Chavez tells Obama he must ‘change US policy’

Most African people still don’t understand that the western system which was a rotten system from day one, is tottering at the brink of a precipice and that is why Obama was chosen to be president of the US at this time in history. We can compare the western system to a patient suffering from cancer.  Doctors have done everything possible to save the patient, (surgery, chemotherapy, radiology, etc) but all to no avail. The patient is going to die. However, the patient is so desperate to live, that at this point he is ready to try any treatment that can save his life. This is why Obama was chosen. He is the last chance to save the western system, in other words, he is the last treatment before the patient dies.

As desperate as the situation is, there are rare occasions when the patient not only recovers but survives. But it is only by following the new treatment which is radically different from all the others, to the letter. This new treatment is the African renaissance. It is only the African model that can really move America and the world forward. By choosing Obama, has the West finally realized that they need African wisdom to move the world away from the brink of disaster? If they have not truly understood this, and think that they can just make some cosmetic changes to their system, then Obama is doomed to fail. The job of Obama, in my opinion, is to completely transform the Western model of government into the ancient African model of governing. The question is, does Obama truly understand this ? I am not so sure. Yet, it is the only viable alternative for the survival of our planet. Hort.

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Chavez to Obama: ‘Change US policy’

Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
International News
7 November 2008

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez released a statement congratulating US president-elect Barack Obama, declaring that, “We are convinced that the time has come to establish new relations between our two countries and in our region, based on the principles of respect for sovereignty, equality and true co-operation”, according to a November 6 Ultimas Noticias article.

“The historic election of an African descendant to the head of the most powerful nation in the world is a symptom of a change in the epoch, which has emanated from South America, and could now be touching the gates of the US itself”, Chavez stated. Radio Nacional de Venezuela reported on November 5 that Chavez had argued that Obama’s first test would be to end the US blockade of Cuba.

Ultimas Noticias reported that Cuban minister for foreign investment, Marta Lomas, commented: “If Obama takes some action to reduce the blockade it will be very welcome, and for sure, it will help us. “But we are prepared if the conditions stay the same.”

Two days before the November 4 US presidential vote, Chavez called for talks with the expected new Obama administration — and urged clear changes in US foreign policy. “Within 48 hours, a black man of African descent, from the poorest family background in Africa, will represent new blood in the United States presidency. I am ready to sit down with him and discuss a plan for mutual equality and respect, no more nor less”, Chavez said, according to the November 3 Ultimas Noticias.

Chavez said that with a new government in the US, bilateral relations could enter “another stage, allowing for differences … We are revolutionaries, we are socialists, and we are not going to depart from this road.” “We are not asking that [Obama] become a revolutionary, that he become a socialist, only that as a black man he represent a point of departure … that we wish he become part of this significant moment which the world is living through now.”

Chavez called for an Obama administration “to cease US aggressions against Venezuela and Iran, to end the war in Iraq”. Chavez added that he was sure Obama realised that “Chavez is no threat to the US, nor is he a tyrant …”, according to Ultimas Noticias.

Chavez noted, however, that he was aware that the US-backed right-wing opposition in Venezuela were preparing plans to destabilise his government via the private banks, taking advantage of the world financial crisis. If this occurred, Chavez stated: “I will take away the banks, I will expropriate them. I will not give one cent to the bankers.”

For his part, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa stated: “I think that foreign affairs are going to be more reasonable, more humane, less imperialist. I think that Obama is going to apply greater attention to Latin America, but neither do I think there are going to be profound changes.”

Bolivian President Evo Morales stated: “The world has turned a corner” with the triumph of Obama. “In Bolivia, an Indian president; in the US a black president. I don´t know what´s happening to the world.”