Reply #26: It has been an experience reading Peace Patriot's writing, and a real rush sometimes

[Judi Lynn]

when what she already has written becomes proven beyond any doubt whatsoever well afterward. I've never seen a mind work like that, so quickly, as well.

Correa has had his hands full from his first day. He's got enemies among the lunatic hog fringe, but that comes with the territory, doesn't it?

I've tried to remember for years what country it was you discussed before which had so many governments, so quickly. I've thought about it so many times since then, but the fact I knew NOTHING about South America back then has to be the reason I couldn't keep it all straight. I know it was Uruguay, Paraguay, or Ecuador.

There's so MUCH going on in Latin America now. Things are coming together so wonderfully, so far.

It would be so worthwhile getting your "take" on ALL these situations.

I didn't even know Brazil had its own kind of reign of terror, too. As you probably noticed long ago, Americans have had almost a complete news blackout on the major, vital news concerning what has been happening in Latin America, from the first. It seems hard to believe, especially considering the fact U.S. citizens were being required to bankroll all the genocidal programs, and the torture instruction and training of militaries and police forces throughout the area.

I'm not using my regular computer at the moment or I would love to find a painting I located which reminded me instantly of a conversation you had wih Maria Lamoretti regarding the torture/murder victims bodies as they appeared in rivers during that time.
It's a man standing on a bridge across the Mapoche River in Santiago looking down at it. I've saved it in files, as it's so expressive.

Just did a quick google, looking for that painting again, and found this article on the Leteliers:

An Exiled Son of Santiago
Tom Hayden
The Nation, 4 April 2005

"Everywhere, begin the remembering."
(from a mural by Francisco Letelier, Venice, California)

~snip~
While his father was missing, Francisco remembers watching Chilean bodies floating in Santiago's central river and experiencing the impact of the military takeover in his school. Eventually, without telling his mother, he stopped attending classes. "For her, it was 'well, at least the kids are still going to school.' That thought still gave her some peace of mind. So I would stay home when she was out or just go over to my grandmother's. It was a little easier for us than it was for our mother because we were still discovering the world for ourselves at this point. Our mother's world, though, had been completely destroyed." After one year of this surreal existence, vigorous Venezuelan diplomacy resulted in the sudden release of Letelier from Dawson Island on the condition that he immediately leave Chile. The family once again began resettling in Caracas, but then Orlando Letelier decided to head for Washington, at the proposal of an American writer, Saul Landau. In 1975 Letelier took a position with the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), where Landau worked at the time, and plunged into writing, speaking and lobbying the US Congress and European governments against the Pinochet regime. He soon became the leading voice of the Chilean resistance. According to John Dinges, who has been following the case for thirty years, Orlando "was on the short list of possible presidents in a post-dictatorial Chile."

http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=letelier-docs_exiledson

How about that, Letelier's son knew Saul Landau. We used to quote his writing regularly in earlier days. What a great authority.

I will locate that painting to post. I had really hoped you'd see it someday because I knew you'd know what it concerned. I posted a photo, once, at CNN showing people standing on the sidewalk, walking along it, looking down into the water at a body of a young man, probably 20's as it simply floated by them. I thought at the time, that anyone who had experienced that situation would feel so completely different from the moment of impact he/she'd never be the same again. It would totally reframe your view of life, and of people instantly, to see life had been taken so cheaply, so casually, to see it in such a way you would never be the same.

Looking forward to what you have found out about that Colombian killing. I have no idea where the "investigation" will lead, considering who's conducting it, but I certainly trust your ability to recognize the truth of the matter, even when they refuse to admit it directly.

Will check back later. It's absolutely wonderful learning you've posted here. It's a BIG big deal.