Rumsfeld Does Bogota

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/hylton08232003.html

Helicopters circling the city, combat planes roaring overhead; the streets, airports and public buildings patrolled by 13,000 police, soldiers, secret servicemen and spies, U.S. as well as Colombian.

The arrival of Donald Rumsfeld in Bogotá on August 19 did not portend anything but the further ratcheting up of imperial terror in South America. The day before, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe faced machine-gun fire from the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces) when his helicopter approached Granada, Antioquia, a town that was destroyed by the FARC's gas cylinder bombs on December 6-7, 2000. Since the FARC have sophisticated, up-to-date grenade launchers as well as machine guns and crude cylinder bombs, one wonders if, like nearly everything else in Álvaro Uribe's presidency, the attack was not stage-managed to drive home the need for more resources to fight "drugs and terror," so as to wipe out the FARC guerrillas, now held to be responsible for the country's accumulated problems.

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Though the right may have re-taken the political initiative in South America for now, it remains to be seen whether its narrow and unimaginative vision can be imposed on Bolivia, much less the rest of a continent whose peoples have proven most resistant to the long night of the neoliberal reich.
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"the long night of the neoliberal reich." Is that what the US is facing?

[Occulus]

1. I think maybe yes.

Aren't what we call neoconservatives actually former liberals?

[LittleApple81]

2. Exactly

Oligarchy (what Colombia has had for a long time) = "the long night of the neoliberal reich."

[UTUSN]

3. What, There Was a Cartel Summit? n/t