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The U.S. is strengthening its network of military bases in Asia Pacific in anticipation of China's making deeper inroads into the region... Chavez bluntly said that the UNASUR jump to unity over the common defensive doctrine was inspired by the Libyan and other dramas provoked by U.S. interventions. Indeed, there are absolutely no reasons to believe that the Libyan scenario will not some day materialize in Latin America.
Nil NIKANDROV | 13.05.2012 |
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At the insistence of the US and Canadian delegations, the plenary sessions of the sixth Summit of the Americas were insulated from the media, causing the evidently shocked journalists who flocked to Cartagena, Colombia, to sarcastically describe the forum as «secret»... The Columbian police and security service must have felt annoyed by the pushiness of their US colleagues and, as it appeared, did not refrain from paying in kind...
Nil NIKANDROV | 17.04.2012 |
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Reprisal against any leftist groups, including guerrillas, has never stopped in Colombia... The current number of FARC and ELN rebels in Colombia stands at about 11,000. Among its major principles the group names the realization of a socialist society, fighting oligarchy and forcing US military bases out of the country...
Nil NIKANDROV | 01.12.2011 |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said either about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza (Senior), or about the Dominican tyrant Trujillo: “He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch”. It has become a usual strategy for the US to place a stake on this category of associates in international affairs...
Nil NIKANDROV | 15.08.2011 |
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For years now, the huge U.S. defense budget (it accounts for 50% of all defense budgets in the world) has been well known as their foreign policy tool. However, the funding of U.S. spy agencies, including the CIA and around 16 other bodies, has a dark side related to their funding sources, which are far beyond the control of formal administrations...This “additional funding” is present in the businesses related to the running of drugs...
Carlos Pereyra MELE | 29.07.2011 |
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