[lbo-talk] C & O gloss over Colombian attack; Hillary plugs escalation; Correa says hostage talks sabotaged

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Wed Mar 5 18:01:28 PST 2008


I think you may over-emphasize the difference between C & O, both in these statements and in their probable actions as president vis-a-vis Latin America. And you perhaps under-emphasize the nature and extent of US support for Colombia, from the days of Kennedy-administration death squads thru the fraudulent Plan Colombia to the present. As a US client, Colombia compiled one of the worst human rights records in LA while it trailed only Israel, Egypt and Turkey in the amount of foreign aid received from Washington.

It does seem to be the case that, altho' the FARC did "grow out of peasants' concerns and demands and had a kind of political program that had some meaning -- that all has gone; now, it's just another terrorist force preying on the peasants." But it's to accept the US propaganda account to say as C & O do that the problem in the region is terrorism rather than US policy. --CGE

Robert Naiman wrote:
> Both C & O pass by the opportunity to comment on Colombia's violation
> of Ecuador's sovereignty, but unsurprisingly, HRC is far worse,
> calling for an escalation of tensions with Venezuela. Meanwhile,
> Correa says talks were in an advanced stage on releasing 12 hostages,
> including Betancourt and the 3 Americans. Now sabotaged.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obama-glosses-colombian-a_b_89836.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/4/14024/32488/190/468665
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