Colombia’s Uribe takes dictation one last time

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia’s Uribe takes dictation one last time
July 26, 2010

Colombia: Uribe’s Farewell Spectacle - español
Atilio A. Boron
Translation: Machetera and Manuel Talens

Álvaro Uribe, the empire’s unconditional pawn, took his leave from the Colombian presidency with a new provocation: the denunciation of FARC camps which he claimed to be established on Venezuelan territory. Being neither dimwitted nor lazy, the U.S. State Department came out in unconditional support of the accusation put forth by Bogotá at the Organization of American States (OAS), encouraged by the supposed “resounding” proof presented by Uribe, denouncing the government of Hugo Chávez for allowing the FARC camps to be set up and for carrying out various military training programs for some 1,500 guerrillas on Venezuelan soil. With amazing insolence, Philip Crowley, the State Department spokesperson declared that Venezuela’s response was “unfortunate” and “petulant” and threatened that “if Venezuela fails to cooperate in whatever follow-on steps are made, the United States and other countries will obviously take account of that.” It must be remembered that since 2006, the United States has included Venezuela in the list of countries that are unwilling to cooperate in the struggle against terrorism. Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela issued a declaration along the same lines, saying that Uribe’s denunciation was “very serious.” Both statements cast a heavy shadow of doubt about the intellectual capabilities of both officials and, what’s worse, feed the suspicion that with their fondness for lies, the moral caliber of both is not all that different from that of Álvaro Uribe.

It’s obvious that for imperial administrators, they will try to make anything that is convenient to their interests appear before public opinion as something “serious and overwhelming.” And these were the interests that moved the White House to ask for one last “proof of love” from the Colombian leader just a few days before leaving his presidency.

As is commonly known, the file that the DEA, the CIA and the FBI have been building on Uribe for his intimate and prolonged links with the drug cartels keeps the Colombian leader from disobeying any kind of order coming from Washington, for fear of meeting the same fate as the former Panamanian president Manuel A. Noriega, and ending his days in a maximum security cell in the United States.

The absurd claim from Uribe, an inveterate liar, comes like manna from heaven in Washington’s push to destabilize the Chávez government before the crucial Venezuelan elections scheduled for September 26th and at the same time, it legitimizes the impressive program of U.S. militarization that is being imposed on Latin America; one of whose leading examples has been the signed Obama-Uribe treaty through which Colombia is ceding at least seven military bases for the use of U.S. armed forces. This is why those in the U.S. government pretend to consider the proof behind Uribe’s denunciation as “serious and overwhelming,” knowing that it is completely unfounded and nothing more than pure verbiage backed up with photographic montages. But lies are part of official U.S. discourse, essential elements in granting an aura of legitimacy to U.S. imperial designs, for a variety of reasons.

These are lies because, in the first place, if the FARC controls around 30% of Colombian territory (something that is well known in Colombia) it’s impossible to make sense of partitioning no less than 1,500 men from the theatre of operations, sending their leaders to vacation ihttp://machetera.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/colombias-uribe-takes-dictation-one-last-time/n Venezuela, and organizing 85 guerrilla camps in a neighboring country. If there is a politician who systematically lies in our region – and there are plenty! – Uribe is the crowning example: it’s in Colombia itself where the rotting oligarchic state in crisis allows for wide swathes of its territory, particularly in the jungle zones, to be controlled by guerrillas, narco-traffickers and paramilitaries.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Wow! Incredible article! Very, very good! Thanks for posting it! nt

[EFerrari]

2. Boron brings up an excellent point. Either alvarito has decimated FARC

or they have enough forces to develop 85 camps in Venezuela. Can't be both, mendigo.

[Bacchus39]

3. or he is running them out of Colombia genius n/t

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[Wilms]

4. From where it's alleged they stage raids on Colombia.

Like that.