{"id":65320,"date":"2002-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/11\/01\/laxe-du-sud\/"},"modified":"2002-11-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T00:00:00","slug":"laxe-du-sud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/11\/01\/laxe-du-sud\/","title":{"rendered":"L’\u201caxe\u201d du Sud<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

L’axe du Sud<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t1er novembre 2002 Des signes montrent que la droite radicale r\u00e9publicaine\/ reaganienne am\u00e9ricaine est en train de d\u00e9velopper une puissante offensive contre le pr\u00e9sident br\u00e9silien nouvellement \u00e9lu, en englobant le pr\u00e9sident Chavez du Venezuela, et, en troisi\u00e8me position dans le m\u00eame \u00e9lan, l’usual suspect<\/em> du continent, l’inusable Fidel Castro. Le chiffre est bon : \u00e0 trois, cela fait un nouvel axe du mal, et l’accusation acquiert aussit\u00f4t un indiscutable cr\u00e9dit. A la pointe de la bataille, on trouve Constantine C. Menges, senior fellow au Hudson Institut, ancien assistant special pour les affaires de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale (sans doute au NSC) durant la pr\u00e9sidence Reagan ; on trouve \u00e9galement l’Institute of World Politics, \u00e9galement farci d’anciens de l’\u00e9quipe Reagan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMenges a d\u00e9j\u00e0 effectu\u00e9 plusieurs interventions sur le th\u00e8me de l’axe du diable, version Sud. Le site NewsMax.com, lui-m\u00eame tr\u00e8s \u00e0 droite,<\/a> rapporte l’une des r\u00e9centes interventions de Menges, le 30 octobre. (On trouve dans cette intervention, \u00e9galement, une attaque indirecte de la CIA qui cadre parfaitement avec la politique g\u00e9n\u00e9rale d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e par cette tendance politique et consistant \u00e0 tenter de discr\u00e9diter et de marginaliser au maximum la CIA ; cette attaque est nbotamment men\u00e9e par Rumsfeld au Pentagone,<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The election of leftist Lula da Silva as president of Brazil represents the largest intelligence failure since the end of World War II, says Constantine C. Menges.<\/em> […] Menges’ condemnation, delivered at a seminar Tuesday at the Institute of World Politics, included a warning that, left unfettered, Lula would swiftly cement "a powerful axis of evil right in the Western Hemisphere that will hold iron sway over 300 million people in several countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb If that is allowed to happen, Menges told the standing-room-only audience, George W. Bush will have lost South America. The looming new axis would include Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and now Brazil’s Lula da Silva. Lula, a friend of Castro’s for 30 years, will start out slowly, says Menges, putting on a bright face until he consolidates power over the giant country’s secret police and military, while securing what he wants in the way of aid from the International Monetary Fund. Then, watch out, advises Menges, who notes that already shortly after his election Lula has started "sporting a little red star in his lapel.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tUn aspect important de cette nouvelle offensive, dans le but de la rendre plus cr\u00e9dible, c’est l’option nucl\u00e9aire. Menges laisse entendre qu’il faudrait envisager l’hypoth\u00e8se selon laquelle le nouveau pr\u00e9sident br\u00e9silien est int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par les armes nucl\u00e9aires, orientation qui donnerait tout son lustre effectivement \u00e0 l’expression d’axe du diable. NewsMax.com<\/em> apporte des pr\u00e9cisions sur cette question :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of the new power in Brazil is the specter of another nuclear arms race just south of the U.S. In a statement Sept. 13, 2002 statement, da Silva said that Brazil’s compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty would make sense only if all countries that already have [nuclear] weapons also gave them up. Lula, then a presidential candidate, added, If someone asks me to disarm and keep a slingshot and he comes at me with a cannon, what good does that do? He concluded his remarks by stating, All of us developing countries are left holding a slingshot while they have atomic bombs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Menges said that Lula’s emergence in Brazil and all that portends to our security as a nation is a perfect example of U.S. intelligence missing the big picture. Menges recalled warning the Clinton administration in June 1998 about the steady rise of the autocratic Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. I was told that there was no chance that Chavez would win. Later I was told his "election is inevitable."<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tCette offensive de mobilisation a toutes les chances, comme d’autres pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment, d’entrer dans le cadre washingtonien du d\u00e9bat sur les menaces, d’autant qu’elle y trouvera de puissants relais au sein de l’administration, comme l’adjoint au secr\u00e9taire d’\u00c9tat pour l’Am\u00e9rique Latine Otto Reich, ancien activiste anti-castriste d’extr\u00eame-droite. L’Am\u00e9rique Latine est un point de fixation important de la mythologie de la menace washingtonienne, historiquement peut-\u00eatre plus encore que l’Irak et la zone moyenne-orientale. Son installation sur la sc\u00e8ne washingtonienne comme menace est possible, d’autant que le support symbolique trouv\u00e9 (un nouvel axe du mal au coeur du continent) est un excellent argument de promotion. Le pi\u00e9tinement de la guerre contre l’Irak devrait faciliter cette irruption.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUne telle possibilit\u00e9 est \u00e9videmment une source de confusion suppl\u00e9mentaire et correspond \u00e0 l’\u00e9volution actuelle de l’administration GW. En raison des avatars rencontr\u00e9s dans la pr\u00e9paration du conflit irakien, l’administration GW pr\u00e9sente une unit\u00e9 et une coh\u00e9sion de plus en plus fragile et sa dialectique sur la menace devient plus confuse ; l’irruption d’un nouvel axe du mal n’arrangerait pas l’affaire.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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