Nationalist Leader Col. Seineldin Warns of Anglo-American Coup Threat in Argentina
Former Argentine Col. Mohammed Seineldin charges there is a danger of a "coup" in Argentina: not a national coup, but an international one--which is being prepared. On March 3, one of Argentina's leading dailies, La Nacion, reported that Seineldin had warned on a radio interview the day before, that a "non-traditional" coup was being prepared. Argentina's Armed Forces are "completely dismantled," and are "practically integrated into the UN system," he charged. It is the Anglo-American establishment which is organizing a "controlled civil war" in Argentina. They estimate that with 300-400 deaths, they could get a situation in which they could justify a UN military intervention in Argentina, with the support of neighboring countries.
Seineldin, who was a commander in the 1982 Malvinas War, and is now a political prisoner in Argentina, noted that the establishment includes the likes of George Soros, Henry Kissinger, and former President George Bush (the father). Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is part of this crew, said Seineldin, but he's not a member of the establishment, just one of their "acolytes.... He's one of their peons."
Martial Law in Ecuador Due to General Strike
On March 7, it was reported that the government of Ecuador has imposed martial law in its two key oil-producing provinces, Sucumbios and Orellana, which border on Colombia, where provinicial authorities declared a general strike 15 days ago. The general strike was called to demand the government and multinational oil companies invest in developing the region, specifying that they want at least $10 million in development aid. The 310,000 barrels per day of oil which the two provinces together produce, bring in some 43% of the national budget. The strike has gotten nasty, with sabotage of one pipeline, and the blowing up of a key bridge by protesters.
The strike's demands are not unjust, but the timing of the strike cannot be ignored, overlapping as it does with the offensive by the narcoterrorist FARC, which forced the Colombian government of President Andres Pastrana to abandon its failed "peace" policy. The entire region of Ecuador which borders Colombia has been heavily penetrated by the FARC. Various local authorities in the region are open supporters of the FARC, and others have been intimidated into collusion by FARC threats.
The protests are likely to spread nationally, as the Noboa government, blackmailed as it is by the IMF, is proceeding with the privatization of the national electricity grid, over furious resistance from the electrical workers' union. The IMF is going so far as to pressure this bankrupt, starving country not merely to balance its budget, but to run a surplus--so it can pay its debts.
Venezuela's Chavez Offers Mediation with FARC
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez announced on Feb. 27 that his government is undertaking "actions" to secure the freedom of Colombian Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who is being held captive by the FARC. Chavez refuses to call the FARC "terrorists," saying, "It's not our place to judge or classify" them, but he has called upon the group to respect the integrity of those whom it has kidnapped. Chavez claimed "various governments," which he wouldn't name, had requested his government intervene, and he bragged to foreign journalists that his government had previously been able to secure freedom for other kidnap victims.
Chavez lamented the collapse of the "peace process" in Colombia, and said that he was open to anyone who wished him to help re-open peace negotiations, be they "guerrilla, the Colombian government, or any international body." The "peace process" had ceded to the FARC an area of Colombia about the size of Switzerland, and a host of international financiers, led by New York Stock Exchange head Richard Grasso, had opened up relations with the drug-trafficking terrorists for financial arrangments.
New York Times Caught Lying About Senator's Call for U.S. Troops to Colombia
On March 5, a press spokesman for U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) told EIR that the New York Times' assertion in a March 3 article that Sen. Leahy had suggested the Congress should consider sending U.S. combat troops to Colombia, was "incorrect." The spokesman said the Senator was speaking rhetorically, when he asked if perhaps the U.S. should send in troops, after stressing that Congress must carefully evaluate all the risks of any action it takes. Judging by the way the article was written, it would appear that the New York Times reporter willfully "misunderstood" the Senator.
The option of sending U.S. troops, which is advocated by the "empire" proponents of a global war against Islam and the Third World, has been warned against by Lyndon LaRouche, whose 15-point program for an effective war on drugs, issued in March 1985 and based on cooperation among sovereign nation-states, and the need to clean up money-laundering run by the major London and Wall Street financiers, has been reissued by his 2004 Presidential Campaign in a Special Report, "To Stop Terrorism--Shut Down Dope, Inc."
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