US Military Presence In Central America Could Spark Atrocities, Warns Paper
Source: Bernama (Malaysia)
US Military Presence In Central America Could Spark Atrocities, Warns Paper
MEXICO, May 28 (BERNAMA-NNN-PRENSA LATINA) -- The new deployment of US troops in Central America will open another cycle of mass violations of human rights and atrocities in the region, Mexican daily newspaper La Jornada warned Thursday.
In an article, La Jornada says that in previous years, the deployment of US soldiers in the area had meant an increase in violations committed by the military forces led, trained and funded by the Pentagon and the CIA.
"The presence of the US military contingents have been translated into massacres, mass human rights violations, backing of tyrants and the loss of sovereignty in the affected nations," said the journal.
La Jornada recalled that many military incursions ended up in occupations or in the formation of "puppet regimes" in Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)NATO installations in their countries...
(Some NATO big-wig was whingeing about the Russkis ratcheting up the tension with intrusive fights in informally sacrosanct airspace).
Didn't they offer some of the Guatemalan Indian males the choice of being baked alive in an oven or castrated? The renamed School of the Americas will be back in business. Education was always high on the list of priorities of US administrations, especially of foreigners.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)for VDs old and new
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Honduras