- Latin America preparing for the "Yanqui invasion."
U.S. positions military forces in Latin America to confront the surge of
popular socialism in the Western Hemisphere. The Bush administration and
its Congressional allies, consisting of right-wing Cuban-Americans like
Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Christian fundies who tout the imperialist
line of televangelist Pat Robertson, are backing the Pentagon's plans to
expand its military presence in Latin America.
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- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has authorized the
expansion of U.S. military bases -- called Cooperative Security Locations
(CSLs) -- the Mariscal Estigarribia airbase in Paraguay near the Bolivian
and Brazilian borders, Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta, Ecuador;
Comalapa International Airport in El Salvador; the Soto Cano Air Base in
Comayagua, Honduras, "Plan Colombia" military installations throughout
Colombia, covert bases in Peru, Reina Beatrix International Airport in
Aruba; and Hato International Airport in Curacao.
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- These bases, which are staffed with a relatively small
U.S. military presence and a larger contractor element drawn from the ranks
of ex-patriot American and other military veterans who have lived in Latin
America since the Contra war days, have the capability to ramp up military
operations at short notice.
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- Latin America: The Yanquis Are Coming to Put Down Progressive
Surge The Bush administration is trying to cobble together a Latin American
"coalition of the willing" to take on progressive governments
in Latin America, including those of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina,
Venezuela, Uruguay, Cuba whose ranks may swell in 2006 to include populist
governments in Nicaragua, Peru, and Mexico. For that reason, the U.S. Southern
Command is planning a saber-rattling military exercise in Paraguay in 2006
called "Fuerzas Comando 06."
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- Although the Pentagon has invited some 20 Latin militaries
to participate, Brazil's military chiefs see the United States as their
primary security threat. The Brazilian military (as well as Venezuela's)
is keeping a close eye on U.S. military activity in Guyana near the Brazilian
border. Brazil's armed forces have also held a training exercise called
Operation Jauru that was partly targeted against any future U.S. military
incursions from Paraguay into Brazil, Bolivia, or Argentina. Brazil is
coordinating with the militaries of its progressive neighbors to counter
the U.S. military threat to Brazil and its neighbors.
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