U.S. wants Colombia to extradite militia boss

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post/Reuters

U.S. wants Colombia to extradite militia boss

By Patrick Markey
Reuters
Monday, August 27, 2007; 4:25 PM

BOGOTA (Reuters) - The United States has asked Colombia to extradite a former paramilitary boss after he violated a peace deal by organizing cocaine shipments from his jail cell, the government said on Monday.

Carlos Mario Jimenez was a top militia leader before joining a deal that offered commanders short jail terms and protection from extradition in return for disarming around 31,000 fighters, giving full confessions and renouncing crime.
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"It will play well with Democrats in Congress who are concerned Uribe has been too lenient with the paramilitaries," said Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin American program at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Uribe has been hit by a scandal linking some of his lawmaker allies to paramilitary death squads and Democrats discussing a new aid package for Washington's key Andean partner want to see him do more to control the militias.




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[Peace Patriot]

1. Lordy, lordy, I feel like there are miles and miles and miles of foul muck

beneath the thin, crusty, unreliable surface of this article. Step through it at any point and you will find yourself drowning in Bushite/Clintonite/"free trade"/"war on drugs"/rightwing paramilitary stench--the body parts of union organizers chainsawed to death and thrown into mass graves, the blood and shit and urine and rotting bodies of thousands of tortured and murdered peasant farmers, community organizers and political leftists, the detritus of poor peoples' farm animals and crops poisoned with toxic (made in the U.S.) pesticides, the smell of millions of lives destroyed by major drug cartel trafficking with the U.S. "war on drugs" as the protector of the biggest criminals, the sweat of workers under the lash of Chiquita Banana and other "free traders" (global corporate predators), the bodies buried in the banana fields, the assassination and destabilization plots hatched in Colombia among the beneficiaries of our largess against neighboring democracies (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador), and the billions and billions of misspent, diverted, unaccountable U.S. taxpayer dollars used to enrich the rich and the criminal, and to kill and oppress the poor, and NOT used HERE, to help the poor HERE--Katrina victims, outsourcing victims, millions with no health care, millions losing their homes, millions in debt to usurious credit card banks, while the Bushites and collusive Democrats lard the rich with multiple tax cuts, and borrow against Social Security and government pension funds to keep killing Iraqis until they sign over their oil rights.

A stench that would put a grin on the face of Lucifer!

"Uribe has been hit by a scandal linking some of his lawmaker allies to paramilitary death squads..."

Step into it: "Uribe (Bush's pal) has been hit by a (humongous) scandal (uncovered by courageous prosecutors, judges and human rights activists at the risk of their lives) linking some of his lawmaker allies (the chief of the military, the former head of intelligence, and many Uribe office holders including relatives) to paramilitary death squads (thousands tortured and killed)..." (my parentheses) ...

...and the Democratic leadership wants to cover up this staggering misuse of U.S. taxpayer dollars--which the few real Democrats in Congress are trying to stop--by laundering one of its criminals through the fascist Bush "justice system," a scheme that I have little doubt is intended to SHUT Carlos Mario Jimenez UP, to STEM THE FLOW of revelations from these rightwing thugs that are coming out of the "truth and reconciliation" process. Anybody who thinks that the Bush Cartel or its Democratic Party enablers are going to let this country-sized pustule of misrule burst in the United States, and splatter its foul contents on our own corrupt political establishment is very naive, indeed.

This is a cover up. ("Democrats discussing a new aid package for Washington's key Andean partner..."). Colombia is a "free trade"/war profiteer boondoggle. The fact that Colombia, the WORST government in South America, is "Washington's key Andean partner" is one of the biggest scandals of the Bush Junta. They have been larding billions and billions of our tax dollars on this reprobate fascist government while plotting the overthrow of the Andean DEMOCRACIES, the countries MOST deserving of our aid and our favor, where they have clean elections, where the people rule, where the governments are HELPING the poor, and where the malevolent U.S. "war on drugs" and ruinous U.S. "free trade"/World Bank institutions are being driven out. The Bush State Dept., the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, and corporate 'Democrats' hate and revile these democracies and want them gone, and want to replace them with rightwing dictatorships for the profit of U.S. corporations and to keep the war profiteers who are supplying U.S. "war on drugs" military equipment and bases in clover.

Colombia, the dinosaur of the continent, is one of the few places where the U.S. military and U.S.-based mercenaries can operate freely, and where U.S. military bases are welcome. It is one of the last places where "free trade" (global corporate predation) is still rampant. And it is one of the key launching pads for plots to TOPPLE neighboring democracies, in order to STOP the governments of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador from benefiting the people with their rich oil, gas, minerals, forests, fresh water and other natural resources. Colombia is grand central for fascist plots throughout the region. And trying to "save" Colombia as our "key ally" for corporate predator plans for South America--by extraditing one expendable criminal among many (and ignoring all the principles here and there)--is just about as cynical as things get in Washington DC.

Cynthia Arnson of the Woodrow Wilson Center says it best, but still it just skims over the truth: "It will play well with Democrats..."

It will play well.

Beware of the laundering, skimming, deodorizing, lying, disinformationist editing and news writing at the Washington Post!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Flawless work on the subject. Coming back to read this later when I can really concentrate.

Be sure your words don't fall unheeded here. You have a TON of readers.

Marvel continuously at your ability to work with so much information, and I'm so glad you have captured what it is our own media try so hard to bury. They just don't want to worry our "pretty little heads" with the truth.

This deserves at LEAST two good readings.