http://fanonite.org/2008/04/03/the-israel-of-latin-america/ Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:42:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fanonite.org/2008/04/03/the-israel-of-latin-america/#comment-11587 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:12:12 +0000 http://fanonite.wordpress.com/?p=1580#comment-11587 [...] Anyway, when I say that the Colombian army seized the laptop from the FARC, I forgot to specify that they seized it in Ecuador, after a massive, illegal cross-border raid.  This kind of behaviour earned it the censure of pretty much everyone else on the continent; in the words of Chavez, Colombia is now the Israel of Latin America.  It’s certainly America’s favourite deputy gendarme in the region, and its rapidly growing army is now considerably larger than Israel’s, and overtaking Brazil as the largest in the region despite having a much smaller population.  Plan Colombia remains the Empire’s most effective weapon against the people of Latin America. [...]

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