Colombia NO Bases

“The Obama and Uribe governments in Washington and Bogotá signed this military base agreement in defiance of Colombia’s constitutional requirements, riding roughshod over Colombian sovereignty,” said Susana Pimiento, action director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), which last month organized a U.S. delegation to visit military bases identified in the agreement.

The agreement would permit U.S. troops and contractors based in Colombia to “confront common threats to peace, stability, freedom, and democracy.” According to Colombian government statements last year, the agreement would allow the Colombian military to increase military training of other nations’ militaries, despite more than 3,000 civilian killings reportedly committed by Colombian military troops.

The Colombian constitution prohibits stationing foreign troops in its territory, unless in passing, and then only after approval of its Congress. “The ruling by Colombia’s high court that this is an international treaty should compel the U.S. Senate to undertake a fundamental review of whatever treaty may be submitted to Colombia’s Congress. Senate treaty ratification and basic democracy require at least consideration of the treaty’s problems,” said Mark Johnson, FOR's executive director.

A report last month by FOR (http://forusa.org/colombia-report-2010) showed alarming ties between U.S. assistance to the Colombian army and extrajudicial killings in Colombia that have not been prosecuted.

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Como parte de los nuevos movimientos geopolíticos y militares del Imperialismo Estadounidense, el gobierno de Costa Rica firmó un acuerdo de supuesta "cooperación de seguridad y vigilancia contra el terrorismo y el narcotráfico" con el ejército de USA.

La primera fragata que llegó, tiene el nombre de IWO JIMA, el mismo nombre de la isla Japonesa que recuperó Estado Unidos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y en donde plantaron una bandera de su país como símbolo del territorio liberado.

Lo desproporcional del armamento que se observa en las imagenes evidencia que no es casual que para esta ocasión utilicen esta fragata en Costa Rica, la analogía es evidente para representar un territorio que será ocupado.