Military aid to uphold capitalism...nothing more. Damn capitalism and down
with US imperialism! Good luck to FARC!!
Andrew
groups.yahoo.com/group/peoplesrevolution
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AP. 16 January 2003. U.S. Special Forces Arrive in Colombia.
BOGOTA -- Dozens of U.S. Green Berets flew in to a Colombian war zone this
week to train Colombian army troops to protect a key oil pipeline from rebel
attacks, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The arrival of the members of the 7th Special Forces Group marks a turning
point in U.S. involvement in Colombia's civil war. Previously, U.S. military
aid and training was restricted largely to battling cocaine production, which
rebels and rival paramilitary gunmen profit from, fueling the war.
But the Bush administration, with approval from the U.S. Congress, has
decided the U.S. military assistance should expand into helping Colombia
combat the rebels.
About 60 U.S. trainers began arriving earlier this week, joining about 10
others already stationed in Arauca state on Colombia's eastern border with
Venezuela, said the U.S. official, speaking on customary condition of
anonymity.
On Thursday, about 20 U.S. troops drove up to Arauca airport in jeeps, then
unloaded equipment, including military vehicles, from an arriving plane,
according to a reliable witness who insisted on anonymity.
Numerous shipments of equipment and supplies are expected over the next few
weeks, the U.S. official said. The troops -- who are settling in to military
barracks on Colombian army bases throughout Arauca state -- are expected to
begin training at the end of the month, he said.
The members of U.S. troops, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., are to train two
Colombian army brigades that protect an oil pipeline that carries oil for Los
Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum across northern Colombia to a seaside
depot.
Leftist rebels are battling the government in Arauca, an area of grassy
plains and oilfields. The rebels regularly bomb the pipeline and have stepped
up their attacks on military and police targets in recent weeks.
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