War on Terror: Latin American Front

[Goldstein1984]

From Upsidedown World: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2284/1/

Mary O’Grady Incites Violence in Colombian Peace Community
By: Belén Fernández
29DEC09

In her latest pro bono public relations initiative on behalf of right-wing Latin American regimes, The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady interviews a former commander of the 5th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)—Daniel Sierra Martínez, alias “Samir”— who deserted the organization in 2008 and is now serving as a primary accomplice in Colombian government efforts to prove campesinos are terrorists. In her Dec. 13 article entitled “The FARC and the ‘Peace Community’,” O’Grady announces that “ast week Colombian authorities agreed to let sit down with me and talk about his rebel experience,” an arrangement which presumably did not require much twisting of authorities’ arms.

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The sub-headline of O’Grady’s article—which was apparently originally titled “The FARC’s NGO Friends” as this is how it turns up on the Google search engine—explains that Colombian peace communities are “controlled by NGOs” and that “peace-niks helped the terrorists.” Perhaps in an effort to make her rejection of peace more globally applicable, O’Grady begins her article:

“As the U.S. prepares to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan on a mission that will include defending a civilian population in a narco-economy, Colombia's experience with drug traffickers and terrorism may be instructive.

The testimony of the former second in command of the 5th Front of the , which operates in the banana-growing, drug-trafficking region known as Urabá, could serve as Lesson One.”

More at: Upsidedown World: http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/2284/1/

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This is just more of the same, of course. But there seems to be a lot more of the same...

I'm putting this in General Discussion because I don't believe what's going on in Latin America is any different from what's going on in the Middle East or anyplace else.

[evan2]

1. And THIS, poison girls is why drugs will never be legalized.

Intelligence services need off-the-books sources of income for black operations.

Military needs excuses to invade other countries.

Military/security industrial complex needs more corporate welfare AKA CORPORATE Socialism.

P.S. DEA & other law enforcement agencies (all thousands of 'em) need reason for being. Ditto the VERY criminal injustice system.


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