We have not been shy about suggesting that Colombia would act as a cover and a surrogate for US actions against Venezuela and against those Latin nations who are in sympathy with her.
This is how we must look at the operation against the FARC-EP, ostensibly by Colombian air forces against a group of guerillas hiding in the jungles of Ecuador, just across the frontier from Colombia.
The Ecuadoreans, investigating this violation of their territory tell us that precision munitions were used to blow up the guerillas as they lay asleep in their camp. Then Colombian troops invaded Ecuadorian territory to retrieve the bodies of the slain and to search, doubtlessly for any other intelligence they could obtain. These forces then retreated back over their own borders.
- First thing to say is that no precision-guided bombs have been supplied by the USA to the Colombian Air Force so far as any information in my possession would suggest. Therefore if these munitions were in fact used here they would have had to have been launched by US forces, not Colombian.
- Second. The Colombians tell us that informers told them of the location of this camp. We have to suspect that precise location is required for the use of such weapons, thus signal intelligence, again controlled by US forces, would be needed. Someone used a cellphone...
- Third, the precision munitions require a focused laser beam, controlled by Special Forces troops on the ground to find their targets. These would again be US forces.
The attack was of course a provocation to allow US forces and their Colombain proxies to see how severe would be the reaction of Ecuador and her Venezuelan ally to such a widening of the 40 year Colombian civil conflict.
We know because of the public award, years after, of posthumous medals to fallen soldiers that US forces were actively engaged in El Salvador, in Nicaragua and in Guatamala in the days of the Central American War. It is logical to presume this to be the case as the Empire extends its attentions to the northern tier of the South American continent. Especially as Washington's conservative Bush government regards all the actions of Ronald Reagan and his cold-warriors as the model for all of their own operations.
The interesting feature of all of this is that Washington must see the condition of the Colombian narco-mafia government as being so desperate as to require the taking of such risks when the bulk of US forces are tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This suggests that the best course of action for Venezuela, and Ecuador is to overtly move to support the FARC-EP side in the Colombian civil conflict with diplomatic recognition, munitions, money and supplies. The two allied governments will certainly, even without cause, as has until now been the case, be charged with this meddling by Washington.
So why not move now, while the Yankees are weakened by their misbegotten wars 10,000 kilometers from this battlefield, to liquidate their Colombian proxy?
And this proxy will ever be a danger to the independence of all the countries adjacent to it.
This revolutionary struggle has already reached the third level of guerilla war -- where the insurgents are able to field and maintain uniformed forces in control of territory permanently seized from their opponent.
It is past time to force an end to this horrible war on terms endurable by the long-suffering Colombian people ... they are as entitled as anyone else to live free of domination by the cruelties of the empire of the north.
Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com
I'm all for taking the revolution into Colombia and openly allying with FARC -- us all understanding that no one is perfect and conditions apply in all matters. However, all-out war means deepening the Bolivarian Socialist Revolution as well; and clearly the bolivarians have been doing a somewhat mediocre job on the home front -- a weakness which it is the speciality of the imperialists to look for and take advantage of. As they are exactly doing this very minute.
ReplyDeleteAnd certainly this was a U.S. operation involving any number of U.S. special forces sitting on the other side of the Colombia-Ecuador border. I don't know who exactly "painted" the target with the laser as the FARC-EP unit slept, or who exactly laid-down the tight pattern of cluster bombs with precision -- but you can be certain that there was a Yanqui special ops looking over their shoulder, if not actually pushing the buttons.