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05/28/2005:

"Chavez Gets Proactive"

by Lee Sustar
...setbacks for U.S. imperialism in Latin America have only put more pressure on Washington to turn the heat up on Venezuela. The upcoming Summit of the Americas, set for Buenos Aires in November, has effectively given Washington a deadline to try to recapture momentum in its own "backyard."

But the dynamics of Venezuelan politics and the debate on socialism highlight the fact that the opposition to Washington and neoliberal free-market economics goes far beyond the policies that have so far been pursued by the center-left governments.

The debate in the Latin American left is moving from what the labor and social movements are against--free trade deals, privatization and "flexible" labor policies--to what it is for: an economic and political system based on genuine democratic control by workers and the poor.
Full: counterpunch.org