[Marxism] Argentine President Will Not Accept Foreign Conditioning

[Walter Lippmann <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Argentine President Will Not Accept Foreign Conditioning

Havana, Dec 14 (acn) Argentine's new President, Cristina Fernandez,
spoke out on television on Thursday against what she called an example
of "the garbage dumps of international politics."

The recently inaugurated leader denied the statements made by the
United States that some US $800,000, which businessman Guido Antonini
Wilson tried to introduce into Argentina last August, were sent by the
Venezuelan government to finance her electoral campaign, reported
Granma newspaper.

Visibly perturbed in her first reaction to the news item circulated in
Miami, Fernandez reiterated her commitment to the South Common Market
(Mercosur) and the right to friendship with Venezuela, emphasizing,
"I'm not going to be pressured."

Fernandez held the United States government responsible for the
accusation in an effort to condition Argentine's foreign policy. The
president said she would maintain the policy of her predecessor and
husband Nestor Kirchner, supporting South American integration and
friendship with Venezuela and its president.

"More than friends, they [the US] want subservient and subordinated
countries," said Fernandez during a press conference at government
headquarters on the implementation of a program to shut down and clean
up the garbage dumps in the Matanza-Riachuelo watershed, one of the 30
most contaminated places in the world.

"This way of making regional politics is not going to work with
Argentine," warned Fernandez in another reference to Washington.
"Argentina has never needed to be told who its friends should be. We
hold a profound belief in the self determination."

This latest maneuver is seen as a move to justify a further escalation
of hostilities against Venezuela by the White House, desperately
seeking any pretext against the oil rich country.

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Walter Lippmann
Havana, Cuba
"Un paraÃso bajo el bloqueo"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
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