April 04, 2006

Catch Newsnight if you are quick. All this week from Latin America. In tonights program Greg Palast interviews Chavez. My politics are pretty left, but I can see left-wing bias in this piece, particularly in the way the guy speaks to the US representative by satellite. I think this is a shame and its unnecessary. He's let Humala make points I agree wholeheartedly with over a friendly game of chess. The least he can do is let the evil Republican make his points over satellite. Its supposed to be the BBC for fucks sake.

These ideological confrontations of left and right in the world and in Peru are over. That all came to an end when the cold war finnished. The empire that won that war has been engaged in a process of globalization. This led to some countries like mine being globalized which we need to defend. They are infringing our sovreignty and weakening our national industries. The neo-liberal model hasn't benefitted normal Peruvian families... Ollanta Humala, presidential candidate in Peru.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Dave, check out the first little film the french guys have made about the Caracas Troll Party:

You can download it here (.ogg 9.6Mb)

Er, actually, I just watched it and there's not much to see (got a good soundtrack though).

This one (.ogg 27.8Mb) is more interesting (although it looks a bit like an advert for Polar Beer and Coke)

BigDog said...

That politician's attitude is why his country is an underdeveloped third world nation.

The Scrutinator said...

Wow! When a left-leaning guy like you calls out Greg Palast, you know it's got to be blatant.

Thanks for calling it like you see it.

Chavez shows us that ideological confrontations are nowhere near over. And Humala's engaged in his own ideological confrontations. (I thought you were against protectionism.)

DAVE BONES said...

Humala is talking total sense. His country has resources. His people want to benefit from those resources. They don't want external multi-national fat cats to benefit from those resources at their expense as has been happening in their country.

simple.

When he said "we've moved beyond left and right" I could have jumped off my seat screaming. I've been waiting for a politician from the left to say that for a very very long time.

Mr. S. I'm not calling out Greg at all. he's a great guy, his report is great. he's been in on the Chavez thing from the start.

I'm calling out the BBC guy for not letting the Republican give his side of the story how he sees it. The BBC is supposed to be balanced.