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December 29, 2001
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A Narco News Global Alert
INTERPOL Seeks Banzer in Bolivia
-- General Cancels Washington Trip
-- Argentina Presses Charges
-- Italy Has Collected Evidence
-- Mrs. Banzer Accused in Spain
http://www.narconews.com/
Dear Colleagues,
The complicity of United States media correspondents in Latin America in the
silence that protects those war criminals supported by Washington has never
been clearer than this week.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, is crawling with U.S. correspondents, due to the
recent upheavals caused by the failure of the dollarization of the Argentine
economy that had been imposed by the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, and led Argentine president Fernando de la Rua to resign and
flee.
This week, right under the noses of this overpopulation of North American
reporters, a Federal Judge in Argentina ordered the arrest and capture of
former Bolivian dictator-turned-"president" Hugo Banzer, for his
participation in the brutal alliance of South American dictators in the
1970s known as Operation Condor.
But has a single United States newspaper or North American wire service
reported this inconvenient news in English?
No, and through its silence, the North American media -- and its inauthentic
journalists, as individuals -- make themselves complicit in crimes against
humanity.
For example, how proud can the Washington Post's Marcela Sanchez be, today,
of her November 30th puff piece on Banzer's hand-picked successor, Jorge
Quiroga, now that Quiroga impedes INTERPOL's extradition warrant against his
former boss?
Or, at the New York Times Buenos Aires bureau, where are the official hitmen
who pose as "journalists," Larry Rohter and Clifford Krauss, who purportedly
are assigned to report the news from this region?
It is as if the arrest warrant comes for them too: they are in hiding from
this story.
The Bolivian government, headed by Banzer's former Vice President and
protege Jorge Quiroga, continues to give haven to this war criminal, who,
according to the evidence collected in Argentina, Italy and Spain,
participated in an international plot to detain, torture, disappear and
assassinate opposition leaders, and, in those cases where the leaders were
young mothers, conspired to kidnap their infant children and sell them on
the black market.
This story is hard news, and not only because an arrest warrant has been
issued for a former head of State.
The element of this story that gives it currency is how today's regime in
Bolivia, and its presiding Viceroy -- US Ambassador Manuel Rocha -- are
committing the crime of obstruction of justice.
To Washington, Banzer must be protected at all costs, lest he spill the
secrets of the Narco-State and those who protected him as he built it. As a
military general, a dictator and a president, Banzer presided over the
development of the South American model for the modern Narco-State: the
denial of democracy and civil liberties in the name of the "war on drugs,"
while allowing military and government operatives to control and profit off
the illicit cocaine trade; a model that Quiroga and his Viceroy Rocha
preside over today.
The international arrest warrant and prosecution of Banzer opens a window to
the darkest secrets of the US-imposed "war on drugs": a "war" that requires
brutal repression and the prevention of democracy in our hemisphere. Today,
Narco News publishes a new translation of various stories from the national
daily La Raz�n in Bolivia's capital of La Paz. To which we add and declare:
Those "journalists" who cover-up the hard news about war crimes will be
remembered by humanity as war criminals, too.
>From somewhere in a country called Am�rica,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
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p.s. Because in times like these we have to laugh to keep from crying, Narco
News provides our readers with a link to Barry Crimmins' classic
year-in-review report, published in this week's Boston Phoenix.
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