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there is really no difference between big money/private corporate interests in the U.S. and our government.
For instance, when Chiquita International execs got caught for their payments to rightwing death squads to take care of their "labor problem" in Colombia, by murdering the labor leaders, the Bush Junta let them off with a handslap fine and made the lawsuit of the victims' families in the U.S. go away. The private lawyer who brokered that deal with the Bushwhacks was Eric Holder, whom President Obama then appointed Attorney General of the United States.
Or, another for instance: When telecommunications, clothing retail sweatshops, war profiteer and (once again) Chiquita interests were perceived to be at risk in Honduras, while Obama and Clinton played the "high road" (for a short time), Senator Jim DeMint (SC-Diebold) went to Honduras, hobnobbed with the coupsters, and then put a hold on all Obama/Clinton's diplomatic appointments in Latin America and later crowed about blackmailing them to change their position on the coup (which they did--and we simply don't know if it was a change, or they requested to be blackmailed; that is, they were on board for the coup all along but wanted it to appear otherwise).
Working for those corporate interests (in effect), the U.S. military sat on their hands, at their base in Honduras, when their "School of the Americas" buds in the Honduran military landed the plane carrying the kidnapped president out of the country, at gunpoint, at their base for refueling. Don't ask, don't tell.
These things work by backchannels, nods and handshakes, with no paper trail. And then there's the CIA (and, more recently, Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans," his own private intelligence agency and hit squad, which I believe is still in operation), who are answerable to NO ONE. Also, there is a VERY fuzzy line now between the U.S. government, private corporations and mercenary armies like Blackwater. One day Blackwater works for the State Department, the next day it works for some big, powerful U.S. multinational corporate monster.
So, TECHNICALLY, there may be no evidence of official U.S. government involvement in a coup attempt like this, but all the above lines cross ALL THE TIME in one, focused juggernaut of effort to destroy democracy in Latin America once again, reconquer the region and unmercifully rape its people and its resources for the profit of the rich. Their aim is to destroy the leftist democracy movement that has swept the continent by picking off the Bolivarians first, one by one, country by country. This is not only evident in the multi-millions of funding to rightwing groups all over Latin America, through the USAID and other agencies; it is also evident in the events of the last decade: Venezuela, 2002 (failed U.S. supported coup). Venezuela, 2003 (failed local oil elite and U.S. oil corp bosses' lockout to destroy Venezuela's economy). Ecuador/Venezuela, early 2008 (failed U.S. effort to start a war with Colombia as the surrogate). Bolivia, late 2008 (failed U.S. instigated/funded coup). Honduras, 2009 (successful U.S. coup). Ecuador, 2010 (failed coup--probable private U.S. oil interests and CIA involved, with deniability for Obama/Clinton).
Accompanying these overt and covert efforts of both private and official U.S. government entities has been the non-stop, 24/7, disinformation/psyops campaign against Latin America's leftist leaders in the corpo-fascist press. This too I believe is coordinated. (The sameness of the "talking points" often suggests a single source!)
I would not take this diplomatic language, with the Ecuadoran ambassador distinguishing between official U.S. government and private U.S. corporate interests, as the last word on this matter. Ecuador would be foolish to blame the U.S. government if it does not have good evidence. But you gotta wonder, for instance, does Obama know of all the "sleeper" agents that the CIA may have planted in agencies like the Ecuadoran national police? Does he know who the USAID is funding? There are a lot of things going on that he does not know and probably does not want to know. All he wants to know is, does he have "plausible deniability"?
And then there are all the private parties, rogue parties, mercenaries, and what all, unleashed by the Bush Junta, some still operating within our government, our military, our diplomatic corps and our intelligence establishment. (That business with the Bushwhack ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, is a good example of it--the extradition of key death squad witnesses to the U.S. and their burial in the federal prison system, by completely sealing their cases--against the express wishes of Colombian prosecutors; and the secret signing of a U.S./Colombia military agreement giving all U.S. soldiers and all U.S. military 'contractors' total diplomatic immunity in Colombia. (God knows what bloody filth all this is covering up!)
I am not at all assured by this ambassador's statement that the U.S. was NOT officially involved (but with deniability). For one thing, toppling Correa would just be too, too convenient for JOINT U.S. government/corporate interests. For another, all of U.S./Latin American history over the last half century argues for, not just interference, but LYING, DUPLICITOUS interference. (And, after Honduras, we know that the Obama administration is no different.)
So, we wait and see--as has happened time and again--for the truth to dribble out, in bits and pieces, some of it years later. The U.S. has rewarded Alvaro Uribe for accusing Rafael Correa and Hugo Chavez of being a 'terrorist lovers' and probably helped him concoct the absurd 'evidence' he tried to use. Ecuador will not accuse the U.S. unless and until they know for sure and have rock solid evidence of it. We need to remember, also, that Correa tangled with the U.S. embassy over this very issue, during the Bush Junta--U.S. direct interference with the National Police. The U.S. was using aid money to demand a veto of command appointments to the Ecuadoran police. They had been used to doing this! Correa said no. This could be a "tip of the iceberg" item, with a lot more being done to infiltrate U.S. operatives into the Ecuadoran police forces. I hope the investigation finds them, if they are there.
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