Clinton to Colombia: We will stand with you

[Judi Lynn]

Clinton to Colombia: We will stand with you
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer – 45 mins ago

BOGOTA, Colombia – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the Obama administration will continue to support Colombia as it heads for a leadership change amid tensions with neighboring Venezuela.

Clinton made the pledge in talks here with outgoing President Alvaro Uribe and the two candidates vying to succeed him in elections this month. She said President Barack Obama will continue to back Colombia's anti-drug and counterinsurgency programs no matter who wins.

"The United States has been proud to stand with Colombia and we will continue to stand with you in the future," Clinton told a joint news conference with Uribe.

She did not directly mention neighboring Venezuela, but two U.S. officials said Washington is well aware of potential threats to Colombia from Venezuela — as well as from Marxist guerrillas, drug traffickers and others.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100610/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_us_latin_america_clinton

[Bacchus39]

1. knew the Obama administration would support Colombia all along

who ever doubted it??

[Peace Patriot]

2. "Counterinsurgency programs" like this one?

The La Macarena massacre (includes a description of, and links to docs about, U.S. ops in La Macarena, where a mass grave was recently found, containing up to 2,000 bodies whom local people say were local, 'disappeared' community activists)
http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1303

The UK military connection
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/04/silence-on-british-army-link-to-colombian-mass-grave/

U.S. and Colombia Cover Up Atrocities Through Mass Graves, by Dan Kovalik 4/1/10
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/us-colombia-cover-up-atro_b_521402.html

Colombia: Mass Grave Discovered In La Macarena
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00001.htm


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"She said President Barack Obama will continue to back Colombia's anti-drug and counterinsurgency programs no matter who wins." --Associated Pukes

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I've no doubt at all that mass slaughter of union leaders, political leftists, peasant farmers, human rights workers and others, clearance of land for the big drug lords and for Monsanto, Chiquita, Occidental Petroleum & brethren, and the U.S. military occupation of Colombia, will continue to be supported at U.S. taxpayers' expense, no matter whom the CIA installs as 'president' of Colombia. That CIA judgement call has to do with the timing of the one-two, Republicrat punch of "free trade for the rich" and the Oil War. The "war on drugs" is a second front in the Oil War. But the multinationals may want to ravage more of Colombia's resources and enslave more Colombian workers and kill off more of their advocates in "peace," before the Pentagon implements its plan for "full spectrum" military activity in South America. So Clinton speaks the truth, in a way, in this case. 'Yes, we love graves full of rotting leftist bodies. Yes, we love all the 'little people' living in terror. Yes, we love 3 to 4 million displaced peasant farmers. Yes, we love mayhem, poverty and death, and we will support it, with dollars that are not our own, whether it be naked fascist oppression or "green" fascist cosmetics. Our choice.'