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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:32 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [narconews] Feder: U.S. Companies and Paramilitaries;
Davies: New Strategy for Oaxaca</DIV></DIV>
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<P>January 22, 2007<BR>Please Distribute Widely<BR><BR>Dear Colleague:
<BR><BR>The U.S. commercial media have been fixated on the telenovela
of<BR>hostage negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia<BR>(FARC), and the recent visit to Colombia of three U.S. congressmen
has<BR>been reported only in terms of how it relates to that
issue.<BR>Unreported in any U.S.-language media was the meeting between
Rep.<BR>Delahunt (Democrat of Massachusetts) and a number of jailed
former<BR>leaders of the recently-demobilize<WBR>d narco-paramilitary army,
the<BR>United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Bellow, we publish
a<BR>translation of the story from the January 16 edition of the
Colombian<BR>paper El Tiempo. <BR><BR>Delahunt says he has received new
information on the extent to which<BR>U.S. corporations supported the AUC, which
existed with relative<BR>impunity throughout Colombia, inflicting a
government-protecte<WBR>d,<BR>drug-funded reign of terror from roughly 1997 to
2004. (Whether that<BR>period has truly ended if of course debatable). Last
year, the coal<BR>company Drummond was found not liable for the paramilitary
murders of<BR>three mine union officials after extraordinary maneuvers by the
judge<BR>and the Uribe administration to prevent key witnesses from
testifying.<BR>And while Chiquita Brands was fined a sum amounting to less than
one<BR>percent of its annual income for making payments to the AUC
(the<BR>company's leaders portraying themselves in the press as victims
of<BR>extortion), no one in the justice department or the press
seemed<BR>concerned that thousands of weapons for the AUC had entered
Colombia<BR>through Chiquita's private ports. <BR><BR>Read this story, and the
discussion it has already begun to generate<BR>due to Delahunt's record as a
staunch Plan Colombia supporter, in the<BR>Narcosphere:<BR><BR><A
href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2008/1/19/203538/370">http://narcosphere.<WBR>narconews.<WBR>com/story/<WBR>2008/1/19/<WBR>203538/370</A><BR><BR>And
Nancy Davies comments on the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of<BR>Oaxaca's
first large, public action of 2008, calling it "the best<BR>organized and most
comprehensive march the APPO could have desired at<BR>this time in its
existence." The biggest issue that brought people out<BR>on the streets was a
hike in bus fares that put a huge burden on<BR>Oaxaca's poorest residents.
<BR><BR>Davies writes:<BR><BR>"It was a day of 'something for everyone'; the
marchers represented<BR>the spectrum of civil society in Oaxaca. So did the
solutions: demands<BR>to withdraw government imposition of higher costs or fewer
benefits,<BR>and to maintain intact the historic city center. The range of
protests<BR>includes: removing price increases for basic foods such as
tortillas,<BR>and for gasoline; freeing political prisoners; returning
the<BR>disappeared alive; canceling changes to the national social
security<BR>institute (the ISSSTE); protecting streets in the center of the
city;<BR>rescinding the increase in bus fares; and handing the schools
still<BR>held by the breakaway teachers union Section 59 (promoted by
governor<BR>Ulises Ruiz, who the teachers and APPO tried to force out of office
in<BR>their 2006 uprising) back to Section 22.<BR><BR>...<BR><BR>"The bus fares,
now 4.5 pesos each way, might not seem like much. But<BR>they come just after a
minimum wage increase of only two pesos, the<BR>same as the difference for a
round-trip the bus fare. Those two pesos<BR>represent a 29 percent bus fare
hike, but only a four percent rise in<BR>wages. So, those who make the minimum
of 50.96 pesos per day (about<BR>$4.70 in US dollars) and have to pay nine pesos
a day to travel feel<BR>the pinch. The general cost of living has gone up in
Oaxaca, which is<BR>one of the poorest states and whose capital city stands
among the most<BR>expensive."<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.narconews.com">http://www.narconew<WBR>s.com</A><BR><BR>Also
new in The Narco News Bulletin are several translations of
our<BR>Spanish-language reporting of the Zapatistas' new years
and<BR>anniversary events in Chiapas by Raúl Romero and Juan Trujillo,
Brenda<BR>Norrel's latest reports on indigenous and popular resistance
to<BR>repression on the U.S.-Mexico border, and more.<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.narconews.com">http://www.narconew<WBR>s.com</A><BR><BR>From
somewhere in a country called América,<BR><BR>Dan
Feder<BR>Editor-in-Chief<BR>The Narco News
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