"US advisers and technology giving Colombia better human and eavesdropping intelligence"
"Colombia rebel on spot after call to quit; Leads guerrillas who are focus of intense manhunt" by Frank Bajak, Associated Press | June 10, 2008
BOGOTA - The Marxist intellectual who has just taken command of Latin America's last major guerrilla army has been put on the spot by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who is calling on him to abandon armed struggle.
Alfonso Cano and his lieutenants, the subjects of an intense manhunt by Colombia's US-supported military, are believed to be isolated in jungle and mountain hideaways. Their rebels are hunkered down as well, holding scores of hostages as human shields against increasingly successful attacks....
Thus begins the propaganda.
I guess you know which side the AmeriKan War Daily is taking, huh?
Chávez, the main foreign backer of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, urged Cano and his fighters during his weekly television and radio program Sunday to free all their hostages unconditionally and give up their arms.
They say that with absolutely no proof whatsoever -- as if they needed any to promote another war (see Iraq).
Only five months ago, Chávez called on the world to recognize the FARC as a legitimate army. Now he calls their struggle "history."
"At this point in Latin America, an armed guerrilla movement is out of place," he said.
The guerrillas haven't inflicted serious casualties since 2006, the government claims rebel numbers are dwindling and Chávez does have a point: Leftists elsewhere in Latin America have recently seen more success at the ballot box than they ever achieved through armed struggle.
But it's not at all clear whether Cano has inclination - or even the ability - to persuade his rebels to call it quits, especially given Colombia's history of death squad violence against rebels who opt for the ballot box.
How come that never gets a big write-up or expose in the AmeriKan MSM?
(Blog author and commentator just shaking his head)
Can the SELECTIVE CENSORSHIP and AGENDA-PROMOTION be any clearer?!
It also remains unclear whether Chávez will use his ample leverage to pressure the rebels to take his advice. What is clear is that both Cano and Chávez are under pressure as never before.
IF he has any.
With US advisers and technology giving Colombia better human and eavesdropping intelligence than ever, Colombia has pummeled the FARC insurgency.
For the first time in the 44-year war, a member of the FARC's ruling seven-man secretariat was killed in action.
Foreign minister Raul Reyes died in a March 1 cross-border raid into Ecuador and rebel finance chief Ivan Rios was slain a week later by a ransom-seeking bodyguard.
Ecuador = Cambodia, huh?
And the intelligence bonanza Colombia scored in the Reyes raid - laptops containing more than 11,000 electronic documents - have since made a strong case to the world that Chávez has tried to arm and finance the rebels.
Yeah, about those laptops:
"A Colombian antiterrorism officer accessed the computers before they were handed over to Interpol."
Can you say FORGERIES, readers?
Now Chávez has pivoted again.
Pfffft!! I'm sick of the propaganda, folks, I really am!!
"Enough of all this war. The time has come to sit down and talk peace," he said....
I am ALWAYS for THAT!!!!!!
Chávez has ample leverage.
They said it again!!
You know what Hitler said about repeating lies, right, readers?
Notice how Bush and Israel never have leverage over anyone?
We just do it out of the goodness of our hearts, huh?
He could sever ties and expel the FARC from camps on Venezuelan soil, kicking out any secretariat members living semi-permanently in Venezuela. He could offer safe haven to rebels who, without their hostages, fear obliteration by the Colombian military.
Why would they fear retributions? Government keeps saying come on in, it's o.k., no grudges will be held... and then they kill you!
And if Chavez can do that in the mountains, then certainly America can deal with its southern border problem, right?
Without the clear support of Chávez, Venezuela would become less inviting as a conduit for rebel cocaine exports and weapons imports, enabling Colombia to tighten the noose on the FARC.
As if there is no doubt, no question that Chavez's government is doing these things.
And what about the biggest arms-runners and drug-dealers in the world, AP?
You know, AmeriKa's CIA!!!
Where is the story implicating them in the drug trade, huh?
Pfffffftttt!!!!!
Already, Colombian officials say the rebels are down to about 9,000 fighters, half their strength of a decade ago, though no one knows how accurate that assessment is. Colombia also says the rebels are having trouble paying the peasants who grow the coca that finances their struggle....
A US military analyst, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, told the Associated Press yesterday that Cano will probably make a military move to show that the FARC still has some fight left in it.
Yeah, these guys never go away, do they?
Sort of like "Al-CIA-Duh" in Iraq, huh?
Good thing, too, otherwise the U.S. might have to cut back on the military aid!!
Pffffffffffftttttttt!!!!
And mediator Carlos Lozano, who edits the Communist Party weekly Voz, says it's tough to see Cano giving up the fight.
"Everyone in the FARC is a hard-liner, including Cano," he said. "They are all inflexible."They sound like Bush and his neo-con crazies, don't they?
You also must add Argentina to the U.S. hit list now because of Kirchner stiffing interest and debt payments to western banks.
Thus we get this in today's Zionist War Daily:
"Argentine courts let narcotics offenders off without penalty; Officials seek new way to fight abuse" by Monte Reel, Washington Post | June 10, 2008
BUENOS AIRES - After getting caught with contraband like ecstasy tablets and marijuana, a few young Argentines have been asked by judges recently to pay an unexpected price for breaking the nation's drug laws: none at all.
That's because separate federal tribunals here have ruled that a law penalizing the personal use of drugs is unconstitutional. Two offenders have been let off the hook in Buenos Aires. And this week another group of judges echoed the ruling after considering the case of a young man arrested with marijuana.
"Criminalization will only apply in cases where the possession of narcotics for personal consumption represents a danger for the public health of others," the judges announced.
It's called FREEEEEE-DOM!!!!!!!!
The rulings come as Argentina's government is trying to come up with a new way to handle a growing domestic drug abuse problem. In the past few years, the local media has been chronicling the rise of paco, a smokable form of cocaine.
You mean, CRACK?!
Gee, we know whose behind that epidemic, don't we (google Gary Webb)?
It's cheap, highly addictive, and readily accessible, and it has flourished in this city's villas miserias, the shambolic slums that proliferated after the country's economic collapse in 2001.
Some high-level government officials say the current laws penalize only the victims of drug abuse - addicts who need treatment - and take the focus off the true criminals, namely, the traffickers. While a legislative panel works to propose a rewrite of the drug laws with that argument in mind, the judges have chosen not to wait for a new law to be passed.
Those judges are the targets of praise and condemnation from social critics who interpret the ruling as an example of modern enlightenment or an invitation for things to get out of control.
"This criterion fits in well with the laws of more civilized nations," Daniel Sabsay, an Argentine constitutional scholar, told Buenos Aires's Clarin newspaper. "I believe that with this, the sense of a broadening of freedom is respected."
Then there are such critics as Claudio Mate, a former health minister for the province of Buenos Aires, who told reporters the trend threatened to create the "absurdity that we would have more regulations for smokers of tobacco than for consumers of cocaine."
He and others have predicted spiraling rates of drug use, particularly among teenagers.
Why do these assholes assume that every one is going to rush out to the most extreme levels of behavior, readers?
If they legalized poison tomorrow, would you run out and buy some?
I'm TIRED of stink shit agenda pushers hollering wolf, aren't you?
"Imagine how bad it could be if the state were to renounce even further its punitive power," Roberto Castellano, president of Pro-Life Argentina, said in a news release criticizing legalization efforts.
Why not?
They are looking to take it away from juries here in AmeriKa every day!!!!
Those naysayers seem to be swimming against the prevailing tide, however, which has been moving toward a change for several months. This year, Anibal Fernandez, Argentina's highly influential minister of justice, security, and health, publicly denounced Argentina's current drug laws as a "catastrophe."
Translation: The forces of freedom are winning!!!!
Then, yeah, the U.S. does need to wage war on them, doesn't it?
Fernandez pointed to neighbors Brazil and Uruguay as examples of countries where punishments against consumers have been relaxed without experiencing an upsurge in casual drug use."
See?
