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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 01:37 AM
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The return of Nicaragua's old aquaintance, DynCorp
The return of Nicaragua's old aquaintance, DynCorp
Saturday, 27 March 2010, 5:43 pm

Mutations of imperial destabilization : the return of Nicaragua's old aquaintance, DynCorp
By Jorge Capelán
Translated from Spanish by Karla Jacobs

There are no excuses for playing the innocent about the motives behind US funding of "civil society" in Nicaragua. In the last analysis, this sort of funding is part of the political-military plan to destabilize and dominate the country, in exactly the same way as in other ALBA countries like Bolivia and Venezuela. The nationals implicated in the administration of these funds should jump ship as soon as possible if they want to avoid going down in history as traitors to their country.

The destabilization strategy in Venezuela, based on the in-country installation of a US Agency for Development (USAID) Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) by the subcontractor DAI, is documented by Eva Golinger in her book, "The Chávez Code". (1) This same strategy is being applied to Nicaragua with USAID's CamTransparency Program managed by a branch of the paramilitary multinational DynCorp. The names are different, the scheme is the same.

As is well known, USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the International Republican Institute (IRI), etc., have channelled millions of dollars of "aid" to "civil society" organizations which, in turn, function as an informal political party to destabilize the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity. It's difficult to keep track of all of this "aid," but on occasion the US Embassy itself publishes relevant information.

This was the case for the disbursement of some US$320,000 to "small projects" carried out by 15 Nicaraguan NGOs by the then US Ambassador in Managua Paul Trivelli and the then interim head of USAID in Managua, Carol Horning at the end of May 2008. (2) These projects were part of a plan to sabotage the municipal elections of the same year and, at the same time, to isolate Nicaragua by the subsequent suspension of a certain amount of international aid.

More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00293.htm

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x526402
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Mika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 08:39 AM
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1. Dyncorp recently won a large security contract in Haiti.
http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/dyncorp_international

Dyncorp was also contracted by the U.S. State Department to protect Boniface Alexandre, the unelected interim president of Haiti. Alexandre took power after the coup that toppled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Dyncorp's role in Haiti hit the spotlight after their employees beat two journalists covering a ceremony marking the re-opening of the courts after a holiday. Dyncorp now has the contract to train police in Haiti.


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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 01:40 PM
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2. It means the old death squad Ton Ton Macoutes working for the sweatshop owners will have company!
It seems impossibly evil.

What a shame, after all.
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