Why they dropped paratroopers to fight crime
The soldiers came in the Boeing Globemaster III belong to a group of special forces that intervened in Grenada and Panama. U.S. commitment to militarize the war on crime.
20.02.2011
U.S. military involvement often seems to have little to do with government objectives for the region and encourages the American military to assume functions that would be illegal in the United States.
"The Pentagon's role in policy development (Latin America) is increasingly higher. Military activities have grown in participation, while the State Department and foreign aid budgets have fallen or stagnated. "
Neither of the two statements belong to a government official Argentine-prone as interpreted by the conservative press-to-imperialist excesses or overbearing. Both phrases highlighted in an article published in October 2005 ("Militarizing Latin America Policy, see box) by a renowned U.S. analyst, Adam Isaacson, MA in International Relations from Yale University and director of Programs for the Center for Latin America International Policy in Washington.
Following the thesis of Isaacson, the arrival of U.S. Boeing loaded Globmaster III "sensitive material" not necessarily enroll in a foreign policy in tune (and even less controlled) by the government of Obama, but rather in its absence, conveniently exploited by the disproportionate budgetary and operational capacity of the Pentagon and U.S. military complex. U.S. resources designed to "help" to the military and police forces in Latin America and the Caribbean increased from 225 million in 1996 to a peak of almost
900 million by 2009............
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• Weapons instead of ambassadors
Data collected by Adam Isaacson in his article "Militarizing Latin America Policy" are indicative of the imbalance in U.S. human resources devoted to foreign policy for our region and the associated policies.
"The Department of State, "reports the article, has about 16,000 employees in direct hire positions throughout the world, Latin America has a modest fraction of that total (around 4000). "
"Meanwhile, the Southern Command, the unit responsible for U.S. military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, has a staff of 800 military and 325 civilian employees at its headquarters in Miami. "Two military sites in Puerto Rico and Honduras add 570 military and 1390 civilian staff.
The U.S. military presence in the region tends to exceed that of the civilian diplomats. Only through temporary deployments of forces, says Isaacson, in an average year more than 55,000 troops, including National Guard and reservists, go to visit Latin America.
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