THREATS TO LATIN AMERICA COMING FROM BASES IN COLOMBIA

[Mika]

THREATS TO LATIN AMERICA COMING FROM BASES IN COLOMBIA
http://news.brunei.fm/2010/03/06/threats-to-latin-america-coming-from-bases-in-colombia/

HAVANA, March 6 (NNN-Prensa Latina): President of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), Roberto Verrier, has denounced the presence of seven U.S. military bases in Colombia which were a threat to the future of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Verrier, speaking at the closing of the XII International Meeting of Economists on Globalization and Development Problems expressed concern over the presence of the Fourth Fleet and the deployment of warships from the United States in the Caribbean.

Verrier, who is the past president of the Association of Economists of Latin America and the Caribbean (AEALC) said the US presence contrasted with the presence of a Cuban medical brigade in Chile as part of international efforts to support the Chileans to recover from the aftermath of the earthquake.

The little Cuban hospital and is located in Rancagua, 90 kilometers south of Santiago, with 27 professionals in emergencies, he said.

He also stressed that countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) and the Haitian government submitted to the World Health Organization a comprehensive program to rebuild the health system in the nation.

He also highlighted the work of the Academic Committee of the event, not only for the final outcome of the special rapporteur, but also by the earlier work of study, selection and scheduling of presentations, and conduct of these collective analysis and plurals.

He also congratulated the guests who had agreed to program 52 conferences and meetings outside the Convention Palace, home of the forum, with the express purpose of disseminating knowledge and controversies that take place here.

According to the organizers, the meeting was attended by 1,800 delegates and guests from 45 countries and representatives from 34 international and regional organizations.

Esther Aguilera, President of the Academic Committee, said in the proceedings report, that there was consensus that integration was considered the key factor.

The vice president of ANEC also said the discussions at the forum will be analyzed.

On the closing day, it was reported that the proposal approved the creation of an advisory group to promote integration in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Heriberto Gutierrez, University of Sinaloa, Mexico, read a statement of the XII Meeting of Students of Social Sciences, conducted as part of the event of economists, and in which young people undertake, among the main objectives, to help bring the necessary changes in the area.

It also issued a statement in which AEALC its members agreed to support the creation of the Commonwealth of Latinoamericano and Caribbean, which will enable the region to speak as a bloc.

It was also provided info on a broad international collaboration in the World Cuban and Haiti, by the director of the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba, Alberto Gonález.

He said that over 150,000 Cubans have collaborated on over a hundred countries, and health brigades in that Caribbean nation have treated more than 14 million people in 10 years.

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[protocol rv]

1. I wonder what they teach in Cuba about economics and accounting

It must be really odd, when I think of it.

[EFerrari]

3. Which can't be very often. n/t

[Wilms]

4. .

:rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

5. Takes time to recuperate between efforts.

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[protocol rv]

8. That's right

I'm a big dummy.

Sigh with relief, those who think different from you are stupid. Keep thinking that way, it'll get you far. :-)

[Wilms]

10. That's not at all what was said.

Typical technique. Stir it up.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Sounds like a successful event, good meeting. Thanks, Mika. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

6. "the Commonwealth of Latinoamericano and Caribbean" is what the U.S. 4th Fleet in the Caribbean,

the (at least) seven new U.S. military bases in Colombia, the U.S. fighter jets and spy planes, U.S. Navy ships and crews, and (if this number can be believed) the 1,600 U.S. soldiers and U.S. 'contractors' in Colombia, with total diplomatic immunity, as well U.S. military use of ALL civilian airports and other infrastructure in Colombia, and the new U.S. military bases in Panama, the U.S. military bases on the Dutch islands off Venezuelan's oil coast, and possibly the U.S. militarization of earthquake aid to Haiti, and the sneaky, backstabbing U.S. support for the violent rightwing military coup in Honduras (which included the refueling of the plane that carried the elected president of Honduras out of the country at gunpoint at the U.S. military base at Soto Cano, Honduras), are all intended to threaten and to prevent: "the Commonwealth of Latinoamericano and Caribbean"--Latin American countries achieving the collective strength to counter U.S. bullying and aggression, to maintain control of their own resources and laws, and to pursue social justice and create democratic societies in their own way.

Economic/political integration of Latin American countries is a truly great idea, and a huge threat to U.S. multinationals and war profiteers. This new idea has been in development for some time, and has manifested in several new trade groups: UNASUR (a prototype "common market" with all South American countries as members, formalized in summer 2008), ALBA (Venezuela and Cuba organized trade group to give the smaller countries of Central America/the Caribbean more collective clout), and others. The U.S. is aggrieved about both. UNASUR stepped in, in very dramatic fashion--as its first act--and helped Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, fend off a U.S. funded/organized white separatist insurrection in Sept 2008. And ALBA was clearly interfering with U.S. corporate plans in the Central American/Caribbean region, evidenced by the rightwing coup in Honduras withdrawing Honduras as a member of ALBA, and El Salvador's new leftist president deciding NOT to join ALBA after the Honduran coup (--obviously because he doesn't want a U.S. coup in El Salvador). There is also Mercosur, with more limited South American country membership, which laid down rules for membership such as rescinding non-extradition laws and laws immunizing the U.S. military (efforts at political/legal integration).

The last thing in the world our corporate rulers want to see is Latin America pulling together in this way. The actions of Sec of State Clinton and the Obama administration thus far have been to insult, lie to, backstab, threaten and attempt to "divide and conquer" Latin America. It is a very sorry tale--after an initial "honeymoon" in which Obama promised "peace, respect and cooperation" in Latin America. He may have been sincere. He may still be. But that is NOT U.S. policy--which he either has no power over, or has been duplicitous about.

[protocol rv]

7. Do you think a Commonwealth is possible?

I don't. Not ever. Interests are too diverse, and there's not enough cohesion, nor adequate leadership.

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[Zorro]

12. Still keeping up the smear campaign against protocol rv, I see

Stating "Indian presenting complaint" is something rational people would not consider a statement expressing race hatred.

To keep repeating the smear is Big Lie propagandizing.

[Wilms]

13. Who you calling irrational?

http://www.jstor.org/pss/30040277

[Zorro]

15. Let me help you out

Do you consider "Indian presenting complaint" a statement expressing race hatred?

[Wilms]

16. In the context it was offered? Yep. Was I unclear?

It's hardly a stretch. Did the poster consider apologizing? Defending a poor choice of words is a poor choice reinforcing a negative perception.

[protocol rv]

17. I'm not defending anything

The guy can continue to cut and paste the same attack over and over again. And I'll continue to use it as a foil to set out my very reasonable positions on diverse subjects.

Care to discuss the way illegal mining is damaging the Caroni river watershed in southern Venezuela, one of the reasons why so many Venezuelans are really upset at the government as they endure power cuts?

[Zorro]

19. Looks like you answered your own question

[EFerrari]

22. Of course it was. And the post was removed as per DU rules.

What part of that is unclear to you, Zorro?

[Zorro]

23. Arriving late to the scene and displaying your typical cluelessness

doesn't really add much to your credibility, such that it is.

[EFerrari]

24. You're the one late to the scene, friend. n/t

[Wilms]

25. Actually...

...she's been here all along.

:hi:

[protocol rv]

14. I prefer to limit comments to issues, rather than personal attacks

I do prefer to ignore their insuls and personal attacks. You should also understand the American mindset, and they are American communists, I think. The Americans feel very guilty because they carried out genocide against their indians, and this makes "progressives" very politically correct when it comes to the topic. Being from Maracaibo, where most of us are mixed indian blood anyway, I don't feel I have to avoid the use of the word indian, which seems to have been what the guy is upset about.

They also prefer to shut down discussion. Notice the followup comment saying I'm not suited to post in a "democratic" site. They are trying to avoid a reasonable debate. Did you notice none of them said much when I posted a report on the environmental damage caused in Venezuela by illegal miners? They are monochromatic, to them a communist regime is perfect, nothing can go wrong.

Many Americans have a disease called exceptionalism. This means they think exceptions can be made to laws and common sense if the USA is the nation violating the laws and common sense. Thus many of them think torturing prisoners is just fine, because it's done to save American lives. I think our leftist American friends have the same problem, but in a different fashion, in their case exceptions are ok as long as the ones violating the law or common sense happen to be communists.

Being wiser and more aware of human failings, I prefer to scatter my criticism in 360 degrees. I try to be honest, and point out facts. Fortunately for me, the guys who run DU seem to be more tolerant. I tried posting in an American right wing site called "Red Nation" or something like that, and only survived 3 days, the right wing extremists were foaming at the mouth when I criticized the invasion of Iraq, and said the US was an empire out of control :-)

[Mika]

18. "scatter". Very good choice of word.

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[Vogon_Glory]

20. What, You Managed to Get Banned from Red State?

Good for you!

There are a lot of people who deserve to have their shibboleths challenged, on the right as well as on the left.

But hey, I'm not a vegan Marxist, so what do I know? :silly: :tinfoilhat:

[protocol rv]

26. I sure did. And I tried to be as polite as possible

They really hated me, though. I try to challenge everything as much as possible, because I learned a lot of what we hear from politicians is false. They lie all the time.

[Vogon_Glory]

27. Don't they ever? Worse, many people believe those lies, too. n/t

[EFerrari]

21. Still posting straw men, I see. As per usual.