Wednesday 16 March 2011

Columbia

News from Alex Constantine about events in Columbia, a company found to be hiring mercenaries to patrol their territory, and more specifically to be hiring the local murderous paramilitaries to kill their enemies, several dozen innocent civilians included.

Not a first, the corruption and death of Columbia isn't due to any inherent flaw in its people, but the intrusion of the West. The drug money, the drug cartels run by the CIA (see Barry and the Boys, Daniel Hopsicker)...

The first "person" caught under the post-9/11 anti-terror-funding laws was Chiquita, once upon a time the United Fruit Company, famed for theatrically subverting the democratic government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala, who had been sending the empty banana boats south loaded up with weapons for the right-wing paramilitaries. In return the paramilitaries kept order, by slaughtering attempted Trade Unionists and dissentient farmers. Funnily enough they gave up on the policy of monopolising land, which caused them to get rid of Arbenz, years ago and now let the natives own the land and kill them if they do anything but grow bananas for a pittance. Stops any sort of rebellion based on land redistribution.

BP, also, have had a bit of bother, being sued in Columbia, but happily being able to intimidate the natives so much that the lawyer of the farmers victimised by BP had to flee the country to London to avoid being killed.

The transnational elites.

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