ICH bracht op 2 januari jl. het bericht, dat Santos de NAVO uitnodigt om in Colombia ‘de misdaad’ te bestrijden…….
Koenig, de schrijver van het artikel, betoogt dat president Santos van Colombia, ‘de vredesduif’*, geen vrede met de FARC wenst, zoals gezegd de NAVO moet ‘de misdaad bestrijden’ in Colombia, ‘misdaad’ gepleegd door de FARC….. Moorden door rechtse doodseskaders op simpele boeren, moeten de FARC verleiden de wapens weer op te nemen…….. De NAVO naar Zuid-Amerika? Weg met dit uiterst agressieve bondgenootschap!
Overigens nogal vreemd, dat deze rechtse terreurgroepen in Colombia gewoon doorgaan met hun terreur tegen de arme bevolking, vooral buiten de steden….. Eén van de redenen zal zijn, dat deze doodseskaders voor een groot deel uit reguliere politieagenten en militairen van het Colombiaanse leger bestaan, waar deze doodseskaders worden gesteund door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde: de VS……
Hier het artikel van Information Clearing House (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’):
Inviting
NATO to Fight “Organized Crime”, A Menace for Latin America
By
Peter Koenig
January
02, 2017 “Information
Clearing House”
– Imagine, Mr.
Manuel Santos,
President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Laureate 2016, for achieving a
Peace Agreement with the FARC “rebels” (Fuerzas Armadas
Revolucionarias de Colombia – Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia) – this same peace-loving Mr. Santos is inviting NATO to
his country to help fight “organized crime”. As TeleSUR reports,
this could jeopardize the recently signed (the ink is not yet dry)
Peace Agreement between the Government and FARC.
Within
the last few days, at least two leaders of ‘campesinos’ (peasant
farmers) were found killed. “False flag”, as usual, with real
people casualties? Provoking FARC to retaliate? – Which would be
the end of the peace agreement.
Frankly,
I never believed that the government was serious in negotiating
peace, ending one of the longest civil conflicts’, with the longest
peace negotiations in recent Latin American history. A four-year
peace process was supposed to end 52 years of the leftist FARC
militia fighting in defense of the rural poor, countering an elite of
the rich, mostly urban dweller and latifundios, against government
forces with support of the US military stationed in Colombia.
Like
the Europeans, the Colombian Government is a sheer puppet of
Washington’s. Both Santos and his predecessor, Uribe, are CIA
handlers. Having peace with FARC would be against the interests of
the United States. So – what is the agreement all about? – It’s
propaganda: Giving war-wearied people an illusion, false hope, that
there is light at the end of the endless tunnel of assassinations and
abuse – enhanced by the politically highly astute Swedish /
Norwegian Nobel Committee. At the first sign of a FARC uprising, for
example in protest of the (false flag) campesino killings, the
agreement will be broken, and peace is what it was from the very
beginning – a farce – a
travesty to induce a new strategy for Latin America – bringing in
NATO.
To
disguise Washington’s role, President Santos is calling on NATO for
help.
Everybody
knows that NATO represents basically the US Pentagon with some token
input from Washington’s European stooges. But NATO’s involvement
in Colombia would have far wider implication than just fighting FARC,
or as Santos calls it euphemistically, ‘fighting organized crime’
which is a reference to fighting drug cartels and linking the ‘fight’
to the infamous and controversial US
Plan Colombia, the
direct cost of which has exceeded 10 billion dollars since 2000, when
it began. The total cost, including the destruction of
infrastructure, housing and livelihoods, as well as the lives of at
least 220 000 Colombians and close to six million people displaced,
with the related hardship and suffering, is uncountable.
Earlier
this year, The Guardian reported,
“Plan
Colombia has become a catch-all phrase for several different
strategies. It is most widely understood as a US aid package to
Colombia which has totaled about $10 billion since 2000. More
broadly, it was a joint US-Colombian strategy to strengthen the
military, state institutions and the economy.”
“There
is this idea that it is some vast orchestrated project, but Plan
Colombia doesn’t exist as such,” says Winifred Tate, author of
‘Drugs, Thugs and Diplomats’, a study of US policymaking in
Colombia. “Rather, it has been a series of programs whose emphasis
has expanded and recalibrated over the years”, she says.
In
fact, former Colombia President Andres Pastrana, under whom Plan
Colombia started, admitted to The Guardian that the strategy was a
turning point in the country’s decades-old war [against FARC].
“Before the Plan, security forces were on the defensive and on the
verge of military defeat [by FARC guerrillas].”
Despite
the Plan, coca production is higher today than in 2000, at the
beginning of the Plan and Colombia remains the world’s top coca and
cocaine producer. So, Plan Colombia has not worked. A “Strategy
Change” is in order. In comes NATO, a multi-country military force,
per se, to fight crime, kill farmers who do not ‘obey’ –
continuing the fight against FARC ‘rebels’ who defend the
peasants – and therefore break the highly deceptive Peace
Agreement. A condition for the Peace Agreement was complete
disarmament of FARC. In a new war, FARC would be extremely
disadvantaged, risking to be easily eviscerated by NATO.
What
is NATO? – NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a US
led military force stationed in Europe.
It
was created in 1949 by the United States and included Canada and
several European countries. Its main official purpose was to defend
Europe from the imaginary enemy, the communist Soviet Union.
Implicitly it also meant that Europe wouldn’t need to build up its
own defense. Big Brother would take care of it with – yes, NATO.
The
only European leader with foresight and who saw through the sham, was
General Charles
De Gaulle. In
1966 he kicked NATO out of France. In 2009, 43 years later, French
President Sarkozy, also a known CIA agent, reintegrated France into
all structures of NATO.
At
the foundation of NATO, as today, the US had and has a phobia against
anything that has anything to do with socialism, let alone communism
– which was a major justification for the arms race that enhanced
the Cold War from the late 1950’s to 1991, when the Soviet Union
collapsed. The Cold War was mostly a propaganda hype to make believe
the Soviet Union, which historically never had expansionist
ambitions, was a threat to European sovereignty. The Cold War
justified an arms race that sustained a highly profitable war
industry.
When
the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the justification for NATO
effectively died. It had then 12 bases in Europe. The unilateral
promise by the allied forces, expressed by then German Foreign
Minister Genscher, was that NATO would not expand one meter to the
east. Today NATO has 28 members and more than 30 bases throughout
Europe, most of them clustering around the Russian borders, a threat
to Moscow. That’s shows the honesty of western promises. This
prolific character is typical for US-led military operations, in
particular NATO. With this historic background, NATO in Colombia
would be a real and present danger for all of Latin America. NATO, an
alliance of Atlantists, has no business in Colombia, let alone in
Latin America.
NATO
in Colombia had an earlier beginning.
President
Juan Manuel Santos initiated the Colombia-NATO cooperation.
Negotiations between the former Colombian defense Minister, Juan
Carlos Pinzón, and NATO’s General
Philip Breedlove, then
NATO Commander in Europe, started in 2013 with the ‘benign’
purpose for Colombia to gain access to NATO’s “best practices in
professional standards, integrity and transparency, as well as
humanitarian operations.” Against obvious protests from Venezuela
to having NATO infiltrated in her neighboring country, President
Santos signed a “Cooperation Agreement” with NATO on 6 June 2013
in Brussels.
This
was the beginning of a covert alliance between a key Latin American
ally of Washington and NATO. Almost nobody noticed. Bringing NATO
troops to Colombia would not only be a first in Latin America, it
might wreak havoc among the non-aligned UNASUR nations, especially
among Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
NATO
in Colombia would be like a training ground for guerilla warfare,
something the transatlantic forces are not used to – but will have
to become familiar with in order to fulfill Washington’s plan to
gradually proliferate throughout South America, preventing any
attempts of left-wing uprisings. Once in strategically located
Colombia, NATO would spread like brush fire throughout the
Sub-Continent, being allowed by the neoliberal Latin American
Governments now being implanted by Washington to build countless
military bases. They would henceforth be called NATO bases. The
unpopular term, US bases, would be a thing of the past.
Latin
America, be aware and alert. Obama’s condescendingly calling Latin
America ‘Washington’s Backyard’, could become quickly a reality
with NATO in Colombia. As the famous late Uruguayan writer, Eduardo
Galeano, wisely said, “Once American troops are in your country,
you will never get rid of them.”
Peter
Koenig is
an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank
staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of
environment and water resources. He is the author of Implosion – An
Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate
Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank
experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World
Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
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* President Santos ontving de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede in 2016………
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‘Koenders heeft vrijlating gegijzelde Spoorloos makers in Colombia bewerkstelligt……. AUW!!!‘
‘Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken……‘
‘VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………‘
‘NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………‘
Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terugvindt, dat geldt niet voor de labels: Galeano, Santos en UNASUR.
