Colombia, U.S., Honduras begin anti-drug naval drills

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

Colombia, U.S., Honduras begin anti-drug naval drills
14:08, September 01, 2010

Colombian, U.S. and Honduran naval forces started joint anti-drug trafficking military exercises Tuesday.

The three-day drills are being carried out by the Colombian National Army, the Honduran patrol ship "Tegucigalpa" and the U.S. Coast Guard vessel "Escanaba" on the Colombian island of San Andres.

The exercises include training Colombian navy coastguards and comparing notes on the fight against drug trafficking.

Twenty-six Honduran navy members and a vessel with radars, GPS and echo-sound devices are participating in the drills.

The U.S. vessel is equipped with a helicopter and high-technology tools, with 100 crew members aboard.


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[izquierdista]

1. Anti-naval drugs

would be a better use of the money. Find a cure so that everyone can look like KyleXY

[Judi Lynn]

2. Paramilitaries confess to cremating 150 victims

Paramilitaries confess to cremating 150 victims
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:56
Adriaan Alsema

Former paramilitaries admit to cremating the bodies of some 150 of their victims in northern Colombia between 2000 and 2004, prosecutors told news agency AP.

According to Leonardo Cabana of the prosecutor general's Justice and Peace unit, paramilitaries testified that "approximately 150" corpses "were thrown into ovens" made of bricks and cement.

"They used the practice to make their victims disappear without leaving a trace, primarily because of the large number of deaths there were in this area," Cabana told AP.

The paramilitary commanders denied having thrown living victims in the ovens, "but we haven't fully ruled out that possibility," said the prosecutor.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/11598-paras-confess-to-cremating-150-victims.html

[Peace Patriot]

3. Behold the U.S. nazification of Latin American U.S. client states where murders...

...of thousands of trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, community activists, political leftists, journalists, peasant farmers and others are being committed by these militaries and their rightwing paramilitary death squads, with billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money, and the hard drugs just keep right on flowing out of Colombia through Honduras to the U.S. and Europe. Odd, huh?

What is happening with U.S. aid to Latin America is so awful that it is difficult to find words to describe it. We are massively funding the worst elements of society--fascist militaries/police and rich fascist elites, who are using our money to brutally suppress democracy and social justice. This has nothing--zero, zilch--to do with drug interdiction. That purpose of these nazification billions has utterly failed, if it was ever a true goal in the first place. What is REALLY happening is preparation of a slave labor force for U.S. multinational retailers and other corporations, resource theft and theft of the commons--for instance, in Honduras, telecommunications--a John McCain interest--and in Colombia, oil and land, including U.S. military use of seven more Colombian military bases, all civilian infrastructure including no road tolls or taxes for U.S. soldiers and U.S. military 'contractors,' and total diplomatic immunity for all U.S. soldiers and 'contractors'--particular interests of our war profiteers and scofflaw mercenaries like Blackwater; meanwhile five MILLION Colombian peasant farmers have been displaced from their land, by state terror--the second worst human displacement crisis on earth.

THIS is what these billions are going for--and the really big illicit drugs/weapons and human traffic interests--the ones with government protection--are never touched.

The "war on drugs" is the worst con job that has ever been perpetrated on the American people, and one of the most brutal tools ever given to fascist elites in Latin America.