VHeadline.com en Español news chief, Jesus Nery Barrios writes: Beyond the fuss and the hysterical reactions to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' speech at the 61st Annual Meeting of the UN General Assembly, it's worth taking a few minutes of your time to look inside the REAL implications it has to the future of the Venezuelan people.

Since Chavez, as a man and as a leader, is just a temporary blip in the 195 years of republican history of my country ... because, at the end of the day, it's the people of Venezuela who decide their future (including who is to be elected as leader and how to administrate the country).

Let's look beyond the fact that a political leader uses religious terminology and an ideological background to express political and economic problems; the fact that ... after almost 8 years of Bolivarian Government ... Venezuela and the United States of America still have strong links between their economies and societies ... mainly due to a mutual dependence on oil exchange and the implantation of the American-style capitalist culture in Venezuela. It it very difficult for many people inside and outside of Venezuela to understand what Chavez calls "North-American Imperialism" and the danger it represents, according to him.

* Chavez, his cabinet, National Assembly legislators, Supreme Court magistrates, Bolivarian political leaders and the majority of impoverished people will need more than Chomsky to understand the current critical situation of the globalized imperialist capitalism.

Although Chomsky has been very critical, he's not telling the people what the root of all this evil surrounding us is, namely: economic exploitation, political domination, social discrimination, global militarization and human alienation; and, we must admit, Chavez has touched upon some of these topics in many international arenas, proposing feasible alternatives, jumping many difficult hurdles under the most brutal pressure and repression few leaders have been able to stand in any country in the past.

In many public speeches in Venezuela and around the globe Chavez has recommended the people to read, to reflect on, in a nutshell: to think of, by and for themselves ... and not just to read Noam Chomsky.

The only reason Chavez goes to the United Nations, and keeps a staff of Venezuelan diplomats representing the country, is to have a voice to the world and officially to be part of the "international community."

In the past, it has been worthless for countries like the Democratic Popular Republic of Korea, Vietnam, China, Angola, Namibia, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina or Yugoslavia to be part of the UN, especially when they needed the attention, the compassion and action to prevent or stop genocide, invasion and foreign interference.

Even worse, a country such as South Africa, expelled from the UN because of Apartheid, was more "autonomous," "sovereign" and "independent" to apply its horrifying politics than other countries within the "international system" since the whole world turned its back on the South African people while the minority white Boers were exploiting and tormenting the black majority.

I'm afraid the same will happen soon to Venezuela, Cuba, Syria and Iran... if you still can remember what happened recently in Lebanon.

* Personally, I don't think Chavez really thinks the UN can be "reformed" ... it would be like saying a cancer can be made to look like healthy tissue. That's why there is an ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) that will soon become an alternative for the world.

If Chavez is to be accepted within the selected club of the UN Security Council, we must think from now what counter-measures the US has to restrain him, since it's not just an "ideological words exchange" what Bush fears most, but that a country, a man, in the name of a people starts to tell truths that nobody dared to speak of in the recent past.

Many people have begun to listen to those truths and to demand for more.

What Bush and its accomplices fear most is that many people in the world organize themselves as they are doing in Venezuela: demanding literacy, health and education programs, or in the case their political leaders and economic elites fail or simply refuse to do it, that they (the impoverished people) do it of, by and for themselves, which is the worst nightmare of every political or economic capitalist elite, including Venezuela itself!

To "save the world," as Chavez tells everybody that it's necessary that the world, the people, the poor, know they need to be saved because they are in danger ... which implies they need to know where that danger comes from, and that only the people can save the people, that no God, no big idea, no big men make history but themselves.

Can that be achieved from the UN?

When you hear your political leaders at those summits, assemblies, meetings, do you hear YOUR voice?

Will we spend all our lives until many more like Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Kwame Nkrumah, Marshall Tito ... and more recently Hugo Chavez ... speak for the people? ... or will we ourselves soon start to organize our own popular assemblies, to raise our own voices in our own language and with our own projects for a new true human world?

Chavez can not do it alone. We must not just hear him and applaud him ... we must join him in his battle for Venezuela, the whole world.

Jesus Nery Barrios
Jes...@VHeadline.com