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For the benefit of any readers who are even more isolated from the outside world than I am, let me note that Hugo Chavez has been overthrown in Venezuela. The hard left in America is apparently hard at work constructing the same sort of myth around Chavez that they did around Allende -- that a hugely popular, progressive but scrupulous president was overthrown by a tiny clique of reactionary military officers, with CIA backing, fronting for American corporate interests. Indeed, they can use the Allende myth as a template for the Chavez myth. Of course, in constructing the Allende myth, they had to ignore the past couple of years of Chilean history, from the March of the Empty Pots to the Tancazo and Allende's reaction to it. They were able to essentially wipe these events out of the public consciousness, however. What events will they attempt to burke in constructing the Chavez myth? And will they be as successful? John "Akatsukami" Braue Saturday, April 13, 2002 |
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