RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LATIN AMERICA
The Fall of Bolivar
The last stand of Simon Bolivar
The father of Latin American democracy
The nation named in his honor
Home to the first indigenous president
Defender of democratic socialism
Fallen to the forces of capitalism
One wonders if democracy can survive
For capitalism so often prefers strongmen
That it has survived in the northern hemisphere
In western Europe and America
Gives proof that elements of socialism and
Capitalism can coexist with democracy
That democracy is so often threatened
In capitalist dominated countries
(a list that now include the United States)
Gives proof that the forces opposed to socialism
Are the forces opposed to democracy
The autocrats are lining up against us
Social democracy is at risk
Democracy itself is threatened
Bolivar has fallen but the fight goes on
The people must rise to find a way
(Rodrigo Paz elected president of Bolivia)
