Hugo Chavez….walked over to a seated U.S. president and handed him theanti-American tract “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of thePillage of a Continent.” The book blames Latin America’s failures on white Europeans.
by Patrick J. Buchanan
For 50 minutes, Obama sat mute, as a Marxist thug from Nicaraguadelivered his diatribe, charging America with a century of terroristaggression in Central America.
After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us ofinhumanity toward Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Obama was asked his thoughts.
“I thought it was 50 minutes long. That’s what I thought.”
Hillary Clinton was asked to comment: “I thought the cultural performance was fascinating,” she cooed.
Pressed again on Ortega’s vitriol, Hillary replied: “To have thosefirst-class Caribbean entertainers all on one stage and to see how muchwas done in such a small amount of space. I was overwhelmed.”
Thus the nation that won the Cold War, contained the cancer ofCastroism in Cuba, liberated Grenada, blocked communist takeovers ofGuatemala and the Dominican Republic, and poured scores of billions inaid into this region was left undefended by its own leaders at theSummit of the Americas.
Nor was this the only unanswered insult. Hugo Chavez, who has calledObama an “ignoramus” and Bush “El Diablo,” walked over to a seated U.S.president and handed him the anti-American tract “Open Veins of LatinAmerica: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.”
The book blames Latin America’s failures on white Europeans.
It opens, “Renaissance Europeans ventured across the oceans and buried their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations.”
Civilizations? Before Pizarro and Cortez, the Inca and Aztec empires these conquistadors overthrew were into human sacrifice.
Evo Morales, the Aymaran president of Bolivia, who is using the racecard against Bolivians of European descent, implied a U.S. role in anassassination plot against him.
Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner, who allegedly received black-bagmoney from Chavez, ripped into America for its role in the 1980s. UnderReagan, America aided Britain in the Falklands War, after the Argentinejunta invaded the islands, and assisted the Contras in their war ofnational liberation to oust Ortega’s Sandinistas.
Again, Obama offered no defense of his country.