4 Cases of the U.S. Sheltering Vicious Criminals that Reveal Total Hypocrisy on Snowden

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http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-total-hypocrisy-snowden-and-extradition

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1. Robert Lady

After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bush administration granted the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to snatch people off the streets and whisk them to other countries for interrogation and torture. With the help of 54 countries, CIA operatives around the world implemented what was known as Bush’s “extraordinary rendition” program.

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2. Luis Posada Carriles

The U.S. has long seen Latin America as its backyard, and has carried out vicious policies aimed at stopping the region from carrying out economic policies that run counter to U.S. elite and corporate interests. And the U.S. government has long used Latin American operatives to do dirty work in the service of U.S. interests.

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3. Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

Up until the indigenous activist Evo Morales rode to power in Bolivia on an agenda for social justice and land redistribution, many leaders of the Latin American country had been U.S. allies. For instance, General Rene Barrientos came to power in a 1964 military coup that was backed by the U.S.

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4. Roberto and William I saias Dass um

In 1998, Ecuador suffered through a economic crisis. The economic implosion came after a long period of International Monetary Fund-forced measures that led Ecuador to follow the neoliberal policies backed by the U.S. In the 1980s, Ecuador needed a loan from the IMF, and in order to get the money it needed to liberalize its financial system. In practice, this meant the deregulation of Ecuador’s banks, which in turn led to the banks taking on risky practices that contributed to the economic crisis.