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to Bushites, and to the U.S. and Colombian war profiteers and police state profiteers. It is also a boon to big drug dealers and weapons traffickers. By spraying toxic poisons on small farmers'--killing their food crops, as well as their few little traditional coca leaf plants, killing animals and damaging human DNA--they drive thousands of small farmers off the land, and into urban shantytown squalor, so the big drug traffickers--including rightwing paramilitary drug traffickers with close ties to the government--and also big agribusiness (Monsanto, Chiquita) can take over the land. Billions of U.S. tax dollars are drained out of the U.S. treasury for this purpose--and into the hands of the worst elements in South American society--at a time when the U.S. is facing a ten trillion dollar deficit, incurred by the Bushites and their many wars, and cannot even afford medical care for our poor children.
The "war on drugs" and the war on FARC and other leftist fighters are very similar. They are a war on the poor. The Colombian military and its closely associated rightwing paramilitary thugs and death squads have tortured and slaughtered thousands of non-combatants--union organizers, small peasant farmers and political leftists. These are the chief targets of all Bushite wars--ordinary citizens simply seeking a peaceful, decent life and desiring, and trying to create, good government. Corporate plunder is achieved by violence, civil chaos, insecurity, fear, disempowerment of the majority, and cruel "divide and conquer" tactics.
And I have no doubt at all that the Bush Junta is pulling Alvaro Uribe's puppet strings, to stop this Chavez peace negotiation. "Follow the money" has always been good advice with Nixonites, Reaganites and Bushites. It is especially true of Bushites in South America, where billions of our tax dollars are not only being poured into brutal oppression, but ALSO into rightwing political groups in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, to destabilize these democracies and try to overthrow them, and restore fascist rule. And one of the reasons for these Bush Junta infusions of POLITICAL money is these governments' opposition to the phony, murderous and neverending U.S. "war on drugs" (war on the poor). Unknown to most U.S. citizens--because of the black holes in the news provided by corporate news monopolies--is that the Bush Junta recently CHANGED the purpose of U.S. "war on drugs" money, in Colombia, to include the war on FARC and ELN (the excuse used for widespread violence against people who have nothing to do with FARC or ELN). The true purpose of these billions of dollars--sold as the "war on drugs"--not just in Colombia, but also in places like Mexico and Guatemala, is thus exposed. It is to fund militarism and the police state against ORDINARY people, such as the teachers' union protesters in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the small farmers' coops and banana workers unions in Colombia.
The Bushites and their global corporate predators pals, and their local South America fascist colluders, DON'T WANT peace, they DON'T WANT good government, they DON'T WANT the empowerment of ordinary people, they DON'T WANT to stop the drugs and weapons trafficking. They PROFIT FROM violence and vast poverty.
Uribe's invitation to Hugo Chavez to mediate the hostage release was one of the best things that had happened in recent Colombian history. It appeared that Uribe was "reading the handwriting on the wall," as to the overwhelming trend toward leftist government and social justice throughout South America, and was both seeking to distance himself from the violent rightwing and the Bush Junta, and was perhaps moved by the notion of Latin American SOVEREIGNTY. (The U.S. "war on drugs," like U.S. corporate-dominated "free trade," is an assault on local self-determination and local control.) But, evidently, this peace initiative has become a casualty of the BAD Colombian military aid package and "free trade" deal that the Bush Junta is trying to ram through Congress. They have kneecapped Uribe. Either he stops peace efforts--and prevents Chavez from gaining prestige as a peace negotiator--or...no deal. All those billions of U.S. tax dollars and corporate profits are at the center of this. Follow the money.
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