Reply #29: Took 'em more than a year to take down Allende and the tactics

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with Venezuela are very similar. Allende was also close to Fidel. I think the difference is that now with the internet news is pretty much in real time and many people are aware of the US track record in LatAm (not to mention the rest of the globe). The patterns for destablizing democratically elected leaders around the globe are nearly the same--same recipe works over and over. :puke:

The other things is that everytime the US makes a move Chavez and his government bring it to the attention of the world and I think this keeps Uncle Sam at bay--just my opinion.

Meanwhile, in Ecuador the US is consolidating its occupation of that oil rich country--coincidentally on the border with Colombia. Here's a clip.

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U.S. Military Consolidates the Occupation
of Ecuador.

CARLOS FAZIO
La Jornada

(translation: lam, Boletin Latino)

Silently and without firing a single shot, the Pentagon is consolidating
the military occupation of Ecuador. The accelerated installation of
military bases and an espionage center, as well as the training of elite counterinsurgent units, signal timely preparations for an eventual launching of Plan Colombia's second phase for the first months of 2004: a multinational armed intervention against the FARC and the
ELN guerrillas.

The Manta naval and air base, located on the Pacific shore of
Ecuador and one hour flight from the Colombian border, is under the
exclusive
jurisdiction of the U.S. Armed Forces' SouthCom (Southern Command).
Manta is an Air Force and Navy command center directing key
mercenary operations under contract to Cyncorp, a Pentagon private
subcontractor, conducting the installation of 3 substitute logistics
centers (under construction) in the provinces of Guayas, Azuay and
Sucumbíos, as well as, the militarization of the Ecuadorian police,
receiving "anti terrorist" training by the FBI.

Visits to the Andean nation by General Wendell L. Griffin, SouthCom
Planning and Strategy Director (end of October) and U.S. special
envoy for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Otto Reich, seem to indicate
that Washington is accelerating preparations to unleash military
skirmishes inside Colombian territory and that Ecuador, with the
subordinate authorization of President Lucio Gutiérrez -a seasoned,
retired colonel-, will perform a function similar to Honduras in
Reagan's war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua: that of a U.S.
aircraft carrier in an undercover war of aggression.

Manta, center of regional espionage

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