Peru’s defense minister denies installation of U.S. military base

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Journal Peru

Peru’s defense minister denies installation of U.S. military base

Posted by Wolfy Becker on April 4th, 2007


Allan Wagner: No plans for U.S. military base in Peru

(JP-wb) — Peru’s defense minister Allan Wagner denied rumors that a U.S. military base will soon be installed in Peruvian territory, saying the subject was never discussed during his last visit to Washington.

“I strongly deny that the installation of a U.S. military base in Peru is on our agenda. That is just not true”, he declared in a Peruvian radio program.

He also described rumors spread by Peru’s media as “absurd” that the installation of a military base is one of the conditions for the approval of a Free Trade agreement by U.S. Congress.
(snip)

The minister stated that during his visit to the United States he suggested the resumption of collaboration programs in the Defense sector, especially those that help the Peruvian Navy in their fight against drug trafficking on open seas and Peruvian rivers, adding that past programs showed very positive results.



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[Cha]

1. Good~ I don't want the US

Military installed down there in South America..leave them the fuck alone.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. When do we invade?

[Judi Lynn]

3. You have to wonder how the story got started. Can't be simple idle speculation.

Most people are far too busy to invent stories.

[ohio2007]

5. How it got started was most likely the articles about the Peruvian president being anti-drug

smuggling.
His stand about wiping out the cocaine export production business was posted somewhere on this forum.
I posted on that thread he will make enemies on the home front and would be living on borrowed time...without friends to back up his anti drug policies that is

[Judi Lynn]

6. Good memory! I just found that thread. Remember seeing your post, too.

Cocaine labs should be bombed: Peru's president
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2791431

That seems such a stupid, brutal idea, bombing drug places in his own country. He does seem to be wanting to get some brownie points going with _Bush and maybe replace Uribe as the 3rd largest foreign aid recipient of U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars.

[ohio2007]

7. A lot of threads could be combined. It's the spin of peoples comments that change

with the point of view as the story evolves into how things could get done;

They could put a stop to ALL of their demand
and it wouldn't put a dent in the general global demand for the product. Peru can't stop the real demand (Europe and the USA)
and
the cartels and traffickers are very dangerous, so what else can they do?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2791431


Now enter the US planes that drop agent orange ....and we are damned if we do...damned if we don't and the president in Peru is a marked man anyway.
The drug problem is on everybody's shoulders,everybody is to blame from all point along the drug pipeline.
The sobering reality is this;
From the farmer to the addict,nobody is innocent in the war on drugs.
Nobody.

( I'm sure to be flamed for my view. So be it )

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Ok so it isn't a FOB. Perhaps it is just a CSL?

There are lots of terms the military uses to provide just this sort of cover to the local and compromised government. A Cooperative Security Location would allow the defense minister to claim 'not a base' when of course that would be exactly what it is.