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We have got to understand this. The U.S. "war on drugs" is one front of a larger war the intention of which is to create MAYHEM in countries that U.S.-based transglobal corporations want to control--for their resources, for their slave labor or for other political/economic reasons.
It is one tool in an arsenal aimed at other peoples' democracies (and our own).
The murder and mayhem in Mexico has been deliberately induced, just as it has been in Colombia--and the inducement method is the U.S. "war on drugs," which works hand in glove with the Pentagon and all of its war profiteers to expand the U.S. corporate empire--acquire client states, subdue its citizens and their desires for democracy and social justice, and plant the U.S. boot everywhere they can, with U.S. military bases, "forwarding operating locations" and military "interoperability" agreements with bought-and-paid for client state governments.
The U.S. has larded $7 BILLION in military aid on Colombia, without even denting the cocaine trade, and the result has been the slaughter of thousands of trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, community activists, journalists, political leftists and peasant farmers--by the Colombian military (about half the murders) and its closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads--and the displacement of FIVE MILLION peasant farmers, by state terror--THE worst human displacement crisis on earth.
And the cocaine just keeps on flowing.
The main purpose of this $7 BILLION in U.S. taxpayer money was to bolster--encourage, fund, arm--the worst elements of Colombian's fascist elite to conduct a political "cleansing" in preparation for U.S. "free trade for the rich."
It has also netted the Pentagon about a dozen military bases in Colombia, a strong foothold and launching pad for further aggression, and many lucrative opportunities for its war profiteer 'contractors.'
The mayhem between drug lords is pretty much over. The protected and preferred drug lords--the ones tied to the government (and to elements within our own)--have won. That was another purpose of the U.S. "war on drugs" in Colombia--to gain control of the cocaine revenue stream (trillions of dollars), by cutting out the leftist FARC guerrillas, and any independent entrepreneurs, and securing this vast source of illicit money for the rich elite, the Bush Cartel, the CIA and whoever else has a hand in this "war" (probably elements in the Pentagon and the DEA and their 'contractors', and of course the banksters).
Blackwater was recently "fined" by the U.S. State Department for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" (don't know who) IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan." So we can just imagine what has been going on in Colombia as to lucrative opportunities for Pentagon 'contractors.' (i think the word "unauthorized" is a lie and that this was a coverup of what are probably many Bush Junta war crimes in Colombia.)
The political aim of the U.S. "war on drugs" (murder and mayhem) in Colombia is obvious, and is right next door, in Venezuela, with their democratic government and social justice programs. The U.S. aim is to destroy democracy and social justice, wherever it arises, and this aim extends northward and southward to other leftist democracies--particularly Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras (until the U.S.-backed rightwing coup--"Mission Accomplished"), El Salvador, Guatemala.
One of the coup generals in Honduras stated that their coup was intended to "prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States" (--quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile). "Communism" = honest, transparent elections; high voter turnouts and public participation; workers rights, good wages and benefits; universal free medical care; free education through college; pensions for the elderly poor, et al, "government of, by, for the people."
Colombia has been created as a monstrous bullwark AGAINST the leftist democracy movement that has swept Latin America--with leftist governments elected in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and an almost in Mexico. In 2005, the leftists came within a hairsbreadth (0.05%) of winning the presidency of Mexico, which would have brought the leftist democracy revolution right to the border of the U.S. Thus, "Plan Merida"--billions of U.S. tax dollars to Mexico's fascist government and military elite--just as with "Plan Colombia"--to CREATE the mayhem and murder that makes democracy impossible.
Mexico is being turned into another Colombia.
The political goal to destroy Mexican democracy. The narrative of our corpo-fascist press--that this is about drug gang fighting drug gang--is an extremely superficial and extremely misleading and even delusional narrative. It is like fascist prison guards stoking up a fight among prison gangs--for purposes of control or corruption or entertainment. You have to look at the CONTEXT. If you don't grasp the context, you will entirely miss what is really going on.
Control of land and resources and creation of a slave labor force are at issue in both countries--Colombia and Mexico. These are the things at issue in the entire struggle between Latin American democrats and the U.S. corporate monolith. The trick is how to enrich the few in these countries so that they will war against the many, on behalf of U.S.-based transglobal corporations that have no loyalty to any country or people. They just use our tax money and our military resources for their purposes--(we, too, have a lackey government--like Colombia and Mexico)--as they rip up other peoples' countries and rob them blind.
So, it is no surprise to me that the drug gangs in Mexico have been supplied with weapons by the U.S. "military-industrial complex." I would have guessed it, I think before there was even evidence, because that is what happens when you flood a society with military aid amidst bullshit about solving a social problem (the drug trade). It just increases everybody's fire power which feeds the bloodshed and mayhem purposes of the money.
I am going to repeat my charge: The U.S. intended to create bloody mayhem in Mexico with its infusion of billions of dollars in "war on drugs" money and has NO intention of stopping the drug trade or the gang tribal warfare. The POINT is to escalate the mayhem for political/corporate gain, on top of war profiteering and controlling the cocaine profits.
This is the most disgusting thing I know about my own government--aside from the slaughter of a hundred thousand innocent Iraqis in the bombing of Baghdad and torturing prisoners. It is a horror almost beyond describing.
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