Bolivia leader: US 'commands' Colombia's military

Source: Agence France-Presse

Bolivia leader: US 'commands' Colombia's military
AFP
September 03, 2012

Bolivia: Bolivia President Evo Morales accused the US military of commanding Colombia's armed forces and of having a military base in the South American country, in a televised speech Sunday.

Morales was responding angrily to recent US figures that indicate Bolivia and Peru have surpassed Colombia as the world's biggest cocaine producers.

"Sure, Colombia is being downplayed as a country that has a drug problem -- because there is a US military base, there are Americans commanding the Armed Forces of Colombia," the president said in a speech to coca growers unions in Lauca N, about 650 kilometers (400 miles) from La Paz.

Washington "wants to praise the country where they have accepted US military bases," he said. In fact, there is no longer a US base in Colombia, but US military involvement is massive.

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Bolivia leader: US 'commands' Colombia's military (Original post)	Judi Lynn	Sep 2012	OP
The entire country of Colombia is a US military base. It is a staging point for everything the US	Monk06	Sep 2012	#1
Absolutely. Remember Senator Wellstone went there to look more closely, missed getting carbombed	Judi Lynn	Sep 2012	#2
OMG, that makes me want to cry!	Odin2005	Sep 2012	#4
Seeing that kind of world destruction would rapidly age children. It is brutal.	Judi Lynn	Sep 2012	#5
Staging point for...	MinM	Sep 2012	#6
Evo is right, as he usually is.	Odin2005	Sep 2012	#3
Hard to believe after four years of Obama, we're still there.	Pterodactyl	Sep 2012	#7

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Mon Sep 3, 2012, 03:54 AM

Monk06 (5,606 posts)

1. The entire country of Colombia is a US military base. It is a staging point for everything the US

does in South America. The US is not the least bit intimidated by the Bolivarian Alliance or UNASUR. The Neo Cons still look on SA as they're stomping grounds, pardon the pun.

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Mon Sep 3, 2012, 04:36 AM

Judi Lynn (77,618 posts)

2. Absolutely. Remember Senator Wellstone went there to look more closely, missed getting carbombed

apparently by a matter of a few minutes. as when his party arrived they were told the authorities had found a bomb placed where his car had been going to park.

He and his aides also went to watch an area getting sprayed with industrial RoundUp, and mysteriously were soaked but good by the airplane which had a slight accident in steering and drenched them. In horrendous chemicals. Just like the chemicals which kill livestock, and wipe out farmers' crops when the government says it's "spraying illegal coca".

Pictures painted at school by Colombian primary schoolchildren of the effects of the chemical coca spraying in their country:

More images:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/02/27/464886/-Bush-Policy-of-Spraying-Poison-on-Children

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Mon Sep 3, 2012, 09:36 AM

Odin2005 (48,255 posts)

4. OMG, that makes me want to cry!

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Mon Sep 3, 2012, 01:14 PM

Judi Lynn (77,618 posts)

5. Seeing that kind of world destruction would rapidly age children. It is brutal.

That's what they must fear from the sky, and people like this deathsquad, working for war lord "Macaco" walk down the middle of their streets, people who torture villagers in public, dismember and murder them, paralyze the people with fear, make them compliant.

I've heard their uniforms are just like the military's, except for no names, insignias, etc.