{"id":589,"date":"2007-12-10T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T12:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2012-07-23T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T22:00:39","slug":"wtf-w-o-l-a-w-o-l-a-flogging-old-washington-mule-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohawknationnews.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/10\/wtf-w-o-l-a-w-o-l-a-flogging-old-washington-mule-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF, W.O.L.A.? : \u2018W.O.L.A.\u2019 FLOGGING \u201cOLD WASHINGTON MULE\u201d IN \u2018LATIN\u2019 AMERICA’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018W.O.L.A.\u2019 FLOGGING \u201cOLD WASHINGTON MULE\u201d IN \u2018LATIN\u2019 AMERICA’<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>MNN. Dec. 8th, 2007.<\/strong>\u00a0Late last Wednesday night a call came from Akwesasne, \u201cWhat\u2019re you doing?\u201d The response was, \u201cNothing!\u201d The next question was, \u201cWanna go down to New York City for a meeting?\u201d The answer was, \u201cSure!\u201d The next morning two Mohawks, one from Kahnawake and another from Kanehsatake, met up with two other Mohawks from Akwesasne in Upstate New York for the long drive in the pick up truck to the big Apple.<\/p>\n

The meeting was across from the Empire State Building. WOLA is the \u201cWashington Office on Latin America\u201d. It started in 1973 under the Jimmy Carter administration and was connected to the \u201cTrilateral Commision\u201d. Today they work with the \u201cCouncil on Foreign Relations\u201d and are funded by Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller and other big-time right wing foundations and corporations. The main honchos were Joy Olson, Vicki Gass, Margaret Crayhan* and Kenneth Paul Erickson [kenneth.erickson@hunter.cuny.edu], all \u201cscholars\u201d. WOLA\u2019s secretary-treasurer and president is Charles Currie, SJ [Society of Jesuits] which governs the \u201cAssociation of Jesuit Colleges and Universities\u201d in Washington DC.\u00a0http:\/\/www.wola.org<\/a><\/p>\n

They were surprised to see us four Mohawks there. No one talked to us or introduced themselves. They couldn\u2019t figure out where we came from, even though they were on Haudenosaunee territory.<\/p>\n

A 14-page executive summary was handed out called, \u201cA Fresh Approach to U.S. Policy in Latin America\u201d, which is meant for whichever party wins the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Democrats or Republicans, it\u2019s all the same! This looks like hard core evidence of the U.S. President\u2019s plan for our people in South America.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are about 300 million people in \u2018Latin\u2019 America , the majority being Indigenous people. More than half live in poverty, 80 million in extreme poverty\u201d. The oligarchs have greatly escalated their income and wealth since 1990 by deforestation, mining, logging and industry which have contaminated the air, land and water throughout the hemisphere. This rape of the land has caused suffering and devastation to Indigenous people.<\/p>\n

George Bush\u2019s failed policy was criticized. They\u2019re coming up with a new \u201cpartnership\u201d between the U.S. and \u2018Latin\u2019 America [and Canada too! It sure looked like they were dictating Canadian policy. Hey, haven\u2019t they heard that feudalism is illegal?] Their main concern is combating the immigration and drug trade that has been coming into the U.S. They cited international criminal cartels, immigration, proliferation of arms into the \u201cwrong hands\u201d and the security of the minority oligarchs who control these countries on behalf of the U.S. and Europe. The long and the short of it is that if any profit is to be made, the U.S. oligarchs want a share. They\u2019ll take our assets but not our liabilities from the damage they\u2019ve caused to the environment.<\/p>\n

Because of the tremendous disparity between rich and poor, violence is escalating. When the poor don\u2019t even have enough to live on, what have they got to lose? According to WOLA, \u201c42% of all homicides in the world are happening in Latin America which has 6% of the world\u2019s population!\u201d Where are these guns coming from? This sets up the excuse to go in there with more and lethal cops. They forgot to mention all the violence the U.S. is causing worldwide, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan . They need to create a calamity to get control of South America like they engineered in the Middle East?<\/p>\n

Their idea of a \u201cfresh approach\u201d is for the new U.S. president to visit \u2018Latin\u2019 America to tell them about his new fresh approach for them; to strengthen the colonial \u201cdemocratic\u201d government the U.S. is trying force on everybody all over the world [which is also known as \u201csocial restructuring\u201d]; to support the U.N. Millenium Development Goals as set out by the U.S.; to pep up the Mexico-U.S.-Canada partnership to control all trade and commerce on Turtle Island; to reform immigration so that everyone has \u201cdocuments\u201d or they are left to die; to curtail drug use by stopping the messy spraying program that has been going on since 1981; to close Guantanamo Bay detention facility so detainees can be put somewhere else \u201cout of sight and out of mind\u201d; and to lift the ban on travel to Cuba so the gambling lords can get back in and take over the island and the lucrative tourism trade.<\/p>\n

The Latin American oligarchs fear the Indigenous people who want a share of their own resources. \u201cInsecurity is a growing concern\u201d, WOLA said. Latin America \u2019s growing independence is especially a \u201cproblem\u201d.<\/p>\n

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are losing their influence since Hugo Chavez started paying off their loans and debts. You\u2019d think that the WB and IMF would be happy that these people paid off their debts. No way, Jose! It means they have no KONTROL. Oh! oh! Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil and Bolivia just set up their own central bank, to \u201cwean the regions off IMF and WB\u201d. They want to make it easier for the poor to get loans. The U.S. and Europe are losing control and influence fast!<\/p>\n

\u2018Latin\u2019 America was run by deadly military dictatorships that were set up and trained by the U.S. at the \u201cSchool of the Americas\u201d, formerly in Georgia. Now that democratic institutions through fair elections are taking over, past subversive brutality and oppression promoted by the U.S must change. Colonists are not used to egalitarian sharing of power and resources. In light of this, \u201cPolicing, the judiciary [and prison systems] must be upgraded\u201d, WOLA said. USAID in Venezuela recently got $48 million to destabilize President Hugo Chavez in the recent referendum on the constitution. Venezuela has shown it does not need the U.S. and have cut off all ties, which worries the U.S. They referred to the U.S. relationship with Hugo Chavez as \u201ctwo scorpions in a bottle\u2026 no matter who bites first, both will die\u201d.<\/p>\n

WOLA\u2019s idea of consultation is to speak to the oligarchs. Their main concern is that U.S. credibility is low. [As if this is news!] Anti-Americanism is running high worldwide [Same old, same old. We\u2019re not wondering why!]<\/p>\n

The oligarchies are U.S. and European puppets of a pass\u00e9 paradigm playing \u201cI\u2019m the king of the castle\u201d on their little dung heaps, when everyone else has gone off to the strawberry festival. Trouble is they are obsessed with turning the whole world into a dung heap. Their long range plan is to set up one world government with one ruler. Dream on. Haven\u2019t they read their history? This has never worked. Nature loves diversity. It even has a place for crazies like them.<\/p>\n

WOLA\u2019s main idea is the training of modern professional para-military police and other law enforcement and criminal justice officials, with what appears to be oligarchical oversight. They foresee police academy training and indoctrination, human rights [meaning forcing us to be their slaves], due process, leadership development, more effective patrol structures directed at the communities [like curfews?], internal and external controls, and community-oriented policing. [Don\u2019t forget folks, these people want to be the only game in town. If they get their way, we\u2019ll all be forced to play cops and robbers whether we want to or not. They have a lot of private jails to fill and they\u2019re planning more.] Specialized police units with specific policing techniques and equipment [probably taught by the likes of BlackWater!] Develop detective units and a comprehensive \u201csnitching\u201d system to help police gather evidence to increase conviction rates.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re looking for more ways to criminalize us. The U.S. says their policies \u201cprotect civil and human rights, facilitate family linkages across borders and regularize the immigrants\u2019 status in the U.S.\u201d!! They must be deliberately blind! The wall that cuts through the middle of Tohono O\u2019odham territory on the so-called Mexico-U.S. border is leading to deaths from exposure and dehydration. The $40 billion de-foliage spraying program along with the fall of the U.S. dollar have made drugs cheaper. [Are the drug cartels switching to the Euro?] Spraying killed off crops leading to starvation, death and birth defects forcing people to look for somewhere else to go so they can survive. [\u2018Agent Orange \u2019 all over again, like in Vietnam!] Heaven help those who try to go to the U.S. which authored the destruction of their homelands.<\/p>\n

U.S. wants democratic governments where people can vote \u201cuntil they get it right\u201d. By right they mean \u201cmight\u201d – \u201cIt\u2019s my way or the highway, not the one that runs across our [imaginary line] border. We don\u2019t want to see you. We just want to tell you what to do.\u201d In other words, the U.S. has become a caricature of the British when they sought their own independence from them.<\/p>\n

Once again we witnessed people making policy for somebody else. Colonialism! Colonialism! Colonialism! They were very careful about it, like someone trying to make love so there is no pregnancy. Every word was weighed carefully and \u2018condomized\u2019 before it was presented, so that we could not see the \u201cbanality that hides the evil\u201d. But, Hey! Man! A rape is a rape even if you\u2019re wearing a condom. Do they think that people can\u2019t see when evil is staring them in the face? Some are even forced to go along with a rapist when they see they have no choice. Threats are couched in light language, bubbling altruistic froth over the real purpose – to maintain coercive power and control.<\/p>\n

WOLA is an expert at \u201cgovernment-speak\u201d. Those hungry for power know what is being said, that they plan to kill the real people of \u2018Latin\u2019 America. They said it so nicely. They thought they were so convincing that the \u2018Latin\u2019 Americans can\u2019t wait for it to happen! They may be in for a surprise!<\/p>\n

*<\/strong>Margaret Crayan\u2019s expertise is Latin American history and politics, religion [including the Catholic Church], human rights, truth commissions, women, the military, extensive field work in Latin America including Cuba, \u201cPost Authoritarian Societies\u201d [?], civil society [meaning the police]. She has published 80 papers and is working on \u201cReligion and Politics\u201d. The Council on Foreign Relations published her research on the \u201cCity and the World: New York \u2019s Global Future\u201d in 1997.<\/p>\n

Kahentinetha Horn
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