BELIZE FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND
GEOPOLITICAL COVERT WARS
BEING CONDUCTED IN BELIZE AND THE
PETEN, GUATEMALA.
Here at home in
Belize, we have the confusing issue of a USA GOVERNMENT seemingly either acting
; so one USA department, doesn’t know what another US Department is doing? On the one hand, the media is trumpeting the
gift of some equipment to the Belize Coast Guard, and the BDF, both of which
sort of work for the US government, as a mercenary force at OUR taxpayers expense. Though equipped by the USA by equipment gifts. At least the country gets some jobs out of
it. Salaries help the economy.
On the other hand,
the US Treasury Department trashed the BANANA industry and economy of the Stann
Creek Valley here and has impacted negatively the revenues of the GOVERNMENT OF
BELIZE , to the tune of over a $150 million dollars. Using nonsensical verbal pyrotechnics, with
no confirmations, or backups, or proofs, when they implemented the USA KINGPIN
ACT ( closing all banking activities, through threatening associate bank losses
in the US, to banks in Belize, to close
the economy of banana plantations in the Stann Creek Valley.) ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE PROVING THEIR US
TREASURY ALLEGATIONS, supposedly justifying the use of the KING PIN ACT over
the past 16 years, has been presented to the government of Belize, to enable
local prosecutions. AN ACT
OF WAR, IF EVER THERE WAS ONE.
In balance, while the Belize government
got some equipment free of charge donated by the USA, to fight their wars in South and Central
America on drug smuggling, the Belize Coast Guard and the Belize Defense Force
being the recipients; the economic
losses to the nation and the loss of revenues to the Government of Belize are
the greater, from the effects of the KING PIN ACT of the US TREASURY. Like myself, most of the people on the
streets are scratching their heads, wondering what the hell is going on? We are at war for our economy and our small
government seems incapable of developing any workable strategies, or defending
what we have, against our big neighbor to the North.
Needless to say,
this war by the USA being carried out all over the Americas, and in particular
in the neighboring PETEN of Guatemala, as a covert war is really gaining
momentum. There is a new
counterinsurgency program going on in the PETEN next door, spilling over into
Belize. The war is by the Guatemalan new
President Molina, an ex military man of the Guatemalan Army, allegedly receiving USA funding; news reports
hint, to carry war against indigenous communities living near, or in, two major
bio diversity parks, or corridors in the North West section of the PETEN, that
protrudes into MEXICO. It isn’t just about drugs either. There are three campaigns going on here. The land nearby is being cleared in surreptitious
means of local indigenous residents and ranches. The Guatemalan Army is being used to put check
points for blocking supplies to reach small farmers villages in the North West
Peten. The foreign press is arguing that this is intended to implement large
scale commercial farming companies, over those of small farmer cooperatives.
The Guatemalan government is using the pretext of drug smuggling fighting, to
kill two birds with one stone. Clear the land of indigenous people, small farmers
for future big scale farming and also to complicate drug smuggling along the
tracks and roads in this remote region.
Actually it is not so remote.
There are COLLECTIVOS ( small van buses) YOU CAN TRAVEL ON CHEAPLY AND
RAPIDLY TO ALL THESE VILLAGES, usually every hour. The USA is apparently using the strategies,
used in both Mexico and Colombia, the media report. The Guatemalan military has been long known
to be a MAFIA group, into all the big rackets using enforcement, and the drug
trade just happens to be the most lucrative right now.
Nobody has mentioned
the newer oil companies moving in. Oil
is produced for Guatemala government revenues in this same area and pipe lined
to the Caribbean coastal port of Puerto Barrios. More exploration is going on and oil well
drilling. Calgary based Quatrro exploration and Production has acquired 800,000
acres of concessions in less than the last year. The Southern Peten is destined for bio fuel
agriculture production on a massive scale.
The New York Wild Life Conservation Society is claiming vast tracts of
land as more parks. The Indian
populations that moved out of the highlands during the last civil war carried
out by the Army, war operations, financed by the USA at the time, are now once
again being displaced within the Peten.
Our own Chiquibul
and Colombia Reserves on the Western border with Guatemala are being despoiled of
resources, by encroaching Guatemalans, seeking to make a living off the
resources there. While our own Belize government dithers and is very slow to
build a corridor of farms and villages along this remote Western frontier. We are obviously going to lose this territory
to de facto occupation and exploitation, if not later also by the IJC
negotiations being carried out by the UDP government of Belize. POSSESSION is
nine tenths the rule of law. Unless we
in Belize establish an active presence of settlers along this adjacency zone,
the writing is on the wall in fire, that we will lose all this territory. It already
seems a DONE DEAL by our political apathy.
Mestizo and Mayan indigenous population pressures from Guatemala will be
exploding exponentially within a year, on our Western Border, while our
politicians lack the intelligence to do anything about securing our land
patrimony. The bleeding heart
environmentalists and forestry department can yell bloody murder all day long,
but the choice is simple. Occupy our
Western border with 20 acre farm grants FAST, or lose it all over the next few
years. If you can’t see that, you are really myopic as a port city town crowd.
OCCUPATION is the only security for land tenure.
A good article on
this, can be found in the AMANDALA NEWSPAPER of Wednesday, August 28th,
2012. VERY GOOD AND TIMELY REPORTING, FOR BELIZE FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
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