that Uribe is tied to. They normally don't report the crimes or failures of anyone in favor at Langley. So the corpo-fascist press was being used as the "chorus" for Uribe's decline and fall. And Santos--who is far worse than Uribe, in my opinion--will be the CIA-Pentagon's "war president" in Colombia. (Diem out, Thieu in.)
I think we can now understand HRW's report on Colombia, in this context. HRW exposes or whitewashes for money, or in concert with CIA projects.
I've been waiting for any corpo-fascist 'news' monopoly report on the humungous recent massacre at La Macarena, since death squad activity is okay to report until they get rid of Uribe. But no report has come, on this side of "the Pond." 2,000 bodies! The key to this suppression may be involvement of British troops, as suggested in a Tribune magazine article. And I am still very suspicious that U.S. personnel were involved, since the whole campaign in La Macarena seems to have been designed in Washington DC. Frankly, I think it was "turkey shoot" training for Afghanistan. Locally, it has the efficacy of eliminating 2,000 leftist votes (not to mention leftist organizers) outright--can't vote, being dead--and then the leftist votes of the terrorized population--those who will not vote, or will vote against their own interest, and certainly will not advocate leftist candidates or ideas, for fear of retaliation. And, given that this same phenomena--rightwing death squad terror--has been occurring all over Colombia, to a greater or lesser degree--the coming so-called election will be a shoo-in for Santos. That has been a key goal of the CIA/Pentagon, I'm sure--to control the election. They haven't invested $7 BILLION of our tax dollars in the Colombian military--to have Colombia go leftist! But, more than this, I think they have used Uribe's weaknesses--his ties to the Medellin Cartel and to rightwing death squads--as a control, to be able to do whatever the fuck they please in the country called Colombia, including 'turkey shoot' practice, and to get that U.S./Colombia military agreement signed, sealed and delivered.
An interesting sidelight on that military agreement: I was reading some crapola the other day, I think in Foreign Policy magazine, that all the agreement does is confirm
current arrangements between the U.S. and Colombian militaries. This is interesting enough, in itself--I mean, who knew that the U.S. was present at SEVEN Colombian military bases, with planes, ships, soldiers (and 'contractors'), and has had open access to all civilian airports and other civilian infrastructure as well? But what's even more interesting is the total diplomatic immunity, stated in this NEW agreement, for all U.S. soldiers and U.S. 'contractors'! I'm thinking, diplomatic immunity wasn't formal before? Wasn't signed? Wasn't official? Whoa, the ghosts of La Macarena arise again! They're giving
retro-active immunity to U.S. soldiers and 'contractors'?
Of course, this could just be bullshit--that it's just "confirming" previous arrangements, and isn't taking U.S. military activity in Colombia to a whole new level--much as Vietnam was escalated. But it's interesting, huh?, that, in addition to everything else, this agreement may be providing cover for U.S. atrocities in Colombia. Maybe it hasn't been all
Colombian death squads--Colombians killing Colombians. This immunity thing (making immunity official) makes me even more suspicious about La Macarena. It's spooky enough that La Macarena has been reported in the UK and not here. But if the dots connect the way I'm suspecting they connect, there could be an entirely unknown and huge additional scandal connected to the Iraq War and to the Afghanistan war--and that is that Colombia has been the training ground for US and UK military and 'contractor' death squads then deployed to those countries.
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"Army Mass Grave in La Macarena"
http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303"Silence on British Army link to Colombian mass grave"
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/04/silence-on-british-army-link-to-colombian-mass-grave/
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