A Strategy for Peace in the Caribbean: Development, Not Regime Change

Today, Executive Intelligence Review—an international intelligence service founded by American economist Lyndon LaRouche in 1974—hosted an extraordinary roundtable focused on the danger of U.S. military action against Venezuela. Such an action would be a major folly of American foreign policy, putting the nation in yet another permanent war. Featured in the roundtable were analysts from South America, including former President Donald Ramotar of Guyana, and Venezuelan diplomat Morella Barretto López, who spoke in a private capacity.

The Trump Administration—filled with a nest of vile neocons, not the least of whom is Marco “Narco” Rubio, one of the strongest advocates for a war against Venezuela to topple the elected government of that country—is risking its own implosion, along with that of the United States, with the prospect of yet another un-Constitutional “forever” war. An alternative American policy, based on the real Monroe Doctrine of 1823 authored by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, and not the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary, was a central topic that emerged in the discussion among the panelists.

The development and integration of the South American continent through already completed joint projects (such as the Chinese-Peruvian collaboration to build the Chancay Port in Peru) along with future projects (like a bioceanic corridor connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean through Peru to Brazil) can act as a viable substitute for geopolitical warfare. This can begin the process of mutual cooperation between the U.S. and South American nations. The “higher order” centerpiece for the integration of the South American continent through ports, high-speed rail, and man-made river systems, would be their connection with other transcontinental rail systems northward into the U.S. and Canada. This would eventually link to the Bering Strait Tunnel between Alaska and Russia. This is the extraordinary potential which has come into the foreground in the aftermath of the Alaska meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on August 16th. That is a real antidote to war, which can lead to a true “coincidence of opposites.”

On tonight’s program of the Fireside Chat, sections from the extraordinary roundtable discussion will be shown, along with a follow-up discussion featuring host Dennis Speed and Prof. Clifford Kiracofe, a former Staff Member of the United States Senate on Foreign Relations.