From
Allende To Afghanistan: The Means Of Consolidating
Imperial Dominion
29 September 2010By Julio Escalona
Venezuela's Adjunct Ambassador to the United
Nations, Julio Escalona writes: From the overthrow of
Allende on 9/11/1973 to the attack on the Twin Towers
in September 2001 a cycle of changes have come about
modifying the world's geopolitical panorama and
culminating today in a world process of totalitarian
character.
It is based on neoliberal globalization,
anti-terrorist strategies, militarization of
international relations and one of its consequences,
securitization since social cohesion does not come
about with proposals of a social pact giving workers a
space of participation but rather through fear and
violence, which converts security into an axis of
personal and collective existence; media monopoly that
manifests itself in the monopoly of information; some
define it being informed about everything but hearing
and learning nothing, expressed in cultural monopoly,
in the design of a world and life vision penetrating
all spaces of society and persons, shaping the
unconscious.
A vision, which has as its axis individual interests
and therefore, social fragmentation in the measure
imposed by the market ideology.
Social fragmentation that corresponds to a
fragmentation of thought and the impossibility of
obtaining a vision of the whole and not just the part,
impeding understanding of the processes we live and
the maturing of our capacity to question and rebel.
The totalitarianism is grounded on the
military-financial complex that governs the world and
advances multiplying war, destruction of human,
cultural and natural diversity and subordinating
democracy to coup d’états and military invasions.
Allende’s overthrow is essential in the defeat of
Latin America's popular rise in the sixties and
seventies ... Lumumba's assassination and Israel’s
triumph in the Seven Days War meant the defeat of
Socialism and Arab and African nationalism.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the
disintegration of the USRR in 1991 marked a path that
ended with the encirclement of progressive governments
like those of Venezuela, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
and the threat of nuclear war against Iran.
That is to say, the destruction of humanity and nature
as the means of consolidating imperial dominion.
Julio Escalona
H.E. Ambassador Julio Escalona is Venezuela's
Adjunct Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.
He holds degrees in economics, geopolitics and
environmental issues, and is a former director of the
School of Economics at the Universidad Central de
Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas and head of its department
of human development. He is a professor of economics,
general economic history, economic education in Latin
America, contemporary Marxism and contemporary social
problems. He has coordinated research seminars on
economic integration, local economies and local
development, and alternative technologies and has been
a participant and guest lecturer at seminars, forums,
academic institutions in Peru, Brazil, Japan, Paris,
Mexico and Venezuela. Mr. Escalona can be reached at
escalonaojeda@gmail.com
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