Muchas veces han tildado a Colombia de ser la ‘Israel Latinoamericana’ en razón de las bases militares que EE.UU. pensaba ubicar en nuestro territorio. Pero lo que no sabíamos y que se viene presentando ya hace bastante tiempo, es que al parecer tenemos mas similitudes que diferencias con el pueblo judío, y esto lo muestra no solo este cable publicado por WikiLeaks en 2009, en el que se muestra como empresas privadas de seguridad asesoraban al entonces Ministro de Defensa y actualmente Presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, quien estuvo al frente de esta cartera en el momento en que surgieron los escándalos de los ‘falsos positivos’, práctica muy común entre la milicia Israelí. Eso sin contar la participación del exPresidente Uribe en la comisión de investigación de la flotilla Mavi Marmara, en la que se presentó una masacre en 2010, en la que se publicaron una serie de fotografías de destornilladores y cuchillos, los cuales mostraron como ‘evidencia’ de que se trataba de un grupo de terroristas. Investigación cuyo resultado señaló a dicha flotilla como un grupo asociado con ‘violencia extrema’, validando el acto de Israel y la posición de ‘Alvaro Uribe, quien siempre se ha conocido por declarar que las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales muchas veces sirven como fachada de las organizaciones terroristas.
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Much fuss has been made in recent years in neoconservative circles in the US and among Israeli foreign ministry officials, regarding the danger to global security posed by an alleged Islamist infiltration of Latin America.
A pet factoid wielded by self-appointed experts on the matter is that it is currently possible to travel by air from Caracas to Tehran with only one stop in Damascus. Lest policymakers and the general public fail to respond with adequate alarm to such news, the severity of the threat is underscored via invented links between Muslims in Latin America and every potentially unfavourable regional trend, resulting in a spectre of Islamo-narco-socialist crime cartels menacing the southern border of the US.
In a WikiLeaks cable from the US embassy in Bogota dated December 1, 2009, a rather unexpected entity joined the usual lineup of Latin America-based threats. The cable discusses the manoeuvres in Colombia of the Israeli firm Global Comprehensive Security Transformation (Global CST), founded by Major General (Res) Israel Ziv – former head of the Operations Directorate of the Israeli military – and contracted to aid in the fight against both criminal organisations and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as well as to evaluate potential perils emanating from Ecuador and Venezuela:
«Over a three year period, Ziv worked his way into the confidence of former [Colombian] Defense Minister [Juan Manuel] Santos by promising a cheaper version of USG [US government] assistance without our strings attached. We and the GOC [government of Colombia] learned that Global CST had no Latin American experience and that its proposals seem designed more to support Israeli equipment and services sales than to meet in-country needs».
It is not clear why the US government should express surprise at the apparent failure to address «in-country needs» when its own Latin American experience includes the multi-billion dollar Plan Colombia, inaugurated more than a decade ago ostensibly as a means of curbing drug production and trafficking. In 2009, I spoke with farmers in the southern department of Putumayo who outlined in-country effects of the plan, such as repeated airborne fumigation of their subsistence crops, livestock, water supplies and children.
via Private security and ‘the Israelites of Latin America’ – Opinion – Al Jazeera English.
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