*The ones concerning Venezuela are at the end of Dawn's post.* ** *Cort*
A selection of State Department Cables of Interest on Latin America, released by Wikileaks July 24 - August 21 2011 COLOMBIA USG list of 22 re-mobilized paramilitary groups in Colombia circa 2006 http://t.co/VXPL2ns #cablegate Shift in State Dept language from "paramilitary" to "criminal" group in Colombia dates from at least '08 bit.ly/q0Yb0F #cablegate Uribe blows a lot of hot air about Chavez to the USG bit.ly/qkHFk5 #cablegate DOMINICAN REPUBLIC US pulled visa of Dominican Republic's consul in Hong Kong on human smuggling accusation bit.ly/pfeteY #cablegate High level Dominican Republic politician claims many politicians are funded by narcos bit.ly/phpIYp #cablegate #freetrade GUATEMALA Berger era politicos argued for US drug war $ saying "Guatemala is an embryonic Colombian situation" bit.ly/riIipn #cablegate Cable on Otto Perez Molina's '07 presidential run might as well be from today bit.ly/pklIce #cablegate #guatemala HAITI USG deploys reference to purse snatchings to balance police massacre of pro-Lavalas demonstrators in #Haiti bit.ly/q2GPva #cablegate Pulling UN troops from Haiti "would make future hemispheric peacekeeping efforts more difficult to justify" bit.ly/n7rAMV #cablegate Cable outlines exactly how MINUSTAH occupation serves US interests in #Haiti, and beyond bit.ly/pJU6NZ #cablegate Note Gov't of Canada avoided high profile meeting with Latortue in '09 bit.ly/nPdxUQ #cablegate #Haiti #shh Corrupt Haitian senator Yuri Latortue enjoyed access to Canadian Ambassador in '08 bit.ly/mRoYFw #cablegate Breaking: "Ten percent inflation and sixty percent joblessness have no short-term cures." bit.ly/rlUp09 #cablegate #Haiti USG pushed judicial "reform" and prison renos in #Haiti in '07bit.ly/otokKT #cablegate Vatican, '10: "Aristide's presence would distract from the relief efforts and could become destabilizing" bit.ly/pEoL1v #cablegate Canada assures USG of its "clear position in opposition to the return of Aristide" in '05 bit.ly/qRpOq8 #cablegate #Haiti HONDURAS US Ambassador to Honduras urged Zelaya to travel to the US & Mexico after the coup bit.ly/oW5Mkp #cablegate Unforeseen outcome of Honduras coup: Nicaragua Burger King can only sell chicken products for three days bit.ly/oVPqkK #cablegate Cable from Clinton asks how a Nicaraguan attack on post-coup Honduras would play out bit.ly/oaApvJ #cablegate NICARAGUA USG PO'd that Nicaragua would deny fly over clearance to a NASA space shuttle bit.ly/ohHLqU #cablegate Cable on Ortega's offer of amnesty to @Pizangoperu bit.ly/mXwlAq #cablegate #Nicaragua USG courted Nicaragua for Canada initiated Heavy Oil Working Group bit.ly/mQPfEl #cablegate A single, microcosmic look into how arms flow from the US south:bit.ly/p7A2Z7 #cablegate #Nicaragua USG round up of "invasions" of Amcit owned land in Nicaragua in '08 bit.ly/mZLxTz #cablegate Rundown of over 10 US military missions/exercises in Nicaragua in 2008 bit.ly/oLrkiE #cablegate Sandinista foreign advisor to USG: "heed our actions, not our rhetoric" bit.ly/oBcuks #cablegate PERU Cable on that damn leaf the USG loves to hate: Coca bit.ly/oty4gE <http://bit.ly/oty4gE#cablegate>#cablegate #Peru Laundry list of anti-Humala "scandals" noted by USG in 2006 Peru elections bit.ly/mYtSLL #cablegate #telenovela Garcia on Humala, '06: "a mendacious agitator and demagogue who recently, at age 45, discovered nationalism" bit.ly/mYtSLL #cablegate *VENEZUELA* *Damn. Blackberry-RIM catered to demands of Chavez gov't & state owned* *Movilnet in #Venezuela. bit.ly/nKvzRz #cablegate* *Venezuelan newspaper @ElNacionalWeb asked USG if it could underwrite* *the paper bit.ly/oKHJyZ #cablegate* *Cable on NYT journo @viaSimonRomero's experience of "thuggery" in W.* *#Venezuela bit.ly/oIvC7O #cablegate* *USG take on attempted coup against Chavez. Pathetic. bit.ly/qkm1o3<http://pathetic.bit.ly/qkm1o3#cablegate> * <http://pathetic.bit.ly/qkm1o3#cablegate>* #cablegate #Venezuela* *Vatican favorable to US aid to Venezuela churches to "counteract* *Chavez" & "blunt his attacks on the Church" bit.ly/occVVV #cablegate* *#3 at the Vatican "shared U.S. concerns about Chavez and other leftist* *leaders in Latin America" bit.ly/nsWVvO #cablegate* *Cable on Venezuela shows the contribution of diplomats in the creation* *of a coherent anti-Chavez narrative bit.ly/ommp1R #cablegate* *To receive updates on cables from Latin America, follow Dawn on Twitter ** @dawn_* <https://twitter.com/dawn_>* or join the **Wikileaks Latin America group* <https://groups.google.com/group/WLLA?hl=en>*.* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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