March 5, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche's warnings of British manipulation have struck a chord amidst the pre-war hysteria reigning in much of South America. Where emotions and romanticism are over-powering strategic thinking, Lyndon LaRouche's warning that the Anglo-Dutch financiers' cartel is using such foolish British pawns as Hugo Chavez to provoke continental chaos and war, is providing a policy counterpole which is forcing people to think.

This is no small feat, in a situation in which the Colombian Peace Commissioner, Luis Carlos Restrepo, to give an example, has made the wild charge that Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has formed a "co-government" with the FARC, while Correa himself, after charging that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe personally lied to him about the March 1 raid against the FARC camp a mile inside Ecuadorian territory, denounced the Colombian President as a "psychopath and cynic."

A few examples of how LaRouche broke through the fog of war:

A radio host in Ecuador, denouncing Uribe as as bad as Raul Reyes, was reminded by a LaRouche organizer yesterday that LaRouche had warned that exactly such operations would be thrown against the Bank of the South. After being forced to acknowledge, point by point, what LaRouche had said, the host demanded that a LaRouche spokesmen get on the air, to explain the broader picture to his fellow countrymen.

A Central American diplomat, otherwise having chosen sides in the conflict, acknowledged, however, that LaRouche had, indeed, warned that the situation was being driven towards war, and promised to overcome his technical difficulties and watch LPAC's hyperinflation video, to understand the broader battle. (Credulously arguing the FARC was not ONLY a drug cartel, he started chuckling, "He really said that??", when told that the former head of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, had told Reyes that he couldn't wait until FARC chief would walk the halls of the Stock Exchange with him.)

For its part, a provincial Bolivian newsletter otherwise flailing incoherently against everyone and everything as Bolivia nears disintegration, ran in this week's edition chunks of LaRouche's analysis on the drive for war, from Colombian LaRouche Association president Max Londono's earlier statement, concluding with the question: "Is Chavez, then, a British agent?"