Rumsfeld in regional talks (In Quito, Equador...)

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tue, Nov. 16, 2004




ECUADOR


Rumsfeld in regional talks

BY PABLO BACHELET

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QUITO - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and counterparts from Latin America will kick off a meeting today to discuss Haiti's crisis and a U.S.-backed suggestion that the military work more closely with the police to fight new threats like transnational youth gangs.

Rumsfeld also will use the ministerial meeting in Ecuador to gently encourage his counterparts to further coordinate their security efforts to face what he calls ``the problems and challenges of the 21st century.''

The region is struggling with rising crime, unstable governments, drug trafficking and concerns that terrorists could take advantage of Latin America's vast ungoverned spaces, Pentagon officials say.

''But if you think about it, no country, including the United States, or any other country in the world, can deal with these problems alone,'' Rumsfeld told journalists. ``Because these problems are not contained in any national boundary. That would be too easy.''

Rumsfeld will meet today with defense ministers from Argentina, Brazil, and a delegation of Central Americans. He will attend the inaugural plenary session Wednesday and return to Washington later that day, although the conference ends Friday.
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[colonel odis]

1. could he be preparing them to invade venezuela? n/t

[luaneryder]

2. I don't think ther's any doubt

the US will be going into SA or LA in the next few years. During training at the Defense Information School 20 years ago there was a "list" referred to by the senior officers when lecturing about future warfare; the first area ME, the second SA/LA. Looks like it wasn't just hot air after all.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Bush has had his State Department doing a lot of LOUD saber rattling

at Hugo Chavez, without interruption AFTER they funded the coup attempt ( and the grotesque attempt to shut down the Supreme Court, the National Assembly, the Constitution, and one other HUGE item I can't remember) and the strikes, and _Bush has had his creeps like Otto Reich and John Bolton and Roger Noriega issuing threats throughout the Western hemisphere, especially at Cuba.

They have bullied Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, and presumed as far as to tell Néstor Kirchner he'd better stay away from Hugo Chavez, basically. They have bullied and intimidated the small Caribbean islands which have done business with Cuba, and threatened retaliation against one of them, I think Bermuda (?)for considering selling its fleet of old buses to Cuba for the use by the Cuban people. They have done similar things to Jamaica, etc.

Sure hope they will NOT be able to realize their vicious dreams of subjugating the entire world. I thoroughly believe they intend to do it if the much weaker, much less fortified nations can't prevent it.

Respect for other people will simply not be allowed. It's a joke with these creeps. I'm certain they are hot to spill Latin American blood all over the place, once they can figure out the plan.

[VivaKerry]

4. Adios, Presidente Chavez! n/t

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[cubsfan forever]

5. Thanks for the post

but those pictures soured my coffee!

Professor 2