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BBC "Jamaica awaits first woman leader ... Simpson Miller has strong popular appeal after years in politics Jamaica is to swear in its first female Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller 
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  • Pinochet, Operation Condor, 1970's plan by military dictatorships to get rid of leftist opposition.  Kissinger.  Pinochet deposited $4-8 million in Riggs Bank.
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  • EIR This is the crowd that brought us the overthrow of President Alberto Fujimori in Peru, funneling $1 million from Soros into the campaign coffers of Fujimori's replacement, Alejandro Toledo, and which helped fund and trigger the latest bloodletting in Bolivia (see article page 44).  ... and and the role of Soros' money in stopping Peruvian President Fujimori's successful war against the narco-terrorists in Peru, Thompson came to the fact that Soros had given a $10 million subsidy to the CAP, co-sponsor of the Washington event. Finally, noting that Soros, by hard accounting, had given another $10 million to legalize narcotics in the United States, Thompson asked the panelists, "Do you want to rebuild the Democratic Party with drug money?"   go to Poverty / Soros / Obama   NFU
  • VQR 9/14/2007 Virginia Quarterly Review: [The Octopus is United Fruits, renamed Chiquita Brands to avoid the connotations of its monstruous history, some of which is discussed in this article. The Cathedral of Salt is a famous cathedral in Bogota.] - "Although the FARC is involved deeply in the business, it is the right-wing AUC that worked closely with the cartels to organize the smuggling system. Coca growers, who are usually poor peasants or campesinos, earn the least of all… In a front-page deal reached with the US government this year, Chiquita pleaded guilty to making millions of dollars in payments to a group on the State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations: the AUC. Lawyers for the company argued that they were forced into the making payments out of fear for the safety of its workers. Chiquita also admitted that they had a similar arrangement with the FARC. The result of the plea deal was a $25 million fine for a business that earned $3.9 billion in revenue in 2006, and there were no charges filed over the weapons shipment. It is not surprising that Chiquita Brands was forced to make protection payments to armed groups operating around their plantations, but that is not the entire story."
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  • On July 11, 1990, Gary Caradori was killed along with his 6-year old son in the crash of his small plane, after a mid-air explosion, the cause of which was never discovered. He had told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he was afraid his plane would be sabotaged. GeorgeWalkerBush, death list
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  • RaidersNewsNetwork "Another compelling tie between the CNP and GOP deviant sex rings is Covenant House. According to DeCamp, Covenant House was used to acquire children for pedophilia. The former Nebraska senator provides the following description: 
    Lauded by the Reagan and Bush Administrations as a showcase for the privatization of social service, Covenant House had expanded into Guatemala as a gateway to South America. According to intelligence community sources, the purpose was procurement of children from South America for exploitation in a pedophile ring. The flagship Guatemalan mission of Covenant House was launched by a former business partner of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, Roberto Alejos Arzu, who had ties to the CIA, according to the Village Voice of Feb. 20, 1990. The Voice quoted Jean-Marie Simon, author of Guatemala: Eternal, Spring, Eternal Tyranny: "It’s like having Idi Amin on the board of Amnesty International." (180)" more search terms: Robert McCauley, Americares
  • Indymedia "Consider the CIA/BATF/FBI/Bush/Clinton mass murder of the peaceful inhabitants of the Waco Branch Davidian community in order to cover up the community being witness to the Bush Crime administration's and the CIA's Buffalo Airlines Drugs, Weapons, kidnapping, and money laundering activities that were on going at the CIA operated World War Two built airport that bordered the Branch Davidian Community's religious village site in Waco Texas when it is known fact that the Feds could have arrested David Koresh at any time with out having to have murdered the entire Branch Davidian community, and the media covered up the Davidians being witness to the CIA/Bush Crime Family Buffalo Airlines drug, money, weapons, agents, and kidnap victims transfer activities and the fact that two of the Branch Davidian Community members had hacked into the Bush controlled War Department computers and were able to find out the flight schedules of the CIA owned Buffalo Airlines and find out that the Buffalo Airlines was in fact a CIA drug and money laundering operation, so the innocent witnesses who were the Branch Davidian community members were all murdered, and or unlawfully arrested and unlawfully suppressed, threatened, and all media attention to the abuse that the remaining survivors went through has been diverted on purpose in order to protect and to cover up the criminal activities of the U.S. Government, and for instance of the former Mafia attorney named Janet (Lesbian pedophile) Reno who worked for the head of the U.S. Mafia for twelve years Mayer Lansky, and who was a key cover up operative before being appointed by druggy pervert President Clinton to be the U.S. Attorney General. Janet Reno was appointed to serve as the head of the Dada County District Attorney's Office in order to cover up the CIA Finders operation that was running a child pedophile ring for Elite billionaires in South Florida, and the CIA ran one of their Finders pedophile operations at it's Garden Walk Day Care Center where the CIA was directly tied to this by the Dade County Police Department. Janet Reno also served to cover up the vast CIA drugs, and money laundering activities that has been rampantly on going for decades and that blatantly saturates the entire organized crime jungle of South Florida."
  • RaidersNewsNetwork "Some time in the late 1980s, Nelson was with King at a posh hotel in downtown Minneapolis, when he personally saw King turn over a suitcase full of cash and bearer-bonds to "the Colonel," whom he later positively identified as Aquino. According to Nelson, King told him that the suitcase of cash and bonds was earmarked for the Nicaraguan Contras, and that "the Colonel" was part of the covert Contra support apparatus, otherwise associated with Lt. Col. Oliver North, Vice President George Bush, and the "secret parallel government" that they ran from the White House... 
 

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  • FAS   Gates consistently testified that he first heard on October 1, 1986, from the national intelligence officer who was closest to the Iran initiative, Charles E. Allen, that proceeds from the Iran arms sales may have been diverted to support the contras.  2 Other evidence proves, however, that Gates received a report on the diversion during the summer of 1986 from DDI Richard Kerr. The issue was whether Independent Counsel could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Gates was deliberately not telling the truth when he later claimed not to have remembered any reference to the diversion before meeting with Allen in October.
  • WMR has obtained further details on the fate of the SS Poet, which is widely-assumed to have carried arms to Iran as part of George H. W. Bush's 1980 October Surprise operation against President Jimmy Carter, and was then conveniently "disappeared" along with its crew of 34. The Poet had a complement of 10 officers and 24 crewmen when it set sail from Philadelphia on October 24, 1980, just after George H. W. Bush visited Chester before his secret trip to Paris to arrange an arms swap with the Ayatollah Khomeini's government in return for their keeping the hostages imprisoned in Tehran until after the presidential election.  The Poet had made a trip previous to its stated late October voyage to Port Said, Egypt. Its radio officer joined the Poet's crew in Port Said around October 1, 1980. The Poet had three other names before being renamed the Poet: the SS General Omar Bradley, the SS Portmar, and the SS Port.  The US Coast Guard/National Transportation Safety Board Final Report on the Poet says she loaded corn in Philadelphia at the Girard Point Pier 3, sailing from there down river. She sailed past Sun Ship in Chester, where George H. W. Bush had been on October 18, en route to the mouth of the Delaware River and to the open Atlantic. The Final Report says corn was loaded in holds 1, 2 and 3. It makes no mention of hold 4.  The Poet was later reported missing after it failed to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar. No SOS or Mayday was ever heard from the ship. The RCA Service Company representative who repaired the Poet's radio gear in Philadelphia testified the radio officer was a 30-year Navy veteran and was a Master Chief Petty Officer. The radio officer had served on the SS Pioneer Moon before joining the crew of the Poet.  
  • Milfuegos "The U.S. ambassador who has permitted "Sir" R. Allen Stanford, a billionaire Texan, to run roughshod over the government and people of Antigua and Barbuda, as reported here yesterday, is Mary Ourisman, U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean States, including Antigua and Barbuda. Like Stanford, Ourisman is a native Texan and friend of Laura Bush who has been a professional board member in Washington, DC -- Beltway "code" meaning that she has never actually worked for a living. As U.S. ambassador accredited to the Caribbean states, Ourisman is apparently more concerned with allowing billionaire friends of George Bush to buy up the islands under her diplomatic jurisdiction. Ourisman and her husband, Mandell ("Mandy') Ourisman, a multi-millionaire Maryland automobile dealer who has homes in Washington, Jamaica, and Palm Beach, have donated over $443,630 to GOP coffers. Mary Ourisman served as the development director of the Republican GOPAC political action committee.  We were informed by our sources in Antigua and Barbuda that the sole radio station there read on the air our March 3-4 report about Stanford. Hopefully, our own U.S. Senate and House will take notice of the Ourisman-Stanford Texas axis of business interests to conduct a full investigation of U.S. policies in the Eastern Caribbean."

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Kissinger, Argentina, 1976,  fair use.  By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - While Argentina's military junta was suppressing dissidents in 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the country's foreign minister, "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to a newly declassified document.  The conversation left Argentine generals with the belief that Kissinger gave them "a carte blanche for the dirty war," said Carlos Osorio of the National Security Archives. The foreign policy research center obtained the documents that were being released Friday.

But a former State Department official who attended Kissinger's meeting in June 1976 with Argentina's foreign minister, Adm. Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, said that view was "a distortion of history."  "It's a canard," said William D. Rogers, vice chair of Kissinger's lobbying firm, Kissinger Associates. "The idea that he would tell another country to violate human rights quickly or slowly or under any circumstances is preposterous."  Kissinger's office did not respond to a request for comment. He has denied condoning abuses.

The documents revive the debate about Kissinger's relationship with military dictators in Latin America when he was secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations. It was an era when military officers frequently toppled elected governments and brutalized dissidents, but were accepted by U.S. leaders as anti-communist allies.  Argentina's military rulers seized power in a March 1976, beginning six years of rule in which they kidnapped, tortured and killed dissidents. The government says 8,900 people disappeared over that period; human rights groups put the figure around 30,000.

Three months after the coup, Kissinger met Guzzetti while in Santiago, Chile, to attend an Organization of American States meeting. Detailed notes of the meeting were taken by Luigi Einaudi, a member of the State Department policy planning staff. Einaudi now is assistant secretary-general at the OAS.  In an interview, Einaudi said his recollections of the meeting are vague after 28 years, but he doubts Kissinger would have said anything to condone abuses. Because of congressional pressure and public opinion, "the political reality was the United States could not put up with those kinds of abuses," he said.

Kissinger told Guzzetti he wished his government well. "We wish it will succeed. We will do what we can to help it succeed," Kissinger said, according to Einaudi's account.  Kissinger spoke of Argentina's problem in which "political, criminal and terrorist activities tend to merge without any clear separation." He said he understood the government's need to establish authority, "but it is also clear that the absence of normal procedures will be used against you."  Kissinger said the United States could not help Argentina fight terrorism, but may be able to help economically.

Guzzetti spoke of the need to "create disincentives to potential terrorist activities" and complained that outsiders did not understand Argentina's problems, Einaudi's notes show. Kissinger responded "as a friend," that "military governments are not the most effective in dealing with these problems." He noted problems in Chile, then led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet (news - web sites).  "You will have to make an international effort to have your problems understood," Kissinger said. "Otherwise you too will come under increasing attack. If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly. But you must get back quickly to normal procedures."

Previously declassified documents suggest that Argentine leaders took heart from the exchange. President Jorge Videla told U.S. Ambassador Robert Hill in that September that "Kissinger understood their problem and had said he hoped they could get terrorism under control as quickly as possible."  "Videla said he had impression senior officer of (U.S. government) understood situation his govt faces, but junior bureaucrats do not," Hill wrote in a cable. Hill, who had repeatedly complained to Argentine officials about abuses, said he responded by stressing Kissinger's concern about human rights in Argentina.

Osorio said the Kissinger-Guzzetti exchange makes clear why Videla believed abuses would be tolerated.  "If you are standing in the position of the generals, that's (how) you would interpret it right away," he said. What was most striking was that Kissinger made no direct appeal to stop the abuses, Osorio said.  Rogers said Kissinger had stressed at the OAS meeting that the United States would not tolerate abuses. Kissinger would not have contradicted those public statements during a private meeting, Rogers said. "That's fatal to diplomatic discourse."  He said Guzzetti's English was shaky, which could have led to misunderstandings. Einaudi's notes say Guzzetti spoke Spanish to Kissinger, but it's not clear if Guzzetti used an interpreter to understand English responses.

 
  • WayneMadsenReport:  "December 18, 2006 -- Ecuadorian President-elect Rafael Correa, who has called George W. Bush a "dimwit," is vowing to toss the U.S. out of its "forward operating location" base at Manta after the lease expires in 2009. The base, billed as a "counter narcotics" base, is actually a U.S. special military operations and support base that is used to conduct anti-population operations in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia. Manta was also used as a support base in the abortive U.S.-supported military coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. The loss of Manta will likely result in an increased U.S. military presence in neighboring Colombia, a longtime base of operations for anti-leftist military operations being conducted by U.S. special forces and private military contractors"
  • Counterpunch "John Paul was profoundly political, always on the side of the powerful in Latin America and in Spain. He never touched on the political causes of poverty, he marginalized and ostracized the mass religious movements in Latin America that called for major social reforms in favor of the poor, and (with Cardinal Ratzinger, the guardian of the Church orthodoxy) he condemned such movements, ordering their leading figures ­ Gustavo Gutierrez, Leonardo Boff, Jon Sobrino, and others ­ to remain silent. Bishop Romero wrote in his personal notes that, when he denounced the brutal repression carried out by the fascist dictatorship in El Salvador, the Pope reprimanded him for not being sufficiently balanced in his criticisms of the Salvadorian dictatorship, whom John Paul referred to as the legitimate government of El Salvador.  ...  In Spain, John Paul was political to an extreme. He was openly supportive of the post-Francoist party, the Popular Party (whose founder is Fraga Iribarne, ex-Minister of the Interior of the Franco fascist regime) and just a few months before his death he gave a speech against the Zapatero government that was actually written by the pro­Popular Party leadership of the Spanish Church. Although he opposed the invasion of Iraq and the bombing of the Iraqi population, he never condemned the Franco regime (which the Spanish Church supported), nor did he ever condemn the bombing of Spain's civilian population by the Franco Air Force, with the help of German Nazi bombers. When he was asked to condemn the bombing of Spanish cities by the Church-supported fascist forces of Spain, he declined to do so."