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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

The President of Colombia is the Platonic Ideal of a US Empire comprador.

Abhishek Singh Chauhan's avatar

Colombia’s new president, is nothing but a pathetic puppet — a cheap toy yanked around by Washington and Tel Aviv. He is a spineless sellout who traded Colombia’s dignity for foreign applause, licking boots for scraps of money, weapons, and hollow promises. he’s a clown in a suit, parroting U.S.–Israeli talking points while his own country bleeds, a leader who bent over before even taking office.

Aaron Ruby's avatar

There is a long history of Israel training death squads and dictatorships in Colombia and across Latin America, especially the genocidal dictatorships in Guatemala that killed some 200,000, mostly Mayans. Israel supplied over 90% of the weapons that the dictator Somoza used to to slaughter 50,000 Nicaraguans. Israel also trained in torture techniques and supplied weapons to the Argentine dictatorships.

The trainer of the AUC paramilitary death squads and the Cartels in Colombia was Yair Klein, a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF paratroopers.

Klein trained Carlos Castaño, the infamously cruel mass murderer, a Colombian paramilitary leader and narcotrafficker responsible for countless atrocities and assassinations including the murder of the famous and beloved journalist and satirist, Jaime Garzón.

Castaño was an Evangelical and a fanatical supporter of Israel. He even claimed to have gone to Israel for training.

Castaño wrote:

“The history of Israel is delightful and illuminating. You should start by taking a shekel in the hand, just like receiving Christ… I admire the Jews for their courage in the face of anti-Semitism, for their strategy in the Diaspora, for the resolve of their Zionism, their mysticism, religion and, above all, their nationalism.”

This support for Israel is common across Latin America among the right-wing evangelical sects that were promoted by the CIA, and among rightists in general.

https://www.democracynow.org/2000/6/1/who_is_israels_yair_klein_and

Adam Cheklat's avatar

Or stand with China and we’ll wring you dry until you come crawling to us.

DEREK HANDS's avatar

So the people of yet another country have been duped by Yankee imperialism.

Raoul Christensen's avatar

Maybe not the people, as much as Blackcore manipulating the results!

EagleHorse5's avatar

😀Big Thanks😃

audi_MRR's avatar

Must be a relative of Marco Rubio….

Ibti's avatar

Capitalism must break.

Barbara S.'s avatar

We really, really do try to be the worst people in the world everywhere we go. It is our superpower 🙄

Nothing less than obvious!'s avatar

Yes and that of many other countries.

Robyn's avatar

All about the money