SPECIAL EDITION – MARCH-APRIL

Emergency Supplement

ISSUE 1, #2 MARCH 2004

– A Publication for Andes Rising:

Education: Bolivarian Resistance

– Viva Chavez

A Magazine of Frontline Action Against

US Imperialism:



Close All US Military Bases:



"People in Latin America no longer believe

that US-IMF-World Bank policies can work.



More ominous for the US is that people are

rejecting liberal democratic politics

and even US culture



ADIOS: US MILITARY BASES

Si… Resistance is Everywhere



Bolivarian Resistance:

or

The United States of Liars

and Deniers

The dramatic events of Late March require

this emergency edition:



We just want to move from slavery

… to poverty.”



Each day the Global War of the US against peace

and hope, strikes new blows:

1. The illegal assassination of the Hamas spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, in a helicopter missile strike outside a Gaza City mosque by the US surrogate

Israeli-Zionist terror state.

This Bush-Sharon insanity prompted threats of unprecedented revenge by Palestinian militants

against Israel and the United States;

2. Bush pressuring the Polish president and

others not to pull their troops out of Iraq;

3. The Pakistani civil war that the US instigates

in the Tribal regions;

4. The revelations of US spying on the UN and leaders from around the world.

Send us more, send us your feelings and inside information about these evil actions and

those that the CIA is hatching..



"Latin America is already occupied militarily for quite some time... a US military occupation under

the aegis of combating drug trafficking and terrorism... the most important thing at this

moment is not only preparing ourselves, organizing

and mobilizing. Its important to prepare ourselves

for a military confrontation, and I believe the

Social Movements are quite conscious of this.

The struggle will not be peaceful, it will

not only be with stones, batons and blockades...

the struggle will surely also be one of the armed military. When the people have lost their fear , I believe there is no military force that can stop this thirst for justice, for democracy and for well-being."

From: -- International Socialist Review- Jan.-Feb 04 - p13 - The Executive Director of Cochamba Federation

of Factory Workers and Coalition in Defense of Water and Life - Oscar Olivera - speaking during the November, 2003, Miami FTAA police riots;

see also:

http://www.narconews.com/boliviaoscar.html;

y en espanol:

http://www.socialistworker.org/Obrero/003/03_OscarOlivera.shtml



FEATURE: US BASES AMERICA LATINA:

http://www.isreview.org/issues/03/Puerto_Rico.shtml

In 1956 the US Republican Party Platform (section 9 on Foreign Policy) called for the establishment of American air and naval bases all around the world.

see whistleblower thing on www.poynter.org/medianews - oct 31 memo about not showing bodies or casualties in Afghanistan - Harpers jan 02 p. 14

Bases

BASES ARTICLE TO BE POSTED AT:

www.bolivarianresistance.blogspot.com



DisHonorable Mention : Global Awards

The Awards for Most Torturous US Military Base:

I. Abu Gharib, western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq: This prison is notorious for crimes committed by Saddam Hussein. The US has maintained the tradition

by turning the prison into a massive illegal

detention center for thousands of Iraqis picked

up - without evidence - as supporters of the resistance. Many investigations are on going

as Iraqis continue to report that they were

taken there accompanied by friends who later

turned up dead. Reports of torture are numerous

and some are not denied by the US Military command.

see:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4611896

Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, deputy director

of operations in Iraq, said six US soldiers

from a military police battalion have been

accused of conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty, mistreatment , indecent acts with another and assault after a criminal investigation at the prison.

A total of 17 US military personnel were suspended from duty during the investigations of the abuse

of a group of 20 prisoners.

This cover-up could backfire as some of the

US troops have told family they

plan to reveal the true natures of the incidents.

This is not the first case of prisoner abuse

in Iraq:

January 5 three soldiers were discharged for prisoner abuse at the Camp Bucca detention center in southern Iraq.

Investigations continue on the mistreatment of three Iraqis working for Reuters and one working for NBC who were detained and abused on January 2, while covering the shooting down of a US helicopter in Falluja. The grisly death toll of journalists in Iraq continues with the US murder of two Iraqi news people in March.



PART E. COLOMBIA:

February 9, 2004 Interview with an Assassin

http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia177.htm

Q. How many years have you been with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)?

See more at www.bolivarianreistance.blogspot.com



This magazine

– Adios: US MILITARY BASES; brings you frontline reporting about the people struggling to make a new world in the Americas. You can make this happen, you can be a Bolivarian Circle, and you can spread the word about what we need to make this a useful tool to understanding and mobilization.

Photos, inside stories and secret documents from US military activities in Latin America can create interest and inspire other whistle-blowers. Seek out Interviews, photos and research on the insurgents, the fighting women and the strategies that can win the war: the war for hearts and minds… and the war for land and opportunity.

If you missed Issue 1, #1 check it out for Movie and Book Reviews, Many articles on Colombia and a view inside the struggles in Latin America. – Thanks

– Editorial Staff.

www.bolivarianreistance.blogspot.com



In the event that we are shut down, check Indymedia Chiapas and Seattle for updates and new links!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/12/MNGDB485701.DTL

Above is great Colombia article comparing the disappeared of Argentina and Colombia and how in both countries most victims were disappeared by the US-backed militaries.

“In the Darien jungle near the border with Panama, Cacarica residents and members of the Justice and Peace Commission say they have been called terrorist sympathizers for refusing to allow the entry of any armed group -- a direct challenge to the government's program of encouraging civilian participation in the civil war -- and for denouncing the army's 17th Brigade for supporting paramilitary operations and allowing illegal deforestation by a powerful timber company called Maderas del Darien. They say their rice crops have been burned by paramilitaries and their farmers banned from doing business in nearby Turbo, a banana-exporting port controlled by the armed forces.

"Without Justice and Peace, we would be under paramilitary control," said a community leader who identified himself as Geronimo. "Right now, life is hard -- but at least we have our freedom."

Parallels to Argentina

Acuna said she sees several parallels between Choco province and her native Argentina during military rule.

"The Argentine military also called us subversives to control public opinion, and paramilitaries are installed in the political structure of the towns. They are mayors and judges," she said. "Do you know what it is like to live side by side with those who killed and tortured your loved ones?

"We know how difficult it is for people to break the fear," she said, "but if more of us had dared to break the silence earlier, there wouldn't have been so many disappeared in Argentina.”

Despite massisve US campaign of annihilation and dirty tricks - the guerrila survive and live to fight another year, another generation - They are holding the line for all of us to catch up - to join our struggles.