{"article":{"id":106557,"heading":"Adois Bases: Bolivarian Resistance #2","author":"Petrana Marti","created":"2004-03-30 22:04:23","modified":"2013-11-11 00:29:15","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:29:15","article":"<p>SPECIAL EDITION &ndash; MARCH-APRIL  <br><br> Emergency Supplement <br>  <br> ISSUE 1, #2 MARCH 2004  <br>  <br> &ndash; A Publication for Andes Rising: <br><br>          Education: Bolivarian Resistance  <br><br> &ndash; Viva Chavez <br><br> A Magazine of Frontline Action Against  <br>  <br> US Imperialism:  <br>  <br>                                   <br>  <br> Close All US Military Bases:  <br>  <br>           <br>  <br>   \"People in Latin America no longer believe  <br><br> that US-IMF-World Bank policies can work.  <br>  <br>           <br>  <br> More ominous for the US is that people are  <br>  <br> rejecting liberal democratic politics  <br>  <br> and even US culture <br><br>  <br>  <br>  ADIOS: US MILITARY BASES  <br>  <br>    Si&hellip; Resistance is Everywhere <br><br>   <br>  <br> Bolivarian Resistance:  <br>  <br> or  <br>  <br> The United States of Liars  <br>  <br> and Deniers <br><br> The dramatic events of Late March require <br>  <br> this emergency edition: <br><br>  <br>  <br> We just want to move from slavery  <br>  <br>     &hellip; to poverty.&rdquo; <br><br>  <br>  <br> Each day the Global War of the US against peace  <br>  <br> and hope, strikes new blows:  <br>  <br> 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  <br>  <br> Israeli-Zionist terror state.  <br><br> This Bush-Sharon insanity prompted threats of unprecedented revenge by Palestinian militants  <br>  <br> against Israel and the United States;  <br><br> 2. Bush pressuring the Polish president and  <br>  <br> others not to pull their troops out of Iraq;  <br><br> 3. The Pakistani civil war that the US instigates  <br>  <br> in the Tribal regions;  <br><br> 4. The revelations of US spying on the UN and leaders from around the world.  <br><br>          Send us more, send us your feelings and inside information about these evil actions and  <br>  <br> those that the CIA is hatching.. <br><br>  <br>  <br> \"Latin America is already occupied militarily for quite some time... a US military occupation under  <br>  <br> the aegis of combating drug trafficking and terrorism... the most important thing at this  <br>  <br> moment is not only preparing ourselves, organizing  <br>  <br> and mobilizing. Its important to prepare ourselves  <br>  <br> for a military confrontation, and I believe the  <br>  <br> Social Movements are quite conscious of this.  <br><br> The struggle will not be peaceful, it will  <br>  <br> not only be with stones, batons and blockades...  <br>  <br> 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.\" <br><br> From: -- International Socialist Review- Jan.-Feb 04 - p13 - The Executive Director of Cochamba Federation  <br>  <br> of Factory Workers and Coalition in Defense of Water and Life - Oscar Olivera - speaking during the November, 2003, Miami FTAA police riots;  <br>  <br> see also:  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narconews.com\/boliviaoscar.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.narconews.com\/boliviaoscar.html<\/a>;  <br><br> y en espanol:   <br>  <br>                                                         <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialistworker.org\/Obrero\/003\/03_OscarOlivera.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.socialistworker.org\/Obrero\/003\/03_OscarOlivera.shtml<\/a> <br><br>                           <br>  <br>              FEATURE: US BASES AMERICA LATINA:  <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isreview.org\/issues\/03\/Puerto_Rico.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.isreview.org\/issues\/03\/Puerto_Rico.shtml<\/a> <br>  <br> 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. <br><br> see whistleblower thing on www.poynter.org\/medianews - oct 31 memo about not showing bodies or casualties in Afghanistan - Harpers jan 02 p. 14 <br>  <br> Bases <br><br> BASES ARTICLE TO BE POSTED AT:  <br>  <br> www.bolivarianresistance.blogspot.com <br><br>  <br>  <br> DisHonorable  Mention : Global Awards <br><br> The Awards for Most Torturous US Military Base: <br><br> I. Abu Gharib, western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq: This prison is notorious for crimes committed by Saddam Hussein. The US has maintained the tradition  <br>  <br> by turning the prison into a massive illegal  <br>  <br> detention center for thousands of Iraqis picked  <br>  <br> up - without evidence - as supporters of the resistance. Many  investigations are on going  <br>  <br> as Iraqis continue to report that they were  <br>  <br> taken there accompanied by friends who later  <br>  <br> turned up dead. Reports of torture are numerous  <br>  <br> and some are not denied by the US Military command. <br><br> see:  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=4611896\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=4611896<\/a> <br><br> Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, deputy director  <br>  <br> of operations in Iraq, said six US soldiers <br>  <br>  from a military police battalion have been  <br>  <br> accused of conspiracy, dereliction of duty, cruelty, mistreatment , indecent acts with another and assault after a criminal investigation at the prison.   <br><br> A total of 17 US military personnel were suspended from duty during the investigations of the abuse  <br>  <br> of a group of 20 prisoners.  <br><br> This cover-up could backfire as some of the  <br>  <br> US troops have told family they <br>  <br> plan to reveal the true natures of the incidents.  <br>  <br> This is not the first case of prisoner abuse  <br>  <br> in Iraq:  <br>  <br> January 5 three soldiers were discharged for prisoner abuse at the Camp Bucca detention center in southern Iraq.  <br><br> 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. <br><br>  <br>  <br> PART E. COLOMBIA:   <br>  <br> February 9, 2004 Interview with an Assassin <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombiajournal.org\/colombia177.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.colombiajournal.org\/colombia177.htm<\/a> <br>  <br> Q. How many years have you been with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)?  <br><br> See more at www.bolivarianreistance.blogspot.com <br><br>  <br>  <br> This magazine  <br><br> &ndash; 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. <br><br> 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&hellip; and the war for land and opportunity. <br><br> 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. &ndash; Thanks  <br><br> &ndash; Editorial Staff. <br>  <br> www.bolivarianreistance.blogspot.com <br><br>  <br>  <br> In the event that we are shut down, check Indymedia Chiapas and Seattle for updates and new links! <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/01\/12\/MNGDB485701.DTL\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/01\/12\/MNGDB485701.DTL<\/a> <br><br> 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. <br><br> &ldquo;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.  <br><br> \"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.\"  <br><br> Parallels to Argentina  <br>  <br> Acuna said she sees several parallels between Choco province and her native Argentina during military rule.  <br><br> \"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?  <br><br> \"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.&rdquo; <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"usoutamericas@lycos.ocm","link":"www.bolivarianresistance.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Be a Bolivarian Circle, spread the word ... Photos, inside stories & documents from US military activities in Latin America create interest and inspire other whistle-blowers. Interviews & research on insurgents, the fighting women.. the strategies to win the war: the war for hearts & minds\u2026+ war for land & opportunity","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2004\/03\/avionfumigador_152.jpe","filesize":"3.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2004\/03\/106557.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2004\/03\/avionfumigador_152.jpe"}},"attachments":[{"id":106558,"heading":"FARC Youth Stand Strong","article":"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.","author":"Petrana Marti","parent_id":106557,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-03-30 22:04:23","modified":"2005-08-15 02:53:19","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/mujerfar.jpe","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/mujerfar.jpe"}}],"comments":[{"id":106567,"heading":"US Base WARDS -","article":"FEATURE: US BASES AMERICA LATINA: \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.isreview.org\/issues\/03\/Puerto_Rico.shtml\r\n\r\n\r\nIn 1956 the US Republican Party Platform (section 9 on Foreign Policy) called for\r\nthe establishment of American air and naval bases all around the world. \r\n\r\nMajor U.S. Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean: \r\n(Number of Military Personnel Stationed or Maximum Allowed) \r\n\r\n\r\n1. Award for Most Torture and Most Evil Base in Western Hemisphere:\r\nGuant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba -\r\n(774 employees and 1000 kidnap victims.) \r\nRecommendation: The UN should form a task force to help the Cuban liberate this atrocity that is such a terrible reminder of Colonial Imperialism and all that has gone so wrong in the USA.\r\n\r\n2. Award for Base with the longest History of World Court Described Terrorist Activities by \r\nthe USA: \r\nSoto Cano, Honduras - \r\n(500) A permanent base that threatens all of Central America. \r\nRecommendation: Bomb it with tons of rotten bananas until the fruit flies drive the soldiers to mutiny!\r\n\r\n3. Award for the Largest and Most Polluting Base: \r\nRoosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico \u2013 \r\n(3,000.) \r\nRecommendation: Island-wide referendum demanding massive reparations or blockade with fishing boats.\r\n\r\n4. Award for Base Most Likely to Result in Popular (indigenous) Overthrow \r\nof a Corrupt Government:\r\nManta, Ecuador - \r\n(475, rumors of 600 soon). \r\nRecommendation: Indigenous take over of the drug trade throughout Latin America to fund lobbying campaign against stupid USA military strategy \u2013 or to help pay for drug treatment in the \r\nUS so that the US fascists will have less reasons to invade. \r\n\r\n5. Award for Most Confused Dutch Legislators (Marijuana?) - \r\nAruba (300) and Cura\u00e7ao (300) \r\nThis is the least secure US base due to possible attack from Venezuela, tourists problems and eventual protests and the certainty that the Dutch will eventually figure out what is going on. \r\nRecommendation: Write Holland! \r\n\r\n6. Award for Multiple Use: Torture, \r\nCIA Drug Running, and Foreign and \r\nDomestic Interventions:\r\nComalapa, El Salvador (15 \/no limit) \r\n\r\n7. Award for Dumbest Name and Most \r\nNuclear Weapons:\r\nFort Buchanan, Puerto Rico \r\n(2,635) \r\n\r\n8. Award for Military Base Most Important in Secretly Controlling an Entire Country:\r\nUS Embassy Bogot\u00e1 . (Approximately 300 million employees.) \r\nRecommendation: Admit that the USA is the commander of the AUC rightwing,narco-paramilitary death squad assasssins network and plead for forgiveness from the OAS and the Pope. (see Colombia F \u2013 Issue I., VOl. I).\r\n\r\n9. Award for Newest US Military Base and \r\nthe First One Established by Drug Lords\r\nwithout an International Outcry: \r\nPort-Au Prince, Haiti. - \r\n1200 US soldiers and hundreds of Embassy Spooks.Recommendation: Encourage another French Revolution or unification with Jamaica. \r\n\r\n[ TO BE CONTINUED, EXPANDED and SUPPLEMENTED until they are all gone!]\r\n\r\n&quot;Base Structure Report&quot; for fiscal year 2003, which itemizes foreign and domestic U.S. military real estate, the Pentagon currently owns or rents 702 overseas bases in about 130 countries and HAS another 6,000 bases in the United States and its territories. ...\r\n\r\nBelow nice background on base history and development: \r\nhttp:\/\/www.monthlyreview.org\/0302editr.htm\r\n\r\nOn any given day before September 11, according to the Defense Department, more than 60,000 military personnel were conducting temporary operations and exercises in about 100 countries.\r\nhttp:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/jg03032004.html\r\n\r\nDis-Honorable Mentions, US Military Bases: US Global Awards\r\n\r\n\r\nI. The Awards for Most Torturous and Copycat\r\nAbu Gharib, western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq: \r\n\r\nThis 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. Could become the Iraqi version of Kundoz, Afghanistan. \r\n\r\nReports of torture are numerous and some are not denied by the US Military command: see: \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4611896\r\n\r\nBrigadier General Mark Kimmit, deputy director of operations in Iraq, said six US soldiers\r\nfrom 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. \r\n\r\nThis cover-up could backfire as some of the US troops have told family they\r\nplan to reveal the true natures of the incidents. This is not the first case of prisoner \r\nabuse in Iraq: January 5 three soldiers were discharged for prisoner abuse at the Camp Bucca \r\ndetention center in southern Iraq. Investigations continue on the mistreatment of three Iraqis \r\nworking for Reuters and one working for NBC who were detained and abused on January 2, while \r\ncovering 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.\r\n\r\nII. Award for TOP SPY BASE FOR THE US-UK Military Complex:\r\nNSA Menwith Hill, \r\n\r\nUnited Kingdom (1000s) On the evening of the day that the Director of Public Prosecutions dropped the case against Katharine Gun - the former translator who worked at GCHQ (accused of disclosing a spy request allegedly from a US National Security Agency official.) The request was for help from British intelligence to tap the telephones of UN security council delegates during the period of intensive diplomacy before the illegal US\/UK invasion of Iraq. \r\n\r\nWe went to NSA Menwith Hill in solidarity with and in support of Katherine Gun who courageously spoke out. We held two upside down US flags with the words: \r\n\u201c ??? - What Planet is GW BUSH From???\u201d\r\n\r\nCampaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) UK\r\nanniandlindis@caab.org.uk or caab@btclick.com\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.1worldcommunication.org\/ecuadorairbase.htm\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nII. A. CUBA: http:\/\/www.venezuelanalysis.com\/articles.php?artno=1086\r\nNoriega Lies about Cuban involvement in Bolivia\r\n\r\nOriginal source \/ relevant link : \r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.granma.cu\/ingles\/2004\/enero\/vier9\/3mentira-i.html\r\n\r\nThe lies, fears and stupidity of the empire, Havana. January, 9 2004\r\n\r\n\u201c\u2019It is clear that Fidel Castro\u2019s actions have caught the attention of Latin America leaders,\u2019 Roger Noriega U.S. assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, affirmed, describing them as \u201cincreasingly provocative\u201d to the inter-American community to which the United States has responded with express support for those countries allegedly affected by these actions, such as Bolivia.\u201d One of the cables went on to say that according to Noriega, Castro is \u2018stirring up the waters\u2019... \u2018fomenting discord and discontent in a conscious and destructive manner\u2019 and making democratically elected governments vulnerable.\u201d\r\n\r\nThis Mr. Noriega, a cynical and mediocre character, was one of the principal drafters and the central promoter of the Helms-Burton Act against Cuba. He is a close friend of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia in Miami. He assumed the post of assistant secretary when the Senate opposed the appointment of bandit Otto Reich, whose history of terrorism in the dirty war in Nicaragua is well known. It can be demonstrated that Noriega\u2019s statements are, as usual, shameless lies. For the Cuban people, President Ch\u00e1vez embodies the Bolivarian ideas and spirit of the independence, unity and patriotism of the peoples of Latin America, whose ethnic origin, culture, religion and language have much more in common than any other group of countries in the world. They have the right and the duty to unite not only for economic reasons but also for their own survival. Cuba supports that right with all its might.\r\n\r\nWe are perfectly well aware of the ideas of Mr. Noriega and others of his sort consistent with murdering Cuban doctors in Venezuela with the complicity of Colombian paramilitaries in order to teach them a lesson and force them to withdraw their cooperation in the marvelous health plans being instigated by the Bolivarian government within the Barrio Adentro program, through which more than 12.5 million poor Venezuelans are receiving medical attention.\r\n\r\nWe have affirmed that for every doctor, teaching or sports collaborator who falls, many more are prepared to take their place. Full responsibility will fall on the United States.\r\n\r\nThose who believe that the Cuban people can be intimated any time are defeated before they start!\r\n\r\nIII. A. US MILITARY NEWS\r\nhttp:\/\/www.granma.cu\/ingles\/2003\/julio\/mier2\/themilitant.html\r\nU.S. government molds \u2018mobile, agile\u2019 military \r\n\u2022 Appointment of army chief promotes role of Special Operations forces \r\nBY PATRICK O\u2019NEILL, (The Militant) U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld has announced that a former head of Special Operations forces will serve as the new chief of the U.S. army. The appointment of retired Gen. Peter Shoomaker follows the promotion of the special forces to a key role in the military conquests of Afghanistan and Iraq. \r\n\r\nIII.B. US MILITARY NEWS\r\nJIATF-East (for the Caribbean\/Central American transit zone) came to be based in Key\r\nWest, Florida. In Key West, the Joint Southern Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations Center (JSSROC) already functioned, originally set up to monitor military build-up in Cuba. The centre, which mission nowadays includes a supportive role in counter-drug operations, collects and processes \r\nall military intelligence from air missions, radar systems, satellites and communication intercepts. \r\nJIATF-South (for the South American source zone) operated from the Howard Air Force base \r\nin Panama, but moved to Florida and merged with JIATF-East when the Panama base was closed \r\ndown in May 1999. The FOLs operate under this merged JIATF in Florida, placed under the command \r\nof US Southern Command. \r\n\r\nThe Task Force co-ordinates the employment of ships and aircraft of US Customs,\r\nthe Coast Guard, the Navy and the Air Force and from allied nations with a military presence in the\r\nCaribbean, namely France, Great Britain and The Netherlands. The Task Force is also meant to knot\r\ntogether drug intelligence flows from law enforcement and intelligence agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); Naval Criminal Investigative Service; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA). Since the merger, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela have assigned liaison officers to JIATF. Improving co-ordination and intelligence- sharing between all the agencies and countries involved was meant to enhance the cost effectiveness of the combined surveillance capacity.\r\nThe merged JIATF also plays a major role in source zone interdiction, aimed at disrupting\r\ndrug trafficking within the Andean-Amazon region. These Air Bridge Denial operations were\r\nsuspended in the region after the 2001 shooting down of an aircraft in Peru carrying Baptist missionary\r\nVeronica Bowers and her 7 month old daughter Charity. Both were killed after private AirScan contractors working for the CIA mistakenly suspected the aircraft of drug smuggling. In April 2003, a new agreement was reached with Colombia to resume Air Bridge Denial operations, after a careful review of procedures to prevent such dramatic mistakes in the future. To avoid liability risks, the guidelines for\r\nJIATF attached to the agreement, stress that \u201cU.S. personnel will not be a participant\r\nin any decision to launch against or shoot down aircraft \u2013 as this is solely a Commander of the\r\nColombian Air Force\u2019s decision.\u201d1 After a series of test runs, operations in Colombia started again in\r\nAugust 2003. Air Bridge Denial operations in Peru might re-start at the end of the year.\r\n\r\nThe current US Security Strategy, published in September 2002, also \r\nhighlights the need for \u201cnew\r\napproaches to warfare, strengthening joint operations, exploiting U.S. intelligence advantages,\u201d\r\ndefining this as \u201cour first line of defense against terrorists and the threat posed by hostile states,\u201d\r\nand proposing \u201cthe proper fusion of information between intelligence and law enforcement\u201d\r\nbecause an all-source analysis system will be needed.\r\nChanges in US military support for Colombia\r\nWhile the aforementioned changes have become more radical and obvious with the\r\nyounger Bush\u2019s presidency, there were already substantial modifications in counterdrug\r\nactivity in the hemisphere during the Clinton administration. Quoting the Center for\r\nInternational Policy again, until about 1999 \u201cColombia\u2019s National Police received nearly all\r\nlethal U.S. aid. Washington was wary of getting too deeply involved in the country\u2019s conflict (...). The\r\nClinton Administration nonetheless shifted the bulk of aid to the military in 1999 and 2000.\u201d Since\r\nMarch 1999, US agencies have been sharing intelligence \u201cin real time\u201d with the Colombian\r\narmed forces, though they were limited by a Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-73) at\r\nthe time that only permitted such activity within the framework of counter-drug activity,\r\nalbeit without a guarantee of compliance with this restriction.16 Even then, it was\r\nincreasingly evident that the United States was blurring the conceptual difference between the War on Drugs and counterinsurgency.\r\nOn 2 August 2002, a legal provision regarding anti-terrorist emergency funds (HR 4775)\r\nallowed \u201cthe Colombian government to use all past and present counter-drug aid \u2013 \r\nall the helicopters,\r\nweapons, brigades and other initiatives of the past several years \u2013 against the insurgents.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn this context, CIP also mentions a possible renegotiation of the FOL agreements, which\r\ncurrently prohibit the use of intelligence gathered from the sites for purposes other thann counter-drug efforts.18 There are indications that from the start for the United States the use of the FOLs may not have been limited to counter-drug activities. In June 1999, the Colombian newspaper El Espectador quoted\r\na US State Department source as saying, \u201cThe new counterdrug bases located in Ecuador,\r\nAruba and Cura\u00e7ao will be strategic points for closely monitoring the guerrillas\u2019 steps and their constant\r\nincursions into Venezuela, Panama, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador.\u201d One State Department document to\r\nwhich El Espectador had access revealed the tactic used: \u201cSo as not to divert the missions,\r\nwhich will initially focus on counterdrug efforts, and in order to avoid polemics in the international arena\r\n\r\nSee whistleblower thing on www.poynter.org\/medianews - oct 31 memo about not showing bodies or casualties in Afghanistan - Harpers jan 02 p. 14\r\n\r\nB. US MILITARY NEWS: http:\/\/www.wakeupmag.co.uk\r\nCIA clandestine operators assigned overseas are called case officers; their tours of duty are normally \r\ntwo to three years and most serve with false titles in American embassies. Some live under &quot;deep cover&quot; \r\nin foreign countries, posing as businessmen, students, newsmen, union workers, missionaries or other &quot;innocent&quot; visitors. The case officer's role is to find agents willing to work with or for the CIA. \r\nHis aim is to penetrate the host government, learn its inner workings and manipulate it for the \r\nAgency's purposes. \r\n\r\nA network of agents - often hundreds - is built up in that country's government, military forces, \r\npress, labour unions and other important groups. It is not just the party of government that is \r\ninfiltrated by the Agency, but usually every possible political party, group or organisation, so that \r\neach can be steered in the desired direction, ready to serve the \r\nCIA as and when the need arises. In his talk at the Council on Foreign Relations, ex-CIA chief \r\nRichard Bissell listed eight types of covert action that the CIA uses to intervene in the domestic \r\naffairs of other countries: \r\n1. political advice and counsel\r\n2. subsidies to an individual\r\n3. financial support and &quot;technical assistance&quot; to political parties\r\n4. support of private organisations, including business firms labour unions, industrial groups, etc.\r\n5. covert propaganda\r\n6. &quot;private&quot; training of individuals and exchange of persons\r\n7. economic operations\r\n8. paramilitary or political operations designed to overthrow or to support a regime \r\n\r\n\r\n&quot;It takes relatively few people and little support to disrupt the internal peace and economic stability of a small country.&quot; - WILLIAM CASEY, Director of Central Intelligence 1981 - 1987\r\n\r\nRead Below the full text of the April and March Issues: \r\ncontact: \r\nusoutamericas@lycos.com or uaoutamericas@yahoo.com \r\nfor more info or on how to contribute effectively. \r\n\r\nThanks to All...\r\n\r\n# posted by Petra : 3:39 PM\r\nMonday, March 22, 2004\r\nSPECIAL EDITION \u2013 MARCH-APRIL Emergency Supplement\r\n\r\nISSUE 1, #2 MARCH 2004 \u2013 A Publication for Andes Rising:\r\n\r\nEducation: Bolivarian Resistance \u2013 Viva Chavez\r\nA Magazine of Frontline Action Against US Imperialism: \r\nClose All US Military Bases: \r\n&quot;People in Latin America no longer believe that \r\nUS-IMF-World Bank policies can work. More ominous for the US is \r\nthat people are rejecting liberal democratic politics and even US culture ADIOS: US MILITARY BASES \r\nSi\u2026 Resistance is Everywhere\r\n\r\n\r\nBolivarian Resistance: or The United States of Liars and Deniers\r\n\r\nThe dramatic events of Late March require this emergency edition:\r\n\u201cWe just want to move from slavery \r\n\u2026 to poverty.\u201d\r\n\r\nEach day the Global War of the US against peace and hope, strikes new blows: \r\n1. The illegal assassination of the Hamas spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, \r\n\r\nseeeeee: www.bolivarianresistance.blogspot.com\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.redresistencia.org\/social\/realidad.htm \r\n\r\n http:\/\/www.redresistencia.org\/entrevistas\/index.htm \r\n\r\n http:\/\/www.redresistencia.org\/medios\/index.htm\r\n","author":"mtn.1147","parent_id":106557,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-03-31 00:01:22","modified":"2013-11-11 00:29:15","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/mujerfar.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/03\/mujerfar.jpg"}}]}