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Colombia 1962. A U.S. military team recommends the creation and deployment of a paramilitary force to combat the Left.
US General William P. Yarborough, commander of the U.S. Army Special Warfare Center, 1961-65. Yarborough was one of the original proponents of "paramilitary...and/or terrorist activities against known communist proponents."
Using the drug war as cover, a US DoD and CIA team "worked with Colombian military officers on the 1991 intelligence reorganization that resulted in the creation of killer networks that identified and killed civilians suspected of supporting guerrillas."
https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killertoc.htm
https://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/killertoc.htm
Victims of forced disappearance.
According to the National Victims Registry, more than 150,000 people have been disappeared since 1986.
https://colombiareports.com//forced-disappearances-statistics
According to the National Victims Registry, more than 150,000 people have been disappeared since 1986.
https://colombiareports.com//forced-disappearances-statistics
"Plan Colombia." The US military program (arms, training, intelligence, advisers) began in late 1999 but as of mid-2000, few governments are "willing to climb aboard what is widely perceived as an American project to clean out its backyard."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/13/martinhodgson
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/13/martinhodgson
As U.S.-backed fumigation destroyed legal food crops, medicinal plants and fish-ponds, paramilitaries linked to the army violently expropriated land from indigenous people, peasants, and settlers.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/007.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/world/letter-from-the-americas-colombia-s-landed-gentry-coca-lords-and-other-bullies.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/27a/007.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/world/letter-from-the-americas-colombia-s-landed-gentry-coca-lords-and-other-bullies.html
U.S. counterinsurgency handbooks still prescribing the use of terror: PSYOP are used to halt or prevent the sympathizers by sowing doubt as to the validity of the hostile power's actions and instilling fear for collaborating. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_7YZ1w7Xj6TKPqWh3KG9hO2ysK-wO5rT/view?usp=drivesdk
Colombia is still the "most dangerous place" for labor unionists, journalists, and human rights activists "due to the U.S.-supported neoliberal economic model."
"Activist killings are not a result of capitalism, but a tactic of it." https://nacla.org/news/2019/03/07/colombia%E2%80%99s-war-neoliberal-economics
"Activist killings are not a result of capitalism, but a tactic of it." https://nacla.org/news/2019/03/07/colombia%E2%80%99s-war-neoliberal-economics
Our Terrorists in Colombia: Death Squads as “Freedom Fighters” https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/20/our-terrorists-in-colombia-death-squads-as-freedom-fighters/
What US planners call "instability." https://twitter.com/ml_1maria/status/1198203809283092480?s=09
