More than 60% of Venezuelans have already seen it rather close to our shores

<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela´s Electronic News Posted: Monday, May 12, 2003 By: Francisco Rivero

Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 17:02:29 -0400 From: Francisco Rivero riverofjr@hotmail.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: Not quite so simple

Dear Editor: In response to Ms. Gable ... she is absolutely right ... progress of humanity not necessarily moves in fits and spasms ... amateur historians are fond of recording revolutionary upheavals and quick to pass over more subtle and fundamental trends ... in human affairs usually the future is already here ... somewhere ... the (American) founding fathers and the rest of the Americans knew it when they saw it!

Here in Venezuela, more than 60% of Venezuelans have already seen it rather close to our shores ... and we do not like it at all!

What about slavery? You should know better!

Yanquees knew it because they thrived without it! In the North, the controversial social restructuring went slowly but surely, as your President Bush fancies to say!

The South lost the war! How about the giant leap into the scientific age? There are giant leaps and many many more smaller steps ... one of my youth heroes said “one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.”

Ms. Gable, you had better start paying attention to the fine print!

I agree that globalization is forcing us to create new paradigms ... but strongly disagree with your irresponsible ensuing statements ... they are the same ones repeated again and again by our worst butchers in modern history!

History has also shown that false and failed ideologies end up in the ash heap of history.

Best Regards, Francisco Rivero riverofjr@hotmail.com