A History of US Intransigence, from Cuba to Colombia
A History of US Intransigence, from Cuba to Colombia
by W. T. Whitney Jr.
29.01.14
Cuba solidarity activists rallied in Bogota's Policarpo district on January 26 to celebrate Cuban national hero José Martí's 161st birthday. Martí, champion of "Our America" -- lands south of the Rio Grande River -- launched an anti-imperialist movement that persists in Cuba more than a century later. Colombian revolutionary struggle mirrors that durability.
U.S intransigence toward Cuba is legendary. After all, the victory of the Cuban revolution was "the big fish that got away." The same intransigence is apparent now as the U.S. government deals with peace negotiations underway in Havana between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The United States is evidently adamant that the FARC not be allowed to achieve revolutionary goals through negotiations.
FARC negotiator Pablo Catatumbo thinks the U.S. government is undermining Colombian sovereignty, in view of a recent Washington Post report demonstrating a direct U.S. hand in killing FARC leaders. Its author Dana Priest learned from U.S. military and intelligence officials that for eight years CIA officials working in the U.S. Embassy have been directing raids against the FARC. They used bombs equipped with sophisticated guidance equipment built by Raytheon Company, secret funds, and intelligence provided by NSA intercepts. This covert program is in addition to U.S. Plan Colombia with its airbases, U.S. troops on the ground, and $9 billion in military and police funding.
For Catatumbo, the report "confirms FARC pronouncements as to trans-nationalization of the Colombian conflict and the growing dependency and servility of the Colombian armed forces to the U.S. military apparatus." Colombia's army "is no more than a cogwheel inside the U.S. war-making machine [and] the Colombian insurgency. The FARC is fighting the most powerful imperialism ever existing on the face of the earth."
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I am still in mourning at the loss of the late great Hugo Chavez.
The US military, the CIA, and the DEA have their tentacles spread the world over.
They are masters at stirring up shit and causing death and tragedy from sea to shining sea.
It is a blow to the gut researching the history of the US.
We are not taught the true history of the US in our public schools.
The propaganda machine has been almost 100% successful in the US.
We have Edward Bernays to thank for the brainwashing of the masses.
Judi, thanks for all your post about Latin America. 
