“US-Colombia pact seen by Venezuelans as intimidation, provocation and threat”
Published: 31 October, 2009, 02:05
Edited: 02 November, 2009, 06:46
There’s great concern in Venezuela that this agreement and an increased US military presence in Colombia could be used to threaten neighbors in the region, author and attorney Eva Golinger told RT.
Now of course bad things aren't real, which means terrorists and terrorism aren't real. Having said this, if you want to play games then it should be recognized that until Russia and Chavez decriminalize drugs then they should be seen as terrorist, like certain people in the USA and Columbia. Locking people in tiny cells for years on end for having plants and chemicals that are as bad as alcohol and NICOTINE is terrorism!
Like any other foreign meddling, this one will backfire too. Just one more war to finance, as if we are not already broke. Today I heard the most hillarious thing on radio. It was a bad day on the Wall Street, and some analysts are starting to believe that --- US consumer is at fault! Since our economy is 70% consumer spending, the fact that the consumer are spending less --- what a discovery --- economy cannot recover! I am wondering if this is a question of our public IQ, or what? So, without incomes rising for a good while, housing values falling and with it cash equity, and no credit available --- we are supposed to be spending to keep the economy up? But we are doing our patriotic duty and supporting over 1,000 military bases worldwide in over 180 countries. Those countries are counting on our spending to keep their GDP. Not to mention, many a dignitary there is counting on our generosity to send their kids to top schools, have a posh home. It always seems that whereever we land, there is a crime kingdom on the rise. Opium in Afghanistan never saw it this good, and the human, arms and drugs trafficking in Kosovo --- is blossoming. Columbia is just keeping with tradition. Never mind that the rebels, the FARC is against drugs trade, and that the Columbian elite is up to their eyeballs in drugs profits --- yet, we will go along with the dream.
THE PACT: Uribe signs a contract of utmost importance. He can not submit it to the people for approval, because it allows the assination of leftists and opposition leaders. He does not ask the approval of the parliament, because they will not sign the los of sovereignty of Colombia. He does not reveal the contents because he has something to hide. Then as pressure increases by senators this demagogue Uribe says that both national and international communities have the right to know, but… next week. Why not now or tomorrow after some US specialist work all night in order to make it more presentable? No! They must study how US will have the maximum of agreed rights without provoking a scandal. US owns a license to kill, and every time names its victims terrorists. THE REASONS FOR THE INTERVENTIONS: The era of easy coup d’ etat is over. Today can still be ordered but can not be maintained. US diplomatic and other personnel can no longer participate in covered operation, thus the great need for a country like Colombia to undertake the carrying out of special operations. US has lost its grip on the decision making and in the exploitation of economic resources in Latin American countries. The principal persons that prevent the continuation of the US hegemony are Hugo Chaves in Venezuela, Rafael Correo in Ecuador, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, and Evo Morales in Bolivia. WHAT KIND OF INTERVENTIONS: Evo Morales says that Colombia knows every thing he says on the telephone. Ugo Chaves says that the attempt to devide his country with the white ones posseding the main oil forages was conducted by Colombian DAS agents {“Departamento Aministrativo de Seguridad”. The DAS agents arrested last week were carrying documents shown in parliament that proved that the target countries are mainly Venezuela, Ecuador and Cuba. Why were they also collecting such detailed information about Ugo Chaves?
If Chavez wants foreign troops to stay out of his country then he should oust from it, rather than support, the leftist rebel drug dealers who are responsible for terrorizing Columbia. There are Columbian students at my school who have mentioned them, about how they know people murdered by these rebels, and how their present president is, well, cleaning house. When Columbia recently publicized that the rebels are using arms sold to Venezuela by Sweden and accused Venezuela of supplying arms to the rebels, Chavez responded by threatening to steal all of Columbia's Venezuelan assets if Columbia made any such accusations again. Chavez is an anti-US leftist, and Uribe (the president of Columbia) is a pro-US conservative, so Chavez doesn't like Uribe. Fine, but this is no accuse to ignore the democratic process. Chavez's support of the rebels is tantamount to our support of the coup against Chavez; AKA, it is ethically indefensible. None of our business? Well, just as Russia is concerned with Afghanistan in large part because of the opium grown, we are concerned with Columbia in large part because of the cocaine grown there. That having been said, US ought to be discrete in its operations in Columbia and would do best to limit itself to material aid and training support. Anything more than that and we will likely do more harm than good. If the purpose of this pact is to have us do Columbia's fighting for it, I don't it's a good idea. As for what's in this pact that they don't want publicly aired...well, who knows, but maybe it is more of the kinds of stuff that got Pakistan annoyed at us; AKA, us being bossy. There is no decent pretext here for conquest, and I don't think Obama would have the stomach for it. It might also be tactics, but if it were, you would expect them to just say so.