Obama in Chile: Trapped by his own history
Monday, March 28th, 2011
[Translation of an article from Rebelión.org for March 27. See original here.]
By Eduardo Contreras
It could not have been otherwise. President Obama’s visit was a useless and regrettable spectacle. The repetition of well known generalities, reiteration of the imperialist will, cowardly avoidance of responsibility for the criminal coup d’état of ’73. If Piñera or the Yankee ambassador in Santiago or [OAS Secretary General José Miguel] Insulza or José Miguel Vivanco [director of Human Rights Watch Americas Division] or others of their ilk have called the visit “excellent,” it is only because they are fulfilling the role assigned to them in the script; but no one in his right mind could argue that the president’s visit holds any genuinely important meaning for our country or for the peoples of the continent. His speech “for the Americas” was a fiasco. (more…)