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Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''The US has done little to stop what appears to be 'social cleansing' (limpieza social) carried out by the Mexican military, police and government-sanctioned death squads at times.... Given that the CIA and countless US intelligence agencies, not to mention the Drug Enforcement Agency, are entrenched in Mexico, it might be appropriate to reflect that our real government/corporate interest in the nation is as a marketplace and a non-populist pro-US government.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9685-the-school-of-the-americas-the-cia-and-the-us-condoned-cancer-of-torture-continues-to-spread-in-latin-america-including-mexico



How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy

Mark Karlin, Truthout: ''Are US taxpayers funding a losing war on drugs ... as a means of expanding military influence and increasing political dominance over as many governments south of the border as possible with the deliverable result of creating increased business opportunities for global companies based in the US?''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10676-how-the-war-on-drugs-in-latin-america-benefits-transnational-corporations-and-undermines-democracy

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Ask Congress to Fight against Torture
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=4nJIITOrFhIGIGMuD&s=atLRL5MHJcLPL9MOIpE&m=ejLPL2PJIhLSIeK

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Paraguay: Obama s Second Latin American Coup

By Shamus Cooke

President Obama s devious actions towards Paraguay reaffirm which side of the wealth divide he stands on.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31685.htm



Mexican Official: CIA 'Manages' Drug Trade

By Chris Arsenault

''The war on drugs is an illusion,'' Hugo Almada Mireles, professor at the Autonomous University of Juarez and author of several books, told Al Jazeera. ''It s a reason to intervene in Latin America.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31985.htm



U.S. Guns: The Awful, Shocking Truth

Video

Over the last 5 to 6 years, over 60,000 people have lost their lives in Mexico s drug-related wave of violence. More than 70% of the weapons seized in Mexico in the last three years and submitted for tracing came from the U.S. (Source: ATF)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32067.htm

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Latin America: How the US Has Allied with the Forces of Reaction
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/29-10

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CIA 'Manages' Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/cia-manages-drug-trade.html



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