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PS: I came, because without Permission. It goes below this note. JS
LATIN AMERICAN ABSTRACT
- Expertise in the Guerrero state Attorney confirmed that bodies discovered in mass graves in Pueblo Viejo near the town of Iguala, correspond to normalistas missing on Friday of last week.
We are awaiting the governor Angel Aguirre, who said dismayed, for a news conference in Chilpancingo at 18:30.
From 11:00 h that the operation was implemented, it was speculated that the bodies in the graves could correspond to the 43 missing normalistas.
Everything indicates that the calcined challenges found in three pits two miles from Iguala, are missing some of the normal school makes a week.The Guerrero government has requested the expert support of the Federal Police and the PGR. Governor Angel Aguirre, and had communication with the prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, asking for their intervention in the confirmation that the normal school were victims of organized crime.
The Office of Guerrero and made corresponding to the PGR breakdown.
The first hint of the clandestine graves came from the confession of one of the gunmen who participated in the execution of Ayotzinapa students, who revealed the location of the graves and the method of implementation of the normal school. They were kidnapped and executed by members of the municipal police of Iguala, serving as the armed wing of Warriors States criminal group, which controls the area of Iguala.
Is confirmed the location of three mass graves with al least ten bodies were tortured and then burned. At this time, the governor of Guerrero, Angel Aguirre, will receive relatives of the disappeared. He will give a news conference with the state attorney general.
Elements of the Army located a safe house near the place of execution, where weapons being located AK-47.
Research suggests the mayor licensed and fugitive from Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca (PRD), who has not been able to confirm localizado.estos time information.
.........
DAY / Arista and Rubicela Sergio Ocampo Morelos
Last night, about 21 hours, hundreds of students and parents arrived in Guerrero House to demand an audience with Governor Angel Aguirre to respond to rumors about the bodies they found in Pueblo Viejo, Iguala. With no response, contingent launched about five molotov bombs and 20 rockets.The first made an impact on the door of the house and three others broke into the yard. The rockets landed in the house; is not known if there was damage. Students turned a vehicle and damaged video cameras placed outdoors. Finally they withdrew.
At noon on Saturday were found several mass graves in the vicinity of a hill of Pueblo Viejo, in the city of Iguala, but the number or the identity of the bodies began to be exhumed be specified.
The area was cordoned off by some 300 of the Navy, the Army and the Federal, state and ministerial police, who blocked access to dozens of media who sought even circumvent checkpoints.
State agents only allowed reporters to get to the point known as The Parotas at Pueblo Viejo.
The place entered by the latest three undertakers floats, plus six inspectors from the National Commission of Human Rights.
A ministry of one of the police checkpoints confirmed that "is a broad field, you can not say, but I estimate to be several feet, several bodies that look as if they had caught fire before or after killing them."
Own ministry and state police upset because "we have not paid our allowances" were to reveal quantities ranging from four to 19 the found bodies, but no authority ratified those figures, including the state attorney general, Iñaki Cabrera White present at the site.
Task experts
Interviewed when he retired from Pueblo Viejo, Iñaki White confirmed the finding and reporters' questions, his answers were terse: "Up there no graves and bones." Not specify the number of graves or the bodies found. "That will have to determine the experts" cut.
He also warned reporters not have access to where the graves were located; "They can not pass. Was not hiding anything. Should be to preserve the scene."
The attorney also declined to answer whether any of the bodies belonged to any of the students from the Rural Normal of Ayotzinapa missing since Sept. 26. "It is a serious do have to work neatly. Understanding I ask. Later he will release the information. Moment is undetermined number of remains found," he said.
For several minutes over the area of the graves in the north of Iguala, two helicopters, one from the Navy and one from the Army, which tried to land near the hill, but did not.
To get to where the graves have to walk about two miles, a half hour.
Governor Angel Aguirre Rivero reported that several graves-not said how many-in the vicinity of Pueblo Viejo and Loma del Coyote in the city of Iguala, without specifying whether the bodies were located found in them are some of the 43 students in the Rural Normal School Ayotzinapa missing on September 26.
Attorney state justice, Iñaki White, revealed no evidence "of the involvement of groups of organized crime, particularly (the cartel) Warriors States, several members of the municipal police of Iguala are part, so it has arrested a number of them and investigations are continuing to arrest other alleged perpetrators. "
However, he said: "There is no certainty that (the remains found) are the normal school, an investigation that requires a technical, scientific and expert support is.
"It would be irresponsible of me, in my capacity as a state prosecutor, saying that it is the students (Ayotzinapa). We only discovered the graves and we await the results of the research The discovery of the graves has to do with the declaration of several persons and detainees, "he insisted.
"(Also) it can specify number of bodies. There are human remains and we will announce the results of the investigation and if correspondence with some of the genetic profiles of the same," he added.
At the site of the discovery reached specialists and the remains to the Forensic Medical Service Iguala, where genetic profiles to be confronted with those who have missing relatives moved will be developed.
He said the department support DNA, genetic maps and profiles of the scientific direction of the Federal Police will be requested, as well as the General Coordination of Expert Services of the Attorney General's Office (PGR).
On the progress of the investigation, Iñaki White said: "The breakdown was performed corresponding to the PGR, to know aspects of their exclusive competence currently being made available to that agency different people as suspects." .
He said that besides the 22 police detainees were apprehended eight people, including city officials and members of the crime.
In turn, Aguirre Rivero said that these eight people are involved in the murder of three normal school, a player the club Hornets, the driver of the bus carrying the athletes and a woman who was traveling in a taxi. "Several of them are properly recorded. Fiscal Next Monday will announce the progress of the case."
He added: "My government regrets the events and offers exercise the constitutional powers vested in it." He called on the people of Guerrero to maintain harmony, non-confrontation, harmony, and avoid all avenues violence in all its forms. "Today as never drive of Guerrero is required."
Without identifying them, I criticized organizations conducting demonstrations in the state "would be highly reprehensible who want to take advantage or policy which overwhelms us today and saddened raja" he said.
He insisted: "We will not rest until punish and imprison all those who have some responsibility in these events."
............
Ayotzinapa and killing of Iguala
Luis Hernández Navarro * / The Day
The municipal preventive police hunted them like rabbits Iguala. Despite being students, they were treated as if they belonged to a rival cartel. At 80 students from the Rural Normal of Ayotzinapa, who last September 26 in Iguala organized a collection of resources to finance his attendance at the march commemorating the slaughter of October 2, 1968 in the city of Mexico, was shot to galore. First the soldiers, then the plainclothes gunmen shot them intermittently without warning. Julio César Mondragón Fuentes, one of the normal school, they tortured him, gouged out his eyes and skinned his face.
The balance is tragic. In four interrelated violent events, featuring municipal police and gunmen were killed six people, including three normal school; 20 injured, a boy is in a vegetative state and whereabouts of another 55, of which at least 20 were uploaded to the municipal police vans unknown.
At first, the officers were shot while normalistas is trasportaban aboard three buses from the Costa Line. Then the gunmen rafagueó when they gave a press conference to denounce the attack against him. Later, in what the journalist Sergio Ocampo described as aggression toward anyone who seems student balacearon the truck Players Hornets football team moved.
This September 26, the president of DIF in Iguala, Maria de los Angeles de Abarca Pineda presented his report of activities. Besides being the wife of Mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velázquez, is a leading candidate for mayor 2015, and a figure of enormous political influence.
José Luis Abarca Velázquez went from being a humble seller of hats to jewelry, owner of Tamarind Gallery shopping mall and a wealthy merchant. His wealth allowed him to vote in 2011 a costly electoral campaign for governor Angel Aguirre Rivero today and a year later his own fund, generously handing out groceries to their supporters.
Abarca won the mayoral candidacy shock checkbook. After a short-lived internal haggling, the Party of the Democratic Revolution had no qualms about incorporating it into their schedules, despite his reputation as a friend of some of the biggest baddies in the region.He immediately joined the ranks of New Left.
Iguala is a key city in the drug trade. Valley surrounded by nine mountains in the northern region of Guerrero, is the entry point to the Tierra Caliente, where cartels grown produce synthetic drugs and marijuana. There operate various organized crime gangs, hegemoneizadas by Warriors States, one of the subgroups emerged following the implosion of the Beltran Leyva.
The cartel war by the square has been wild. Warriors confronted States for control of drug smuggling routes that connect the states of Mexico, Guerrero and Morelos with Family and The Reds, a cell headed by Leonor Nava Romero, El Tigre, brother of Jesus Nava Romero, Red , Arturo Beltran Leyva lieutenant, killed in 2009 in Cuernavaca.
The result of this dispute has been bloody Iguala. In January 2004, an armed group, who identified himself as state police stormed the prison in the town, and killed five inmates.The policemen, who were in a prison tower, engaged the attackers and killed four and wounded one. Between April and May were found 16 skeletons in mass graves in the settlement Pineda Ernesto Vega.
Since his arrival at City Hall, José Luis Abarca has been accused of corruption, nepotism and authoritarianism. The May 30, 2013, eight members of Popular Unity Iguala, social organization opposing the mayor, were raised by a command. Three were executed.Nicolas Mendoza Villa, one of the hostages who managed to escape, directly accused the mayor of the facts and of killing personally PRD leader Arturo Hernández Cardona firing a shotgun in the face and once in the chest, behind blurt " How much are you fucking with manure.'ll give me the pleasure of killing you. "
Shame on infamy, José Luis Abarca said the killing was triggered normalistas because "apparently hired someone to do the ayotzinapos desmadres". Who is the one who, according to the mayor, paid them to create problems? In a region infested by drug trafficking, the accusation is reckless and provocative. Perhaps that's why I ripped the skin of the face to one of the students?
Rural School normalistas Raúl Isidro Burgos are not hired anyone. Have behind them a long history of struggle for good causes. Last year unselfishly supported the inhabitants of Tixtla affected by Ingrid and Manuel hurricanes, abandoned by the state government.The December 22, 2011, two of his companions were killed by state police when required improvements to their school and work places. The crimes remain unpunished.
A José Luis Abarca protect very powerful people in government and the state legislature.When the lord of Rural Development, Sofia Lorena Mendoza, promoted removal from office of the mayor, accusing him of being responsible for the murder of the three leaders of the People's Union, President of the Committee on Local Government Congress, Bernardo Ortega Jiménez, supported him . Like Abarca, Ortega is part of New Left. Will he follow the PRD protecting José Luis Abarca?
* Luis Hernández Navarro, journalist, coordinator of opinion and editorial of the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
PS: I came, because without Permission. It goes below this note. JS
Mexico: students were tortured and then burned alive
LATIN AMERICAN ABSTRACT
- Expertise in the Guerrero state Attorney confirmed that bodies discovered in mass graves in Pueblo Viejo near the town of Iguala, correspond to normalistas missing on Friday of last week.
We are awaiting the governor Angel Aguirre, who said dismayed, for a news conference in Chilpancingo at 18:30.
From 11:00 h that the operation was implemented, it was speculated that the bodies in the graves could correspond to the 43 missing normalistas.
Everything indicates that the calcined challenges found in three pits two miles from Iguala, are missing some of the normal school makes a week.The Guerrero government has requested the expert support of the Federal Police and the PGR. Governor Angel Aguirre, and had communication with the prosecutor Jesús Murillo Karam, asking for their intervention in the confirmation that the normal school were victims of organized crime.
The Office of Guerrero and made corresponding to the PGR breakdown.
The first hint of the clandestine graves came from the confession of one of the gunmen who participated in the execution of Ayotzinapa students, who revealed the location of the graves and the method of implementation of the normal school. They were kidnapped and executed by members of the municipal police of Iguala, serving as the armed wing of Warriors States criminal group, which controls the area of Iguala.
Is confirmed the location of three mass graves with al least ten bodies were tortured and then burned. At this time, the governor of Guerrero, Angel Aguirre, will receive relatives of the disappeared. He will give a news conference with the state attorney general.
Elements of the Army located a safe house near the place of execution, where weapons being located AK-47.
Research suggests the mayor licensed and fugitive from Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca (PRD), who has not been able to confirm localizado.estos time information.
.........
DAY / Arista and Rubicela Sergio Ocampo Morelos
Last night, about 21 hours, hundreds of students and parents arrived in Guerrero House to demand an audience with Governor Angel Aguirre to respond to rumors about the bodies they found in Pueblo Viejo, Iguala. With no response, contingent launched about five molotov bombs and 20 rockets.The first made an impact on the door of the house and three others broke into the yard. The rockets landed in the house; is not known if there was damage. Students turned a vehicle and damaged video cameras placed outdoors. Finally they withdrew.
At noon on Saturday were found several mass graves in the vicinity of a hill of Pueblo Viejo, in the city of Iguala, but the number or the identity of the bodies began to be exhumed be specified.
The area was cordoned off by some 300 of the Navy, the Army and the Federal, state and ministerial police, who blocked access to dozens of media who sought even circumvent checkpoints.
State agents only allowed reporters to get to the point known as The Parotas at Pueblo Viejo.
The place entered by the latest three undertakers floats, plus six inspectors from the National Commission of Human Rights.
A ministry of one of the police checkpoints confirmed that "is a broad field, you can not say, but I estimate to be several feet, several bodies that look as if they had caught fire before or after killing them."
Own ministry and state police upset because "we have not paid our allowances" were to reveal quantities ranging from four to 19 the found bodies, but no authority ratified those figures, including the state attorney general, Iñaki Cabrera White present at the site.
Task experts
Interviewed when he retired from Pueblo Viejo, Iñaki White confirmed the finding and reporters' questions, his answers were terse: "Up there no graves and bones." Not specify the number of graves or the bodies found. "That will have to determine the experts" cut.
He also warned reporters not have access to where the graves were located; "They can not pass. Was not hiding anything. Should be to preserve the scene."
The attorney also declined to answer whether any of the bodies belonged to any of the students from the Rural Normal of Ayotzinapa missing since Sept. 26. "It is a serious do have to work neatly. Understanding I ask. Later he will release the information. Moment is undetermined number of remains found," he said.
For several minutes over the area of the graves in the north of Iguala, two helicopters, one from the Navy and one from the Army, which tried to land near the hill, but did not.
To get to where the graves have to walk about two miles, a half hour.
Governor Angel Aguirre Rivero reported that several graves-not said how many-in the vicinity of Pueblo Viejo and Loma del Coyote in the city of Iguala, without specifying whether the bodies were located found in them are some of the 43 students in the Rural Normal School Ayotzinapa missing on September 26.
Attorney state justice, Iñaki White, revealed no evidence "of the involvement of groups of organized crime, particularly (the cartel) Warriors States, several members of the municipal police of Iguala are part, so it has arrested a number of them and investigations are continuing to arrest other alleged perpetrators. "
However, he said: "There is no certainty that (the remains found) are the normal school, an investigation that requires a technical, scientific and expert support is.
"It would be irresponsible of me, in my capacity as a state prosecutor, saying that it is the students (Ayotzinapa). We only discovered the graves and we await the results of the research The discovery of the graves has to do with the declaration of several persons and detainees, "he insisted.
"(Also) it can specify number of bodies. There are human remains and we will announce the results of the investigation and if correspondence with some of the genetic profiles of the same," he added.
At the site of the discovery reached specialists and the remains to the Forensic Medical Service Iguala, where genetic profiles to be confronted with those who have missing relatives moved will be developed.
He said the department support DNA, genetic maps and profiles of the scientific direction of the Federal Police will be requested, as well as the General Coordination of Expert Services of the Attorney General's Office (PGR).
On the progress of the investigation, Iñaki White said: "The breakdown was performed corresponding to the PGR, to know aspects of their exclusive competence currently being made available to that agency different people as suspects." .
He said that besides the 22 police detainees were apprehended eight people, including city officials and members of the crime.
In turn, Aguirre Rivero said that these eight people are involved in the murder of three normal school, a player the club Hornets, the driver of the bus carrying the athletes and a woman who was traveling in a taxi. "Several of them are properly recorded. Fiscal Next Monday will announce the progress of the case."
He added: "My government regrets the events and offers exercise the constitutional powers vested in it." He called on the people of Guerrero to maintain harmony, non-confrontation, harmony, and avoid all avenues violence in all its forms. "Today as never drive of Guerrero is required."
Without identifying them, I criticized organizations conducting demonstrations in the state "would be highly reprehensible who want to take advantage or policy which overwhelms us today and saddened raja" he said.
He insisted: "We will not rest until punish and imprison all those who have some responsibility in these events."
............
Ayotzinapa and killing of Iguala
Luis Hernández Navarro * / The Day
The municipal preventive police hunted them like rabbits Iguala. Despite being students, they were treated as if they belonged to a rival cartel. At 80 students from the Rural Normal of Ayotzinapa, who last September 26 in Iguala organized a collection of resources to finance his attendance at the march commemorating the slaughter of October 2, 1968 in the city of Mexico, was shot to galore. First the soldiers, then the plainclothes gunmen shot them intermittently without warning. Julio César Mondragón Fuentes, one of the normal school, they tortured him, gouged out his eyes and skinned his face.
The balance is tragic. In four interrelated violent events, featuring municipal police and gunmen were killed six people, including three normal school; 20 injured, a boy is in a vegetative state and whereabouts of another 55, of which at least 20 were uploaded to the municipal police vans unknown.
At first, the officers were shot while normalistas is trasportaban aboard three buses from the Costa Line. Then the gunmen rafagueó when they gave a press conference to denounce the attack against him. Later, in what the journalist Sergio Ocampo described as aggression toward anyone who seems student balacearon the truck Players Hornets football team moved.
This September 26, the president of DIF in Iguala, Maria de los Angeles de Abarca Pineda presented his report of activities. Besides being the wife of Mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velázquez, is a leading candidate for mayor 2015, and a figure of enormous political influence.
José Luis Abarca Velázquez went from being a humble seller of hats to jewelry, owner of Tamarind Gallery shopping mall and a wealthy merchant. His wealth allowed him to vote in 2011 a costly electoral campaign for governor Angel Aguirre Rivero today and a year later his own fund, generously handing out groceries to their supporters.
Abarca won the mayoral candidacy shock checkbook. After a short-lived internal haggling, the Party of the Democratic Revolution had no qualms about incorporating it into their schedules, despite his reputation as a friend of some of the biggest baddies in the region.He immediately joined the ranks of New Left.
Iguala is a key city in the drug trade. Valley surrounded by nine mountains in the northern region of Guerrero, is the entry point to the Tierra Caliente, where cartels grown produce synthetic drugs and marijuana. There operate various organized crime gangs, hegemoneizadas by Warriors States, one of the subgroups emerged following the implosion of the Beltran Leyva.
The cartel war by the square has been wild. Warriors confronted States for control of drug smuggling routes that connect the states of Mexico, Guerrero and Morelos with Family and The Reds, a cell headed by Leonor Nava Romero, El Tigre, brother of Jesus Nava Romero, Red , Arturo Beltran Leyva lieutenant, killed in 2009 in Cuernavaca.
The result of this dispute has been bloody Iguala. In January 2004, an armed group, who identified himself as state police stormed the prison in the town, and killed five inmates.The policemen, who were in a prison tower, engaged the attackers and killed four and wounded one. Between April and May were found 16 skeletons in mass graves in the settlement Pineda Ernesto Vega.
Since his arrival at City Hall, José Luis Abarca has been accused of corruption, nepotism and authoritarianism. The May 30, 2013, eight members of Popular Unity Iguala, social organization opposing the mayor, were raised by a command. Three were executed.Nicolas Mendoza Villa, one of the hostages who managed to escape, directly accused the mayor of the facts and of killing personally PRD leader Arturo Hernández Cardona firing a shotgun in the face and once in the chest, behind blurt " How much are you fucking with manure.'ll give me the pleasure of killing you. "
Shame on infamy, José Luis Abarca said the killing was triggered normalistas because "apparently hired someone to do the ayotzinapos desmadres". Who is the one who, according to the mayor, paid them to create problems? In a region infested by drug trafficking, the accusation is reckless and provocative. Perhaps that's why I ripped the skin of the face to one of the students?
Rural School normalistas Raúl Isidro Burgos are not hired anyone. Have behind them a long history of struggle for good causes. Last year unselfishly supported the inhabitants of Tixtla affected by Ingrid and Manuel hurricanes, abandoned by the state government.The December 22, 2011, two of his companions were killed by state police when required improvements to their school and work places. The crimes remain unpunished.
A José Luis Abarca protect very powerful people in government and the state legislature.When the lord of Rural Development, Sofia Lorena Mendoza, promoted removal from office of the mayor, accusing him of being responsible for the murder of the three leaders of the People's Union, President of the Committee on Local Government Congress, Bernardo Ortega Jiménez, supported him . Like Abarca, Ortega is part of New Left. Will he follow the PRD protecting José Luis Abarca?
* Luis Hernández Navarro, journalist, coordinator of opinion and editorial of the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/20137717429632532.html
Death by 'security': Israel's services in Latin America |
The country has supported repressive governments in the region to suppress indigenous movements and uprisings.
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According to a Mexican news article that surfaced in May, the Israeli military will begin training the police force in Mexico's southeastern state of Chiapas, where the predominantly indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army is based.
Yaron Yugman, Israel's defence ministry representative in Mexico, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, is quoted as affirming that "a country's security is fundamental to its growth" and that human rights would be one of the focuses of military instruction.
Of course, "security" and "growth" aren't luxuries usually intended for domestic indigenous groups. A Mayarticle in The Electronic Intifada recalls the aftermath of the 1994 Zapatista uprising, which coincided with the inauguration of the North American Free Trade Agreement:
"The Mexican government found itself needing to respond to the dictates of foreign investors, as afamously leaked Chase-Manhattan Bank memo revealed: 'While Chiapas, in our opinion, does not pose a fundamental threat to Mexican political stability, it is perceived to be so by many in the investment community. The government will need to eliminate the Zapatistas to demonstrate their effective control of the national territory and of security policy'."
As for the alleged focus on human rights, Israel's expertise in oppressing indigenous populations and squelching dignity happens to be more marketable.
The Israeli embassy in Mexico has reportedly denied military machinations in the southeast, but not evenFox News Latino is convinced:
"The Israeli Embassy's denial of its government working in Chiapas is puzzling, given the long history that Israel's government has of working with Mexico. Since the early 1970s, the Mexican government has purchased airplanes, helicopters, missile boats, small arms and other weapons from either the Israeli army or Israeli military contractors."
Contributions to genocide
Mexico's indigenous Mayans are not the only group to have found themselves on the receiving end of Israel's arsenal.
In an email to me, acclaimed author and historian Greg Grandin outlined a previous episode of such charitable regional intervention:
"In [civil war-era] Guatemala, Israel, acting on behalf of the Reagan administration, stepped in to supply military equipment, including helicopters and Galil rifles, and training that had been cut off during the previous Carter administration. Israel also supplied [the Guatemalan regime with] computers, software, and other equipment used for surveillance. This was at the height of the genocide, which ultimately left 200,000 dead, including many Mayans."
Investigative reporter Jeremy Bigwood, who as a photojournalist covered Latin American civil wars in the 1980s and 1990s, confirmed that the Israelis were "up to their ears in the genocide" in Guatemala. He said the Israelis had supplied the military with Arava STOL planes and armoured personnel carriers, and established an ammunition factory in the city of Coban. Bigwood added: "The Israelis used telephone analysis - similar to what the NSA is now doing - and were able to utterly destroy the Guatemalan urban guerrillas. They assisted in the countryside by mapping out each family farmhouse and identifying the politics of the inhabitants."
A 2012 report entitled Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network notes that Israel's extensive experience in displacing Palestinians enabled the state to assist in the planning and implementation of "scorched earth" policies in both Guatemala and El Salvador. According to the report, the Guatemalan operations "were combined with 'development poles' - concentrated villages of displaced populations that allowed for greater government control over the popular movement and the repression of any grassroots organising".
Giong back further, a 1986 article by the Middle East Research and Information Project quotes a former member of the Knesset foreign affairs committee as defending Israeli involvement in Guatemala: "Israel is a pariah state. When people ask us for something, we cannot afford to ask questions about ideology. The only type of regime that Israel would not aid would be one that is anti-American".
From Palestinian laboratory to 'trail of terror'
One advantage to being forced to comply "[w]hen people ask us for something", obviously, is that sizable profits accompany weapons sales.
As for Israel's alleged pariah-hood, this tragic scenario is seemingly contradicted by Bigwood's 2003 articlefor Al Jazeera, Israel's Latin American trail of terror, in which he lists countries in the region where Israel has supplied, trained, and advised right-wing groups and regimes: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. So much for lonesomeness.
Ideology's negligible importance is confirmed in Bigwood's article by Israel's support for the Argentine military junta's dirty war of 1976-1983 - which was characterised by mass forced disappearances and torture - despite, as Bigwood notes, the junta's anti-Semitic orientation. Ideological overlap is, however, seen in the case of Colombia, where President Juan Manuel Santos has not only appeared in a promotional video for an Israeli private security firm but has also announced: "We've even been accused of being the Israelites[sic] of Latin America, which personally makes me feel really proud."
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Beyond verifying Santos' clunessness, this statement is particularly relevant given that Carlos Castano - the founder of modern Colombian paramilitarism - was trained in Israel and acknowledged copying the paramilitary concept from the Israelis.
Israel's hobby of collective punishment has, it seems, proven especially instructive; although formally disbanded, Colombian paramilitaries continue to terrorise civilian populations, often reportedly in concert with the military - which is itself famous for slaughtering civilians and dressing the corpses up as anti-government guerrillas. A primary goal of this terrorisation is to clear land of indigenous groups, campesinos, and other people whose existence impedes the proper exploitation of resources.
In Chiapas, meanwhile, the indigenous movement has rudely imperiled the flourishing of neoliberalism. The Electronic Intifada article explains: "The Zapatistas took back large tracts of land [from the government] on which they have since built subsistence cooperatives, autonomous schools, collectivised clinics and other democratic community structures."
Enter the Israeli army.
John Collins, chair of the Global Studies Department at New York's St Lawrence University, describesIsraeli military collaboration with the Mexican government in Chiapas as "further evidence of how tools of surveillance and repression field-tested on Palestinians are being used throughout the world", quoting Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper's assessment that "[t]he Israeli economy is based on exporting the occupation [of Palestine]".
Although Israel may contend that "a country's security is fundamental to its growth", the fact is that globalinsecurity is fundamental to Israel's growth.
Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, released by Verso in 2011. She is a member of the Jacobin Magazine editorial board, and her articles have appeared in the London Review of Books blog, Salon, The Baffler, Al Akhbar English and many other publications.
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