The Match of War

Latin America was, at the end of the last century, active in the Cold War, with successive armed outbreaks between countries and civilians, coups and even genocide.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, the imperial threads began the withdrawal of their Central and South American puppets, and democracy gradually took over stages abandoned by repressive regimes operated before by remote control.

When the continent appeared to be completely liberated from coups and imported wars the overthrowing of Honduras’ democratic government took place and now the specter of war between Colombia and Venezuela reappears.

The leadership of Latin America, which has proved to be faulty in the face of the Honduran drama, should occupy itself with avoiding foreign interests which are igniting the land once again, this time on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

In addition to the military language already employed by the governments of both nations, Colombia reports that the Venezuelan army blew up two bridges, an action that Caracas justifies under the argument that they were used to transport drugs and other merchandise back and forth. One should not lose sight of the fact that this conflict, still in political and diplomatic terrain, has its origin in the announcement that the United States will install a chain of military bases in Colombia. Venezuela considers this a grave threat of military character.

An undesirable war between Caracas and Bogota will affect the entire continent, with considerable damage to the economies and the interior safety margins of Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Peru and Bolivia, without excluding the Caribbean zone from those emanations.

It turns out to be no exaggeration: there is fear that not a few offices in Washington are trying to quash. Uncovering a military conflict in South America highlights a current political correlation in the other hemisphere.

Therefore it is urgent to irrigate the lands of Colombia and Venezuela with the waters of peace and harmony before foreign interests, perpetually assaulted by America, light the match of war.