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From the Vol.1,No.8 issue of Electronic Intelligence Weekly

IBERO-AMERICAN NEWS DIGEST

EIR Editor Briefs Inter-American Defense Group on Wall Street's Narco-Terrorists

On April 26, EIR's Ibero-America editor Dennis Small gave an hour-long presentation at the Inter-American Defense College at Ft. Lesley McNair in Washington, D.C., to a group of 60 Ibero-American military officers and civilians enrolled there. The U.S. Defense Department has always tried to keep the Ibero-American military in D.C. on a tight leash, but as one attendee put it, "Lots of people come to talk to us, but no one ever has any answers ... and today we got solutions."

Small's presentation, centered on Lyndon LaRouche's analysis of the world economic-financial crisis, and LaRouche's proposal for a New Bretton Woods, was entitled "The Global Financial Crisis and its Effect on Continental Security."

To sum up the state of the international financial system, Small began by showing a slide of the "Grasso Abrazo," wherein New York Stock Exchange president Richard Grasso appears locked in an embrace with a leader of the FARC narcoterrorist group, at the group's camp in Colombia.

He then developed three themes: 1) the global breakdown crisis, the derivatives bubble, the fraud of the Ibero-American debt, the role of the drug trade, and the role of George Soros; 2) the effect of this on continental security, covering the utopian faction of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel Huntington, et al., who are out to destroy the nation-state; the significance in that of the 9/11 coup attempt, still ongoing, against the Bush Administration by the utopians; and the plot against Ibero-American militaries and nations; and 3) the historical precedent of the American System of Political Economy, elaborating on Alexander Hamilton's protectionist/dirigist economic philosophy, and tracing it up to the present day, including LaRouche's New Bretton Woods and Eurasian Land-Bridge proposals.

Brazilian Global21 Promotes LaRouche Solution to Argentine Collapse

In the wake of further economic and political breakdown in Argentina, Brazil's Global21 online magazine reached a record number of "hits," in re-publishing its March interview with EIR's Rio de Janeiro correspondent Lorenzo Carrasco, who explained the economic outlook of Lyndon LaRouche. Global 21, which is informally linked to the Foreign Trade Ministry, reported extensively in the introduction that LaRouche is continuing the legacy of the American System of Political Economy, as exemplified by Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Henry Carey, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR.

Carrasco's hard-hitting interview warned that there is no "Argentina" crisis, but a systemic crisis that threatens Brazil too, unless the G-8 nations, and others, such as China, Russia, and Brazil, come together to create a new monetary system, as proposed by Lyndon LaRouche.

Brazil must use its tremendous industrial and agricultural potential to lead the nations of the Southern Cone into this new monetary system, said Carrasco. He warned that Argentina's leaders don't understand that the nature of the crisis they face is civilizational. The fallacy of Argentina's "model," is that it "abandoned the republican principle of the Common Good, of the General Welfare.... Argentina urgently requires reestablishment of this principle of the Common Good ... placing the legitimate interests and aspirations of the large majority of its people above the interests of a financial system which, is technically bankrupt—with or without Argentina." Brazil is not immune to crisis, he warned.

Uproar in Mexico Over Creation of U.S. Northern Command

Questions are being raised in Mexico, because the new U.S. military command's designated area of responsibility is "North America"—i.e., including Mexico and Canada. Given the proliferating proposals for Mexico and Canada to be placed under a common U.S. "security bubble," and Vicente Fox's government's determined commitment to going beyond NAFTA to a "North American Community," members of Mexico's Congress and others are hitting the roof. Though not yet noted by Mexican officials, even in the U.S., the creation of a military command over U.S. citizens is considered unconstitutional.

The uproar in Mexico is such that U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Davidow published an article in El Universal which argued strenuously that, as the headline stated, the "U.S. Does Not Seek Subordination of the Mexican Armed Forces." Mexico's Defense Secretary issued a statement affirming that the creation of the U.S. command implies no operational or doctrinal commitment on the part of Mexico, nor the creation of any combined forces. Interior Secretary Santiago Creel stated that the U.S. Army is not authorized to enter Mexican territory, even in cases of emergency, nor does it affect "our territory and organization of defense. Here we decide ourselves."

Defense Secretary Gen. Ricardo Clemente Vega Garcia said no Mexican troops are going to be sent on missions outside of Mexico, "much less under the command of a commander who is not Mexican."

The Mexican Congress is furious that, once again, they learned of something—in this case, the new command—from the media and the U.S. Ambassador, not from the Mexican Executive. PRI Senators Silvia Hernandez and Manuel Bartlett noted that it is because of such behavior, that the Senate recently refused to permit President Vicente Fox to travel to the U.S. and Canada. One of the reasons specifically cited by the PRI Senate faction for that decision, was the Mexican government's negotiations with the the U.S. on creating a unified military command of North America.

New Attacks on Seineldin Appear in the Brazilian Press

In his column in the World Wildlife Fund-run O Globo April 24, Ancelmo Goes libelled Brazilian supporters of Argentine Col. Mohamed Ali Seineldin as "extreme right," implying a comparison with the Le Pen upsurge in France. "Not only is it in France that the extreme right is stirring," he wrote, complaining that a group of retired Brazilian military officers went to Argentina to appeal to President Duhalde to free Seineldin. "What the Brazilians called 'acts of patriotism' ... were really two attempted rebellions against Raul Alfonsin, in 1988, and Carlos Menem, in 1990," he wrote.

One day earlier, Mario Augusto Jakobskind, who distinguished himself last week by slandering Lyndon LaRouche as having been involved in the Venezuelan coup (citing a Cuban intelligence-linked, ETA-FARC stringer as his "credible" source), published an attack in Tribuna da Imprensa along similiar lines to that in O Globo. Seineldin, and an "obscure movement with ramifications in Brazil," including retired officers, represent a "Le Pen" phenomen, Jakobskind raved. Seineldin, "like his sympathizers, also uses an anti-imperialist rhetoric, despite not hiding the hatred which they nurse toward the left. Like Le Pen, the followers of Seineldin could trick the incautious," he wrote.

The truth is exactly the opposite to what these columnists write—the LaRouche solutions defending sovereign nation-states on the basis of the principle of "the general welfare," are the only way to prevent panicky populations from being manipulated by Le Pen-type fascist movements.

Four 'Chavista' Military Loyalists Killed in Plane Crash

Four generals in Venezuela's post-coup Air Force command died in a helicopter crash late April 19. Bad weather and mechanical failures are being blamed, but suspicions of foul play are widespread, nor have they been quieted by explanations given by Armed Forces Chief Gen. Lucas Rincon, a loyalist to ousted-then-resinstalled President Hugo Chavez.

Two other helicopters carrying members of the Army and National Guard High Commands were also reportedly forced to land by the "bad weather," but they did so without injury. All were returning from the ceremony installing the new Navy chief. Among the nine Air Force officers killed in the crash were Gen. Luis Alfonso Acevedo, newly named Air Force Commander, and three other members of the restructured Air Force Command appointed by Hugo Chavez following his return to power: Generals Pedro Torres, Julio Ochoa, and Rafael Quintana.

A team headed by an Air Force colonel has been set up to investigate the crash, while Gen. Rincon insisted April 20 that not enough is yet known to make a determination of what happened, but he believes bad weather was at fault. Rincon did not calm the suspicions of foul play, especially since on April 19 he had denied that any military helicopter had crashed, even as the television was reporting the crash. Then, in the press conference given by Defense Minister Jose Vicente Rangel, one of the Air Force officers accompanying him slipped at one point, and spoke of "the downing" of the helicopter, rather than "the accident."

One retired Navy officer told the New York Times that whatever the cause, it may not be so easy for Chavez to find more Chavista loyalists to fill the dead men's posts. For his part, Chavez cancelled his participation in the April 19 Independence Day celebrations, citing his work load, and "security considerations."

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