What does the war on Libya mean for the rise of Latin America? http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=627217

Lizzie Phelan looks at the repercussions of NATO's war on Libya on African-Latin American relations and the vulnerability of sovereign nations of the Global South in the face of the military and media prowess of the United States that has been exposed by the lack of practical support from the Global South for Libya.

While people across the world, from David Cameron, to so-called anti-imperialists in the west, were calling what was in fact a counterrevolution a revolution against another “Arab despot”, Chavez knew exactly what was going on. Because in another time and in another place, the narrative being parroted out to the world by Al Jazeera and the western media against Gaddafi, could have been the same narrative being spun against him.

[I AM ALL FOR SELF DETERMINATION OF OPRESSED,HOWEVER,SOON AS IMPERIAL POWERS STEP IN AND HIHJACK IT,THEN WE HAVE A PROBLEM,BECAUSE THIS CAUSES APRECEDENT WICH TRANSFORMS INTO A CHAIN REACTION,FOR MORE INTERVENTIONS..WICH I AM OPPOSED TO VEHEMEANTLY(MIGHT HAVE SPELLED THAT WRONG)LOL...AND IT WILL HAVE REPRECUSSIONS FOR OTEHR SOUTHERN NATIONS ESPECIALLY LATIN AMERICA..