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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2393526" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>another example of american imperialism:</p><p></p><p>"</p><p>But the movements and governments in Latin America have fallen prey to the dark forces of U.S. imperialism and the wrath of corporate power. The tricks long practiced by Washington and its corporate allies have returned—the black propaganda; the manipulation of the media; the bribery and corruption of politicians, generals, police, labor leaders and journalists; the legislative coups d’état; the economic strangulation; the discrediting of democratically elected leaders; the criminalization of the left; and the use of death squads to silence and disappear those fighting on behalf of the poor. It is an old, dirty game.</p><p></p><p>President Correa, who earned enmity from Washington for granting political asylum to <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/julian-assange-just-began-his-fifth-year-inside-the-ecuadorian-embassy/" target="_blank">Julian Assange</a> four years ago and for closing the United States’ <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803407.html" target="_blank">Manta military air base</a> in 2009, warned recently that a new version of Operation Condor is underway in Latin America. Operation Condor, which operated in the 1970s and ’80s, saw thousands of labor union organizers, community leaders, students, activists, politicians, diplomats, religious leaders, journalists and artists<strong> tortured, assassinated and disappeared.</strong> The intelligence chiefs from right-wing regimes in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and, later, Brazil had overseen the campaigns of terror. They received funds from the United States and logistical support and training from the Central Intelligence Agency. Press freedom, union organizing, all forms of artistic dissent and political opposition were abolished. In a coordinated effort these regimes brutally dismembered radical and leftist movements across Latin America. In Argentina alone 30,000 people disappeared."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2393526, member: 56035"] another example of american imperialism: " But the movements and governments in Latin America have fallen prey to the dark forces of U.S. imperialism and the wrath of corporate power. The tricks long practiced by Washington and its corporate allies have returned—the black propaganda; the manipulation of the media; the bribery and corruption of politicians, generals, police, labor leaders and journalists; the legislative coups d’état; the economic strangulation; the discrediting of democratically elected leaders; the criminalization of the left; and the use of death squads to silence and disappear those fighting on behalf of the poor. It is an old, dirty game. President Correa, who earned enmity from Washington for granting political asylum to [URL='https://www.thenation.com/article/julian-assange-just-began-his-fifth-year-inside-the-ecuadorian-embassy/']Julian Assange[/URL] four years ago and for closing the United States’ [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803407.html']Manta military air base[/URL] in 2009, warned recently that a new version of Operation Condor is underway in Latin America. Operation Condor, which operated in the 1970s and ’80s, saw thousands of labor union organizers, community leaders, students, activists, politicians, diplomats, religious leaders, journalists and artists[B] tortured, assassinated and disappeared.[/B] The intelligence chiefs from right-wing regimes in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and, later, Brazil had overseen the campaigns of terror. They received funds from the United States and logistical support and training from the Central Intelligence Agency. Press freedom, union organizing, all forms of artistic dissent and political opposition were abolished. In a coordinated effort these regimes brutally dismembered radical and leftist movements across Latin America. In Argentina alone 30,000 people disappeared." [/QUOTE]
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