Iran-Contra Redux: USA Today reports that on Oct. 2, in the wake of the election of liberal governments throughout Latin America, Pres. Bush lifted a ban on training rightwing militaries from the region:
The 2002 U.S. law bars countries from receiving military aid and training if they refuse to promise immunity from prosecution to U.S. servicemembers who might get hauled before the International Criminal Court. The law allows presidential waivers.
The White House lifted the ban on 21 countries, about half in Latin America or the Caribbean, through a presidential memorandum Oct. 2 to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The training is conducted in the USA.
A ban on giving countries weapons remains. Commercial arms sales are not affected, said Jose Ruiz, a U.S. Southern Command spokesman.
The training ban had resulted in a loss of U.S. influence in the region. The issue gained urgency after a string of leftist candidates came to power in Latin America. Rice said this year on a trip to the region that the impact of the ban had been “the same as shooting ourselves in the foot.”
With the United States strapped down in Iraq, China has moved into Latin America to support the new governments:
[U.S. Southern Command spokesman Jose] Ruiz said China “has approached every country in our area of responsibility” and has exchanged senior military officials with Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Cuba and provided military aid and training to Jamaica and Venezuela.
Just as the same players are still in the game,Eliot Abrams,Oly North,Gates,and names we never knew,it appears that george W. bush’s upcoming move to Paraguay might have something to do with the reinventing of right wing paramilitaries in S.Am.The bush Oligarchy afterall,was built on Prescott bush’s millions invested in his bank via transactions with the Nazi regime until he was found to be in violation of US law.Then there is the oil money from deals with the Saudi Royals,excluding the BinLadens after Shafy BinLaden’s plane crash.The bush Oligarchy is now all about oil,and there’s Lots of it{and natural gas}in South America.It seems Oligarchy’s rip off any country they can take possession of until the people rebel and depose them,ie.Somosa,the Shah,the king of Nepal{Birendra?},the USA, etc.etc.
Sometime and usually,the Oligarchs have stolen so much cash and treasure from the people by that time that they simply move on to some hapless country and set up shop again,hireing henchmen and servants so that they can live in the style to which they have become accostumed,using the cash they have accumulated from the ruined nations they leave behind.That’s the lesson kids.
“satinam” is correct: the PRESCOTT BUSH FASCIST CRIME FAMLY has not changed an iota since WWII!
Any country that “does business” with the BUSHCO DEVILS can expect to quickly become servants to their new OVERLORDS!