"When you look at what he actually was and what he was doing – he was trying to create a more independent Latin American state. He attempted that through the blueprint of the Bolivarian revolution. Was he successful? To some degree, and to some degree not. Then again Simon Bolivar’s vision was not completed either. He left out huge factions of the society in Latin America. You know, African people that were stolen and brought there to build Latin American society. Indigenous people who were disenfranchised, who were colonized, which is way too nice of a word for being raped and genocided. When you look at that unfortunately it became the transfer of power from peninsulares to criollos, and that permeated racism in Latin America and classism as well. Even when we talk about the original Simon Bolivar his vision was incomplete, so to see Hugo Chavez passed before his vision would be complete is simply a reminder that revolution is an ongoing cycle. It can’t be centered around one man because that’s the recipe for failure." youtu.be/IxV0YQ2tUA0
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:57:23 +0000
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