Clinton and Santos, Disguised as Redeemers!

At the International Conference of Support for the Central American Security Strategy, which took place on June 22 and 23 in Guatemala, the main characters were Hilary Clinton, the United States secretary of state, and Juan Manuel Santos, the current president of Colombia. Is this about designing a security strategy or about creating conditions for an increased Yankee military presence and legalizing certain forms of class coercion?

Hilary Clinton announced an increase of $40 million per year in Yankee “help” to combat violence. The extreme right-winger, Luis Alberto Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, announced loans. Which part of these funds will go toward the support of greater interference with Porfirio Lobo in Honduras? In Central America, violence has coexisted with interference. Santos and Clinton pretend to ignore this.

In Guatemala, a protégé of American power during the beginning of the 1980s, Efraín Ríos Montt, being a military dictator, created the civil patrols responsible for many killings and the origin of the death squads that operate as gangs today. The influence of the United States was decisive in maintaining the impunity of the crimes of Ríos Montt, Romeo Lucas García and similar figures. The “democracy” guided by the United States rewarded former patrols with state-sponsored pensions and turned their superiors into legislators, granting Ríos Montt a visible political role.

Further north, in Mexico, Los Zetas Cartel, dedicated to kidnappings, drug traffic and murder, is led by former officials trained in counterinsurgency by the CIA, the Israeli Sayeret Matkal, and the French Gendarmerie. Quite the “gift” from the great powers!

Santos offered logistical help to the Central American armies. A president tied to the paramilitary groups and to the murder of civilians and aggression against neighboring countries!

The intervention is disguised as help, but the claws are visible on the hawks.