Bush, Columbia, and Connections

[RedEagle]

http://eatthestate.org/06-11/NaturePolitics.htm

Found this looking for something else. Cannot vouch for authenticity of information, but found it interesting on more than one level:


Nature and Politics

by Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn


Bush's Felonious Friend

While George Bush is wagging his finger at Saddam Hussein and Mullar Omar as heads of crooked regimes, one of his old pals has just been convicted on a slew of charges stemming from a widening corruption scandal in Colombia, the forgotten battleground of the US's other war.

That man is Rodrigo Villamizar, the notorious former minister of Colombia's department of minerals and mines, who spent his tenure there rapidly auctioning off the Colombian rainforest to international mining and oil companies, including land held by native tribes such as the U'Wa. He became a very wealthy man and the pal of high flying American executives and politicos.

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Bush and Villamizar met at a 1972 party in Austin, where members of Gamma Beta Kappa fraternity had gathered. Villamizar and the young Bush hit it off immediately. He told Bush he was looking for a job. A week later Villamizar got a position in the Texas statehouse, as an adviser to the Committee of Economic Development--courtesy of George Bush.

Four years later, Villamizar again requested help from his pal, George W. Bush. The Colombian told Bush that there was an opening on the Texas Public Utility Commission and he was very interested in getting the job. A few days later Villamizar received a copy of a letter of recommendation signed by Bush's father, then director of the CIA, and former Texas governor John Connelly. Needless to say, Villamizar got the position.

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Connelly connected to Nixon, became a Republican:

http://www.fact-index.com/j/jo/john_connally.html

John Connally
John Connally (February 27, 1917 - June 15, 1993) was an American politican from the state of Texas. He was a member of both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party during his life.
Connally was born in Floresville, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas School of Law. He served in the United States Navy during World War II.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy named Connally secretary of the Navy. Connally resigned after 11 months to seek the Texas governorship. He was elected Governor of Texas in November, 1962 as a Democrat. He served as governor from 1963 to 1969. On November 22, 1963, he was seriously wounded while riding in President Kennedy's car in Dallas, Texas when the president was assassinated.

President Richard Nixon appointed Connally as United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1971, he served as secretary until 1972. In 1973, Connally joined the Republican party. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for the 1980 U.S. presidential election



Connelly was connected to the Bush's, apparently:

http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/6-23-03/discussion.cgi.82.html

(starts out with 911, keep going)

[Tim4319]

1. Hey, don't forget

Manuel Noriega was on Daddy's payroll while he was the director of the CIA!

[Octafish]

2. Kick to the pants of the BFEE

:kick: The Little Turd from Crawford all the way to Leavenworth.

[Columbia]

3. Bush and Me connections?

:shrug: