Petikan tulisan di bawah ini memberikan contoh keterlibatan pemerintah Sayap Kanan (Republican) Amerika, Ronald Reagan dengan petualangannnya ikut campur di dalam konflik politik yang berdarah- darah politik "kanan" lawan "kiri" di negara-2 Amerika Latin. Kebijakan Reagan merupakan kebalikan dari Presiden sebelumnya, Jimmy Carter (Democrat) yang mengutuk praktek kekejaman junta Militer Argentina waktu itu.
Sudah jelas bahwa tangan Ronald Reagan sebetulnya ikut berlumuran darah rakyat Amerika Latin. Menengok gaya pemerintahan semacam ini, sebetulnya tidak terlalu mengejutkan juga jika mendengar orang seperti Pat Robertson ngomong seperti itu ... note: ---- Kamu itu kalo ngomong di depan publik mbok ya jangan terlalu polos gitu to Pat, Pat ... ===( i-haem )======================================= <http://www.consortiumnews.com/1990s/consor17.html> A Crusade --------- In a grander context, Videla and the other generals saw their mission as a crusade to defend Western Civilization against international communism. They worked closely with the Asian- based World Anti-Communist League and its Latin American affiliate, the Confederacion Anticomunista Latinoamericana [CAL]. Latin American militaries collaborated on projects such as the cross-border assassinations of political dissidents. Under one project, called Operation Condor, political leaders -- centrist and leftist alike -- were shot or bombed in Buenos Aires, Rome, Madrid, Santiago and Washington, D.C. Operation Condor often employed CIA-trained Cuban exiles as assassins. In 1980, four years after the coup, the Argentine military exported its terror tactics into neighboring Bolivia. There, Argentine intelligence operatives helped Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and major drug lords mount a brutal putsch, known as the Cocaine Coup. The bloody operation turned Bolivia into the first modern drug state and expanded cocaine smuggling into the United States. [For more details, The Consortium, Oct. 13, 1997.] Videla's anything-goes anti-communism struck a responsive chord with the Reagan administration which came to power in 1981. President Reagan quickly reversed President Carter's condemnation of the Argentine junta's record on human rights. Reagan's U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick even hosted the urbane Argentine generals at an elegant state dinner. More substantively, Reagan authorized CIA collaboration with the Argentine intelligence service for training and arming the Nicaraguan contras. The contras were soon implicated in human rights atrocities and drug smuggling of their own. But the contras benefitted from the Reagan administration's "perception management" operation which portrayed them as "the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers." In 1982, however, the Argentine military went a step too far. Possibly deluded by its new coziness with Washington, the army invaded the British-controlled Falkland Islands. Given the even- closer Washington-London alliance, the Reagan administration sided with Margaret Thatcher's government, which crushed the Argentine invaders in a brief war. The humiliated generals relinquished power in 1983. Then, after democratic elections, the new president Raul Alfonsin created a truth commission to collect evidence about the Dirty War crimes. The grisly details shocked Argentines and the world. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hh8bf6q/M=362343.6886681.7839642.3022212/D=groups/S=1705329729:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1125001365/A=2894354/R=0/SIG=11qvf79s7/*http://http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/cidi/c_darfur.html";>Help Sudanese refugees rebuild their lives through GlobalGiving</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. http://www.ppi-india.org *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Reading only, http://dear.to/ppi 4. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
