The "War on Terror" vs. Latin American Indigenous Populations
with the oas meeting in florida, with condi proposing an oas committee to "monitor latin american democracy," with the u.s. stalling on venezuela's extradition request for luis posada carilles, with operation condor being revisited in havana over the weekend, it's no surprise that the ”Global Trends 2020 - Mapping the Global Future” study by the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) is depicting both growing indigenous activism in Latin America and Islamic radicalism as threats to the security and hegemony of the United States...
the u.s. strategy seems to be to one of infiltration and exploitation and, if indigenous movements can be goaded into violent reaction, then the use of military force would be "justified..." with ex-contra negroponte at the helm as national intelligence director, you were expecting maybe a walk in the park...?
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The ”war on terror”, identified in Amnesty International's annual report as a new source of human rights abuses, is threatening to expand to Latin America, targeting indigenous movements that are demanding autonomy and protesting free-market policies and ”neo-liberal” globalisation.
In the United States ”there is a perception of indigenous activists as destabilising elements and terrorists,” and their demands and activism have begun to be cast in a criminal light, [said] lawyer José Aylwin, with the Institute of Indigenous Studies at the University of the Border in Temuco [Chile].
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[T]he emergence of increasingly organised indigenous movements and the strengthening of their ethnic identities become . . . targets of ”the so-called low-intensity warfare doctrine, a renovated version of the National Security Doctrine” that formed the basis of U.S. interventionism in Latin America from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s.
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In Latin America, the Andean subregion is seen as the ”hottest” area, because of the growing political role played by well-organised indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, but also because of the impact on indigenous peoples of armed conflict and drug trafficking in Colombia.
Farther south in the Andes mountains, Mapuche organisations in southern Chile and Argentina have become more and more radical in recent years in their claims to their ancestral territory, demands for autonomy and the creation of indigenous reserves, and defence of the environment, which is threatened by transnational mining and forestry corporations that are granted tax breaks and other incentives by governments.
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[T]he former president of Bolivia's Confederación Sindical Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, a peasant farmer union, accused foreign oil companies of backing the demands for regional autonomy put forth by business and large landowners in the wealthy eastern regions of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Pando and Beni, where the country's natural gas reserves are concentrated.
”Behind that movement lies a hidden plan aimed at generating a violent reaction by the indigenous movements, in order to justify external military intervention,” he maintained. Submit To Propeller
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the u.s. strategy seems to be to one of infiltration and exploitation and, if indigenous movements can be goaded into violent reaction, then the use of military force would be "justified..." with ex-contra negroponte at the helm as national intelligence director, you were expecting maybe a walk in the park...?
(more)
The ”war on terror”, identified in Amnesty International's annual report as a new source of human rights abuses, is threatening to expand to Latin America, targeting indigenous movements that are demanding autonomy and protesting free-market policies and ”neo-liberal” globalisation.
In the United States ”there is a perception of indigenous activists as destabilising elements and terrorists,” and their demands and activism have begun to be cast in a criminal light, [said] lawyer José Aylwin, with the Institute of Indigenous Studies at the University of the Border in Temuco [Chile].
[...]
[T]he emergence of increasingly organised indigenous movements and the strengthening of their ethnic identities become . . . targets of ”the so-called low-intensity warfare doctrine, a renovated version of the National Security Doctrine” that formed the basis of U.S. interventionism in Latin America from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s.
[...]
In Latin America, the Andean subregion is seen as the ”hottest” area, because of the growing political role played by well-organised indigenous movements in Bolivia and Ecuador, but also because of the impact on indigenous peoples of armed conflict and drug trafficking in Colombia.
Farther south in the Andes mountains, Mapuche organisations in southern Chile and Argentina have become more and more radical in recent years in their claims to their ancestral territory, demands for autonomy and the creation of indigenous reserves, and defence of the environment, which is threatened by transnational mining and forestry corporations that are granted tax breaks and other incentives by governments.
[...]
[T]he former president of Bolivia's Confederación Sindical Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, a peasant farmer union, accused foreign oil companies of backing the demands for regional autonomy put forth by business and large landowners in the wealthy eastern regions of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Pando and Beni, where the country's natural gas reserves are concentrated.
”Behind that movement lies a hidden plan aimed at generating a violent reaction by the indigenous movements, in order to justify external military intervention,” he maintained. Submit To Propeller
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6/06/2005
