Needless to say, then how much insanity breaks loose when planning and
deliver powerful blows against those who believe are their devilish and
undesirable opponents.

On this hemisphere, Cuba and Venezuela are the preferred points of the
imperial stings.

Against Cuba they have tested their entire available arsenal except the
crazy variant of a direct military aggression of unpredictable
consequences. Against Caracas, the path has been similar, including the
failed fascist coup of 2002.

However, the emphasis does not yield. It is hard for the alleged “bully of
the neighborhood” to recognize that it no longer can impose its will with
just a gesture of disapproval.

Then, not even Barack Obama has shown a positive pout of what he announced
to all and sundry on Cuba and the rest of Latin America that now awakens
from neither its long chain of submission; nor the imperial circles he
represents have left behind the times of the barrel on the opponent’s
temple. If it is possible to kill, the opportunity will not be wasted.

There are very recent facts that allow us to make such statements, whether
some minimize, distort and even let them go under the carpet for not
earning the wrath of the herd’s owner.

Thus, today it was announced that the U.S. budget for 2013 intends to
include millions of dollars in expenses to support what they describe as
“for democracy programs in Cuba and Venezuela.”

However, protests by ultra conservatives reach the gates of heaven, since
the new figures have suffered a slight reduction in line with the local
financial crisis.

Thus, for Cuba, the State Department and the Agency for International
Development (USAID), will have in their hands $ 15 million, five fewer
than in 2012. While for the subversion against the Bolivarian Revolution,
the figure is reduced from five million to three, cuts unacceptable to the
“hard-liners”, who insist not to approve them (the cuts).

On the other hand, in the tune of intransigence against Caracas, U.S.
Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere
Affairs, Kevin Whitaker, also went to the Venezuelan capital for an urgent
meeting with Pedro Mario Burelli and Rocio Sanmiguel, leaders of the
called Democratic Unity Table, which brings together the opponents of
President Hugo Chavez in the general election this October.

The gringo was very straightforward. He demanded his allies that, in case
they take over the government, to immediately cut Venezuelan oil supplies
to Cuba and implement the dissolution of the Bolivarian Alternative for
Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA). That straightforward, graphic and blunt,
as one who is fully convinced of his role as head and thinking head of
local sepoys.

And last but not least, we could not miss in this note the highly
suspicious and dangerous considerations of General Douglas Fraser, head of
U.S. Southern Command armed forces, who in an audience earlier this March
before Congress, said that military body is alert in the prospective
“geopolitical turmoil” that could arise in Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Haiti.

This “potential geopolitical turmoil,” said the senior official, could
have “an impact on U.S. citizens and military in the region.”

So these are still the rules that have never left the imperial endeavor in
this geographical area historically considered by the “conquerors” of the
North as a natural backyard where it is inadmissible any sign of dissent.