FARC is the best instrument of US empire: Morales

[Judi Lynn]

Article posted Aug 27 2009, 3:58 AM
FARC is the best instrument of US empire: Morales
Katharina Wecker

The FARC are "the best instrument of the U.S. empire" as the fight against the guerrillas has become the pretext for U.S. military presence in Colombia, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Monday.

"The U.S. is using the fight against the FARC to justify their military presence in Colombia. I regret to say: they are the best instrument of the empire at the moment," Morales said at a press conference.

The Bolivian President reiterated his rejection of the military agreement between the U.S. and Colombia allowing the United States to use at least seven Colombian military bases. Morales announced he will defend his position at the next UNASUR meeting to be held in Bariloche, Argentina, on Friday.

Morales said the U.S. military presence in South America will lead to a "political presence" of the United States to "conspire" against other governments, as he believed happened with the coup in Honduras. According to the Bolivian leader, the U.S. Southern Command encouraged the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales.

But Morales is sure that at the UNASUR summit in Bariloche the South American leaders "will realize, behind closed doors, what will be the consequences of the U.S. military presence in South and Latin America. There will be a debate about the dignity and sovereignty of all countries of South America."

On Friday all members of UNASUR will meet to discuss the military agreement between the U.S. and Colombia. Despite several explanations about the accord by high U.S. officials and a South American tour by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, the plan continues to raise concerns in a large number of Latin American countries.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Yup, we should have paid more attention to Bush Junta action last year of ADDING

"the war on terror" to the "war on drugs" in US "war on drugs" funding of Colombia ($6 BILLION a year!). I noticed it, but perhaps should have cried more alarm about it. It was so late in the day--last summer--as to the Bush Junta being ousted, that I let it go by. We now know how meaningful it was. This is a 40+ civil war in Colombia. It is none of our business. Both sides are drug trafficking (if we can believe Colombian and US propaganda about the FARC guerrillas, who deny drug trafficking). Drug trafficking (and weapons trafficking) by Colombia's rich elite, its fascist rulers and the Colombian military and its death squads--and probably by the Bush Cartel/CIA--are by far the worse problem in controlling cocaine/heroine and associated crime from Colombia. Solve THAT problem, and the "war on drugs" is over, and we get to keep our $6 BILLION+ taxpayer dollars to solve problems here at home.

The current ruler of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, got his start with the Medellin Cartel. That tells us all we need to know about Colombia. The US "war on drugs" is a protection racket, and the Bushwhacks rode that protection racket to greatly increase US militarism in the region for other purposes--namely, threatening, destabilizing and overthrowing the democratic governments with THE OIL--Venezuela and Ecuador (main oil reserves adjacent to Colombia) and others. And Clinton and the Pentagon seem to be following the war plan that Rumsfeld designed, using the "war on drugs" as they linchpin, much as they used WMDs in Iraq. An excuse for militarism, an excuse for war, an excuse to steal other peoples' oil.