Independent
geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser reviews the Obama’s legacy of
destabilizing, militarizing, and exploiting Latin America.
by
Eric Draitser of stopimperialism.org
Part
3 - Obama’s rightward push in South America
Another example of this confluence between Obama’s
right-wing fetish and Wall Street’s boot on the neck of Latin
America came last year in Brazil, when Dilma Rousseff’s
democratically-elected government was removed from office in what can
only be described as a parliamentary coup.
In mid-April of 2016, Reuters published a story exposing
Michel Temer, the right-wing vice president at the time and the
current president, as preparing the shortlist of his presumptive
cabinet months before the Rousseff government had been toppled.
Temer tapped Paulo Leme to serve as either finance
minister or head of the Central Bank. Leme is the chairman of Goldman
Sachs’s operations in Brazil, making him perhaps the preeminent
representative of Wall Street in the country. While his appointment
may have been perceived as too brazen, the trend of Wall Street
representatives steering the ship of Brazil’s economic and
political life is impossible to ignore.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that the Obama
administration, too, has been dominated from the beginning by the
same types of financiers — often from the very same companies such
as Goldman Sachs — that control the coup government in Brazil. The
not-so-invisible hand of finance capital is now tightly coiled around
the neck of Brazil. Another feather in Obama’s legacy cap.
Of course, there’s Obama’s graceful tango with the
new right-wing government in Argentina led by Wall Street darling
Mauricio Macri. While Obama was wining and dining the neoliberal
reactionary, Macri was busy loading his new government with Wall
Street insiders and representatives of Big Oil and other major
industries.
This was the real Obama, the one who will not be paraded
before Americans as the revered dear leader already missed before
he’s left the stage. Rather, this was the man who, without
conscience or compunction, ushered in a wave of right-wing reaction
throughout the Western hemisphere.
And he did it with a smile.
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