Focus on 'Border Security,' Drugs Behind Call for Troops
Speaking today on MSNBC, Texas Governor Rick Perry said the United States ought to consider a military invasion of his neighbor to the south, Mexico, arguing that it was needed to fight the drug war as well as to secure the border between the two nations.
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How about invading Canada too? It leaves many Americans cold!
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Oh, that would be interesting. Imagine having an "Iraq" on the US border?
ReplyDeleteFor the first time in six years, a majority (49%) of citizens think that the operations against drug trafficking have failed, according to the National Survey on the Perception of Public Safety in Mexico, prepared by Mitofsky Consulting at the request of the organization Mexico United Against Crime (MUCD)
Israeli mercenary Yair Klein, convicted of training paramilitaries and drug gangs in Colombia, told RCN that the Colombian military paid him to train "security forces." Klein, who was recently released from Russian custody and returned to Israel, is wanted for extradition to Colombia for training paramilitaries. The extradition request was blocked, and Klein is now free in his native country. He spoke in the interview about how he was recruited to Colombia to train "security forces" and the military in Magdalena Medio.
Going back to the good old days...
ReplyDeleteThe Panama base housed the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), the U.S. Special Forces, and the Army School of the Americas (SOA), among other facilities, during most of the Cold War. Tens of thousands of Latin American officers were trained at the SOA, which used the infamous torture manuals released by the Pentagon and the CIA in the mid-1990s. Latin American officers trained in Panama have confirmed that the base was the center of the hemispheric anticommunist alliance. One military graduate of the School said, "The school was always a front for other special operations, covert operations." Another officer, an Argentine navy man whose unit was organized into kidnap commandos ("task forces") in 1972, said the repression was part of "a plan that responded to the Doctrine of National Security that had as a base the School of the Americas, directed by the Pentagon in Panama." A Uruguayan officer who worked with the CIA in the 1970s, said that the CIA not only knew of Condor operations, but also supervised them.
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At a very early stage of Mexico’s revolutionary upheaval in September of 1911,… Secretary of War Henry Stimson decided to send two secret agents to Mexico to assess the situation and the possibility of an American intervention. These were two young officers of the general staff of the War Department, captain Charles D. Rhodes, and captain Paul B. Malone, disguised as reporters of the Washington Times. [...] the conclusion that Malone and Rhodes threw [...] was very clear: “the history of industrial development teaches that in the past, empire has followed profitable investments especially in metals. It is therefore to be expected that the acquisition in Mexico by American capitalists of the greatest mineral and oil deposits knowing to exist, would compel intervention in the affairs of Mexico, should these investments and the lives of Americans be placed in serious jeopardy”. Considerations of national sovereignty, international law, right of self-determination, etc., obviously did not concern these two military men and their conclusion was very stark: “it is therefore important that the general staff should at once begin a more careful, detailed study of the future occupation of Mexican territory, to include not only the military campaign, whose objective must be the Mexican capital, but the subsequent military government of this vast country, whether such occupation be merely temporary as in the case of Cuba, or more or less permanent as in the case of Philippines”. (excerpted from “U.S. Imperial Expansion into the Caribbean and Mexico, 1898-1920″, by the late Dr. C. Friedrich Katz, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Latin American History, Co-Director, Mexican Studies Program, Department of History, University of Chicago).
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