...by the Bushwhacks and their mafia boss, Alvaro Uribe.
That's my assessment of Bush Junta activity in Colombia. They were consolidating the cocaine trade and better directing its trillion+ dollar revenue stream to selected beneficiaries (the Bush Cartel, the CIA, U.S. banksters).
Total sham. Not just pockets of corruption, in a very corruptible "war." Total reversal of purpose.
This accounts for the scale of the atrocities--for instance, the brutal displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands, by state terror, paid for by you and me--THE worst human displacement crisis on earth. Small peasant farmers may grow a few coca plants in addition to food crops that feed their families and local communities. Some of these coca plants are for local use (traditional Indigenous medicine) and some are sold to cocaine cartels to supplement poverty incomes. The Colombian military war on these small farmers was most beneficial to the big, protected drug lords who took over the stolen lands. It also benefited rich fascist cronies of Uribe and entities like Monsanto, Chiquita, Drummond Coal, Occidental Petroleum, et al. But first and foremost, it cleared the land for big drug operations.
A 180 on the "war on drugs" to a "war FOR drugs" also accounts for the sheer filth of the Uribe regime. Some 70 of Uribe's closest political associates were under investigation or already in jail--for drug trafficking, ties to the death squads and other crimes--by the time Leon Panetta yanked Uribe from the stage in 2010. (Panetta had quite a time cleaning up after Junior in Colombia. And it sure looked like it was a top priority. Panetta's first visible action as CIA Director was to go to Bogota.) Uribe was spying on everybody--including judges and prosecutors--and reporting to the U.S. embassy! The spying was for blackmails purposes, for smearing judges, for protecting criminals and the favored drug lords, and for drawing up "hit lists" (including many trade unionists) for the Colombian military and its closely tied rightwing death squads to murder.
It is simply a JOKE that the U.S. (Bush Junta) had any intention of stopping the cocaine trade. If they had such an intention, they would have started by shooting Uribe!
A cruel joke. But sometimes you just gotta laugh.
$7 BILLION in U.S. military aid--and the cocaine just keeps on flowing out of Colombia. That $7 billion has been turned into trillions in illicit profits to those who lord it over us.
I don't think that the Obama administration is dirty like Uribe and Bush were dirty, but I do think that they are covering up Bush crimes in Colombia and have had the problem of what to do with Uribe (who knows too much). How about cushy academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown? Natch.
Jeez. What a sad tale this is!
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