Get Me the Paraguayan President's DNA: Three Devastating Wikileaks from Latin America

[Judi Lynn]

Wednesday, 01 December 2010 11:32
Get Me the Paraguayan President's DNA: Three Devastating Wikileaks from Latin America

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1. Collecting DNA in Paraguay

Much has been made, and rightly so, about US diplomats collecting financial and biometric information of foreign diplomats at the United Nations. As nefarious as that is, diplomats have limited influence, what if the State Department were doing the same for elected presidents?

Of the five media outlets to receive advance copies of the leaks, The Guardian was the only one to publish a March 2008 cable from the State Department to the U.S. embassy in Paraguay. The Guardian ran the entire cable, without comment, under the headline: "Washington Worries that Paraguay Harbors Iranian Agents and Islamist Terrorists". The cable is a shopping list of information that the State Department requested in the run-up to Paraguay's 2008 presidential elections. Near the bottom of the list is a disturbingly casual request that the U.S. embassy gather "(b)iographic and financial information on all leading contenders, and especially on Minister of Education Blanca Ovelar, former Vice President Castiglioni, Lino Oviedo, and Fernando Lugo; and biometric data, to include fingerprints, facial images, iris scans, and DNA, on these individuals."

Fernando Lugo, a Catholic bishop who promised to bring about massive land reform in order to return needed crop space to the country's peasant farmers, went on to win the presidency. As the Real News reported recently, Lugo has been unable to achieve many of his pledges, due in part to the influence of U.S. agribusiness corporations who are using the land for soy production.

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Another possible scenario involves straight-up blackmail. Threatening to frame the president with a misdeed of some kind, or maybe just implying the capacity to do so. I have absolutely no information that this is the case, but for those who think it impossible, I would point out that it has only been two decades since the U.S. was training the soldiers of Paraguay's brutal dictator and U.S. ally, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. Blackmailing the president would be peanuts compared to the torturing of political dissidents by sodomizing them with electric cattle prods, the forced enslavement of the Ache indigenous nation as house workers for the elite, or the extrajudicial execution of the regime's opponents, all of which enjoyed the support of successive U.S. administrations for 35 long years.

More:
http://www.therealnews.com/t2/component/content/article/42/499-wikileaks-in-the-western-hemisphere

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. What do TPTB want with DNA????

and iris scans?

I am scratching my head over that one.
Wikileaks cables seem indicate there have been instructions to collect the same biological data
on the higher ups of many countries.

[Autumn Colors]

2. scratching your head?

Really? It would be very easy for someone to set someone up for a crime they didn't commit (i.e. sex crimes?) with samples of DNA in their possession.

Or ... if letting it be known that they HAVE DNA in their possession, then making it much easier to threaten someone into doing whatever TPTB want.

EDIT: I've thought for quite a while now that TPTB must already have DNA samples of all our congress critters and that this may be why they "cave" so often and so easily.

[nebenaube]

4. Did either of you actually read the PNAC document? n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Long ago.

What is your specific point?

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I see.

Did not have the "evil overload" part of my brain turned on as I read that.

Sometimes the depth of the creepiness is difficult to accept.

[bhikkhu]

3. K&R, for the truth

This is a tiny sample of the crap that Manning was looking at and agonizing over daily, until he finally decided to do something. If this makes a difference and brings about change, all credit to a brave US serviceman.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.