It seemed designed to throw the country into chaos, and I hope he gets to the bottom of it, for the sake of justice, but also because it is just the sort of thing that the CIA and Rumsfeld "Office of Special Plans"-type operatives get up to, in countries where U.S. corpo-fascist interests want the government to be toppled.
For a short time, we had FOUR leftist governments dominating Central America: Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. And then there were three. Honduras' leftist president was taken out by a rightwing military putsch, supported by the U.S. We can be very sure that the U.S. has its sites on the remaining leftist governments. And this strange murder in Guatemala--with the victim wrongfully blaming the leftist president in a video prior to his murder--is a good candidate for one of many plots that the U.S. likely has going, to destroy the leftist democracy movement that was sweeping the region (with Mexico probably next, as to voting for a leftist government).
In quite interesting what one of the junta generals in Honduras said (as quoted in a report by the Zelaya government-in-exile). He said that, by their coup, they were "preventing communism from Venezuela reaching the United States."
Was this murder (and video blaming the leftist president) another such effort to prevent socialism, universal free medical care, universal free education through college, public ownership of the country's resources with benefit to the poor, maximum public participation in government and politics and transparent elections from "reaching the United States"?
Some other recent suspected U.S. black ops and psyops: the "miracle laptop" (later, laptopS) supposedly seized from a FARC guerrilla camp just inside Ecuador's border (a camp that the US/Colombia had blasted with ten 500 lb US "smart bombs") supposedly containing evidence that the leftist presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador are "terrorist lovers"; Colombia's treachery in asking Chavez to negotiate with the FARC for hostage releases, then the Colombian military sending rocket fire at those hostages while they were in route to their freedom (as well as, later, blaming Chavez for those contacts with the FARC); the "suitcase full of money" CIA-type caper out of Miami, trying to sully the leftist presidents of Venezuela and Argentina; organization/funding of the white separatists in Bolivia, who tried to secede from the national government of leftist Evo Morales, and take Bolivia's main gas/oil resources with them; "fixing" the hairsbreadth close presidential election in Mexico in 2005 against the leftist candidate (who lost by only 0.05% of the vote, amidst widespread allegations of election fraud); helping to perpetrate first the 2002 coup attempt against the Chavez government, then various destabilization schemes, including a crippling oil professionals' strike, a US-funded recall election, rightwing student riots and others nefarious plots in Venezuela.
There were some
fifty political murders in Guatemala--all of candidates for office or of aides/supporters--in the last elections. One method of destabilizing a country is simply to fund criminal groups to create mayhem. I think this method has been used by the U.S. in Fallujah/Baghdad, Colombia and Mexico (at least)--possibly in Guatemala, possibly in Venezuela (in Caracas and in border areas with Colombia), and certainly now in Honduras. Although leftist activists are almost always the victims in Latin America, I think that there are increasing suspicions that drug/weapons trafficking and other criminal enterprises are actually fostered by, or deliberately set against each other by, the U.S. "war on drugs," to create a climate of chaos and fear, in order to generate support for MORE public funds to war profiteers, and in order to impose U.S. global corporate predator will on these countries. There has also been a large toll of rightwing death squad murders against non-political peasant farmers in Colombia, which seems to have the purpose of terror, as well as clearing large swaths of farmland for the big drug lords, for Monsanto/Chiquita et al and for US/Colombia war plans.
It's taken 30 to 50 years for some of the shit that the U.S. was doing in Latin America to get disclosed or to get more fully disclosed than it had been before. We now know, for instance, that Ronald Reagan was aware of the genocidal slaughter of
two hundred thousand Mayan villagers mostly in Guatemala in the 1980s. It was done by local rightwing monsters to serve U.S. corporate and military interests. We now know of "Operation Condor"--the U.S. coordinated plot to basically destroy democracy, and slaughter and torture leftists, all over the continent.
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Operation Condor ... was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the governments of the Southern Cone of South America. The program aimed to eradicate alleged socialist and communist influence and ideas and to control active or potential opposition movements against the participating right-wing governments....it is reported to have caused over sixty thousand deaths <1>, possibly even more.<2><3><4> Condor's key members were the governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. The United States participated in a supervisory capacity, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.<5>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor----------------------
The fallout from this U.S.-organized mayhem and horror is still with us--in cases that are now being prosecuted in Latin America, and in devastating impacts on the rights and prosperity of Latin Americans as a whole. An entire generation of leaders was murdered. Fear and terror abounded. The fascist governments that the U.S. installed looted their countries and impoverished vast numbers of people. Several generations suffered every kind of deprivation, including poor or no education, poor or no health care, poor nutrition and so on. And multimillions of peasant farmers were driven off their farm lands into urban squalor.
These are the problems that leftist governments are trying to address, at long last, TODAY--the many terrible legacies of U.S. imposed fascist rule. And, just as they are getting on back on their feet, and just as democracy and social justice are beginning to flourish in Latin America, the U.S. once gain--this time under President Obama--squashes democracy in Honduras, and begins a huge military buildup in Colombia and the region, following upon the Bushwhacks' larding Colombia with $6 BILLION in military aid and other evil policies.
So, items like this murder in Guatemala, with the murderers trying to cast blame on the leftist president, need to be reviewed in this context. I know of no U.S. connection thus far. But neither did we know of Reagan's complicity in the massive slaughter of the Mayans at the time it was occurring, or the U.S. complicity and instigation of many of these other horrors, at the time. I have serious questions about whether Obama has control of certain forces within our government. His hands seem to be tied as to curtailing the war profiteers (if he has that intention). The Honduran coup sure looked like that in the beginning--Obama saying one thing, and Jim DeMint & brethren doing another, and Jim DeMint winning! WHO is really running U.S. foreign policy? To what extent does the U.S. have black ops running in Latin America, for purposes of smashing up Latin American democracy and restoring U.S. global predator control of this region? And authorized by whom?
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