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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:58:16 EDT
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- From: "Daniel A. Foss" <DFOSS@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
- Subject: Subversion, special case of filibustering
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- Those of you who controversed over US filibustering (Walker's conquest of
- Nicaragua; the planter oligarchy's overthrow of Liliuokalani's monarchy in
- Hawaii, 1893; but YOU BRITS said nothing about the Jameson Raid, 1895!). But
- much more commonplace today is the situation where an indigenous political or
- military faction in a minor state places itself at the service of a major
- power which, with some assistance or at least approbation followed by subsidy,
- in effect ensures a violent change of government. Or the fall of a regime
- violently resisting overthrow by an Opposition which is itself Not Nice.
-
- Let us, I mean, YOU, take a few sample instances. If I did it there'd be
- complaints of "surlong" postings, cries of "Kruchio him!" and Lennification
- whilst Rip van Barahona takes it easy.
-
- 1. The invention of the Republic of Panama, 1904, because Colombia was
- charging, it was thought, an arm and a leg for rights to build the Isthmian
- Canal. The local fuerzas rebeldes woke up so late for the revolution that the
- US Navy beat them to the scene to protect US Lives and of course Property.
-
- 2. The assassination of Trujillo, 1961, to bring freedom & democracy to the
- Dominican Republic and not screw up the schedule for the Alliance for Progress.
-
- 3. The military coup in the same Dominican Republic which overthrew the
- "democratically" as things go elected Juan Bosch after serving from February
- to November, 1963. "When we said Democracy," in effect, "we certainly did not
- have that sort of People in mind."
-
- 4. Same sort of thing on a much vaster scale in Brazil, 1964.
-
- 5. I'd mention Indonesia, 1965, but it's much too sickening. There are still
- even today a few people in Indonesia who believe the official story and that
- the CIA did not have anything to do with the Rightist coup and the ensuing
- massacre of, conservatively, half a million civilians.
-
- Daniel A. Foss
-