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Edited on Fri Oct-19-07 10:06 AM by Peace Patriot
This sounds just like Guatemala, where 50 candidates, their family members or campaign works have been assassinated, during the current elections. When you think of how desperate the Bush Junta is to hang on to client states in Latin America, given the huge revolt against Bushism in South America, we may be looking at covert Bush-CIA or privatized (Blackwater?) killings in both countries (Colombia, Guatemala), to prevent 'loss' of these countries to the leftist (majorityist) movement (which has swept Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Uruguay--with Paraguay probably next to 'fall'), and is boiling beneath the surface in central America (hairsbreadth close losses by the left recently in Mexico and Costa Rica, with millions of people filling the streets in both cases--the Calderon vs. Amlo contest, and CAFTA). The U.S. is notorious for interference of every kind in Latin America--assassinations, coups, torture, mass slaughter, all aimed at leftists, and aiding such brutalities by local fascists (funding, training), as well as USAID-NED funding of rightwing groups, disinformation and psyops. All of these things have occurred for many decades of ostensible democracy in the U.S., with SOME of them getting exposed by the press or Congress (usually spurred by courageous human rights activists), and occasional restrictions/punishments imposed by Congress. But what is happening under our current fascist dictator (the "unitary executive")? The Bush Junta is so obsessively secretive, we can't really know, and, as we have seen in Iraq, they often work through private mercenary groups, paid for by us--U.S. taxpayers--but answerable to no system of justice. We have also been apprised, recently--almost by accident--of the part played by Chiquita Banana, which paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in "hit" money, to get rid of union organizers on Chiquita corporate farm lands in Colombia. (The Bushites helped cover it up, by preventing prosecution by the victims' families and merely fining Chiquita for these outrages.)
What if all of these killings of politicians and community organizers in Colombia and Guatemala are actually orchestrated from the White House? That is what I am wondering. Local fascists in Latin America are certainly capable of committing atrocities all on their own. But we have a situation of a completely out-of-control Executive in the U.S., with massive secret budgets for covert activity, and criminal ties to global predator corporations, who are losing the battle for rightwing dictatorship in South America, big time, with democracy threatening to break out in central America as well. The Bushites have been humiliated in South America. Nothing they have done to stem the leftist tide has worked. And the Bolivarian Revolution--centered in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina--has greatly influenced the OAS (toward enforcement of human rights, for instance) and also has given even the non-leftist leaders in Latin America new power to bargain for better deals for their countries and a more pugnacious attitude toward the U.S.
For instance, rightwing President Felipe Calderon in Mexico told the Bushites NO on U.S. military in Mexico for the "war on drugs"--setting a condition for receiving "war on drugs" money that it all go to Mexico--and publicly lectured Bush, when he visited in March, on the SOVEREIGNTY of Latin American countries, mentioning Venezuela as an example! Calderon is a bad dude, but no Latin American bad dude has had the nerve to make such assertions in the past. The context was probably the Bushite plot to assassinate Hugo Chavez and install a U.S.-friendly dictatorship in Venezuela, this last year, just after the Venezuelan elections--a plot that was hatched in Colombia, exposed, and failed. It was apparently very upsetting to ALL Latin American leaders, is my read on the situation. And this new sense of independence--spurred by the Bolivarians--is infecting all leaders, right and left.
Another instance is the curious friendship that has arisen between Uribe, president of Colombia, and Chavez, president of Venezuela. Uribe has asked Chavez to negotiate a hostage release with FARC (armed leftist guerrillas in Colombia), and possibly a peace treaty, and Uribe also apparently distanced himself from the plot to kill Chavez (that was hatched within his own government). As with Calderon, even a rightwing Latin American leader can see the benefits of keeping an arms length distance from the U.S. and maintaining some independence. The times they are a-changing! And the leaders of these dinosaur regimes may well, eventually, be swept away. (Calderon won the presidency by only 0.05% of the vote, in a contested--and probably stolen--election. Uribe, while more popular, is also vulnerable, due to exposure of the rightwing death squads with very close ties to his government.)
I have a suspicion that the Bush Junta's corporate sponsors are not at all happy with Bush/Cheney, one of the reasons being their "loss" of South America. (If they can't plunder the Middle East--or can't easily plunder it--who CAN they plunder?) It appears that some combined, or coordinated, force, including insider U.S. military, intelligence and other professionals, perhaps some of our better politicians and elements of the political establishment, and disaffected billionaire CEOS and investment groups, may have acted to curtail Bush Junta excesses--particularly with regard to attacking Iran, but in a general political sense as well--and to disempower them in favor of a liberal-seeming Clintonite substitute. Their financial loss in South America has been profound--not only with government after government curtailing oil profiteers and extracting more profit from their countries' resources for the benefit of the poor, but also with amazing new organizations like the Bank of the South, which will expel the World Bank/IMF (global corporate predators loan sharks) from the region. There is even talk of a South American "Common Market" and common currency (to get off the U.S. dollar).
The oil, gas, minerals, forest and financial profiteers are desperate; the Bush Junta has not delivered. It has not been able to contain the social justice movement in South America, and has barely been able to contain it in central America. Thus the many political murders in two of the few remaining client states--Colombia, Guatemala--in a desperate bid to hold onto them? Would the Bush Junta balk at murdering peasant farmers, union leaders and political leftists? Of course not. Is it in their interest to eliminate such people? Very much so. They MUST hang onto these client states. An additional motive would be keeping control of the drugs and weapons traffic, that both the Bush Junta and our secret government have profited from, and maintaining client states for the "war on drugs" military/police state boondoggle (looting of U.S. taxpayers for a failed and very, very corrupt program). The Bolivarian movement actively OPPOSES the murderous U.S. "war on drugs." Wherever the Bolivarians have been elected, they have thrown the U.S. military and its excuse (the "war on drugs") out of their countries. If this were to happen in Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, trillions of dollars in illicit drugs and weapons traffic money, and U.S. military/police state money, would be lost--and this horrible scene would also likely be exposed to the American people.
In short, the Bush Junta has A LOT OF MOTIVE to be involved in these killings. But it would difficult to track it, since so many investigators, witnesses, leftist politicians and journalists have been killed in these countries. One way to track it may be USAID/NED money, which was used in Venezuela--funding of the rightwing opposition--to try to topple Chavez through various means (the initial coup attempt, the oil professionals' strike, the recall election, phony street "protests," etc.) People like James Carville have been recipients of this money, as well as Hillary Clinton's P.R. firm, Penn and Schoen. (They did a phony poll in Venezuela, saying Chavez had actually lost the 2006 election--in truth, he won it by over 60% of the vote--which was to be used in the December plot to destabilize the country and topple Chavez's legitimate government.) We have billions of our tax dollars disappearing not only into Iraq, but also into South America. SOME of it may be trackable. (But don't count on Emperor Hillary to be helpful in that regard.)
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