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...(white separatists, funded/organized right out of the US embassy, intent on splitting up Bolivia into two states and taking Bolivia's gas reserves with them). When Morales threw the U.S. ambassador out, in Sept. 2008, he also threw the DEA out.
Here is the picture that is emerging of U.S. behavior in Latin America, from the scattered, bent facts that we can glean from the corpo-fascist press and from alternative sources including Wikileaks.
I am more and more convinced, first of all, that this Amb. Barbara Stephenson cable about Martinelli asking for political surveillance and her getting all huffy and puffy about it is an ass-covering cable. For whatever reason--perhaps the growing scandal about U.S. tool Alvaro Uribe's illegal domestic spying in Colombia--she felt the need, or was directed, to write one of these low security cables for "deniability." And the more I think about it, the more I'm sure that the U.S., using various agencies--the DEA, the Peace Corps (documented in Bolivia), the USAID, the CIA of course, etc., and the Pentagon (from their bases in Colombia, the Dutch Antilles, Panama, Honduras and other places including Ecuador until they were thrown out of Ecuador)--was/is spying on EVERYBODY for the purpose of controlling/protecting U.S.-vetted and installed rightwing leaders and for ousting leftist leaders (with dirty tricks, psyops, media manipulation, blackmail and other uses of spying intel, up to and including the Pentagon's war plans for Venezuela/Ecuador).
IF Martinelli put this request in writing (which itself raises my suspicion level), he may well have heard (from his pal Uribe?) how the U.S. was aiding Uribe on domestic spying and was only asking for equal, privileged treatment. And I think that it is no accident that Panama is the country--and Martinelli the U.S. agent--for whisking the spying witnesses against Uribe out of Colombia and giving them asylum in Panama, over the objections of Colombian prosecutors (which happened recently). Martinelli who has suffered local and regional political fallout from these asylums for criminal witnesses wanted in Colombia--he has essentially spat upon Colombia's justice system--was clearly paying a debt to the U.S. or buying something from the U.S., with this inconvenient favor. Possibly the entire trophe is a lie and the U.S. WAS supplying him spying intel on his political enemies, with the cable providing the U.S. with deniability and leaving Martinelli "hanging in the wind." But the thing that I think is becoming increasingly clear is that the U.S. was/is extensively spying on politicians in Latin America, right and left, for its own purposes and was/is probably sharing it selectively, for instance, with Uribe, and with the Colombian and Honduran militaries.
U.S./Uribe combined spying has likely enabled Uribe to anticipate what prosecutors and judges were going to do, with regard to Uribe and some 70 of his closest political cohorts (who are under investigation or already in jail in Colombia, for ties to death squads and drug trafficking, spying, bribery and other crimes), thus giving Uribe a heads up, for instance, on the death squad witnesses who were being interrogated, so that Uribe and U.S. Amb. Brownfield could arrange for their extradition to the U.S. on mere drug charges, where these witnesses were "buried" in the U.S. federal prison system, out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections (circa 2009-2010).
This would explain the U.S. protection and coddling of Uribe--U.S. and Uribe interests are one and the same. He is not just any ex-president of a Latin American country. He is tied to and has knowledge of U.S. crimes in Colombia, including illegal domestic spying.
Further, the U.S. may have been using its spying capabilities to abet or to directly commit murder--for instance, the death squad murders of trade unionists and others in Colombia and Honduras (in Colombia, using Uribe/U.S.-created "lists"), and the slaughter of 25 sleeping people at the FARC camp just inside Ecuador's border in March 2008 (using 500 lb U.S. "smart bombs"), as well as for setting up "turkey shoots" of targeted people or random people in Colombia, to train assassins for Iraq, Afghanistan and other places around the world. (The La Macarena murders of 500 to 2,000 people are especially suspect because the USAID was running an Afghanistan-style "pacification" program there. Recently, the U.S. State Department "fined" Blackwater for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan," and if, as I suspect, the word "unauthorized" is a lie and a coverup, this may explain a whole lot of things, including why the U.S. is protecting and coddling Uribe.)
Now, consider this statement of Amb. Barbara Stephenson: "we will not be party to any effort to expand wiretaps to domestic political targets".
You just want to laugh.
--U.S. protection for Uribe who was spying on judges and prosecutors, political opponents and others in Colombia
--arranging for asylum in Panama for criminal witnesses to Uribe's illegal spying in Colombia
--Colombian death squad witnesses extradited to the U.S. and "buried" in the U.S. federal prison system
--thrown out of Bolivia for U.S. embassy, Peace Corps and DEA spying and collusion with rightwing insurrectionist groups
--pinpoint nighttime dropping of 500 lb U.S. "smart bombs" on Ecuador's territory to wipe out a FARC hostage release camp
...and there is more, of course--for instance, the "miracle laptop" (a spying/dirty tricks op if I ever saw one), the "suitcase full of money" caper out of Miami (involved getting a Miami operative on a Venezuelan oil execs plane), the Colombian military plot to assassinate Chavez (in connection with the 2006 Venezuelan election, including a false poll promulgated by a top Washington P.R. firm), the Colombian rocket fire at hostages whose release Chavez had negotiated, allegations against leftist Ollanta Humala (Garcia's opponent in Peru) that his brother was involved in a shootout with police, that strange post-death effort to sully Guatemala's leftist president with a murder charge, the fascist/military coup d'etat in Honduras, dozens of incidents of U.S. ops in Cuba, the police/military insurrection recently in Ecuador and more. All of these incidents either smell of U.S. spying or obviously involve U.S. spying.
It really is just laughable to assert that the U.S. is not heavily involved in illegal domestic spying on political targets in Latin America.
"we will not be party to any effort to expand wiretaps to domestic political targets".
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