The
U.S. eagle hands a gun to the narco-trafficker and a money bag
which says 'Merida Initiative' to Mexican President
Calderon. The
Merida
Initiative is a plan, similar to Plan Colombia, under which the
U.S.
is said to be helping Mexico fight drug trafficking. But many in
Mexico
feel that the U.S. is using the plan to infiltrate and undermine
the
Mexican state.
[Excelsior,
Mexico]
La Jornada, Mexico
The Dirty Wars of
Bush and Calderon
"The goal of the United States
is to plunge the country into chaos and destabilization, in order to penetrate
[Mexico's] States security institutions, further weaken national sovereignty
and accelerate dependency. To accomplish this, Washington and its local
accomplices are deploying far-reaching psychological warfare and resorting to
media terrorism."
By Carlos Fazio
Translated By Paula van de Werken
August 11, 2008
Mexico
- La Jornada - Original Article (Spanish)
Since the terrorist attacks
of September 11, 2001, under the guise of an effective but undeclared state of
emergency, the administration of George W. Bush has proceeded with the systemic
demolition of the Constitutional order of the United States. In the name of the
imperative of security, he arrogantly assumed extra-judicial powers and turned
secret decrees and arbitrary presidential decisions into standard practices of
State. The White House chief has instituted illegal espionage operations at
home and has become embroiled in pre-emptive war abroad, has resorted to
"legalized" torture and the abduction-disappearance of suspected
terrorists, and has kept thousands of "enemy non-combatants" under
indefinite arrest, detaining them in an archipelago of clandestine and
"floating" prisons under the control of the Pentagon and the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
From the outset,
in what we later discovered was part of a secret, predetermined plan, Bush took
advantage of the "opportunity" presented by the attacks of 9-11,
allegedly carried our by an "asymmetrical" and "stateless"
enemy called al-Qaeda. The dismantling of the constitutional order was launched
within the context of an indefinite, omnipresent war without limit in space or
time. In 2002, when introducing the National Security Strategy 
at the White House, Bush merged the
"vulnerability" of the United States to "terrorism" with a
"new way of life." Thus, since the beginning, the twenty-first
century "war on terror" was designed to be waged simultaneously in
several countries for many years. In 2006, the new version of the U.S. National
Security Strategy postulated that "The United States is in
the early years of a long struggle, similar to what our country faced in the
early years of the Cold War."
In a permanent state of
emergency, the exception becomes the rule. In the case of the United States,
the war became the ontological foundation of the State. All these years Bush
has governed through fear, encouraging nationalism and exploiting the racial
and ethno-religious prejudice of his fellow countrymen. The swelling power of
al-Qaeda and other terrifying threats might seem like caricatures if they
weren't a tool of government that serves to conceal intensions of authoritarian
rule and goals of imperial and neo-colonial domination. It's a dangerous game
that feeds the inherent hatred toward those considered to be "the
other," the enemy, the barbarian. In the case of the Middle East, the
phrase "Clash of Civilizations" of propagandist Samuel Huntington has
become, little by little, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
For a number of reasons -
including the issues of oil, natural gas, water, biodiversity and the emergence
of a peaceful but disorganized movement of civil disobedience - there has been
a search for alternatives to the current system of domination, via a number of
legal, Congressional or other unconventional channels. For example, one of the
settings privileged to be a staging ground for Bush's perpetual war in Latin
America is Mexico. Here, as in Colombia, the pattern of U.S. intervention took
the form of a war on narco-terrorism, by de facto including Mexico as part of
the "security perimeter" of the United States, via the Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America, from which is derived the Merida
Initiative, which is similar to Plan Colombia.
In distributing
this report, the role of the native [Mexican] representative, for the purposes
of propaganda and legitimization, goes to [President] Felipe Calderon. With his
convincing dramatizations, it's clear that he fancies himself a lethal gunman ("We're
scoring big against the narco-traffickers," Calderon has said), his purges
and angry outbursts of "Enough!" Showing the same bellicose defiance
as his guardian Bush, the "war" of Calderon against "organized
crime" and "impunity," is wrapped up in blackmail, Goebbels-like
absurdity and the desire for hegemonic control.
But let's not get
side-tracked: Bush's model for Mexico is that of the
"Colombianization" of the country. As part of a system that protects
corruption and the impunity of entrenched criminal networks within the
institutions of State, banks and large corporations, the prescription is more
narco-politics, heavy-handedness, torture, detentions and disappearances, dirty
war, mercenaries, the criminalization of social protest, and the militarization
of society. The goal of the United States is to plunge the country into chaos
and destabilization, in order to penetrate [Mexico's] States security
institutions, further weaken national sovereignty and accelerate dependency.
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In this scheme of domination,
leading to the formation of a new kind of Banana Republic in Mexico,
narco-violence could assume the form of "an asymmetric and stateless
enemy" (with dud car bombs, second-hand, homemade Colombian
mini-submarines [used for drug trafficking] and psychotropic connections to
Iran), which are required to ensnare this country in an infinite war, resulting
in a permanent state of emergency.
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In order to do this, as in
Colombia, Washington and its local accomplices are deploying far-reaching
psychological warfare and resorting to media terrorism. That is to say, the
propagandizing and destabilizing use of radio and television channels under
monopoly control which legitimize the regime, and the manufacture of facts and
consensus that are useful at the time of broadcast. We're going in that
direction. Except that, as in the case of Huntington's "Clash of
Civilizations," Commander-in-Chief Calderon could also see his prophecy
self-fulfilled.
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