Barack Hussein Obama was recently in Latin America. When he was there he made the claim that all of Latin America was Democratic. He ignored the oppression of Hugo Chavez and his cronies in Bolivia and Ecuador.
Most curious was Mr. Obama’s decision to simply ignore the fact that in large parts of Latin America, the “shared values” that he said bind the hemisphere are being trampled. In a speech directed to the region that he delivered in Santiago, the president declared that “today, Latin America is democratic” — even though rulers in a number of countries are shutting down media, eliminating judicial independence and rigging elections. He said “Latin America is contributing to global prosperity and security,” even though many of those same rulers are forging ties with Iran and have been defending the regime of Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi.
Mr. Obama mentioned the Inter-American Democratic Charter, which nominally binds the governments of the hemisphere to act against those who commit political abuses, and said “we have to speak out when we see those principles violated.” Yet he himself did not speak out. Not once during his tour did he mention Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador or Bolivia or their increasingly autocratic rulers.
Clearly Arabs are more important than Latins to Obama. Why is he so obsessed with Libya, yet is silent about Hugo Chavez and his cronies? The answer is, he supports the Bolivarians, since they are 3rd World Liberation Ideologues. He could care less about our own hemisphere.
