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    South America’s New Militarism

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    South America’s New Militarism
    By Raúl Zibechi | July 18, 2005



    South American societies are militarizing as a result of the regional superpower’s intervention, which is undoubtedly a crucial factor on the continent, but also as a consequence of the profound economic and political changes we have come to call neoliberalism.

    Several months ago, an official Brazilian commission visited Vietnam. With the goal of “sharing information about resistance doctrine,� the commission composed of colonels and lieutenant-colonels visited Hanoi, Ho Chi Min City (formerly Saigon), and the Cu Chi Province, where 250 kilometers (150 miles) of underground tunnels constructed during the war with the United States still remain. On the Brazilian army’s webpage, Gen. Claudio Barbosa Figuereido, head of the Amazon Military Command, asserts that Brazil will face actions similar to those that have taken place in Vietnam, and now in Iraq, should the Amazon come into conflict:

    The resistance strategy does not differ much from guerrilla warfare, and it is an option the army will not hesitate to adopt facing a confrontation with another country or group of countries with greater economic and military power.� He added, “The jungle itself should serve as an ally in combating the invader.�1 The news had little impact on the media, but it demonstrates that Brazil’s armed forces have their own strategic plans and that they see the United States as a potential military enemy.

    Last December, Venezuela signed an agreement with Russia to purchase 110,000 Kalashnikov rifles; 33 assault, attack, and heavy transport helicopters, and 50 fighter bombers. It signed another with Spain to acquire naval aeronautical material, including four corvettes; and it signed one with Brazil for 50 training and combat jets. The purchases form part of “the constant updating of the Venezuelan armed forces, their high level of maintenance, and permanent plans for modernization and arms acquisition,� the South American Military Balance study states.2

    The news was received with strong criticism from White House Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the Department of State calls it “the beginning of an arms race.� For its part, the South American nation activated its reserve command last April, “which should reach 2 million members and is included in Venezuela’s new doctrine of defense.�3 The decision was made on April 13, the three-year anniversary of the coup d’etat that drove Hugo Chavez from office during a period of several hours.

    Media sources say that Peter Goss, director of the CIA, announced last February to a United States Senate commission that the agency has “evidence� of meetings between the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) and Osama Bin Laden’s Islamic network to coordinate terrorist attacks in the region.4 According to this version, the “terrorist threat� looms large in Latin America, as evidenced by the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and the Jewish solidarity institution AMIA in Buenos Aires, carried out in the 1990s, in which hundreds of people died.

    Taken out of context, these three pieces of newsâ€â€
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    Washington which means the United States needs to stay the hell out of Latin America. Our US Government and its ties with Globalists, wealthy elites around the world, are going to start WWIII if we don't put an end to this nonsense. American interests want to maintain the "Andes as a biosphere". Americans destroyed every beautiful biosphere we had in our huge country and now we're going to take over Latin America's Rain Forest? Why? I'll tell you why.....to control the pharmaceutical secrets of the Rain Forest.

    These are not our Rain Forests. We had some and we destroyed ours. These Rain Forests belong to Columbia and Latin American countries. They need to be encouraged to develop through their own scientists the many pharmaceutical secrets of the Rain Forest.

    Americans need to reach out to the people of these countries, not through our despicable government, but directly as Citizens. Americans need to let the citizens of these other nations know that we believe it is in our interest that the local economies of these other nations find their own path to good development on their own through their own new ideas and inventions because left to their own devices, they will be better custodians of the land and their people than the United States.

    We need to focus on creating our own contributions to the ecological improvement of our lands and our people and do this poste haste.

    Our System is the best gift that we can offer to any nation. Our System is the best in the world for advancing people and lands and our environment when it is compliant with our laws and the Will of the American People. For EPA compliance to postponed for decades in the United States has jeopardized the welfare of mankind and we need to correct this immediately. Our Government is absolutely incompetent. It can not seem to find a way to enforce immigration law, labor law, civil rights law, environmental law. There is no excuse....none whatsoever for the adverse impact on our citizens, our country, our nation, and the world of these violations of American Law. It is an illegal defiance by federal workers and elected representatives of our Will in direct violation of sworn oaths, duties, honor, integrity, and threatens the welfare of the people of the United States and people around the world.

    Our System doesn't work if it's not enforced.

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