Anti-Bush Protests in Uruguay

[Joanne98]

Anti-Bush Protests in Uruguay

Montevideo, Feb 27 (Prensa Latina) Repudiation by Uruguayan social sectors of US President George W. Bush visit to that nation March 9 will take the form of demonstrations in and outside the capital, it was announced on Tuesday.

Bush visit to Uruguay will be part of a Latin American tour that will also take him to Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.

Daniel De Souza, secretary general of FUCVAM (National Federation of Housing Cooperatives for Mutual Assistance), confirmed that protests at Bush s presence in Uruguay will also be held in the province of Colonia, 112 miles west of Montevideo.

For his part, union leader Juan Castillo said that the Uruguayan people consider the US president persona non grata for his genocide of thousands of innocent people in the occupation wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The political board of the governing Frente Amplio also rejected Bush s "warmongering and human rights violating" policy on Monday, but made it clear that the president s visit takes place "within the framework" of Uruguay s policy to "expand trade relations with the rest of the world."

In January, the Frente Amplio governing coalition signed an Agreement on Trade and Investment that many analysts have described as the prelude of a bilateral free trade agreement.

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PL-53
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={581EEEB5-E4D1-40FD-8CB7-7737C28A7AC8})&language=EN

Bush is so popular, I'm really surprised that someone hasn't nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize!

[enid602]

1. protests

Colonia, UR is across the Mar del Plata from Buenos Aires; wonder if the protests will spill over into Argentina.

[Joanne98]

2. I'd like to see Bush get his ass kicked in Brazil....

But I don't think it's going to happen. Lula is providing massive security.

[Joanne98]

3. Damn. None of these links are working. I think they changed to

registration.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Gee, and the memory of Richard M. Nixon's CIA sadist who tortured Uruguay's

dissidents is still fresh in their minds:

Uruguay 1964-1970
Torture - as American as apple pie
excerpted from the book
Killing Hope
by William Blum

~snip~
Dan Mitrione had built a soundproofed room in the cellar of his house in Montevideo.

In this room he assembled selected Uruguayan police officers to observe a demonstration of torture techniques. Another observer was Manuel Hevia Cosculluela, a Cuban who was with the CIA and worked with Mitrione. Hevia later wrote that the course began with a description of the human anatomy and nervous system.

Soon things turned unpleasant. As subjects for the first testing they took beggars ... from the outskirts of Montevideo, as well as a woman apparently from the frontier area with Brazil. There was no interrogation, only a demonstration of the effects of different voltages on the different parts of the human body, as well as demonstrating the use of a drug which induces vomiting-I don't know why or what for-and another chemical substance. The four of them died.

In his book Hevia does not say specifically what Mitrione's direct part in all this was but he later publicly stated that the OPS chief "personally tortured four beggars to death with electric shocks''.
On another occasion, Hevia sat with Mitrione in the latter's house, and over a few drinks the American explained to the Cuban his philosophy of interrogation. Mitrione considered it to be an art. First there should be a softening-up period, with the usual beatings and insults. The object is to humiliate the prisoner, to make him realize his helplessness, to cut him off from reality. No questions, only blows and insults. Then, only blows in silence.
Only after this, said Mitrione, is the interrogation. Here no pain should be produced other than that caused by the instrument which is being used. "The precise pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired effect," was his motto.

During the session you have to keep the subject from losing all hope of life, because this can lead to stubborn resistance. "You must always leave him some hope ... a distant light . "
"When you get what You want, and I always get it," Mitrione continued, "it may be good to prolong the session a little to apply another softening-up. Not to extract information now, but only as a political measure, to create a healthy fear of meddling in subversive activities. "
The American pointed out that upon receiving a subject the first thing is to determine his physical state, his degree of resistance, by means of a medical examination. "A premature death means a failure by the technician ... It's important to know in advance if we can permit ourselves the luxury of the subject's death.''
(snip/...)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Uruguay_KH.html



Dan Mitrione, Sr.

More:
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2005-08-11/news/finding-gary-part-2/

[goforit]

5. Unfortunately Bush won't get the message.