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are touting indigenous rights, which they care about as much as they care about the rights of a million slaughtered Iraqis.
Beware.
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I just visited their Puke ‘news’ page, read the whole article and looked for the obvious. Yes, they mention Colombia and Peru, and don't just mention countries with leftist governments getting protested by the indigenous. They spend some inches on Bolivia and its first indigenous president, Evo Morales, but fail to mention the Bushwhack- funded/organized white separatist insurrection in Bolivia's eastern provinces last September.
The white separatists rioted, trashed government buildings, took over an airport, sabotaged a gas pipeline and machine-gunned some 30 unarmed peasant farmers. Morales threw the US ambassador (and the DEA) out of Bolivia for collusion with these criminals. The white separatists/Bushwhack goal was to split off Bolivia's gas/oil rich eastern provinces into a fascist mini-state in control of Bolivia's main resources. Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, has said that there is a coordinated fascist plot for such civil war scenarios in three countries--Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia. Coordinated (and funded) by whom, we don't need to ask. So, part of what the Washington Past is doing here is re-writing history--leaving a big black hole where information should be, that our government did the above, and is persona non grata in Bolivia because of it.
I would imagine that, where the Bushwhacks and their local fascist friends can find a way to use some indigenous group to harass a leftist government--the way they have used corrupt labor unionists, for instance (in Mexico and in Venezuela, recently, and in Chile and other places in the past)--they will do it, or try to do it. This article could be part of setting something like that up. The article treats the subject of the indigenous with some sympathy, and if you're in Washington DC right now, you could go walking near the WaPo offices and see vomit all over the sidewalks, of people made mysteriously ill just strolling close to the source of such hypocrisy.
The Washington Pest is a CIA rag. They don't publish anything that is not approved, and for which there are not ulterior motives, except maybe in the sports section. Note: The Bushwhacks are still mostly in charge of US embassies in Latin America, apparently because the Pukes in Congress are blockading Obama's Latin America appointments. Also, Obama has been in office less than a year--not sufficient time to ferret out all the Bushwhack moles in the CIA, the Pentagon, the diplomatic corp, etc., who may be set to trigger trouble for Obama (like the recent rightwing coup in Honduras) for short- and long-term purposes (ultimately an oil war, I think).
This is not to say there are not real issues between indigenous peoples and the both right- and left-wing governments in Latin America. There are. The CIA-these days exacerbated by Bushwhack torturers and assassins--sometimes creates protest out of nothing, but more often utilizes protest movements with some genuineness to them, to cause trouble and destabilization for governments they want to topple. The USAID-NED even trains protest groups in destabilization techniques (more usually rightwing groups and their thugs).
And the leftwing governments in Latin America are all struggling, of course, to use the profits from their rich resources to fund education, health care, land reform, local manufacturing and diversification and other progress and development. Previous rightwing governments ignored social needs and positively sought to dismantle progressive, forward-looking social programs. All these countries suffer the long term effects of their greed and mismanagement. The leftist governments feel they need to exploit their countries' oil, gas, minerals, timber and other resources for good purposes, and--although these governments are certainly more sympathetic to the indigenous, by many orders of magnitude, over any previous governments, who just shoved them aside, often brutally—the new leftist leaders often come up against the indigenous, who have far more advanced understanding of the plight of Mother Earth than anybody else.
Brutality against the indigenous continues wherever corpo-fascists hold sway, and also wherever US military aid goes--for instance, in Colombia and Peru. (Colombia has one of the worst human rights records on earth--downplayed in this article--and Peru is heading in that direction.) But it is not characteristic of leftist governments; rather the opposite. The indigenous are generally an important part of the coalitions that elect leftist presidents and other officials.
Government leaders like Correa in Ecuador, and Chavez in Venezuela, have to balance these pressures--or feel they have to balance them. Correa, for instance, recently said that the indigenous have to understand that the resources belong to all Ecuadorans. He is the leftist who currently is having the most difficulty, as to clashes with the indigenous. He speaks the indigenous language and spent time in the mountains with indigenous tribes when he was younger. He has done much good on the matter of indigenous civil and land rights, but wouldn't yield mineral rights to them.
It is a very difficult problem, in which my sympathies go back and forth. Chevron is out to get Correa, because of a pending court ruling in Ecuador awarding billions of dollars to 30,000 indigenous whose lands and health were basically ruined by Chevron-Texaco toxic spills (in an area the size of Rhode Island). Correa openly backs the indigenous claims. Truly, it leaves you torn. If Chevron and the Bushwhacks succeed in getting rid of Correa--and they are working hard on that--where will the indigenous be? Are Ecuador's fascists going to give a damn about them? Indeed not.
So, you see why a WaPo article on the indigenous raises my hackles and my suspicions. Correa also recently threw the US military out of Ecuador. US corpo-fascists--of which the WaPo is a chief propagandist--are not likely to forgive that, nor the Chevron lawsuit award. They don't want anyone but their multi-billionaire pals to control Ecuador's rich resources and government policy.
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