In the course of a report on a recent incident between the Panamanian police/Colombian military and FARC guerrillas in the Panama/ Colombian border area of Darien, The Panama News states the following:
"There are US mercenaries active in Darien to support Panamanian and Colombian forces, The Panama News has separately learned, but we have no information of any role they might have played in this latest incident. Because it's a matter of private corporations being hired by the US government, on the American side a veil of secrecy has been imposed, which would not be the case if regular US military forces were deployed."http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_16/issue_02/news_03.html--------------
If true, this is further evidence of the U.S. militarization of the region, and of its use of the 40+year civil war in Colombia, possibly to further the Pentagon's "circle the wagon" plans in the Central American/Caribbean region, and to net in Venezuela's oil coast and northern oil region into the "circle," via a war strategy based in Colombia.
Further, the "total diplomatic immunity" part of the recent U.S./Colombia military agreement takes on more importance--total diplomatic immunity for U.S. soldiers and U.S. 'contractors,' no matter what they do in Colombia. I think this has retroactive aspects to it, possibly with regard to the mass grave containing 2,000 bodies of local 'disappeared' activists--community organizers, labor leaders, peasant farmers--in La Macarena, Colombia (with grave dates of 2005 thru 2009, but no names). La Macarena has been an area of special interest and activity by the U.S. military. But consider this:
U.S. death squads, operating in Panama to eliminate opposition to Panama's rightwing government, then escaping over the border into Colombia, where they have total diplomatic immunity. And the same in Venezuela, which has a long border with Colombia--also to eliminate leftist leaders and spread terror and destabilization, to hamper or topple the elected government, and/or to work with local fascist secessionists to instigate a war--then back they go over the border, where they have total diplomatic immunity.
This is an extremely worrisome development.
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