Amerika's invasion of Columbia is in danger of dramatically escalating, perhaps to near Vietnam proportions, at least in terms of its devastating impact on the culture, people and environment of the region, as this propaganda from BBC International News indicates.

Below is an article reporting on the imminent escalation of Amerika's war on the troubled and persecuted country of Columbia. Note that the BBC article employs misleading CIA psychops terminology.

In case anyone is confused by the misleading terminology, the Columbian "rightwing paramilitary" are the US (CIA) proxy army in the area, which supplement the regular Columbian army. Trained (at the US School of the Assassins) in terrorist methods and funded by the USA, both the regular and "paramilitary" wings of the Columbian army are fighting a US/capitalist elite war against the citizens of Columbia, justified by a fake "war on drugs".

The CIA is the world administrator of the over $400 billion illegal drug trade (see the article below). The real reason for the US funded war on the citizens and environment of Columbia is to destabilize the country and thereby enforce exploitative corporate raiderism on the people and resources (chiefly oil, but also drugs) of the Americas, and also to justify the gargantuan military industrial intelligence network's sordid existence.

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 2 (IPS) - The illegal drug trade has reached ''staggering'' proportions throughout the world and is now the most profitable and underground business - and it's still growing, warns U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan The illegal trade in narcotics, he points out, has a captive market of about 190 million addicts and users worldwide, and is estimated to be worth more than 400 billion dollars a year. ''It is larger than the oil and gas trade, larger than the chemicals and pharmaceuticals business and twice as big as the motor vehicle industry,'' Annan says.

Wednesday, 6 February, 2002.
US aid to Colombia under fire

The army is accused of supporting paramilitary groups

International human rights groups have urged the United States to withhold aid to Colombia saying the country has failed to address the worsening human rights situation there.

The facts are clear. Colombia has not met the conditions for human rights set by Congress, and instead there is evidence of backsliding

Amnesty International A new report by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said massacres of civilians had doubled and the perpetrators of human rights abuses had not been prosecuted in a country wracked by civil war and drug trafficking.

The report also said the Colombian army continued to "organise, co-ordinate with, share information with, support, and tolerate paramilitary groups".

"The facts are clear. Colombia has not met the conditions for human rights set by Congress, and instead there is evidence of backsliding," Amnesty International official Alexandra Arriaga said.

The US has until the end of the month to decide whether Colombia made progress in severing ties between its army and paramilitary groups - a key condition for releasing of up to $625 million in new aid.

Boost for military

The report came as high level US delegation was in the Colombian capital Bogota discussing an increase in military aid.

Human rights say violence has increased in Colombia

Earlier, President Bush announced in his budget proposal an extra $98 million for Colombia to protect the country;s infrastructure from attacks by the left-wing rebels.

The BBC's Jeremy McDermott says that for the first time the US is planning to cross the fine line between the war against drugs and the war against insurgency in what critics insist will entail involvement in the country's bloody 38-year civil conflict.

In the past, Colombia received more than $1 billion of American aid for the war against drugs, and the BBC's correspondent says Washington now wants to extend that aid to defend Colombia's oil industry, where US companies have big investments.

The US delegation has also signalled a hardening of Washington's position against the Marxist rebels, with officials describing them as "drugs traffickers".

Our correspondent says that it now appears that the US "war against terrorism" may be coming to Latin America.