Letters

Let's Not Get Distracted

By Jason W. Smith, Jul 8th 2008

Of course US and Colombian agents are working together. Let's not get distracted. The most important tasks confronting the vanguard in Latin America include breaking Colombia out of the gringo orbit. It is irrelevant whether US and/or Colombian secret police were responsible for the freeing of Bentancourt et. al. It was a good thing to get passed that kidnapping so we can focus on the future reorganization of revolutionary affairs in Colombia.

U.S. military, not Colombia, conducted rescue of FARC hostages

By C. E., Jul 5th 2008

While Ingrid Betancourt's and the 14 other hostage's rescue are to be praised, and Venezuela was right in doing so, it was an operation that was not carried out by Colombian forces as widely (mis)reported, but by occupying U.S. military. For South America to become integrated and free of Washington's yoke, member governments cannot allow themselves to be duped in the way we see FARC being duped in this incident.

INTERPOL states it does not validate the source or accuracy of any document on the so-called FARC laptops.

By Steven Bates, Jun 20th 2008

How did INTERPOL determine as fact that the computer equipment was seized on 1 March 2008, and how has INTERPOL determined as fact that the laptop in question was the property of Raul Reyes?

Worker paradise

By William Hewitt, Jun 16th 2008

The recent declaration that contract workers from Venezuela's nationalized SIDOR steel plant were now permanent workers and incorporated into SUTISS is a great event because it reverses the imperialistic policy of attacking union workers worldwide. Every corporation in America and Europe has a top priority to eliminate independent unions. The goal is to have unions that report directly to their corporate masters.

Chavez and the FARC

By Jean-Pierre Daubois, Jun 15th 2008

hello

Mis más profundos respetos

By Rui Pestana, Jun 14th 2008

your article on INTERPOL clarifications about the famous lap top

By larry coelho, Jun 12th 2008

why not the United Nations?

By Frnk Kahana, Jun 12th 2008

I am surprised that Presidente Hugo Chavez calls for help are not directed to the United Nations.

A Smart Move

By Jason W. Smith, Jun 9th 2008

If there is a way to split the reactionary section of Uribe's coalition away from him it would be a real coup to see it done. As I have pointed out in these letters before Uribe is more than a puppet of US imperialism (unlike the Arch-Comprador Alan Garcia in Peru) and has his own constituency within Colombia's ruling oligarchy. I have known some of these people for generations and many of them hate the US ruling bosses as much as we do. Breaking Colombia away from Gringo Imperialism would be the tolling of the bell for that evil bunch of gringos in South America.

Less than 50% of Bolivia's Santa Cruz province voted for autonomy

By Simon Ashworth Wood, May 31st 2008

Colombian aggression

By William Hewitt, May 24th 2008

Should Colombia be isolated from Venezuela and Ecuador?

The U.S.: left behind again

By Susan Schaller, May 22nd 2008

Recon-in-Force

By Jason W. Smith, May 21st 2008

Reconnaissance in Force Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. Normally reliable sources in Latin America tell me that what has been unfolding since I wrote the column “The Plot Unfolds” are the details of the (1) trouble-making strategy combined with a rather typical Gringo (2) Recon in Force. They have given me the following guidelines and I am passing them on to you and hopefully, DGIM (http://www.dgim.mil.ve/net/index.php) (General Direction of Military Intelligence of Venezuela). (1) Infiltration of agents into FARC ranks to (a) kill specific targets and (b) win over (convert) other specific targets.

The reality of US imperialism is worse than Nikolas Kozloff claims

By Simon Ashworth Wood, May 20th 2008

Is the laptop in question a farce laptop, rather than a FARC laptop?

By Steven Bates, May 17th 2008

Interpol concludes that it knows the laptop came from the FARC, because the Columbian agents say they obtained the laptop at the scene of their own crime