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Which, of course, is why the narco-thugs running the US client state of Colombia accuse Ecuador's leftist government of being 'terrorist lovers.' The people of Ecuador have long opposed the U.S. military base at Manta, Ecuador, as a violation of their sovereignty. They've done the long hard work on their democratic institutions that allowed them to elect a president and a government that actually represents the interests of the majority. Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, promised to evict the U.S. military from the Manta base when its lease was up this year, and he just fulfilled that promise. He said that he would agree to a U.S. military base on Ecuadoran soil when the U.S. allows Ecuador to place a military base in Miami! Very sharp guy (and often funny*)--hated, loathed, demonized and psyoped by our Bushwhacks.
Ecuador's other "crime" is having lots and lots of oil, now in the control of democratic leaders who believe in social justice and government "of, by and for" the people of Ecuador.
You may not have heard of any of this from our corpo/fascist press, but Ecuador is the Bushwhacks' other main target country in their oil war plan for South America-- Venezuela, of course, being no. 1. Both are members of OPEC. Both have lots and lots of oil, with the main oil provinces of both right on Colombia's borders. And both have committed the grave "crime" of electing leftist governments that believe in using the oil profits to benefit the poor.
You think these seven new U.S. military bases in Colombia are about the "war on drugs" and FARC guerillas--whom the Colombia military claims to have defeated and who are now suing for peace? Ha, ha on you. The Bushwhacks--who are still in charge of U.S.-Latin American policy, no matter what Obama says, do not squander $6 BILLION lootable tax dollars on the social good of stopping the drug traffic--in which they have not even made a dent. They have other designs, and they are probably profiting nicely from the drug traffic, as well as from all the latest no-bid military contracts. Nope, the Bushwhacks are squandering $6 BILLION of money we don't have--our children's children's money--on military aid to Colombia alone (not counting the BILLIONS more for U.S. operations at seven new military bases in Colombia) in order to create a launching pad for Oil War II. Chavez is quite right about this, and we had best pay attention and find out as much as we can. Not that we can stop it. We probably can't. But at least we can protest it, and not let it be done in our name without strongly contradicting that lie.
There have already been several test runs of military systems. The US/Colombia bombing/raid on Ecuador early last year was one. The use of a civil war scenario in Bolivia, last September, was another. Correa said there is a three-country civil war plan--Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador. Fascist politicians openly talk of secession in Venezuela's and Ecuador's oil rich provinces, which border Colombia. And of course the Bushwhacks were running the white separatists' civll war eruption in Bolivia, late last year, right out of the U.S. embassy. (--that is why Bolivia's president kicked the US ambassador out of Bolivia.)
Donald Rumsfeld (yup, the very same), in his 12/1/07 op-ed in the Washington Post (a year after he resigned from the Pentagon), entitled "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez," suggested this scenario, when he urged "swift action" by the US in support of (Bushwhack) "friends and allies" in South America. I believe he was talking about the fascists within these countries, who are plotting secessionist insurrections. And, sure enough, nine months later, this scenario was played out in Bolivia. (What was Rumsfeld doing, interesting himself in another oil source, a year after his retirement?)
I said that we probably can't stop it. And I'm afraid that's true. But the South Americans are not stupid, and they are increasingly well-organized, well-coordinated and determined to protect each other's sovereignty, and their common goals of peace, democracy and social justice. When Morales threw the US ambassador (and the DEA--also collusive) out of Bolivia last year, Chile's president, Michele Batchelet, called an emergency meeting of the newly formalized South American "common market," UNASUR, and backed up Morales 100%. Brazil has called for a common defense. Brazil's president has said that the Bushwhacks' reconstitution of the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean is a threat to Brazil's oil fields. (Everybody south of the border knows that it is a threat to Venezuela, whose main oil reserves are on its Caribbean coast, adjacent to Colombia).
So there is hope. Our job, as US citizens, is to expose these facts as well as we can, to understand the demonization of Chavez (and of Correa) for what it is--pre-war psyops--to understand events like the recent rightwing coup in Honduras (--a Bushwhack operation, involving John McCain, John Negroponte and others, to first of all retain Honduras as a strategic US military location, with a US military base--that the ousted president, Zelaya, wanted to convert to a commercial airport--a long coast on the Caribbean and access to the Pacific), and to warn our own people, so they won't be totally flabbergasted to find themselves in another oil war.
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*(When Correa was running for president, and was asked about Hugo Chavez's remark to the UN that Bush is "the devil," he replied that it was "an insult to the devil." He'd been running neck and neck with Ecuador's richest banana magnate. His numbers soared after this remark. I don't know how much this reply was responsible for it, but Correa won big, by nearly 60% of the vote.)
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