Death rather than back to ‘permanent poverty’

THE EDITOR: There are some who argue in favour of TT capitulation to US dictates concerning Venezuela, based on their sorry plea that “beggars can’t be choosers.” They argue, for example, that if we antagonise the US, 200,000 nationals would have their US visas jeopardised – and as they would like us to know, there is no life beyond a US visa.

A UWI economist has also written to warn of dire economic consequences of failure to submit to US dictates. Others argue for a more nuanced pragmatism, a kind of sitting on the fence, to replace today’s “principled” TT foreign policy with respect to Venezuela.

Have such people forgotten that Jesus declared that “man does not live by bread alone?” Do they not know that “permanent poverty” is economic oppression? Do they not remember Dr Eric Williams’ courageous declaration in 1963 that “massa day done?”

Rather, I write to advise that they pay greater attention to the movement of history as we await the Great War prophesied in all the Abrahamic faiths. Even those who are resident on the moon would know that NATO, led by the nose by the US, is lusting for war with Russia and China, and that the US needs that war in order to camouflage the now inevitable collapse of the unjust petro-dollar monetary system.

But this world was created as a moral order, and as a consequence an oppressor NATO has a long-overdue surprise coming for it in that Great War, and praise is due to God most high.

Those of us who know the sequence of events which will follow that Great War, which is a subject not taught at universities, are better placed to understand and penetrate today’s reality, particularly as it pertains to Venezuela and the rest of Latin America. We know that times have changed and that gun-boat diplomacy will no longer deliver regime change in Venezuela. Instead, blood will flow as never before.

There are millions of previously “permanently poor” Venezuelans who experienced economic sunshine for the first time when Hugo Chavez defied the slave masters of the world to redirect and redistribute Venezuela’s oil wealth in a manner which conformed to the moral and spiritual heart of his Christian faith.

Even while we recognise that he made structural mistakes in his attempt to restore economic justice, massa’s house slaves here in Trinidad must know that those millions in Venezuela, who tasted economic justice under Chavez for the first time ever, have nothing to lose if they die while responding with armed resistance to a return to “permanent poverty.”

Let it be entered into record that if blood ever starts to flow in Venezuela, it will flow like a river, and we who support TT’s “principled” Venezuelan foreign policy would be recognised to be on the right side of history.

IMRAN N HOSEIN, San Fernando