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Back in 2008, when the Bush Junta was funding/organizing rightwing, white separatist rioters and murderers right out of the U.S. embassy, Evo Morales threw the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of Bolivia for their collusion with the white separatists. It was a key moment in South American unity against U.S. interference. UNASUR, which had only been formalized a few months before, held an emergency meeting, unanimously backed Morales and the continent pulled together to prevent the split-up of Bolivia into the white, rich landowner-controlled, eastern provinces, where Bolivia's main gas reserves are located, and the rest of the country where most of Bolivia's Indigenous majority lives.
It was clear that the white separatists wanted to control and profit from the gas reserves, and deprive the poor Indigenous majority of the benefits of those revenues. Brazil and Argentina, Bolivia's chief gas customers, made it clear that they would refuse to trade with the white separatists, among other actions taken to end the insurrection. Chile led the UNASUR action, and later settled its 100 year old dispute with Bolivia, giving Bolivia access to the sea (for gas pipeline/shipping), and Venezuela helped Bolivia renegotiate the gas contracts, doubling Bolivia's gas revenues, which are now benefiting all Bolivians.
What was NOT apparent at the time was that these white separatists were gangsters connected to the cocaine trade. In short, the Bush Junta and the DEA were aiding and abetting drug gangs! They were using criminal networks for their rightwing purpose of destabilizing Bolivia and destroying an elected leftist government. And without the DEA running interference for these gangsters, the Bolivian police have now been able to nab a big mob boss, Rosales, who was hiding out in Santa Cruz, focal point of the white separatist insurrection.
That's how I read this: The DEA gone, and then legit police forces can do their job--and, lo and behold, the rightwing rioters and murderers, whom the Bush Junta were fostering, were part of a Mob connected to a yet bigger Mob in Brazil!
Remember when the Bush Junta alleged that there were "Islamic terrorists" in the tricorner area (Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina) when they were trying to get more U.S. boots on the ground in Paraguay? Paraguay borders Bolivia's eastern province region, home of Bolivia's white separatists. It looks now like they were trying to create a "free trade zone" for gangsters, running along Brazil's border with Bolivia and Paraguay, with these white separatists setting up their own "government" along the Bolivia/Brazil border and the entrenched rightwing party in Paraguay (which had invited the U.S. military in) preventing drug gang interdiction on the Paraguay/Brazil border. Suddenly there were "Islamic terrorists" in Paraguay! LOL! Their plan was foiled, however, by a leftist getting elected in Paraguay (who said "no thanks" to U.S. troops and ended those maneuvers).
"Alice in Wonderland" ain't in it! The Bushwhacks' trick mirror: an upside-down, inside-out world in which billions of U.S. "war on drugs" dollars were being used to protect the drug trade! Their apparent agenda--fascist rule, militarism, war profiteering--bad enough as that is, masked the deeper agenda--protecting, fostering and profiting from the trillion+ dollar cocaine revenue stream, which in turn supports the fascist politicians who protect it.
I have long suspected that Bush Junta activity in Colombia was aimed at consolidating and directing the cocaine revenue stream, not in stopping it. I think that's what Alvaro Uribe was all about. Under his rule, supported by the Bush Junta--including $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid--the Colombian government and its rightwing political establishment, and the Colombian military, became infested with criminals--numerous government officials and legislators tied to drug trafficking, death squad murders, bribery, land theft, election fraud, illegal domestic spying (even on judges and prosecutors!) and all manner of lawlessness; military units protecting drug lords and expanding their land base by driving five MILLION peasant farmers from their land, under the guise of the "war on drugs" and committing horrible crimes (killing youngsters, dressing their bodies up like FARC guerrillas) under the guise of the "war on terror" as well as driving the FARC guerrillas and any other independent cocaine operations out.
And this all occurred with the U.S. military heavily present in the country, as well as the entire apparatus of the U.S. "war on drugs"--the DEA, the FBI, no doubt the CIA, USAID 'contractors,' military 'contractors' (Blackwater was there), military high technology (drone spy aircraft, etc.), and U.S. corps providing toxic pesticides to destroy small peasant farms, drive the peasants from their lands and consolidate the coca leaf growing areas for the bigger drug gangs.
THIS may be what's really behind the Obama administration's protection and coddling Uribe--that the Bushites ARE the Mob.
It wasn't just one or two incidents of murder or other crimes, say, by U.S. military 'contractors' (who came under the "total diplomatic immunity" that Uribe secretly negotiated with U.S. ambassador Brownfield). It wasn't just the U.S. military or the DEA helping Uribe to spy on judges and prosecutors. It wasn't just the bombing/raid on the FARC camp and that whole Rumsfeldian "Office of Special Plans" plot. It wasn't just one or two or several crimes, by U.S. personnel, or one rogue agency or military unit--that Uribe knows about (thus requiring U.S. protection/coddling). The ENTIRE U.S. operation in Colombia was a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE.
THAT would explain why the Obama administration can't shed Uribe. They don't have the power to.
I wish somebody with investigative resources would look into this. There is enough "there" to warrant investigation. It won't be of interest to anybody in the U.S. press (although it might well be of interest to U.S. taxpayers). It won't be of interest to the corpo-fascist press in Europe (most of the press), nor in the UK, except for the Guardian, but they have a RWer on their Latin America desk, so forget them. Could be of interest to independent newspapers/media in LatAm in the countries where such things are safe (not Colombia, Honduras or Mexico--where the U.S. "war on drugs" is rampant and journalists are being murdered). Investigate: How come wherever the U.S. "war on drugs" goes, the drug trafficking flourishes and murder and mayhem escalate dramatically? How come Bolivia is far better at stopping drug gangs and arresting Mob bosses with the DEA out of the country? Is the U.S. "war on drugs" just cover for the drug trade? If so, has that changed with the Bushwhacks out of the White House?
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