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“US problem in Latin America could have been avoided”

Published: 28 August, 2009, 20:47
Edited: 11 October, 2010, 15:37


A military agreement between the United States and Colombia has caused an uproar in Latin America which could have been avoided, as Michael Shifter from the Inter-American Dialogue Policy Center told RT.

 
6 COMMENTS
manuel August 29, 2009, 03:11 quote
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Today as before, the US loves to have army forces everywhere across the globe, and it is no surprise, for this same army's return to influence and threaten, as this low class people has done, and continues doing it, to this day. Unlike before, today the people of the Central and South America are better prepared to welcome them, in case of any interference or adventure by this BRUTE nation's army. Regardless of their intentions, I don't believe the troops are going to stay long, since all population know of their evil intentions, and don't rest until the BRUTES leave one way or the other.These savages are well known in that area.

M Amell August 29, 2009, 21:44 quote
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Savages? Last time I checked we've lived a fairly peaceful existence in the Western hemisphere with most of our southern neighbors. Of course when the communists intruded into the western hemisphere we got a bit antsy and with good cause. The last time the US invaded anywhere in the western hemisphere was in...let me see...Granada and because why? Communists tried to take over perhaps? I do agree though, we have no business with out military in Columbia. The so called drug war is a cover so politicians can get rich on the misery of hopeless addicts. They keep drug prices artificially jacked up and who profits? Politicians, Police, Private Prison Ops and the guard unions and let's see...who else? Oh yeah, the drug cartels.

Aimilios G. Moschovitis August 30, 2009, 13:18 quote
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Nobody is so naïf to believe that the reinforced presence of US military bases would not have provoked negative reactions in all Latin American countries, Columbia included, after so many dictatorships, assassinations, interventions… , or whatever the lobbies and the multinationals suggested. CIA had already provided the information that not even one neighboring country would accept. Not the Russia’s allies Venezuela, Brazil and not even Equator, or Panama, or Bolivia. Now… they know. So what! Like the character of a person does not change after the age of 18, so the countries. US policy organs and media like Foreign Affairs, has never hidden that part of the US policy is to dominate the world. How? 80 military bases around the world that aim in encircling areas like Russia, Greece {bases in all surrounding countries}, Latin America and other areas. How can they combat terrorist and drug producers with jets and rockets, without killing surrounding population like they do in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Osetia ? Why they don’t provide the necessary equipment, training and observers to Columbians and they have to do it themselves? Because for Columbia it would be impossible to intervene when ordered to do so by US. Because they need these bases to install communication monitoring systems {spying, interrupting transmissions of radios, TVs , telephones, PCs, fax and everything else}. They don’t want to intervene, but the will be invited be their puppets. Paramilitaries have started again massacring indigenous people. Déjà Vu. God save Latin America from gangsters.

Aimilios G. Moschovitis August 30, 2009, 16:56 quote
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Annex: As off shore oil naps become more numerous in West Africa, aircraft carriers and US bases become more and more numerous, so that African people will continue to be poor and they will be the exclusive beneficiaries. Now in the Pacific where volcanic “fumaroles”, there are great deposits of minerals, there we will have the next military targets. Let’s eliminate any sort of US presence in our countries and free the world of bullies and Zionism.

Garry February 21, 2010, 03:07 quote
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Interesting they will make a deal with Columbia for 10 years to help deal with drugs, but do nothing at all about the poppy fields in Afghanistan. Further evidence, if any was ever necessary, that the war on drugs is like the war on terrorism. It is a war on drugs entering the US and terrorists that threaten the US and both seem to be going about as well as the other. What sort of relationship can be had with such a childish self centred country as the US?

Sturm October 11, 2010, 13:29 quote
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Of course, as always the US is to blame. Poor little FARC just want to sell their drugs, kidnaps it's victims, slit some throats and carry a marxist-leninist regime through out the entire Latin America, as want Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Evo Morales, Stalinacio Lula da Silva, and others MFs who supports them. American's presence are being almost useless as the Colombian forces do most the work alone. But they train together and 'tis important. Also, Chavez and his companions from the Foro de São Paulo had tried hard to break Colombia's democracy and put another leftist SOB in presidency, but the free people of Colombia said NO. Now they just want to find excuses and methods to make Colombia bend to the Foro's rule.

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