As you might imagine, trying to cover what the rest of the world thinks and says about the United States is a pretty ambitious undertaking. At times, when there is a major story like the war in Georgia or the U.S. presidential election, many other issues get shunted aside for a time.
One such issue is the ‘war on drugs’ now taking place in Mexico, in good measure funded by the United States.
Unbeknownst to most people in our country, many Mexicans feel that the drug ‘war’ we are waging along with the Mexican government is not only illegal, it is part of a Bush administration plan to permanently undermine the Mexican state and turn it into a U.S. vassal.
“Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, under the guise of an effective but undeclared state of emergency, the administration of George W. Bush has proceeded with the systemic demolition of the Constitutional order of the United States. … The White House chief has instituted illegal espionage operations at home and has become embroiled in pre-emptive war abroad, has resorted to ‘legalized’ torture and the abduction-disappearance of suspected terrorists, and has kept thousands of ‘enemy non-combatants’ under indefinite arrest, detaining them in an archipelago of clandestine and ‘floating’ prisons under the control of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency … In a permanent state of emergency, the exception becomes the rule. In the case of the United States, the war became the ontological foundation of the State. All these years Bush has governed through fear, encouraging nationalism and exploiting the racial and ethno-religious prejudice of his fellow countrymen.”
Then, explaining how Mexico has become a staging ground for Bush policy, Fazio writes in part:
“Here, as in Colombia, the pattern of U.S. intervention took the form of a war on narco-terrorism, by de facto including Mexico as part of the ‘security perimeter’ of the United States, via the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, from which is derived the Merida Initiative, which is similar to Plan Colombia. … Bush’s model for Mexico is that of the “Colombianization” of the country. As part of a system that protects corruption and the impunity of entrenched criminal networks within the institutions of State, banks and large corporations, the prescription is more narco-politics, heavy-handedness, torture, detentions and disappearances, dirty war, mercenaries, the criminalization of social protest, and the militarization of society. The goal of the United States is to plunge the country into chaos and destabilization, in order to penetrate [Mexico’s] States security institutions, further weaken national sovereignty and accelerate dependency.”
By Carlos Fazio
Translated By Paula van de Werken
August 11, 2008
Mexico – La Jornada – Original Article (Spanish)
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, under the guise of an effective but undeclared state of emergency, the administration of George W. Bush has proceeded with the systemic demolition of the Constitutional order of the United States. In the name of the imperative of security, he arrogantly assumed extra-judicial powers and turned secret decrees and arbitrary presidential decisions into standard practices of State. The White House chief has instituted illegal espionage operations at home and has become embroiled in pre-emptive war abroad, has resorted to “legalized” torture and the abduction-disappearance of suspected terrorists, and has kept thousands of “enemy non-combatants” under indefinite arrest, detaining them in an archipelago of clandestine and “floating” prisons under the control of the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
From the outset, in what we later discovered was part of a secret, predetermined plan, Bush took advantage of the “opportunity” presented by the attacks of 9-11, allegedly carried our by an “asymmetrical” and “stateless” enemy called al-Qaeda. The dismantling of the constitutional order was launched within the context of an indefinite, omnipresent war without limit in space or time. In 2002, when introducing the National Security Strategy at the White House, Bush merged the “vulnerability” of the United States to “terrorism” with a “new way of life.” Thus, since the beginning, the twenty-first century “war on terror” was designed to be waged simultaneously in several countries for many years. In 2006, the new version of the U.S. National Security Strategy postulated that “The United States is in the early years of a long struggle, similar to what our country faced in the early years of the Cold War.”
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