Jorge Capelán, August 3rd 2013

What do 20, 30, 40 years mean for peoples who have been subjected to centuries of colonialism and neo-colonialism? Seventeen years of neo-liberal rule in Nicaragua (1990-2006) meant nothing, just a bad night dream in a 500 year-old nightmare. On July, 19th, 1979, a New Nicaragua was born that couldn't be assassinated by Ronald Reagan's sick war budgets and economic blockades. The Empire got its own way on the 1990 elections, allright, but it did so in a country it ultimately could not control - and Nicaraguans today are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for the first time in their entire history.

Look at Zimbabwe's story:

In 1974, the leader Robert Mugabe was released after 10 years in some dark prison, and four years later, in 1980, the name of "Rhodesia" became the ghost of a shameful past. Sure, the Zimbabweans got a veeery
rough deal: They still had to put up with the economic power of the racist Western elites for some time ahead, but Rhodesia was dead and Zimbabwe had a bright future ahead, one just had to wait and see.

By 2000, while the Western media dictatorship desperately broadcasted all over the world that the only possible path was neoliberal 'globalization', Zimbabwean farmers got tired and, with Mugabes' government support, started to occupy the colonizer's farms. Years followed of horrible sanctions, frantic rethoric and poinsonous NGO-interventions - to no avail, since there are processess in history much deeper than the trend-setting headlines of the corporate media. Today, in the nascent multi-polar world, Zimbabweans are starting to see the light for the first time in their history.

Marx once wrote that "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living". Maybe that was true for 19th century Europe, but for today's (third) world, it's the other way around.

Related link: http://www.globalresearch.ca/zimbabwe-robert-mugabe-reelected-zanu-pf-ca...