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.

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.

Major U.S. Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean:

(Number of Military Personnel Stationed or Maximum Allowed)



1. Award for Most Torture and Most Evil Base in Western Hemisphere:

Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -

(774 employees and 1000 kidnap victims.)

Recommendation: 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.

2. Award for Base with the longest History of World Court Described Terrorist Activities by

the USA:

Soto Cano, Honduras -

(500) A permanent base that threatens all of Central America.

Recommendation: Bomb it with tons of rotten bananas until the fruit flies drive the soldiers to mutiny!

3. Award for the Largest and Most Polluting Base:

Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico –

(3,000.)

Recommendation: Island-wide referendum demanding massive reparations or blockade with fishing boats.

4. Award for Base Most Likely to Result in Popular (indigenous) Overthrow

of a Corrupt Government:

Manta, Ecuador -

(475, rumors of 600 soon).

Recommendation: Indigenous take over of the drug trade throughout Latin America to fund lobbying campaign against stupid USA military strategy – or to help pay for drug treatment in the

US so that the US fascists will have less reasons to invade.

5. Award for Most Confused Dutch Legislators (Marijuana?) -

Aruba (300) and Curaçao (300)

This 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.

Recommendation: Write Holland!

6. Award for Multiple Use: Torture,

CIA Drug Running, and Foreign and

Domestic Interventions:

Comalapa, El Salvador (15 /no limit)

7. Award for Dumbest Name and Most

Nuclear Weapons:

Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico

(2,635)

8. Award for Military Base Most Important in Secretly Controlling an Entire Country:

US Embassy Bogotá . (Approximately 300 million employees.)

Recommendation: 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 – Issue I., VOl. I).

9. Award for Newest US Military Base and

the First One Established by Drug Lords

without an International Outcry:

Port-Au Prince, Haiti. -

1200 US soldiers and hundreds of Embassy Spooks.Recommendation: Encourage another French Revolution or unification with Jamaica.

[ TO BE CONTINUED, EXPANDED and SUPPLEMENTED until they are all gone!]

"Base Structure Report" 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. ...

Below nice background on base history and development:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/0302editr.htm

On 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.

http://www.counterpunch.org/jg03032004.html

Dis-Honorable Mentions, US Military Bases: US Global Awards



I. The Awards for Most Torturous and Copycat

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. Could become the Iraqi version of Kundoz, Afghanistan.

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.

II. Award for TOP SPY BASE FOR THE US-UK Military Complex:

NSA Menwith Hill,

United 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.

We 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:

“ ??? - What Planet is GW BUSH From???”

Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) UK

anniandlindis@caab.org.uk or caab@btclick.com

http://www.1worldcommunication.org/ecuadorairbase.htm



II. A. CUBA: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1086

Noriega Lies about Cuban involvement in Bolivia

Original source / relevant link :

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/enero/vier9/3mentira-i.html

The lies, fears and stupidity of the empire, Havana. January, 9 2004

“’It is clear that Fidel Castro’s actions have caught the attention of Latin America leaders,’ Roger Noriega U.S. assistant secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, affirmed, describing them as “increasingly provocative” 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.” One of the cables went on to say that according to Noriega, Castro is ‘stirring up the waters’... ‘fomenting discord and discontent in a conscious and destructive manner’ and making democratically elected governments vulnerable.”

This 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’s statements are, as usual, shameless lies. For the Cuban people, President Chávez 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.

We 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.

We 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.

Those who believe that the Cuban people can be intimated any time are defeated before they start!

III. A. US MILITARY NEWS

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/julio/mier2/themilitant.html

U.S. government molds ‘mobile, agile’ military

• Appointment of army chief promotes role of Special Operations forces

BY PATRICK O’NEILL, (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.

III.B. US MILITARY NEWS

JIATF-East (for the Caribbean/Central American transit zone) came to be based in Key

West, 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

all military intelligence from air missions, radar systems, satellites and communication intercepts.

JIATF-South (for the South American source zone) operated from the Howard Air Force base

in Panama, but moved to Florida and merged with JIATF-East when the Panama base was closed

down in May 1999. The FOLs operate under this merged JIATF in Florida, placed under the command

of US Southern Command.

The Task Force co-ordinates the employment of ships and aircraft of US Customs,

the Coast Guard, the Navy and the Air Force and from allied nations with a military presence in the

Caribbean, namely France, Great Britain and The Netherlands. The Task Force is also meant to knot

together 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.

The merged JIATF also plays a major role in source zone interdiction, aimed at disrupting

drug trafficking within the Andean-Amazon region. These Air Bridge Denial operations were

suspended in the region after the 2001 shooting down of an aircraft in Peru carrying Baptist missionary

Veronica 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

JIATF attached to the agreement, stress that “U.S. personnel will not be a participant

in any decision to launch against or shoot down aircraft – as this is solely a Commander of the

Colombian Air Force’s decision.”1 After a series of test runs, operations in Colombia started again in

August 2003. Air Bridge Denial operations in Peru might re-start at the end of the year.

The current US Security Strategy, published in September 2002, also

highlights the need for “new

approaches to warfare, strengthening joint operations, exploiting U.S. intelligence advantages,”

defining this as “our first line of defense against terrorists and the threat posed by hostile states,”

and proposing “the proper fusion of information between intelligence and law enforcement”

because an all-source analysis system will be needed.

Changes in US military support for Colombia

While the aforementioned changes have become more radical and obvious with the

younger Bush’s presidency, there were already substantial modifications in counterdrug

activity in the hemisphere during the Clinton administration. Quoting the Center for

International Policy again, until about 1999 “Colombia’s National Police received nearly all

lethal U.S. aid. Washington was wary of getting too deeply involved in the country’s conflict (...). The

Clinton Administration nonetheless shifted the bulk of aid to the military in 1999 and 2000.” Since

March 1999, US agencies have been sharing intelligence “in real time” with the Colombian

armed forces, though they were limited by a Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-73) at

the time that only permitted such activity within the framework of counter-drug activity,

albeit without a guarantee of compliance with this restriction.16 Even then, it was

increasingly evident that the United States was blurring the conceptual difference between the War on Drugs and counterinsurgency.

On 2 August 2002, a legal provision regarding anti-terrorist emergency funds (HR 4775)

allowed “the Colombian government to use all past and present counter-drug aid –

all the helicopters,

weapons, brigades and other initiatives of the past several years – against the insurgents.”

In this context, CIP also mentions a possible renegotiation of the FOL agreements, which

currently 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

a US State Department source as saying, “The new counterdrug bases located in Ecuador,

Aruba and Curaçao will be strategic points for closely monitoring the guerrillas’ steps and their constant

incursions into Venezuela, Panama, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador.” One State Department document to

which El Espectador had access revealed the tactic used: “So as not to divert the missions,

which will initially focus on counterdrug efforts, and in order to avoid polemics in the international arena

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

B. US MILITARY NEWS: http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk

CIA clandestine operators assigned overseas are called case officers; their tours of duty are normally

two to three years and most serve with false titles in American embassies. Some live under "deep cover"

in foreign countries, posing as businessmen, students, newsmen, union workers, missionaries or other "innocent" visitors. The case officer's role is to find agents willing to work with or for the CIA.

His aim is to penetrate the host government, learn its inner workings and manipulate it for the

Agency's purposes.

A network of agents - often hundreds - is built up in that country's government, military forces,

press, labour unions and other important groups. It is not just the party of government that is

infiltrated by the Agency, but usually every possible political party, group or organisation, so that

each can be steered in the desired direction, ready to serve the

CIA as and when the need arises. In his talk at the Council on Foreign Relations, ex-CIA chief

Richard Bissell listed eight types of covert action that the CIA uses to intervene in the domestic

affairs of other countries:

1. political advice and counsel

2. subsidies to an individual

3. financial support and "technical assistance" to political parties

4. support of private organisations, including business firms labour unions, industrial groups, etc.

5. covert propaganda

6. "private" training of individuals and exchange of persons

7. economic operations

8. paramilitary or political operations designed to overthrow or to support a regime



"It takes relatively few people and little support to disrupt the internal peace and economic stability of a small country." - WILLIAM CASEY, Director of Central Intelligence 1981 - 1987

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# posted by Petra : 3:39 PM

Monday, March 22, 2004

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,

seeeeee: www.bolivarianresistance.blogspot.com

http://www.redresistencia.org/social/realidad.htm

http://www.redresistencia.org/entrevistas/index.htm

http://www.redresistencia.org/medios/index.htm