The flights were suspended in 2001 after a Peruvian military jet guided by a CIA spy plane shot down an aircraft carrying five U.S. Speaking at a news conference with Defense Minister Marta Ramírez, Rumsfeld said that Washington had lifted the ban on the interdiction of planes allegedly carrying suspected drug traffickers and weapons to terrorists in Colombia and other nations in the region. He praised Colombian president Alvaro Uribe for an excellent job in aggressively using the military to fight narcoterrorism, referring to the regimes war on antigovernment guerrilla organizations, particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
On August 19 Rumsfeld arrived in Bogotá, Colombias capital, where he held press conferences, interviews, and meetings with top government and military officials. rulers put their challenges in Latin America on the back burner while focusing on their war on Iraq and occupation of that country, their economic and military offensive in the Mideast and Asia, and efforts to deepen their penetration of Africa. The two-day visit registered the end of a period during which the U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Washington signaled it is now giving increased attention to strengthening its military presence in Central and South America. In a high-profile visit to Colombia and Honduras in late August by U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that Washington will strengthen its military presence in region. soldiers are there training Colombian army troops to combat government opponents. Special Forces troops stand guard at military base in Saravena, Arauca province, Colombia, February 7. embargo of CubaĪ socialist newsweekly published in the interests of working people Unionists in Atlanta build Immigrant Workers Freedom Rideĭemocrat Howard Dean supports U.S. South press fight against land loss, racist discrimination
Young Socialists for Britton campaign among working people in the stateīlack farmers in U.S.
SWP candidate for California governor calls on youth nationwide to help socialist campaign government boosts military strength in Latin America Visit the Róger Calero Defense Committee web site: U.S. Text version of the Militant, a socialist newspaper
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