Updates on the Triple-Border of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

by **Gouda** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:36 am

Excellent short series on the trumped-up and useful Triple-Border area of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentinay by Pepe Escobar. He mainly concludes that US/globalist sights are set on the Guarani Aquifer an other spoils of the energy wars - which is in great part true - but gives only limited attention to the other great agenda concerning continued Northern control over the drug and arms trade. Nevertheless, fine new updates and background for those following this and/or learning more about it. I don't think it can be emphasized enough that this area will be one to watch very closely in the next few years of the 5-pronged Long War. The North is trying to set the South up for a fall, and it may be one of their last cards to play should Latin America continue to swing left, oppose the 'Free Trade Area of the Americas' scam, and make claims on its own water and oil. *** "When he's not busy blowing up the world, bin Laden spends his time relaxing at Iguacu." <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH03Aa01.html">www.atimes.com/atimes/Fro...3Aa01.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Part 1: Hezbollah south of the border The "new threats of the 21st century recognize no borders", according to the Pentagon. Ergo, everyone may be a terrorist, at least a potential one. Not accidentally, General Craddock hates "anti-globalization and anti-free-trade demagogues". Sunni or Shi'ite, Marxist or anarchist, ruralist or existentialist, the Russian mafia, the Hong Kong triads, the Nigerian mafia, the Ukrainian mafia - they are all in cahoots. And for the Pentagon, Hezbollah is selling pirate video discs of Christina Aguilera to finance more Katyusha rockets. ... US Immigration and Customs agents, financed to the tune of $2.25 million, will soon be parachuting into the Triple Border to help the locals fight money laundering, contraband and terrorism financing. ... * The "Yankee troops" are holding "training exercises" in Paraguay (more on that in Part 2 of this report). * And the World Bank is developing a program toward mapping the Guarani Aquifer - which is the first step toward commercial exploration of its precious waters. ... The locals claim they don't need Americans to arrest one of the top Brazilian narco-traffickers, Marcelinho Niteroi, as they did last week. [!!!] ... When you combine a huge Arab community and lots of non-commercialized water in a Pentagon-defined "lawless area", no wonder bells start ringing. <hr></blockquote> *** "dominion over ungoverned spaces" <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH04Aa01.html">www.atimes.com/atimes/Fro...4Aa01.html</a> <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Part 2: Lost paraguayos: The Yankees are coming US Special Forces are performing 13 military exercises, to expire late this year, including "educational courses", "domestic peacekeeping operations" and counter-terrorism training, this one part of Operation Commando Force 6, scheduled to go on until next month. ... The US Special Forces are guaranteed total immunity and diplomatic status. They are free to import and export, they don't pay any taxes, and what they trade is not subjected to any inspections. Contraband kingpins at the Triple Border would kill for a deal like that.  ... It's useful to remember that soon after September 11, 2001, notorious neo-con Douglas Feith suggested to George W Bush an air invasion of the Triple Border - where the boundaries of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet - to capture al-Qaeda fighters and permanently occupy the region. No wonder that as early as 2002 a study by the Brazilian army was asking whether "these armed forces that ring the border of Brazil, especially in the Amazon region", could be used "for reasons that are [at present] undeclared". Essential in the Pentagon machinery is the new Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program, which is operated (with no supervision by anyone) out of the Pentagon's Office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. What this represents in fact is nothing but a rerun of the infamous Operation Condor coordinated by infamous Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s. As much as Condor, the Counter-Terrorism Fellowship Program may work as the de facto Central Command in a South America-wide campaign of intimidation and political terror. ... After September 11 the US State Department mantra was that al-Qaeda and/or Hezbollah had an intimate connection with FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia). The "coincidence" could not be more extraordinary: "terror" at the geographic heart of Mercosur - which happens to be dreaded in Washington as the made-in-South America answer to the Washington-promoted Free Trade Area of the Americas - was suddenly connected with "terror", which happens to be the biggest obstacle to the US occupation of the Amazon rainforest. <hr></blockquote>

by **chiggerbit** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:20 am

I do believe in peak oil, and I also believe in peak water, which may be ther reason for the interest down in that corner of the world. Of course, a peak water conspiracy could be just a peak oil copycat, instigated by water bottling companies. <a href="http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=13203061&src=eDialog/GetContent">go.reuters.com/newsArticl...GetContent</a> clip "CANBERRA (Reuters) - A third of the world is facing water shortages because of poor management of water resources and soaring water usage, driven mainly by agriculture, the International Water Management Institute said on Wednesday. Water scarcity around the world was increasing faster than expected, with agriculture accounting for 80 percent of global water consumption, the world authority on fresh water management told a development conference in Canberra. Globally, water usage had increased by six times in the past 100 years and would double again by 2050, driven mainly by irrigation and demands by agriculture, said Frank Rijsberman, the institute's director-general....." Thanks for the link, Gouda. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 8/16/06 8:25 am

by **trachys** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:11 am

Gouda, you mention five prongs. What are the others? Can you give us a ref, or should I dust off PNAC?

by **Gouda** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:00 pm

trachys, credit to Pepe and US Southcom's General Brantz Craddock on that. Pepe takes Craddock's terminator blather and correctly encapsulates the main targets of the Long War, which can be subdivided into (at least) five "wars of globalization": terrorism, trafficking, money laundering, piracy and migration. "5-pronged" was just my own way of putting it. Reference here in Part 1: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The head of the US Southcom (Southern Command), the vociferous General Brantz Craddock, is absolutely convinced the Triple Border is the abode of "the "transnational terrorist, the narco-terrorist, the Islamic radical fundraiser and recruiter, the illicit trafficker, the money launderer, the kidnapper and the gang member". The emphasis is on "terrorist" and "Islamic". Southcom - US$800 million annual budget, more than the State, Treasury, Commerce and Agriculture departments combined - is the eyes and ears of the Pentagon over Latin America. In essence, this is how it works. Armchair gurus in Washington and New York theorize on the so-called five wars of globalization - terrorism, trafficking, money laundering, piracy and migration - and the Pentagon sends the Special Forces posing as cleaners to make it all proper for the "free" world.<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH03Aa01.html">www.atimes.com/atimes/Fro...3Aa01.html</a>

by **Gouda** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:15 pm

chiggerbit, later & elsewhere i'll post a fun and enlightening rant on the evils of bottle water. *** Just saw this now: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>South Americans set up anti-crime border center BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - The governments of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina have set up a joint intelligence center to combat smuggling and money-laundering in the region where their borders meet, Brazil said on Tuesday. The United States, which has long complained that the so-called Tri-Border area is rampant with cross-frontier crime, was involved in the establishment of the Regional Intelligence Center. Located at Federal Police facilities in the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguacu, the center will start operations in a few weeks, Brazil's foreign ministry said. Creation of the center signified an increase in cooperation between the three neighbors, it said. The area is a hub of trade and commercial activity. In the latest of many U.S. criticisms, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson said in March that it "has long served as a venue for illicit activity including drugs and arms smuggling and money-laundering." The United States has also said the large Arab community in the area raised funds for Lebanon's Hizbollah organization -- which Washington calls a terrorist group -- although it has provided no concrete evidence.<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060815/wl_nm/security_latam_triborder_dc">news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060...iborder_dc</a>

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