The Left Coaster has a good update here on the attempted Company takeover of South America.
A while back, one of our wrong-wing wregulars took me to task for linking to an article in Pravda which announced US plans for a military base in Paraguay. Seems like such a thing is coming to pass...
The specific issue here isn't whether Paraguay is allowing a US military presence, but what the presence is intended to be used against.
Looking at a CIA map [Hey - I'm a taxpayer!], it's easy to see that Paraguay sits in a strategic location, congruent to certain assets that are important to Bu$hCo supporters, who expect that they will receive certain protective services for their foreign investments in the region that my tax dollars can provide. I'll cover more on this later.
First, what is to be the mission for a Paraguayan presence of US military personnel? Toppling the Bolivian government if the coming electoral campaign goes against neo-liberalist economic policies...
And wouldn't it be convenient if US forces provided the logistics for the American security companies 'requested' to protect such candidates as Quiroga and Medina from 'insurgents' - just like in Afghanistan and Iraq?
Let's look at these 'insurgents' and why they represent such a threat to US economic interests...
Just how rich can a foreign company make itself in Bolivia? According to the KITCO Silver charts as of 9/17/05, silver is going for just over $US 7.20 per ounce. Keep this in mind when reading the next excerpt...
We'll call it $US 7.20 for simplicity. At current prices, 206 million ounces of silver is worth $US 1.4832 BILLION from a country whose 2004 per capita GDP is $2600. That's a major Bu$hel of boliviano! ...
Silver isn't the reason why Bu$hco is so interested in local economics that they would spend money that is needed to repair the Gulf Coast of the United States on yet another foreign military base while 22 are about to close in the US. Something much more valuable is - petroleum energy resources...
Other oil companies could enter into the fray: Andina, Chaco, Maxus [Maxus Bolivia, Inc. Headquarters: The Woodlands, TX], Petrobras and Don Wong.
But Maxus is the one which provides Bu$hCo with their opening to inject US forces into Bolivia, and Paraguay is the best possible location to protect their spheres of influence. They would also have to protect their local puppet...
Bolivia is only one South American country where foreign investments are threatened by uprisings of the local people, and the 'problem' of keeping the locals in their place - which is only to provide vast profits as almost no cost to the investor - is made much more difficult and costly by the example of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez standing up to the US...
Since none of those messages resonated with the American people, it's time to return to the tired (sic) and true, one which has lasted since the rise of Richard Nixon - the War on Drugs. There are reports that Bu$hCo seeks ways of Turning Chavez Into Noriega to justify a Panama-like invasion, but more likely is the time-honored war excuse of a border dispute with Colombia, which is themselves a nation rife with drugs via the activities of the Medellin Cartel - an organization that couldn't exist today without their participation in Poppy Bu$h'$ Iran-Contra operation. [More here, here, and here ]
Only one problem: the drug-running plan doesn't seem to be working so well.
Regardless of what, when, where, why, and how, the 'who' of the equation is those globalization afficianados who seek to impose their drive for massive profits on the world through the agency of those they bankrolled into power - only there are now some doubts as to whether Bu$hCo has the cojones to carry out their entrusted tasks...
Thus, the pressure from neo-liberal neocon-men is clearly felt on one side while a counter-pressure in the form of public image as competent managers of the commonweal lost through their delayed response to the Katrina disaster squeezes from the other side. Chavez isn't helping this Bu$hCo dilemma much, either...
Read it all, it's in much more depth than covered here.
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Why would I yell at anyone for avoiding my verbiose posts?
Sometimes I can hardly read them either.
It's a long way from over. The Company has seriously overextended itself since the days of Poppy and the Gipper. But that doesn't seem to bother the monomaniacs of the Dominion any.
I expect someday soon that someplace gets pre-emptively nuked. Rumsfeld is quite insane enough to try that, if Cheney orders it. The problem is, there are now many countries with nukes aimed at us, and once we pre-emptively strike, we may be living in a do unto us before we do unto you world.
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