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Didn't the Bolivian mayor who ordered the machine-gunning of some 30 unarmed peasants in the Bushwhack coup attempt this last September flee to Peru? The corrupt "free tradists" running Peru--Bush buds who have Bush-level approval ratings (25% range)--likely recognize a compadre in Rosales. How do 25 percenter minorities gain political power? Through vast corruption. Rosales and Peru's Alan Garcia would understand each other.**
I also noticed that these scumbags that the Bushwhacks installed in power in Peru were the only South American leaders who did NOT attend the UNASUR meeting, called by Chile's president, Michele Batchelet, to deal with the Bushwhack coup attempt in Bolivia, this last September. UNASUR gave Evo Morales unanimous, strong backing at a critical moment in that situation (just after Morales threw the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of Bolivia). Even Colombia voted with the majority (a fascinating development*). But Peru (an immediate neighbor of Bolivia) was absent! I wondered at the time if Bush crony, Alan Garcia, was complicit in that U.S. embassy funded/organized coup attempt against Morales. Peru is adjacent to Bolivia, and to some of the white separatist-controlled provinces. Paraguay, which is also adjacent, elected its first leftist government, ever, in the run-up to the Bolivian coup attempt (summer '08), thus possibly cutting off one potential avenue of smuggled or overt U.S. military support to the separatist provinces. The other alternative (as to land-locked Bolivia) was Peru. But that avenue may have failed because that area of Peru is not yet fully "pacified" by the U.S. "war on drugs." This doesn't mean that Garcia wasn't willing. He has welcomed radical fascist U.S. military 'solutions' to the drug trade, which, of course, flourishes wherever the U.S. military (and the DEA, the CIA, and USAID) goes. The purpose of the U.S. "war on drugs" is not stopping the drug trade, but, rather, oppressing small organic farmers (largely indigenous), stealing their lands for global corporate predators, driving them from their lands into urban poverty, and killing, torturing and intimidating leftists and the organized poor. This process is not as advanced in Peru as it is in Colombia. There are pockets of resistance in Peru, and there is a strong leftist movement, which almost won the presidency last time around. So, while Peru may not have been able to serve as the pathway of U.S. support to the Bolivian fascists, Garcia could still serve his masters in Washington by not attending the UNASUR meeting. I think, too, it's possible they ordered him to vote against the Morales government, and the other South American leaders were aware of this and advised him not to show up. They chose to act through UNASUR because the U.S. is not a member of UNASUR. (Prior to the formalization of UNASUR, circa May 2008, the South American leaders had to use the informal Rio Group as the forum to prevent a U.S./Bushwhack instigated war between the U.S./Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela, in March 2008. The OAS was a weak player in that situation, precisely because it is dominated by the U.S. But by September 2008, and the U.S./Bushwhack coup attempt in Bolivia, UNASUR was up and running, and its first act was to back Morales. In fact, they are planning to place UNASUR's headquarters in La Paz.)
Given all of this, it does not surprise me that Rosales--a corrupt fascist from Venezuela--has fled to Peru and asked for asylum there. He can't very well flee to Colombia. That would be too obvious. Colombia's military and closely associated death squads, and possibly its president, Alvaro Uribe, have been complicit with the Bushwhacks on assassination and destabilization plots against Venezuela's president and others, and they are in collusion, specifically, with the fascists in Venezuela's oil-rich Zulia province, of which Rosales was/is the leader. But Colombia is trying to whitewash its blood-soaked record, given the new Obama administration, in their lust for "free trade." Harboring Rosales would not have been a good move. And that may be true of Peru as well. It will be interesting to see what they do with Rosales. Colombia and Peru are way outnumbered by leftist governments in South America (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay), so Garcia (whose hold on power in Peru is shaky) may not be able to do this favor for the Bushwacks and the continents' fascists. So...where else for Rosales? Miami? As to harboring criminal fascist refugees, no place has been more welcoming.
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*(That really surprised me. And I've been puzzling over it since then. Perhaps Colombia was/is 'hedging its bets.' UNASUR is first of all a trade group--with plans for a common currency, as well as a common defense (proposed by Brazil). They weren't sure how the wind was blowing in the U.S. They'd placed their money on Clinton (who had a paid agent of the Colombian government--Mark Penn--as her chief campaign adviser), but then Obama won the nomination and the presidency. What would be the fate of the Bushwhack-proposed U.S./Colombia "free trade" deal? If it continued to be defeated by labor Democrats in Congress, Colombia might have to start placing nice with its neighbors, in order to be included in their regional trade deals. It cost Colombia nothing to vote in support of Morales, since all the other leaders were going to do so anyway; and it may have won them some 'brownie points.' It may also have been that Colombia's fascist leaders didn't want the fascists in Bolivia to get control of the oil and gas reserves and drug trade routes in Bolivia--that is, they viewed them as a 'rival gang.' Hard to say. I'm still not sure why Colombia voted with the majority. But it seems to have been Michele Batchelet's doing (leftist president of Chile)--quite a diplomatic triumph.)
**(Paraguay meanwhile rescinded its non-extradition laws, and its immunity for the U.S. military, and elected leftist Fernando Lugo, overturning 61 years of rightwing rule. Paraguay is no longer the haven for fascist criminals, of legend. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would not be welcome there, and would not be safe from extradition.)
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