Comments on: Guerrilla Armed With Beer Sighted in Venezuela http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/07/30/guerrilla-armed-with-beer-sighted-in-venezuela/ The national media watch group Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:38:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Fermin Flohr http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/07/30/guerrilla-armed-with-beer-sighted-in-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-42508 Fermin Flohr Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:29:54 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=15321#comment-42508 What a great journal. I spend hours on the net reading blogs, about tons of different subjects. I have to first of all give kudos to whoever built your theme and intermediate of all to you for writing what i can only describe as an incredible post. I honestly consider there is a ability to writing articles that only very few posses and frankly you have it. The combining of demonstrative and quality content is decidedly extremely rare with the large amount of blogs on the internet. What a great journal. I spend hours on the net reading blogs, about tons of different subjects. I have to first of all give kudos to whoever built your theme and intermediate of all to you for writing what i can only describe as an incredible post. I honestly consider there is a ability to writing articles that only very few posses and frankly you have it. The combining of demonstrative and quality content is decidedly extremely rare with the large amount of blogs on the internet.

]]> By: Michael http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/07/30/guerrilla-armed-with-beer-sighted-in-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-31824 Michael Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:11:25 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=15321#comment-31824 From SOA Watch: The U.S. Air Force and the Palanquero base In an article entitled “Yankees Welcome,” the Colombian magazine Semana (October 31, 2009) analyzed the agreement, noting with concern a U.S. Air Force (USAF) document which reveals the strategic interests of the Pentagon in upgrading the Colombian base at Palanquero, one of the seven bases included in the agreement. This article in Semana can be found at http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/yankees-welcome/130763.aspx According to this USAF document, “development of this CSL (Cooperative Security Location) provides a unique opportunity for full spectrum operations in a critical sub- region of our hemisphere where security and stability is under constant threat from narcotics funded terrorist insurgencies, anti-U.S. governments, endemic poverty and recurring natural disasters.” The magazine Semana explains that the document is a “report in which the Pentagon explains to Congress its plans for 2010, requesting, among other things, $46 million to be invested in developing the base at Palanquero. This is the first official document to mention the interest which the U.S. may have in using the Colombian base to help to maintain ‘security and stability’ vis-à-vis countries which are not favorable to Washington.” "Full Spectrum Operations throughout Latin America" The document, entitled “Military Construction Program,” was presented to the U.S. Congress in May 2009. It begins with a presentation of the “mission” or “major functions” of the project: “Palanquero provides an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America….” Later the document refers to the “current mission”: “A fully functional airfield and ramp is essential for supporting the U.S. mission in Columbia [sic] and throughout the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR)…. This project will accommodate transport/supply, fueling and operational aircraft in the AOR….” “A presence will also increase our capability to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, improve global reach, support logistics requirements, improve theater security cooperation, and expand expeditionary warfare capability.” The Air Force document can be found at: http://www.justf.org/files/primarydocs/091104pal.pdf For a more complete analysis of this USAF document, in Spanish, see: http://josemulligan.blogspot.com/2010/07/estadounidenses-armados-en-america.html From SOA Watch:

The U.S. Air Force and the Palanquero base

In an article entitled “Yankees Welcome,” the Colombian magazine Semana (October 31, 2009) analyzed the agreement, noting with concern a U.S. Air Force (USAF) document which reveals the strategic interests of the Pentagon in upgrading the Colombian base at Palanquero, one of the seven bases included in the agreement. This article in Semana can be found at http://www.semana.com/noticias-nacion/yankees-welcome/130763.aspx

According to this USAF document, “development of this CSL (Cooperative Security Location) provides a unique opportunity for full spectrum operations in a critical sub- region of our hemisphere where security and stability is under constant threat from narcotics funded terrorist insurgencies, anti-U.S. governments, endemic poverty and recurring natural disasters.”

The magazine Semana explains that the document is a “report in which the Pentagon explains to Congress its plans for 2010, requesting, among other things, $46 million to be invested in developing the base at Palanquero. This is the first official document to mention the interest which the U.S. may have in using the Colombian base to help to maintain ‘security and stability’ vis-à-vis countries which are not favorable to Washington.”

"Full Spectrum Operations throughout Latin America"
The document, entitled “Military Construction Program,” was presented to the U.S. Congress in May 2009. It begins with a presentation of the “mission” or “major functions” of the project: “Palanquero provides an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America….”

Later the document refers to the “current mission”: “A fully functional airfield and ramp is essential for supporting the U.S. mission in Columbia [sic] and throughout the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) Area of Responsibility (AOR)…. This project will accommodate transport/supply, fueling and operational aircraft in the AOR….”

“A presence will also increase our capability to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, improve global reach, support logistics requirements, improve theater security cooperation, and expand expeditionary warfare capability.”

The Air Force document can be found at: http://www.justf.org/files/primarydocs/091104pal.pdf
For a more complete analysis of this USAF document, in Spanish, see:
http://josemulligan.blogspot.com/2010/07/estadounidenses-armados-en-america.html

]]> By: Michael http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/07/30/guerrilla-armed-with-beer-sighted-in-venezuela/comment-page-1/#comment-31739 Michael Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:20:25 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=15321#comment-31739 The Impact of the SOA in Colombia:The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the U.S. Office on Colombia released a groundbreaking report entitled Military Assistance and Human Rights: Colombia, U.S. Accountability, and Global Implications,which exposes serious problems with the implementation of U.S. foreign military training. Once again, detailed research continues to uncover the connections between SOA/ WHINSEC graduates and instructors with extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights violations. http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/colombia/3470-the-impact-of-the-soa-in-colombia The Impact of the SOA in Colombia:The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the U.S. Office on Colombia released a groundbreaking report entitled Military Assistance and Human Rights: Colombia, U.S. Accountability, and Global Implications,which exposes serious problems with the implementation of U.S. foreign military training. Once again, detailed research continues to uncover the connections between SOA/ WHINSEC graduates and instructors with extrajudicial killings and other serious human rights violations. http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/colombia/3470-the-impact-of-the-soa-in-colombia

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