I know, I know, I know! It's totally crazy for me to think I'd be chosen to be the next American Ambassador to Nicaragua since I'm just a poor pensioner, and I have no diplomatic background or past government service, or even good political networking; but, heck, this is a New America, playing by new rules, speaking a higher truth, and anything could happen, and might, even this. A guy can dream, can't he?
I'm caught up with all the possibilities for building Millennial linkage between the US and the emerging dynamo of capital and development that Latin America, especially in Brazil and Venezuela, now represents. I could transform the relationship between the US and Nicaragua, now a very wounded beast of corruption, greed, special corporate interests and controlling, covert manipulation, harking back to US imperialistic hegemony, terroristic client-state thinking from the 80's, and a blinded overview which fails to see the needs of the impoverished people of Nicaragua, 90% of the population, working for $2 a day. All the US aid which the Embassy in Managua administers ends up in the pockets of the elites, one way or another: no campesino in Nicaragua has ever seen a dime of it. All of that would have to change.
Having lived with and supported and built bridges of love and understanding between rico Coloradans and Northern Nicaraguan peasants for the last fifteen years, as American Ambassador, I would bring the peasants' voices to the table for the first time, not just the elitist voices of "The Men from Managua" who own most of the country. It would work a miracle of transformation for all the people of Nicaragua and, as well, transform our US stance as a change agent for peace, healing, mutuality and economic restoration in a country that has witnessed firsthand the nastiest face of American foreign policy, for the last hundred years. I could help President Obama bring brotherhood, opportunity, education, health and democratic power to the people, who, to a man, woman or child, are the world's most capitalistic. My American Embassy would be a new beacon of light and gratitude for the mutual benefit of all. My ultimate mission: to foster the empowerment of Nicaraguans to empower themselves, as friends working together in the Greater America, the same tool of transforming change that President Obama used to win the election in North America.
I would also bring a 21st century voice to the State Department's 20th century muddle, which really needs to happen if we are to befriend and build alliance with the emerging Latin American panthers. In many ways, Latin America is getting it together without us: we need to get on the same page with them by changing ourselves.
Gracias for participating in my dream.
Charles Douglas Evans (aka Doug Evans Betanco in Nicaragua)
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