A New US "War on Terror" in Latin America?

[Judi Lynn]

A New US "War on Terror" in Latin America?
Null about Latin America during the presidential campaign, Obama follows Bush's aggressive and corrupted policy in the region today

by Edu Montesanti
(liberal)
Thursday, May 19, 2011

On May 10, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), released its latest "dossier" based on documents found in the computer files of Luis Edgar Devía Silva, better known as "Raúl Reyes", a senior FARC commander who was killed in a 2008 raid, supposedly seized by the Colombian government in 2008. The IISS "dossier", The FARC Files: Venezuela, Ecuador and the Secret Archive of ‘Raúl Reyes', links both the Venezuelan and the Ecuadorian leftist Presidents, Hugo Chávez and Rafael Correa, respectively, to the terrorist network as reported The New York Times.

On the same May 10, the History Professor at New York University, Greg Grandin, heavily refuted such a theory in the Guardian: "The report appears to be an attempt by hawks in the US and the UK to perpetuate, using 'black propaganda', the failed policies of the George W Bush administration, as well as previous administrations of the cold war era, to which they respectively once belonged. All of its conclusions are based on the false premise that the documents that it claims to analyse are entirely trustworthy", wrote Professor Grandin, among other absolutely convincing arguments.

He also remembered that, "What Interpol actually said, in its 2008 report on the documents, was that the Colombian military's treatment of the files "did not conform to internationally recognised principles for the ordinary handling of electronic evidence by law enforcement". Interpol noted that there was a one-week period between the computer documents' capture by Colombia, and when they were handed over to Interpol, during which time the Colombian authorities actually modified 9,440 files, and deleted 2,905, according to Interpol's detailed forensic report. This "may complicate validating this evidence for purposes of its introduction in a judicial proceeding, Interpol noted at the time".

It is old the US "interest" on Latin America, the richest region in biodiversity in the world, and very rich in natural gas (Bolivia), and oil (Venezuela and Brazil) but, at the same time, the most unequal region in the world. Actually, the US relationship with Latin America is marked by interventions through invasions, coups, plots, blockades, boycotts, bombings, assassinations, bribery, and corruption throughout the twentieth century, and now the beginning of the XXI.

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