OBAMA AND CHAVEZ, U.S. AND VENEZUELA: THE CONFLICT CONTINUES
In another column we publish just celebrated the victory of Barak Obama, we indicated that we had high expectations of change in relation to the new U.S. president. The statement was made based on an understanding of the nature of the American political system that is structured like a great relationship with the capital generated by the powerful economic machine that drives the world system can not fail to link the stability and governance with the balance made up on the appropriation of the surplus produced by the dominant production relations.
American society, economic system, its bureaucratic and institutional, the state itself, conforms to a number of equilibria between forms of power, namely economic, political and ideological. Economic power is the one that uses the ownership of property and the ability to produce, market and distribute. Political power is that which is exercised through the force and its main political expression: the State. The great German scientist Max Weber defined it - with good reason, the state as the dominant and hegemonic structure in the use of force. Finally, the ideological power is based on the possession of certain forms of knowledge, doctrine, knowledge, and even information.
The U.S. economic power, has been built on the impact and the ability to produce goods of big capital owners and operators. Large companies, "the same is now affected by the speculative crisis of the world system, to significantly reduce the production of consumer goods and increasing financial speculation have pushed so the current president, so it have led to "intervene" in the development of the market, thereby seeking to safeguard the power relations that explain the U.S. hegemonic position. The large economic groups, that during the administration of George W. Bush had scored the process of setting up a geo-economic area through the Free Trade Area of \u200b\u200bthe Americas (FTAA), have seen with great concern the economic integration initiatives, social and military advanced through MERCOSUR, CAN and recently UNASUR. They all felt the imprint of the Chavez government, to hit most of the time and others with not so many, but always present.
The ideological and political power, has not undergone major changes in the U.S.. Obama's arrival is only a small opening in the ultra-conservative reform American society but never, not ever, can be seen as an alternative power in a political system that has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in the eighteenth century. Obama has articulated the factors of political power, has partnered with the most conservative radical right wing in the Republican Party, while he has managed to articulate a traditional power factors in the Democratic Party. Proof of this is the appointment of Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State.
Therefore, the prospects you have in the State Department on policy development in Venezuela are not encouraging, let alone with the results of the referendum of 15 February. The possibility - which has been open-Chávez of allowing not only to provide continuity but to deepen the socio-political settings called Simon Bolivar Project, with its relevant concepts in the social, economic, territorial, geopolitical source of concern to the interests expressed in the threads of the political and ideological power of the USA; therefore the nature and meaning of the Report on the Situation of Human Rights presented by the Secretary of State recently.
is remarkable lightness of the aforementioned report by noting the absence of significant criticisms of the human rights situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, Mexico, Colombia, Saudi Arabia and the USA itself, to name but a highly visible cases on the world . This is the continuation of a policy to present Venezuela as a rogue state that is in violation of the rules of public international law regulating and thus find a set of sanctions to produce a choking similar to that allowed intervention Iraq. The problem is given by the fact that the foreign policy of the Bolivarian Republic has been marked by the use of so-called oil diplomacy, which has allowed the non-lined shore of our country with U.S. interests in the region. The subject oil and oil nationalism is still inconvenient for the Obama administration, as it was for Bush, in that sense the structure relationship with President Chavez has no reason to improve, so the expectations created by some circles of intellectuals is mere speculation.
Dr. Juan Eduardo Romero
Historian
Juane1208@gmail.com
02/03/2009
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