The article 'On the Events in Ukraine' highlights the interesting aspect of the US interventionism there, the apparent campaign to jettison Kuchma in favor of Yushchenko (or another who would act in a similar manner of subserviance to US interests). It is reminiscent of events in Peru, where the US decided to get rid of Fujimori, and then go to the 'democratic opposition'. This parallel continues in that both Ukraine and Peru currently involve tape scandals. In Ukraine, Kuchma was caught on tape recorder organizing assassinations (a reporter that was later beheaded). In Peru, Fujimori's chief thug- Montesinos was using videos to blackmail important political leaders. These are now being partially released in Peru, to help further discredit the old regime connected with the US, and to try to move toward yet a new regime to be connected with the US. Holy Toledo! ....Alejandro Toledo, that is.... (US 'new' puppet in Peru). Yushchenko appears to be the Ukraine equivalent. Ukrainian communists are right to be suspicious of the implications behind the campaign against Kuchma by the 'democratic opposition'. from the article, 'On Events in the Ukraine'...... <By now even the president's administration has realized that the tapes are real, but their main problem is that they also realize that Major Mel'nichenko served only as a cover for real "tape recorders." You see it's very simple. If you use a tape recorder inside the room you can record only the voice of the person sitting in this room, but not the voice of his interlocutor on the other side of the telephone line. Yet on these tapes we hear both. It means that the presidential telephone line was bugged. Since 1994 the security of this line was provided in part by American specialists in protection from electronic surveillance.> The 'page' below leads to An April, 2000 interview with Madelyn Albright in Kiev, Ukraine. It is off the US State Department web site. She also met with both Kuchma and Yushchenko during her visit, both of whom supported joint US/ Ukrainian NATO coordination, and interventionism. Tony Abdo
http://www.secretary.state.gov/www/statements/2000/000414c.html
