(Robert Wilkner, HCDX og Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DXLD)

(Özet: Kısa vadede devletler güvenliği sağlamada önemli işlev yüklenmiş olabilirler, ama diğer beklentiler gerçekleşmez de devlet, halk nezdinde meşruiyetini kaybederse) bireyler ve şirketler kadim çözüme; yani kendi güvenliğini kendi başına sağlama çözümüne dönerler. Özel güvenlik bir kere daha bir toplumsal bileşen haline gelir gelmez, hem hukukun üstünlüğüne duyulan güven ve hem de dolayısıyla yurttaşlık bilinci çözülme eğilimine girer. Kapalı guruplar tek güvenli sığınak olarak ortaya çıkarlar ki bu guruplar hoşgörüsüz, şiddet yanlısı ve bölgelerini her türlü yabancıdan arıtmaya eğilimlidirler. Guruplararası şiddet tırmandıkça, lider kadroları gittikçe Mafyöz - gurup içinde kas kuvvetiyle sorgusuz sualsiz bir biçimde itaat edilmesini sağlamakla vurgunculuğu birleştirme anlamında Mafyöz- bir karaktere bürünürler. Etrafımızda bütün bunları görmektediyiz, ileriki yirmi otuz yılda daha fazlasını da göreceğiz...." (Bildiğimiz Dünya'nın Sonu, 83,84).
Wallerstein kitabının başka yerlerinde bu tehlikeli gidişten geri dönmenin yolunu, dünyanın aklı başında insanlarının bir araya gelerek/gelmeyerek daha adil, daha insanca bir dünya düzeni oluşturmaları olarak göstermektedir.
Bu sözlerin günümüzde önemli bir gerçekleşme örneğini 12 tarihli Zaman'da "Amerikan gençliği hızla yayılan çetelere üye oluyor" başlığı altında okuyoruz: "Adalet Bakanlığı'na bağlı Çocuk Hakkı ve Çocuğun Suç İşlemesini Önleme Ofisi tarafından düzenlenen ve hukukçular, araştırmacılar ile sosyal eylemcilerin katıldığı toplantıda ABD gençliğinin hızla çetelere üye olduğu vurgulandı. Kuzey Carolina'dan Ulusal Gençlik Çete Merkezi araştırmacılarından James Howell, nüfusu 100 binin üzerindeki kentlerin yüzde 93'ü veya daha fazlasında aktif şekilde çetelerin faaliyet gösterdiklerini söyledi. Howell, çetelerin nüfusları 50-100 bin arası kentlerin en az üçte ikisinde, 25-50 bin arası olan kentlerin de hemen hemen yarısında örgütlendiklerini, çete patlamasının ise 1990'lı yıllardan sonra olduğunun tespit edildiğini ifade etti. Toplantıya sunulan araştırma sonuçlarına göre çetelere çok genç yaşlardan itibaren üye olunuyor. Son dönemlerde çete üyesi kızların sayısında da hızla artış oluyor. Araştırmada ülke genelindeki 24.500 aktif çeteye 750 bin kişinin üye olduğu belirtiliyor. California'dan araştırmacı Al Valdez ise sadece bölgesi Orange'da Hispaniklerin (İspanyol asıllıların) kurduğu 18. Cadde çetesinin 50 bin üyesinin bulunduğunu, bu çetenin uluslararası bir boyut kazanarak, Meksika, Honduras, Kanada gibi ülkelerde de örgütlendiğini söyledi. Çetelerin başka ülkelerdeki üyelerini, ABD'den sınırdışı edilen kişiler vasıtasıyla sağladıkları belirtiliyor. Suç oranları yönünden ABD'nin en önde gelen şehirlerinden biri olan Chicago'dan emekli polis memuru John Guzman ise, geçen yıl gerçekleşen 666 adam öldürme olayının yüzde 25-30'unun bu çeteler tarafından gerçekleştirildiğini ifade etti. Guzman bu çetelerin uyuşturucu ve ecstasy hapları ticareti yaptıklarını, ayrıca sahte hüviyetler de düzenleyerek binlerce dolar para kazandıklarını söyledi. Guzman, çeteleşmenin ulusal bir salgın hastalık olduğunu da vurguladı. Bazı çetelerin artık ırk ve coğrafik sınırları aştığı; modern işletmeler şeklinde örgütlendikleri de belirtiliyor. Çetelerin adam toplamak için kullandıkları en önemli alan ise internet."
Bu acı gerçekleri kaydettikten sonra meşhur hakim Bidbay'ın Kelile ve Dimne'de kaydettiği bir misali aktararak yazıyı noktalayalım: Bir kedi yolda bir törpü görür, kemik zannederek yalamaya başlar, yaladıkça dili kanar, kanı emdikçe -dilinin acısını ve giderek tükenmekte olduğunu farketmeyecek kadar büyük bir iştiha ve zevk aldığı için- yalamaya devam eder, sonunda bir de bakar ki dili bitmiş, dilsiz kalmış, çaresiz bir pişmanlık içinde bir kenara çekilip ölür.

(http://conexiongra.blogspot.com/ og Torolf Johnsson, Real DX)

(Rogildo Fontenelle Aragão, HCDX)

Rádio Marumby er derimot det nye navnet på Rádio Novas de Paz (6080, 9515 og 11725 kHz).

Begge stasjonene eies av  religiøse organisasjoner i delstatene Santa Catarina og Paraná i det sørlige Brasil og har følgelig utelukkende kristne programmer på kjøreplanen. 

 (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX)

(Rogildo Fontenelle Aragão , HCDX)

NB at en annen peruaner, Radio Visión i Chiclayo, sender på 4790,1 kHz med religiøse programmer. Den nøyaktige frekvensen til Radio Atlántida rapporteres å være 4789,58 kHz.

(Rafael Rodríguez, DXLD)

Narco News Investigates DEA Corruption and Cover-Up in Colombia

Just say no!

***

Bill Conroy, The NarcoSphere: Cocaine planes make a "Bogotá Connection"

Federal Aviation Administration records obtained recently by Narco News offer some razor sharp evidence that a fat line of connections in the ongoing cocaine plane mystery leads right back to the nose of the U.S. government.

(...)

Past Stories in Cocaine Planes Series:

• U.S. Cocaine-Plane Invasion Spooking Latin America

• Narco News Investigation: Cocaine Planes Cross Paths with Corporate America’s Green Movement

• Third Cocaine Plane Surfaces and is Tied to Web of Government Connections

• Cocaine Jet Crash in Mexico Linked to Narco-Trafficker Who Worked for U.S. Government

• Jet Case Colored with Shades of Iran/Contra and “House of Death”

• Cocaine Jet That Crashed in Mexico Part of Cowboy Government Operation, DEA Sources Claim

• New Document Provides Further Evidence That Owner of Crashed Cocaine Jet Was a U.S. Government Operative

• Mysterious Jet Crash Is Rare Portal Into the “Dark Alliances” of the Drug War

Anbefalt severdighet!

"DARK ALLIANCE: Crack Cocaine, the CIA, the Contras, & the Censors", with Pulitzer Prize-Winner Gary Webb, Dennis Bernstein, & Martha Honey. Berkely, CA - June 13, 1998.

Mer om og av Gary Webb her.

PS - Webb vant ikke Pulitzer-prisen alene.

Stikkord: Reagan, Clinton, Oliver North, CIA, narko, Contras ... Og selvfølgelig Papa Bush lurkende i kulissene.

***

Robert Parry, Consortiumnews.com: Lost History: Reagan-Bush Crime Syndicate

WASHINGTON -- It should be clear by now that for 12 years, from 1981-1993, the United States was governed by political leaders who merged the power of the state with criminality to a degree possibly unmatched in modern American history. That disturbing reality was underscored again this past month by an exhaustively researched series by Gary Webb in The San Jose Mercury-News. . .

But a wealth of other evidence, collected by federal drug agents and congressional investigators during the 1980s, corroborated that the Reagan-Bush administrations knew about the drug trafficking and mounted a determined cover-up to protect the contras from exposure. Senior administration officials apparently shared Enrique Bermudez's situational ethics. After all, President Reagan had hailed the contras as the "moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." They could not be unmasked as drug dealers. . .

An organized crime ring fronted by a former Republican operative, who claims to have learned the 'art' of money laundering as part of the Iran-Contra operation, was behind a massive drug move two years ago this week which ended with a DC9 airliner from St. Petersburg Fl busted in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of pure cocaine, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

The crime ring backing the flight of the DC9 was led by self-described Iran Contra insider Marc Harris, whose associates number at least three convicted drug traffickers of note.

(Maurits Van Driessche, HCDX)

City dergisinin son sayısının (12:1, April 2008) Alternatifler bölümü, Zapatista hareketine ve uluslararası dayanışma ağına ayrılmış. Fotoğrafta görülen İrlandalı aktivist Ramon Ryan, EZLN'nin çağrısıyla Meksika'ya dayanışma için giden anarşist aktivistlerden birisi. Başta, Zapatist hareketin anti-otoriter ve Leninist-olmayan örgütlenme modeli ile hareketin enternasyonal çağrısının etkisinden bahsediyor. Kırmızı ve siyah bayraklarla donanmış bir köylü gerilla hareketi, eski tüfekler, İspanyol İç Savaşını hatırlatan üniformalar, Subcommandante Marcos'un piposu vesaire ... Sandinistlerin ardından yeni bir ayaklanma fitilinin cazibesine, ütopik mesajına kapılan zengin kuzey ülkelerinden binlerce insanın harekete bir şekilde katılması.

Ancak, Ryan bu dayanışmanın ileride bazılarınca nasıl yozlaştırıldığını, kendi çıkarları için sömürüldüğünden bahsediyor: NGO'lar için veya üniversitelerde, medyada kariyer amaçlı yararlanmalar gibi. En kötüsü, kendi 'soğuk' ülkelerinde olmayan bir egzotizm tadı alma çabası veya en basitinden bir turist merakı. Tabii ki, hakiki bir dayanışma kaygısıyla hareket eden destekçiler müstesna.

Editörün belirttiği gibi: Zapatistaları sadece izlemeyin, her neredeyseniz siz de bir Zapatista olun!

 www.Aporrea.org 30-03-2008

American company blocks the access from Sweden to Latin American Websites The page www.rebelion.org and the Bolivian Agency of Information (www.abi.bo), among others, have been censured by several suppliers of Internet in Sweden and other countries of Europe.  

The state company Telia, supplier of telephony and Internet  services , was affected by a decision of the North American company CogNet that administers the access to several servers.  The measurement was adopted unilaterally, and prevents all the internet suscriptors through the servers of Telia to accede Rebellion and ABI, among other sites. Most of the users of Internet through Telia found out the censorship after trying, by more than one week, acceding to the mentioned sites without success.  

CogNet had censured the access to certain pages of Spain and Latin America, and it does not exist the possibility that the service returns to be established shortly.  Telia maintains that nothing can make to restore the connection with those sites, and admits that it treats that as a censorship and a limitation to the freedom of information. It adds that it is in negotiations with CogNet, but until now without positive results. 

To the mentioned censured pages it is possible to accede from other Internet servers, in special of smaller companies. In some cities the censorship includes thousands of users, since companies administrators of apartments, like HSB, have the Internet broadband service contracted in for their renters through Telia.  Telia is the greater supplier of Internet of Sweden and is associate to other companies in the Nordic countries.

Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Agencia Bolivariana, Simon Bolivar Studie Center, Dagens Chavez, hands off venezuela, venezuela nalysis, Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Bus

Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA,Bush, preventivt krig, Imperiet, Imperio, Empire. Media gerrilla,

”Freedom fighter” Mauricio Rojas var med och representerade Folkpartiet när den internationella höger samlades i Rosario, Argentina för att diskutera hur dem ska störta de valda vänsterregeringarna i regioner.

En samling höger politiker samlades förra helgen i den argentinska staden Rosario. Bland dem som deltar finns Jose Maria Aznar, Spanien; Vicente Fox, Mexiko, författaren och konvertit, Mario Vargas Llosas, Roger Noriega (USA: s ansvarig för Latin Amerika och suspekt förnekare att ha stött olika terrorister i regionen), Hernán Büchi, förre detta Pinochet minister, bland andra deltar också oppositionsledare från Venezuela (Marcel Granier, president de RCTV, mm), Bolivia (gamla kroatiska nazister som flydde dit efter ww2) samt Manfred Reyes, polischefen i provinsen Cochabamba, från Argentina militär diktaturen supporter och kolumnist, Claudio Escribano, tjuven och bedragare Mauricio Macri och den lokale gangster bossen Gerardo Bongiovanni. Huvudorganisatör är Freedom Foundation med medorganisatörer som de think tank Heritage Foundation ( som stöds av företag som Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, GlaxoSmithKline, Mobil, mm .) och Cato Institute ( Stöd av bl.a. Phillip Morris, ExxonMobil, mm).

Samlingen ”barrikaderade sig” i en anläggning med ett stort säkerhetspådrag för att diskutera den fortsatta strategin i regionen. På kvällen tågade ca 20 000 ungdomar mot anläggning för att protestera mot den ”förnäma” samlingen. Författare Mario Benedetti och en av organisatörer till en ”motmöte” dagen efter sade till Telesur TV att det inte kan accepteras att före detta kuppmakare, plundrare, tjuvar och andra representanter av en annan tid ska börja konspirera mot de demokratiska regeringarna under öppet och medvetet stöd från Washington. De förre detta kuppmakarna och fascister var inbjudna av organisationen Freedom Foundation (Fuandacion Libertad) som stöds öppen från Vita Huset, enligt deras ambassadör i Argentina, Earl Anthony Wayne, bekräftade i ruset efter en middag i Buenos Aires, 2006.

Det är ypperligt att dessa herrar samlas under samma tak och öppet visar sitt inneboende beroende och koppling. Nyliberala hycklare, ignorant folk eller godtrogna brukar annars förneka kopplingen mellan diktatorer, mördare, terrorister, bedragare, maffiabossar, nyliberala think tank, media jättar, gangstrar, polismakten, ” debattörer”, Vita huset och ”frihetens förkämpar”.

Men desperationen kräver desperata åtgärder eller hur var det nu?

Frågan är om folkpartiet ska skicka representanter dit, tillåta deras medlemmar delta i partiets namn eller tillåta personer med tvivelaktiga åsikter vara medlemmar i partiet och sitta i ett sådant vridigt sällskap av bedragare, kuppmakarna, mördare och terrorister. Vad säger folkpartiet om det?

 Bush, USA, nyliberalism, neocons, liberaler, bubbla, skojare, nyliberal, Argentina, Latin America, diktatur, höger, Mexiko, Venezuela, maffia, skojare, Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Agencia Bolivariana, Simon Bolivar Studie Center, Dagens Chavez, hands off venezuela, venezuela nalysis, Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Bus,Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA,Bush, preventivt krig, Imperiet, Imperio, Empire. Media gerrilla,

Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Bush, preventivt krig,

Carly Simon's theme song from the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" says it all about The New York Times' agitprop skill - "Nobody Does It Better" nor have others in the media been at it longer. Most important is The Times influence and reach and what media critic Norman Solomon says about its front page. He calls it "the most valuable square inches of media real estate in the USA." It's read by government, business leaders and opinion-makers everywhere and for that reason is hugely important.

Hugo Chavez is its frequent target, and Simon Romero has the assignment as The Times' man in Caracas. His latest March 30 offering is headlined "Files Suggest Venezuela Bid to Aid Columbia Rebels," and it relates to the spurious claim that captured FARC-EP computers contained potentially smoking-gun evidence "t(ying) Venezuela's government to efforts to secure arms for Colombia's largest insurgency" and is aiding its efforts through funding and other means to destabilize the Uribe government.

 Romero states: "Officials taking part in Columbia's investigation....provided (NYT) with copies of more than 20 files, some of which also showed contributions from the rebels to the 2006 campaign of Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa." One piece of correspondence from November 21, 2006 "describes a $100,000 donation to (Correa's) campaign." Alvaro Uribe noted it and others but so far hasn't released them. For his part, Correa vigorously denies the charge and said the files lacked "technical and legal" validity.

Romero stops short of claiming the files are legitimate, but refuses to suggest they're not. He also ignores Chavez's mediating role to secure prisoner releases on both sides. He does, however, quite suggestively accuse Chavez and Correa of links to the FARC-EP "which the United States says is a terrorist group and has fought to overthrow Colombia's government for four decades."

Romero, like his mainstream colleagues, never lets facts interfere with his mission. Here he claims "Colombian officials who provided the computer files adamantly vouched for them (and they) contained touches that suggested authenticity:....revolutionary jargon, passages in numerical code, missives about American policy in Latin America and even brief personal reflections" by FARC-EP commanders. Moreover, "files made public so far only scratched the surface of the captured archives" without a hint from him that they're simple to fake (or invent) and Washington and Bogota have every incentive to do it as a way to vilify FARC-EP and Chavez as part of their imperial project.

 Romero quotes Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos saying Colombia retrieved more than 16,000 files from three computers belonging to Luis Edgar Devia Silva, aka FARC-EP commander Raul Reyes who was killed in the Ecuadorean cross-border incursion. In addition, claims of two other hard drives captured were also made. Santos said "Everything has been accessed and everything is being validated by Interpol (that's pretty closely tied to western interests and functions to serve them as called on). According to Santos, "a great deal of information" was gotten "that is extremely valuable and important."He further claimed (plausible or not) that the computers survived the bombing raid intact "because they were in metal casing" and emphasized that he didn't regret a thing about Colombia's aggression against its neighbor.

For his part, Chavez responded and Romero at least quoted him, no doubt because it was from a meeting with foreign journalists who did as well. Chavez mocked the supposed evidence saying: "The main weapon they have now is the computer, the supposed computer of Paul Reyes. This computer is like a la carte service, giving you whatever you want. You want steak? or fried fish? How would you like it prepared? You'll get it however the empire decides."

"Desert" may have been a January 25, 2007 letter by Ivan Marquez, a member of the FARC-EP's seven-member secretariat discussing a meeting with a Venezuelan official named "Carvajal," apparently referring to General Hugo Carvajal, Venezuela's military intelligence director. Its contents were claimed to state a "pledge (to bring FARC-EP) an arms dealer from Panama."

Still another offering was correspondence from January 18, 2007 suggesting Chavez would provide a $250 million loan to buy arms and would be repaid "when we take power."Romero then attacks the FARC-EP with familiar innuendoes that appear throughout the major media to smear it unjustly. He also suggests the possibility of Washington designating Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism but considers it unlikely because of its importance as a major US oil supplier.

Even so, California Republican Darrell Issa (and 22 co-sponsors) introduced House Resolution (HR) 965 in February condemning Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, and Florida Republicans Connie Mack and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (and 8 co-sponsors) introduced a similar HR 1049 in March that "condemned the Venezuelan government for its support of terrorist organizations" with direct reference to the FARC-EP. These efforts won't likely get far, and for now at least, view them as politics as usual in a year when all House members are up for reelection and need to rev up their constituencies for support. It makes Chavez a favorite target with a complicit media going along.

In sum, Romero and others like him in the mainstream, keep at their appointed mission - attacking the most model democracy in the region with a clear and purposeful aim - to destabilize, destroy and transform Venezuela into the alternate model Uribe represents: uncompromising hard right; hugely repressive; linked to Colombia's death squads and drug cartels; a supporter of state terrorism; a government riddled with corruption and scandal; and George Bush's favorite Latin America leader because of all of the above.

Expect lots more Romero commentaries like this one that are part of what Eva Golinger calls America's "asymmetric - 4th Generation War - against President Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution." The dark forces Romero represents won't quit so more enlightened ones like Golinger and others must keep exposing their schemes to protect Venezuela's glorious experiment that's working.

 Global research Associate Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago  Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on Republic Broadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting edge discussions with distinguished guests.  Venezuela, ALBA, UNASUR; COLOMBIA, Latin Amerika, Ibero Amerika, Ecuador, Chavez, Paramilitärer, FARC, Uribe, Imperialism, USA hegemoni, Terrorismen, statsterrorismen, Alternativa Bolivariana, Bolivar, Frihet åt Amerika, Socialism 20 århundrade, USA, Bush, preventivt krig,  

Carly Simon's theme song from the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" says it all about The New York Times' agitprop skill - "Nobody Does It Better" nor have others in the media been at it longer. Most important is The Times influence and reach and what media critic Norman Solomon says about its front page. He calls it "the most valuable square inches of media real estate in the USA." It's read by government, business leaders and opinion-makers everywhere and for that reason is hugely important.

Hugo Chavez is its frequent target, and Simon Romero has the assignment as The Times' man in Caracas. His latest March 30 offering is headlined "Files Suggest Venezuela Bid to Aid Columbia Rebels," and it relates to the spurious claim that captured FARC-EP computers contained potentially smoking-gun evidence "t(ying) Venezuela's government to efforts to secure arms for Colombia's largest insurgency" and is aiding its efforts through funding and other means to destabilize the Uribe government.

Romero states: "Officials taking part in Columbia's investigation....provided (NYT) with copies of more than 20 files, some of which also showed contributions from the rebels to the 2006 campaign of Ecuador's leftist president, Rafael Correa." One piece of correspondence from November 21, 2006 "describes a $100,000 donation to (Correa's) campaign." Alvaro Uribe noted it and others but so far hasn't released them. For his part, Correa vigorously denies the charge and said the files lacked "technical and legal" validity.

Romero stops short of claiming the files are legitimate, but refuses to suggest they're not. He also ignores Chavez's mediating role to secure prisoner releases on both sides. He does, however, quite suggestively accuse Chavez and Correa of links to the FARC-EP "which the United States says is a terrorist group and has fought to overthrow Colombia's government for four decades."

Romero, like his mainstream colleagues, never lets facts interfere with his mission. Here he claims "Colombian officials who provided the computer files adamantly vouched for them (and they) contained touches that suggested authenticity:....revolutionary jargon, passages in numerical code, missives about American policy in Latin America and even brief personal reflections" by FARC-EP commanders. Moreover, "files made public so far only scratched the surface of the captured archives" without a hint from him that they're simple to fake (or invent) and Washington and Bogota have every incentive to do it as a way to vilify FARC-EP and Chavez as part of their imperial project.

Romero quotes Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos saying Colombia retrieved more than 16,000 files from three computers belonging to Luis Edgar Devia Silva, aka FARC-EP commander Raul Reyes who was killed in the Ecuadorean cross-border incursion. In addition, claims of two other hard drives captured were also made. Santos said "Everything has been accessed and everything is being validated by Interpol (that's pretty closely tied to western interests and functions to serve them as called on). According to Santos, "a great deal of information" was gotten "that is extremely valuable and important."

 He further claimed (plausible or not) that the computers survived the bombing raid intact "because they were in metal casing" and emphasized that he didn't regret a thing about Colombia's aggression against its neighbor.

For his part, Chavez responded and Romero at least quoted him, no doubt because it was from a meeting with foreign journalists who did as well. Chavez mocked the supposed evidence saying: "The main weapon they have now is the computer, the supposed computer of Paul Reyes. This computer is like a la carte service, giving you whatever you want. You want steak? or fried fish? How would you like it prepared? You'll get it however the empire decides."

"Desert" may have been a January 25, 2007 letter by Ivan Marquez, a member of the FARC-EP's seven-member secretariat discussing a meeting with a Venezuelan official named "Carvajal," apparently referring to General Hugo Carvajal, Venezuela's military intelligence director. Its contents were claimed to state a "pledge (to bring FARC-EP) an arms dealer from Panama."

Still another offering was correspondence from January 18, 2007 suggesting Chavez would provide a $250 million loan to buy arms and would be repaid "when we take power."

Romero then attacks the FARC-EP with familiar innuendoes that appear throughout the major media to smear it unjustly. He also suggests the possibility of Washington designating Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism but considers it unlikely because of its importance as a major US oil supplier.

Even so, California Republican Darrell Issa (and 22 co-sponsors) introduced House Resolution (HR) 965 in February condemning Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, and Florida Republicans Connie Mack and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (and 8 co-sponsors) introduced a similar HR 1049 in March that "condemned the Venezuelan government for its support of terrorist organizations" with direct reference to the FARC-EP. These efforts won't likely get far, and for now at least, view them as politics as usual in a year when all House members are up for reelection and need to rev up their constituencies for support. It makes Chavez a favorite target with a complicit media going along.

 In sum, Romero and others like him in the mainstream, keep at their appointed mission - attacking the most model democracy in the region with a clear and purposeful aim - to destabilize, destroy and transform Venezuela into the alternate model Uribe represents: uncompromising hard right; hugely repressive; linked to Colombia's death squads and drug cartels; a supporter of state terrorism; a government riddled with corruption and scandal; and George Bush's favorite Latin America leader because of all of the above. Expect lots more Romero commentaries like this one that are part of what Eva Golinger calls America's "asymmetric - 4th Generation War - against President Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution." The dark forces Romero represents won't quit so more enlightened ones like Golinger and others must keep exposing their schemes to protect Venezuela's glorious experiment that's working.Global research Associate Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago  Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global Research News Hour on Republic Broadcasting.org Mondays from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting edge discussions with distinguished guests.  

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