret papers of any superpower are components of national sovereignty and security. Most of them are coded and classified, only available to the President and Ministers of Defense. Thinking that the United States is to post on the Internet a guide on its hypothetical strategic resolutions is characteristic of sick minds which view their apparent government failures as the responsibility of high-tech aircraft with sensors that can be captured by Martians only.

Perhaps they fear that the alleged radars can take pictures of million Venezuelans in extreme poverty. High-performance imagery of cutting-edge, cybernetic radars could scan our fellowmen's tummies, battling with their wants of eating and the burning sensation going up their esophagus.

Amid feeble presentations filled with third world garbage, we managed to listen to sensible words, such as the remarks made by Peruvian President Alan García, who exhibited a subtle irony to mock at some parts of Hugo Chávez's speech. You should have seen the faces of President Chávez and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro! They could not repel a dart with the truth about the oil business. The US government is accused of everything, but the huge tankers of the US Empire are loaded with the hydrocarbon. What a weird fight!

Against all odds, Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Colombia ran the gauntlet at the summit. They managed to raise again the issue of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), by showing the embryonic relation between the terrorist group and Hugo Chávez's administration. The Venezuelan Head of State takes a lot of hard work to call those criminals killers. The presence of kingpins in Venezuela was reported again; once again they were in conspiratorial silence. Perhaps the thousand innocent, slain, kidnapped and mutilated people are less important than giving shelter to these louses?

Also Colombia managed to enforce its sovereign right to seek international cooperation in its fight against drug traffic and terrorism.

The gorgeous Patagonian scene, full of wonderful fronds and inlets, was the background of a new setback for Hugo Chávez and his expansionist plans. His inflammatory proposals crashed into a huge democratic wall.
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Translated by Conchita Delgado