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La Jornada, Mexico

Obama Will Be 'More Beneficial to Latin America

 

"If the end of the Bush era is a relief for the United States and the world, it is doubly comforting that his successor will not be a Republican with such wayward ideological positions as McCain, but rather a man who has expressed on countless occasions the need to reorder government priorities and commit public power to the needs of society above the interests of Big Capital."

 

EDITORIAL

 

Translated By Douglas Myles Rasmussen

 

November 6, 2008

 

Mexico - La Jornada - Original Article (Spanish)

Front page of La Jornada, November 4, 2008. The headline says 'US: Zero Hour'   BBC NEWS VIDEO: The planet reacts to Obama's victory, Nov. 5, 00:04:09

The triumph of Barack Obama in the presidential election in the United States deserves, for various reasons, to be classified as historic. To begin with, the Democratic candidate managed to combine the hoped-for support of the largest sectors of society with the approval of factional powers - the financial sector, the military-industrial complex, the political classes, the media conglomerates the unions - approval without which no candidate can get to the White House. Furthermore, Obama - a relatively unknown before the primaries - managed to defeat veteran political figures with the stature of Hillary Clinton and his final adversary, John McCain. The fact should be added that today’s Senator from Illinois will be the first U.S. president who is experienced with the progressive base - he worked as a community organizer in Chicago and is the first African-American to reach the Oval Office. 

 

If the end of the Bush era is a relief for the United States and the world, it is doubly comforting that his successor will not be a Republican with such wayward ideological positions as McCain, but rather a man who has expressed on countless occasions the need to reorder government priorities and commit public power to the needs of society above the interests of Big Capital. The Democrat has likewise distanced himself from the warlike posturing of the current government and has signaled the need to rebuild individual liberties and civil rights, so devastated by the police-like authoritarianism deployed by the man who is still President of the United States in his “War On Terror.” In the field of international relations, Obama’s discourse, although not free of the Washington's characteristic imperial arrogance, has emphasized the need to prioritize dialogue over the use of force. 

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As for Latin America and Mexico, although the winning candidate lacks experience in dealing with the nations located south of the Rio Grande [River], and even if he has refrained from making specific declarations, it's clear that his general positions will be much more beneficial to the region than the demagogic friendliness that Bush and McCain showed toward the subcontinent and toward the people of Latin American origin who live - with or without documents - on U.S. territory. Obama’s distance from the economic doctrines that brought about the current global financial disaster and his reservations about the irrational, violent and counterproductive strategies of successive Republican administrations, suggest that the changeover in American administration will be a positive one for our nations. It remains to be seen what position the African-American will take on immigration issues once he takes office.

 

'A HISTORIC ENCOUNTER'

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On the other hand, the defeat of the Republican Party in the Nov. 4 election opens, in a paradoxical way, a risky and difficult period: in the little over two months he has left in office, it is possible that Bush will try to aggravate the circumstances - already catastrophic - that he will leave to his successor, and which could translate into new bellicose provocations outside the United States. These are situations that continue to perpetuate the loss of rights and freedoms within the country and that perpetuate measures that protect, disguise and provide for the last-minute enrichment of the corporate mafias that surround the incumbent President.

 

Lastly, it isn't prudent to entertain expectations of a radical shift in the power of the United States as a result of the arrival of Barack Obama to the White House. But it would be unfair to ignore the strong and positive political and human differences between the victor in yesterday’s election and the man who, for the last eight years, has taken the power of the United States into its worst moral and economic abyss.

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US November 11, 1:40pm]