...makes strange sense, the way "Alice in Wonderland" makes sense of an upside down, inside out, backwards world.
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"...it's obvious that a person cannot carry out his job as a mayor from jail." --Colombia's Prosecutor General
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Uribe's criminal network was running the whole country until recently--basically throughout the Bush Junta. Some SEVENTY of his closest political cohorts were under investigation or already prosecuted and in prison--for ties to the death squads and drug trafficking, corruption, ponzi schemes, election fraud and other crimes, and although prosecutors have yet to nail Uribe--in part because the CIA is protecting him (probably because he is the key to Bush Junta crimes in Colombia)--Colombia had this mafia don as 'president,' using the government intelligence agency to spy on everyone--judges, prosecutors, the political opposition, and trade unionists and other advocates of the poor, and was apparently drawing up "lists" for the hit squads (a spying operation that apparently had direct links to the U.S. embassy), as Uribe prepped Colombia for U.S. "free trade for the rich" by killing trade unionists and peasants and driving FIVE MILLION peasants from their lands--all on our dime ($7 BILLION in U.S. funding to the military).
My theory is that Uribe's primary job was to consolidate the cocaine trade into fewer hands and direct its trillion+ dollar revenue stream to U.S. banksters, the Bush Cartel, the CIA and other beneficiaries. Prepping for U.S. "free trade for the rich" by decapitating the labor unions and brutally dispossessing peasant farmers was an important but secondary purpose, as were war profiteering, Pentagon expansion and creating a brutal, militaristic, fascist society for the sheer pleasure that bloody chaos gives to beasts like Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. The cocaine trade was the "gold ring."
Due to U.S. protection of Uribe, he and his criminal network are still around, with some of Uribe's people still in public office and with Uribe still being a factor in Colombian politics. Indeed, he wants to 'run' again for president and is likely waiting to see what ES&S/Diebold does here. There are Diebold fascists in the U.S. Congress--including the Miami Mafia--who are slavering to re-install fascist regimes throughout Latin America and who have basically already declared war on Venezuela, Nicaragua and other countries with leftist governments. Given Bush Junta II, that's what they will do. I think the war plans are already on the drawing board. An unholy alliance between the fascist elements of the Puke Party, transglobal oil and other corporations, the big, protected drug lords and the Pentagon and the war profiteers here may well bring about this terrible outcome: A U.S. war in Latin America.
So this is no small thing--Colombia's prosecutor trying to keep the mafia out of public office. They have been quite tenacious and vigilant in pursuing these criminals. Where the criminal network operates, no election is honest or fair. Criminals 'win' by intimidation, threats, murder, corruption and election fraud--then they use their office for crime and the protection of crony criminals. Colombia is in a very dicey situation, having been ravaged by the Bush Junta and their pet ghoul, Uribe. It is touch-and-go whether the forces of civil life will prevail.
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