Reply #1: And who's behind AUC? You guessed it--the Bush Junta!

[Peace Patriot]

$4 BILLION in our tax dollars to the folks running Colombia's military, which was recently exposed in a huge scandal in Colombia, for its rightwing paramilitary mass murder, drug trafficking and plots to assassinate Hugo Chavez and destabilize the Andean democracies--Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador. The Colombia military chief! Cronies of Uribe (Prez/ Bush pal), and his former intelligence chief. All arrested or implicated.

This violent "separatist" scheme in Bolivia is a plot hatched in the White House!

Is there nowhere on earth untouched by evil of this US regime? Is there no limit to their corruption and destructiveness?

The good news is that the leftists (majorityists) are now in charge in South America, and are growing in strength in Central America. Leftist governments elected in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. Also Nicaragua. (And big leftist movements in Peru and Mexico.) The leaders of these countries will no longer put up with this kind of rotten-to-the core US interference in South America. So it's my prediction that the Bush Cartel's effort to create themselves these little enclaves of fascism in the midst of this enormous democracy movement will fail. That's not to say they can't cause considerable grief in the process. They have already done so in Colombia, where thousands of union organizers, leftists and peasants have been slaughtered. But the tide has turned so significantly in South America that these dinosauric schemes (US-installed fascist dictators and global corporate predator "free trade") can no longer succeed at stealing South American resources and enslaving its people.

Our job is to restore transparent vote counting here, and topple our own fascist junta, which is committing such atrocities in our name.