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Will the CIA Kill or Oust Ecuador’s President?
by Jacob G. Hornberger 
Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa may not be long for this world, both in a political sense and in genuine life-or-death sense. He recently fired his defense minister, army chief of intelligence, and commanders of the army, air force, and joint chiefs.
Why might those firings cost Correa his job or even his life? Because the reason he fired them was that Ecuador’s intelligence systems were “totally infiltrated and subjugated to the CIA.” As other rulers around the world, including democratically elected ones, have learned the hard way, bucking the CIA is a real no-no that sometimes leads to coups and assassinations.
What’s the CIA doing infiltrating Ecuador’s military intelligence systems? Good question! Maybe it’s because the CIA still fears the threat of communism. Don’t forget that that was the apparent rationale for the U.S. government’s support of Operation Condor, the campaign of assassination and torture co-sponsored by the brutal regimes in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru during the 1970s. Don’t forget also that many of the brutal military personnel in those regimes received their training at the U.S. Army’s infamous School of the Americas, famous for, among other things, its torture manuals.
To make matters worse for Correa, he promises to throw the U.S. military out of his country when the U.S. government’s lease at its base in Manta expires in 2009. The U.S. government spent $60 million to build the base in 1999, securing a 10-year lease that provided no rent to be paid to Ecuador.
So, why does the U.S. military have a $60 million military base in Ecuador? The base is part of the U.S. government’s much-vaunted 30-year-old war on drugs, one of the U.S. Empire’s never-ending wars around the world. The base houses Awacs surveillance planes whose purported mission is to search for international drug smugglers.
What irked President Correa is that apparently his CIA-infested intelligence services fed classified information to Colombian officials that led to a Colombian military attack on a Colombian rebel camp that was located inside Ecuador. One big problem was that when Correa’s intelligence services leaked the information to Colombia, they left Correa (their boss) out of the loop.
The final nail in Correa’s coffin might be the fact that he is an ally of Venezuela’s Marxist president Hugo Chavez, who himself is a likely target of CIA ouster or assassination.
The good news for Americans in all this is that the Ecuadorian people are doing their best to rid their country of the CIA and the U.S. military. Maybe the Ecuadorans will start a trend in which all other countries will do the same. While it would obviously be best if the American people were to dismantle their government’s overseas empire themselves, having foreigners do it instead by throwing the CIA and the Pentagon out of their countries would be just as effective and beneficial — to both the United States and the people of the world.
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Of course the US has taught others, as well as its own forces, what techniques of torture are used around the world. That is done to potect individuals from torture, and to make clear what is immoral and should not be done by anyone, which is to torture others.
Moreover, the author is apparently is very uninformed regarding laws and policies of the United States of America that govern activities of all federal agencies, including US Armed Forces, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and both the Executive and Congressional branches of government.
The author is on a mission... a mission that is employing a propaganda effort to misrepresent the activities, morals, and laws of the United States. He should be ashamed of himself for his lack of clarity and honesty. He should educate himself better, before discussing such matters of importance.
Of course the US has taught others, as well as its own forces, what techniques of torture are used around the world. That is done to potect individuals from torture, and to make clear what is immoral and should not be done by anyone, which is to torture others.
Moreover, the author is apparently is very uninformed regarding laws and policies of the United States of America that govern activities of all federal agencies, including US Armed Forces, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and both the Executive and Congressional branches of government.
You gotta be kidding , right?
Have you seen the news in past five years?
You've just come out of a long coma right? I hope you feel better now. Got pearl for you, catch up on the news.
Mike
Mr Hornberger is not being flippant, but prophetic, based on past history.
At:- http://www.cia.com.au/vic/cia.2.txt you can find out what the US did to its good friend and ally when it dared to be an independent nation, and not a protectorate of imperial US. Oh by the way I was there when it happened. See pasted clip from the item:
In fact, he was mentioned in the Pentagon papers as being a high-level policy maker for America
in Southeast Asia and he had known CIA connections. So, quite
obviously, the alarm bells rang back in Washington with the
election of a Labor government. They were worried about policies
that we had to close down the bases to exert more independence
generally on our economy and they wanted somebody to not only
monitor, I suggest, to lead a destabilisation of the elected
government. God knows he had plenty of experience, he had been
involved in quite a few coups in Southeast Asia including the very
bloody one in Indonesia.
Wake up to reality mate!
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