One Reporter's Opinion — A Latino Cabal Is Looming

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/article ... 2546.shtml

George Putnam
Friday, Dec. 1, 2006

It is this reporter's opinion that America, preoccupied with all of its many crises, should heed the warning of the brilliant Washington Times journalist, Frank Gaffney Jr., who warns of the rise of the radical anti-American left in Latin America.

Gaffney points to the emergence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the oil-rich heir to Fidel Castro's revolutionary ambitions. With Chavez's money and Castro's coaching, these core leftists are seeking power through the ballot box and then using it to destroy constitutional processes.

We have paid scant attention as Bolivia and Argentina have moved squarely into the Chavez-Castro orbit. And two other targets are Peru and Ecuador. The region's largest country, Brazil, is in the hands of Castro's ally, Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva.

Among other things, this sinister cabal is poised to return Nicaragua to the longtime authoritarian Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas. The only bright light has been the election of Felipe Calderon. But, as Gaffney warns, Calderon must not support or restore to office Fox's first foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda.

Castaneda personally engineered closer ties to the Castro apparatus in Cuba, encouraged the narco-terrorists in Colombia, and strove to re-establish Danny Ortega and his Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

The possibility that the likes of Castaneda might return to power is dangerous for both Mexico and the U.S. Let us recall that Castaneda is probably best remembered for his expression, "the whole enchilada," intending to legalize all illegal Mexicans in the U.S.

Castaneda is tightly tied to Dr. Robert Pastor who was executive director of the Linowitz Commission and is credited with negotiating a treaty to turn over the Panama Canal to Panama. Pastor co-authored a 1989 book with his longtime friend, Castaneda, who began his career as a member of the Mexican Communist Party. And it was Castaneda who published the admiring biography of the revolutionary hero Che Guevara.

Pastor argued in a Council on Foreign Affairs paper — "North America's Second Decade" — that the U.S. would benefit by giving up its national sovereignty. He wrote that countries are benefited when they change their international sovereignty policies. And Pastor has referred to North America as a "bully that needs to be restrained."

Gaffney says it would be a tragedy if, at this critical juncture, Mexico's new President Felipe Calderon were to squander the chance for Mexico to serve as a bulwark against the combined dangers of Chavez-Castro and company and thus abandon a strong, constructive, mutually beneficial relationship with the U.S.

These are the people — Chavez, Castro, Castaneda, Pastor — the whole cabal, who would convert pro-U.S. neighbors throughout Latin America.

The only thing more disturbing than Castaneda's rantings about illegal immigration is the lack of outrage from the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. It was Castaneda who said, "The U.S. cannot secure its Southern border without Mexico's blessings," that "unless both governments reach an all-encompassing joint border security initiative with adequate funding and infrastructure that the violence and criminal activity at the border will remain unabated.

Unilateral measures relating to immigration adopted by the U.S. —without consultation and agreement with Mexico — are doomed to fail." Such arrogance on the part of this troublemaker!

Gaffney clearly warns us of the security challenges we face with the rise of the radical anti-American Left in Latin America. He has done a great service to America and this hemisphere in alerting us to the dangers we could face, should this cabal be left to germinate.


References:

Latin America's Leftist Menace
by Frank Gaffney
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Re ... p?ID=24980


Meet Robert Pastor: Father of the North American Union
by Jerome Corsi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672386/posts