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Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico
2008-06-03 16:03:00 by Stephen Lendman It's called "Plan Mexico," or more formally the "Merida Initiative," and here's the scheme. It's to do for Mexicans what Plan Colombia has done to that nation since 1999, and, in fact, much earlier. Since then, billions have gone for the following: * to establish a US military foothold in the country; * mostly to fund US weapons, chemical and other corporate profiteers; it's a long-standing practice; in fact, a 1997 Pentagon document affirms that America's military will "protect US interests and investments;" in Colombia, it's to control its valuable resources; most importantly oil and natural gas but also coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, silver, emeralds, copper and more; it's also to crush worker resistance, eliminate unions, target human rights and peasant opposition groups, and make the country a "free market" paradise inhospitable to people; * it funds a brutish military as well; already, over 10,000 of its sol...
Stop Plan Colombia
2007-08-31 10:08:00 Click the chart for a larger image What’s the best way to make enemies, waste money and achieve nothing? Simple: it’s called Plan Colombia. Since its inception in 1999, this US programme has cost $5bn and led to the spraying of herbicide over an area of Andean farmland the size of Delaware and Rhode ...
By: Robs Place
Nach ?Plan Colombia? nun der ?Plan Mexico?
2007-08-08 18:36:00 Die U.S.A. und Mexiko arbeiten seit geraumer Zeit im Stillen an einer Zusammenarbeit im Kampf gegen die Drogenkartelle. Wie die Washington Post heute berichtet, sollen die Details am 20. August auf einem Treffen der Staatschefs der U.S.A., Canada und Mexiko in Quebeq bekannt gegeben werden. Eingebettet wird diese Initiative in die Security and Prosperity ...
By: InfoMexico
U.S. House Hearings on Plan Colombia
2007-04-24 22:17:00 This afternoon the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere will hold hearings on ?U.S. Colombia Relations.? For some time Plan Colombia, the multi-billion dollar U.S. aid package to Colombia to aid its fight against narco-terrorists, was seen as a relative success. There is little question that public safety in much of ... |
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