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Breaking News: Operation Condor BRASILIA-New investigations are being opened into Operation Condor, the shadowy military network of the Cold War era whose key members were Chile, Argentina,...
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...The Supreme Court confirmed the sentence and barred Oviedo's candidacy 23 days before the presidential elections...
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...Shortly after his inauguration in August, Cubas released Oviedo from prison...
...The process to close the gap began last August with the violent occupation of Amador Herndndez, an important strategic entry point to Montes Azules...
...But eventually the Air Force flew over the city and scared Oviedo's men into submission...
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...These factors, combined with his flamboyant populist appeal, enabled him to narrowly win the September 1997 three-way primary race for the Colorado Party presidential nomination...
...Such an operation would almost certainly involve violence...
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...Condor's secret operations included assassinations of influential political leaders living in Latin America, the United States and Europe who opposed the anti-Communist military states...
...Indeed, the historical precedent is one of forced displacement of indigenous communities in order to allow government-sponsored exploitation of the forest's natural resources...
...Why all the fury when, on the surface at least, a simple "thanks" would do...
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...Unfortunately, this investigation may not go as smoothly as hoped...
...Senator Jesse Helms, more fuel for the outlandish accusations they have long made against him...
...Cubas, however, ignored the Court's ruling, and refused to imprison Oviedo...
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...For one thing, he faces the animosity of the U.S...
...Meanwhile, Batay Ouvriyb, which tries to organize unions in mostly foreign-owned factories and businesses in Haiti, said its members had been attacked by armed FL supporters around the country...
...Of the remaining families, most are Zapatista supporters distributed in 17 communities...
...The argument is clear: The indigenous residents must leave so the trees can be protected...
...Standard and Poor's, the creditrating agency, now estimates the bailout will cost Mexican taxpayers $100 billion...
...Oviedo escaped to Argentina...
...These suspicions seem even more valid given that U.S...
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...The episode has further alienated those on the democratic left, many of whom had placed their hopes in Aristide and worked with him but now even say they fear he will install a Duvalier-style dictatorship...
...57 IN BRIEF members Gonzilez uncertain of President Luis Macchi's military were as to which tanks were theirs and which belonged to Oviedo's forces...
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...By most accounts, Oviedo's most recent putsch attempt on May 18 was a fiasco...
...Rather, its attempt to use protecting natural resources as a basis for displacing the hundreds of indigenous families in the reserve seems to be a new tactic in counterinsurgency efforts...
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...This pattern of negligence and environmental destruction suggests that the government's interest in Montes Azules has little to do with environmental protection...
...These communities have vowed to resist expulsion and the closing of the circle around the EZLN...
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...Carlos Alberto Ponzi, the former regional head of the military regime's feared intelligence apparatus, the National Information Service (SNI), admitted that Brazilian military and intelligence forces participated in Operation Condor...
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...The massive drug smuggling through Haiti to the United States could further undermine Aristide, who has over the past year largely gained control of the police force through a campaign by his top aides against its leaders...
...Congressional leaders protested and took the matter to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in their favor...
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...While it is true that the Lacandon Jungle is rapidly disappearing, it is not because of campesinos cutting or burning down the trees...
...Since 1994, the hundreds of military encampments that have appeared in the jungle, with their accompanying waste, garbage dumps, road construction and water pollution, have only worsened matters...
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...His family found the death suspicious, since, though he was taking medication for high blood pressure, he had just been given a clean bill of health by his doctors...
...It was a dirty and ferocious war," said Ponzi, "Shouldn't we have defended ourselves...
...In 1976 Kubitschek died in a car crash in Brazil, but his wife and aide suspected foul play, citing the death threats he had received, contradictory testimony by witnesses to the crash, incomplete forensic information, and missing official documents regarding his death...
...Police rounded up and jailed more than 30 opposition supporters, including several candidates, on flimsy pretexts and the Organization of American States (OAS) observer mission, backed by the UN and the United States, said the votes had been counted incorrectly...
...Using the threat of fires as a pretext, the federal government has for months tried to force these families to relocate...
...More than 800 of these families belong to the Independent Rural Association of Collective Interests (ARIC-Independiente), and are sympathetic to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), or both...
...Lino Oviedo was born to a peasant family and joined the military officer corps at a time when, under General Alfredo Stroessner's authoritarian regime, only loyal members of the Colorado Party could be admitted...
...The death of Kubitschek also raised questions...
...This massacre was the last straw in Cubas' political downfall...
...And unlike other Latin American caudillos, he would have to reembark on a political career with blood on his hands-that of his main political rival, and of the eight young people who died defending Paraguay's democracy...
...The most well-known was the 1972 presidential decree granting 1.5 million acres of the jungle in far eastern Chiapas to just 66 families of the reclusive Lacandon Maya...
...Citigroup entered this sordid tale in 1998, when Citibank Mexico bought the assets of a failed Mexican bank called Banca Conffa (ironically, "trust") for $195 million-and with the bank, it collected a $2.5 billion eight-year promissory note from Fobaproa, which had been handed to Conffa in place of failed loans...
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...They say they must monitor and know everything that is done and are in effect defending the interests of the ruling class," it said...
...Argafia was assassinated in March 1999 by a hit team allegedly directed by Oviedo...
...In the aftermath, however, Oviedo was still able to obstruct the court proceedings against him and craft a formidable political machine based on patronage and military discipline...
...The scientists and environmentalists who endorsed the government's "save the forest" efforts in Montes Azules have lent their prestige to a deception...
...Oviedo's failed putsch triggered a renewed effort to arrest him...
...Important papers he was carrying are believed to be missing...
...This facilitated the round-up of many alleged supporters and organizers of the coup, including a handful of deputies from the National Congress...
...in 1976 and Gen...
...In so doing, he disregarded the rule of law, and Paraguay's newly installed democracy consequently experienced a 112-day hiatus...
...government and the UN criticized the election process...
...Subsequently, the Brazilian government agreed to pay an indemnity to the relatives, thereby accepting responsibility for their deaths...
...To bail out the banks, the government quietly took over responsibility for the bad debt by folding it into a then-obscure fund called the Banking Fund to Protect Savings (Fobaproa...
...Meanwhile, Paraguay's sagging economy, endemic corruption, ineffectual political leadership and public malaise could create a favorable political environment for him...
...Even so, his chances of returning to power are slim...
...In past weeks, most of the PRIaffiliated families within Montes Azules have accepted "voluntary relocation...
...But when the Mexican government paid off a $2.5 billion promissory note held by Citibank Mexico, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Yorkbased financial-services giant Citigroup Inc., all it got was outrage and a court battle...
...Goulart was elected president in 1961, overthrown in the 1964 military coup and exiled to Argentina, where he died in 1976 of an apparent heart attack...
...Since then, more legal action has been taken against him for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Vice President Luis Marfia Argafia, in early 1999, and for the subsequent massacre of eight young protesters in Asunci6n's main civic plaza by an Oviedista militia...
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...In response, the elite units of the militarized Federal Preventative Police (PFP)-deployed to Chiapas in May to combat "environmental destruction"-have established joint camps with the Mexican Army outside several of the communities, threatening them daily with military action...
...Thereafter, his ascent within the armed forces was unstoppable...
...After the 1994 peso crisis, Mexican interest rates surged and the nation's banking system collapsed as primarily small borrowers defaulted on their loans...
...The government's fat check so incensed Citigroup, the world's most highly valued financial institution, that it dispatched Robert Rubin, former U.S...
...Lack of international recognition for the elections may also further hold up $500 million in suspended foreign aid and make it impossible for Aristide to carry out reforms...
...Manus, the president of the constitutionally independent elections board (CEP), said President Pr6val and Aristide ordered him on June 15 to officialize the partial results...
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...A month later, Labor Party leader Leonel Brizola, together with family members of two former presidents, Jodo Goulart and Juscelino Kubitschek, announced that the deaths of these two pro-democracy presidents may have been Condor assassinations...
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...President between 1956 and 1961, Kubitschek then became a senator...
...For years, the government has reaped large profits from the logging of entire groves of mahogany and cedar throughout the region, while indigenous farmers have been prohibited from cutting down a single tree in the biosphere...
...Local army and police commanders have made it clear that it is only a matter of time before a largescale "operation" is undertaken to force the remaining families out of Montes Azules...
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...In 1966, Kubitschek and Goulart led a broad-based effort to organize a pro-democracy political movement, but the military regime banned it...
...Aristide has given his foreign enemies, such as U.S...
...Citibank concedes that the original written contract allowed for repayment at any time during the eight-year period...
...Patrice McSherry Fake Greenery: The Mexican Government Uses "Environmentalism" to Repress the Zapatistas CHIAPAS-Over the past several months, a coalition of government agencies, environmental groups and scientists has focused national attention on an ecological crisis in the Montes Azules Integral Biosphere Reserve in southeastern Chiapas...
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...The FL was heavily favored in the run-off vote, held on July 9, whose final results are still not in...
...Breaking News: Operation Condor BRASILIA-New investigations are being opened into Operation Condor, the shadowy military network of the Cold War era whose key members were Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil...
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...But satisfaction at the most successful voting exercise in Haiti's history, with a turnout of nearly 60%, was short-lived...
...They also suggest that attempts to respect democratic formalities may succeed in Haiti only to fall victim to the lack of a culture of tolerance and consensus...
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...Box 4133 Windham, New Hampshire 03087-4133 Tel: (603) 437 9714 Fax: (603) 437 6412 roberto-alm@worldnetatt.net 56 IN BRIEF tion members, including the vicepresident, had resigned earlier) immediately capitulated and signed the results...
...If the count had been done correctly, Aristide's FL would only have won seven seats outright, it said...
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...The 78-year-old lawyer, who has no political affiliation, refused...
...He said he had received death threats after refusing to certify what he considered bogus results of parliamentary and local elections held on May 21...
...Charges that he was involved in such operations were recently confirmed by U.S...
...In fact, the entire Montes Azules reserve suffered only one significant fire during the past dry season, and three smaller ones, which were quickly extinguished...
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...Colonel Oviedo was purportedly the emissary who, grenade in hand, exacted the aging dictator's resignation letter...
...Tom Philpott, a New York-based journalist, covered the Mexican financial markets in 1999 for El Financiero International...
...His supporters, many of whom defected at the last minute, did little more than drive a few light tanks into downtown Asunci6n and fire a couple of poorly aimed shots at the legislative palace...
...Wasmosy put together a military tribunal that found Oviedo guilty of staging the coup attempt...
...Backed by satellite photos showing wide areas of the state covered with smoke and regions which appear "overheated"-supposedly by fire-the state says that the reserve's indigenous residents are causing the Lacandon Jungle to be destroyed three times faster than the national average for deforestation...
...An FL spokesman dismissed the OAS criticism of the vote-counting as "a colonial reflex...
...The feeling among the indigenous communities and human rights groups in Chiapas is that this move--carried out under the banner of environmental protection-would in fact be the last step before a war...
...Haitian and foreign election observers agreed that despite some fraud and disorganization, the voting was unexpectedly fair and orderly and that Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas (FL) party appeared to be the overwhelming winner, against a fragmented opposition with little platform except bitter hostility to Aristide...
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...Condor was a covert system that enabled the military dictatorships that ruled these countries in the 1970s and 1980s to share intelligence and to hunt down, seize and execute political opponents across borders...
...But upon examination the environmental argument falls apart...
...He currently faces serious criminal charges for his role in orchestrating coup attempts and a ten-year prison sentence in his own country...
...With the rest of the biosphere under army control, and with civilian supporters of the insurgency pushed back to the west, EZLN troops would presumably be left with nowhere to run if attacked...
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...The former general was already facing ten years imprisonment in Paraguay for his 1996 coup attempt...
...He is only 56 years old...
...No autopsy was permitted by the Brazilian or Argentine militaries...
...President Gonzilez Macchi was firmly supported by the United States, Brazil and Argentina, and by his own Congress, which granted him temporary emergency powers the next day...
...Manus told Haitians in a broadcast statement from exile that the CEP had been bullied and obstructed by the government and that the police had actively taken part in election-day fraud...
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...His ambitions were realized in February 1989, on the night when Stroessner's 34-year old regime was overthrown...
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...Observers noted that although Aristide and the FL were expected to easily control the new parliament, Haitian politicians were once more yielding to a tradition of "winner takes all...
...Oviedo's extensive use of mobile phones enabled Paraguay's military intelligence and Brazil's Federal Police to track him down in Foz do Iguaqu, Brazil's principal port of entry to Paraguay...
...During his rise to power, he amassed a large fortune through an array of questionable business ventures, including contraband, arms smuggling and drugrelated activities...
...Greg Chamberlain Paraguay: A Caudillo's Long Goodbye ASUNCION-Retired General Lino C6sar Oviedo, a military strongman who played a powerful role during Paraguay's 1989-1998 transition to democracy, appears to be facing the end of his political career...
...But, there are also hundreds of families in the same region who sympathize with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as well as civilian Zapatistas fleeing paramilitary attacks in their native communities...
...They would have to either stand their ground-outnumbered and surrounded--or surrender...
...To put that number in perspective, a crisis on the same scale in the United States, given the relative size of the two economies, would cost $830 billion...
...The next day, Aristide supporters rampaged through the capital and other towns, stoning cars and building street barricades...
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...expatriate and agent for the Chilean Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA), Michael Townley, previously confirmed that DINA produced and used the nerve gas sarin, which induces heart attacks and leaves no traces...
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...Some Aristide supporters, as ever, blamed foreigners for the debacle, with one leader charging that Manus had been "kidnapped...
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...Now that Mexico's presidential elections have taken place, it is widely rumored that a "final" military offensive against the EZLN will be launched soon, most likely in the interim period between the July 2 balloting and the inauguration of President-elect Vicente Fox on December 1. For such an offensive to be successful, it is essential that the military control Montes Azules...
...The Mexican government claims that the indigenous families living within the reserve boundaries are "illegal invaders" of the forest, Vol XXXIV, No 1 JULY/AuGusT 2000 I Vol XXXIV, No 1 JuLY/AUGUST 2000 1 IN BRIEF recklessly destroying Mexico's greatest biodiversity zone by cutting down trees and setting fires that easily grow out of control...
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...Aristide, who has remained silent in his suburban villa for many months, has conveyed soothing words through his spokesman but no FL figure has specifically condemned the violent demonstrations in his name that have alienated rich and poor alike...
...Many police officers are involved in the trade, along with, many now believe, leading figures in the FL...
...While this may be a better deal for taxpayers, it still amounts to a direct wealth transfer from an underpaid work force to the transnational banking system...
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...And in June, he was captured in Brazil, where he is currently awaiting an extradition process...
...Four thousand Chol and Tzeltal families living on that land were expelled so that a state-owned company could harvest timber belonging exclusively to the Lacandon community...
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...In addition to the new revelations emerging in Latin America, Condor is also a central investigative focus of Baltasar Garz6n, the Spanish judge whose request for the extradition of Augusto Pinochet in 1998 gave new life to the struggle against impunity...
...Citibank Mexico threatened to shut down its 100 branches, and within weeks of the May 9 payback announcement, the bank had sought an injunction against the government in a local court...
...But the losing factions joined to try to block his candidacy...
...Argafia's assassination enabled Oviedo's opposition to muster enough votes to start impeachment proceedings against Cubas, and it also triggered a civic revolt...
...Partial results in the two-stage elections had the FL winning 16 of 19 contested seats in the 27-member Senate (whose members serve staggered six-year terms) and 26 of the 83 seats in the Chamber of Deputies outright, as well as control of all the major towns...
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...Greg Chamberlain is a British journalist based in Paris who has covered Haiti and the Caribbean for the past 30 years...
...His rebellion was quelled after the international community mobilized strongly in support of Paraguay's fledgling regime...
...He had been hiding since December 1999, when he lost the asylum granted him in Argentina by that country's former president, Carlos Menem...
...The Brazilian Supreme Court authorized his arrest, and he is currently incarcerated in Brasilia, where he is awaiting extradition...
...Throngs of protesters congregated in Asunci6n's main plaza, where, three days later, eight young protesters were assassinated by an Oviedista militia...
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...In a recent suspicious development, Goulart's pilot, a key witness who was traveling from Argentina to Uruguay in late June to testify in a separate investigation, died of an apparent heart attack on the ferry crossing...
...The opposition parties boycotted the run-offs, the OAS observer mission declined to observe it and the U.S...
...Many of the alleged "hot spots" in the satellite photos inexplicably disappeared at night and reappeared during the day-which is certainly not common for forest fires...
...Despite a general sense of apathy, the public seemed relieved to see the coup flounder...
...Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, however agreed in late June to unblock most of the $26 million in aid for Haiti that he froze in April to punish the Haitian government for fining a U.S...
...A few days later, he resigned and was given asylum in Brazil...
...Treasury secretary and now a member of Citigroup's management team, to lean on Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo to rescind the payment...
...firm caught illegally importing rice into the country...
...Argaila, a leading Colorado caudillo and adversary, became vice president...
...He still has a loyal cadre of supporters, and has the backing of a prominent local newspaper, as well as some of the Colorado Party electorate...
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...Oviedo's first major miscalculation took place in April 1996, when he refused to accept that President Juan Carlos Wasmosy had fired him...
...In May 1998, Rail Cubas, Oviedo's loyal lieutenant, was elected president in Paraguay's first free and fair presidential elections...
...There are new efforts in Latin America to penetrate the secrecy still shrouding Condor...
...And the method of "reforestation" applied by the Army-often entailing the mass planting of Eucalyptus trees-creates further environmental disasters...
...The government financed the $2.5 billion payment to Citibank with a loan from Mexican banking giant Banamex, at an interest rate about 3% lower...
...Within the preserve itself, hundreds of indigenous families live in dozens of communities, most of them established within the last 50 years...
...The OAS pointed out that the count in the senate races had violated the electoral law by using only the votes for the top four candidates, instead of all of them, to calculate whether a person had obtained the 50% needed for outright victory...
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...In March, for example, the Brazilian Supreme Court mandated that classified files of the military and intelligence forces be opened to an Argentine judge investigating the 1980 disappearances of three Argentine citizens who were seized in Brazil and transferred secretly to Argentina...
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...Mexican nationalists should not be much cheered by the switch since Banamex's common stocks are about 40% foreignowned...
...Joshua Paulson Electoral Turmoil in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE-The head of Haiti's elections board, LUon Manus, fled abroad on June 17, dealing a new blow to the country's tortuous efforts to build democratic institutions after decades of dictatorship...
...Manus, citing death threats, fled by land to the Dominican Republic and then to the United States...
...The territory of the Montes Azules reserve constitutes the only remaining opening in the military encirclement of Zapatista base communities and insurgent positions...
...Townley, a confessed Condor assassin, carried out murders of prominent Chilean exiles, including Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C...
...The same month, the Human Rights Commission of the Brazilian Congress vowed that former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, exiled in Brazil since his ouster in 1989, would be brought to justice...
...The Goulart family is calling for the use of new technology to determine whether the former President was poisoned in Argentina...
...After the 1964 coup, his senate term was cut short and his political rights suspended...
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