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    From JAT@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 6 22:17:42 2020
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    New U.S. military intervention subverts peace in Colombia and Venezuela

    The United States Embassy in Bogotá announced on May 28 that the U.S. is sending 50 or so soldiers of the Army’s 1st Security Force Assistance
    Brigade (SFAB) to Colombia. They would be carrying out consultations
    with Colombian Army commanders and providing them with technical
    assistance, both in order to fight narco-trafficking. The collaboration
    will play out in rural areas once occupied by the Revolutionary Armed
    Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgency, places where Colombian Army units supposedly are establishing a state presence.

    They arrived on or about June 1 and will remain for four months. The
    COVID-19 pandemic is hitting Colombia hard, and the soldiers are
    presently spending 14 days in quarantine before beginning work. The
    Brigade has served in Afghanistan, Africa, and Europe, and now is in
    Latin America for the first time.

    Their deployment has provoked little or no comment from the U.S. media
    or politicians. That the deployment goes forward despite pandemic,
    economic collapse, and nationwide protests against a police killing
    suggests little will daunt U.S. assertions of power in Latin America.

    https://peoplesworld.org/article/new-u-s-military-intervention-subverts-peace-in-colombia-and-venezuela/

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