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Corporate Terrorism in Colombia

category international | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday October 12, 2005 01:28author by Robbie Sinnottauthor address Ireland Report this post to the editors

and US military designs on Venezuela

a 17min mp3 interview with eye-witnesses (128kbps/FM broadcastable).

to listen directly on broadband, click
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/2005.9.29.witnessforpeace.mp3

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An interview with Amanda Martin (Witness for Peace) and Oscar Cañas Fajardo (a petroleum worker from Colombia).

Eye-witness accounts of
* the onslought of Occidental (LA-based oil company) in Colombia;

* US military designs on Venezuela.

* the shady connections of the Colombian Government

* the plight of indigenous and black Colombians.

* How FARC gain respect through fear; but

* how Colombia is disguised as a democracy and the judiciary are NOT independent.

First broadcast live on Thur September 29th, 2005, on Near FM's 'Majority World'. webcasting on http://www.nearfm.ie

Related Link: http://www.witnessforpeace.org
author by RobbieSpublication date Wed Oct 12, 2005 23:48author email robbiesin at gmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Amanda Martin says in the interview that there are 300 US marines on the Colombian border with Venezuela and that the right-wing paramilitaries are buying up land on both sides of the border to facilitate drugs trafficing - a pretext for invasion.

US military is heavily tied down in Iraq, but with popularity flagging, an invasion of Venezuela in the run-up to the 2008 Presidential Slections in the US may be a way in which the crazies hope to boost their popularity.

Unlike Iraq, 158,000 US soldiers wouldn't be needed to hold the country. The population is not as dispersed and not as willing to sacrifice for the mobilising force of Islam. A third of Venezuelans (Middle Class) would actively welcome a US intervention, and the US army's grasp of Spanish would be immeasurably better than its ignorance of Arabic.

A space worth watching, that's all.

 
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