The AP also cited an April 2009 document of the U.S.
aid and human rights violations has long been noted by scholarship. military aid (apart from Israel-Egypt, a separate category).Ĭolombia has had by far the worst human rights record in the hemisphere since the Central American wars of the 1980s. Colombia had already become the leading recipient of U.S. The agreement provides Colombia with privileged access to U.S. The official purpose is to counter narcotics trafficking and terrorism, “but senior Colombian military and civilian officials familiar with negotiations” told the Associated Press “that the idea is to make Colombia a regional hub for Pentagon operations.” and Colombia concluded a secret deal to permit the United States to use seven military bases in Colombia.
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“For the first time in South America’s history, the countries of our region are deciding how to resolve our problems, without the presence of the United States,” Morales observed.Īnother manifestation: Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa has vowed to terminate Washington’s use of the Manta military base, the last such base open to the United States in South America.
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Participants – all the countries of South America – declared “their full and firm support for the constitutional government of President Evo Morales, whose mandate was ratified by a big majority.” In response, the newly-formed Union of South American Republics (UNASUR) called a summit meeting. In August 2008, after Morales’ victory in a recall referendum, the opposition of U.S.-backed elites turned violent, leading to the massacre of as many as 30 government supporters. The problem came to a head a year ago in Bolivia, South America’s poorest country, where, in 2005, the indigenous majority elected a president from its own ranks, Evo Morales. South America has moved toward integration, a prerequisite for independence has broadened international ties and has addressed internal disorders – foremost, the traditional rule of a rich Europeanized minority over a sea of misery and suffering. Recently the hemisphere problem has intensified. Nixon’s National Security Council in 1971, when Washington was considering the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile.
If the United States cannot control Latin America, it cannot expect “to achieve a successful order elsewhere in the world,” observed President Richard M. Latin America has retained its primacy in U.S. The "drug war"-like the "war on crime" and "the war on terror"-is pursued for reasons other than the announced goals.
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