How a US military doctrine became Colombia's 'origin of evil' Part 2: Special warfare

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema August 3, 2020

“The origin of evil” in Colombia was the “National Security Doctrine” the US military kicked off in the early 1960’s and degenerated over decades, according to a Medellin Court.

This National Security Doctrine was a military doctrine that began developing after 1947 and initially was no more than a low-priority effort to secure “international security” in the hemisphere where US hegemony and corporate interests were pretty much unchallenged with the exception of Guatemala.

What is known in Latin America as the National Security Doctrine [is] not defense against an external enemy, but a way to make the military establishment the masters of the game [with] the right to combat the internal enemy…: it is the right to fight and to exterminate social workers, trade unionists, men and women who are not supportive of the establishment, and who are assumed to be communist extremists. And this could mean anyone, including human rights activists such as myself.

Colombia’s former Foreign Minister Alfredo Vasquez

More:
https://colombiareports.com/how-a-us-military-doctrine-became-colombias-origin-of-evil-part-2-special-warfare/