Remembering Americas Role in Argentinas Dirty WarBy Derrick Broze After speaking with Argentine President, Mauricio Macri, Obama announced that he would declassify new US military and intelligence files from Argentinas Dirty War. The release of the new documents marks the first time since 2000 that related files have been declassified. President Macri said he hoped the visit would mark new mature and intelligent relations between the two countries. We are absolutely determined to do our part as Argentina continues to heal and move forward as one nation, and I hope this gesture also helps to rebuild trust that may have been lost between our two countries, said President Obama. On March 24, 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla declared martial law after leading a military coup that lasted until 1983. The coup led to the deaths of nearly 30,000 people, including victims who were killed by throwing them alive from helicopters into Atlantic Ocean. Thousands more were illegally detained and tortured. General Videla was sentenced to prison for human rights violations and died behind bars in 2013. President Macri called the Dirty War, the darkest chapter in our history. On Thursday morning, President Obama and President Macri will visit the Parque de la Memoria, a memorial park for victims of the dictatorship. Despite President Obamas statements of support, he seemed unwilling to outright acknowledge the role the U.S. government played in installing and supporting dictatorships across South America. Obamas silence, coupled with wounds that are still fresh for many Argentine families, has sparked a number of protests and boycotts of Obamas visit. The Guardian reports: But both the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, who continue to search for missing victims and babies born to their imprisoned daughters, have announced they will not be present at the ceremony. Its a provocation, its our date, said Nora Cortias of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who feels Obamas presence will encroach on a day of painful remembrance for many Argentinians. The two groups, together with other human rights groups, are instead organizing what they expect to be massive marches in Buenos Aires and across the country for Thursday afternoon. To understand Argentinas Dirty War, you have to understand Operation Condor, and to understand Operation Condor we must talk about former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Depending on your view Kissinger is either the greatest statesman that ever lived or a blood thirsty war criminal. Either way, Henry Kissinger is no stranger to controversy. In recently released memos it is made perfectly clear that in 1976 the former Secretary of State gave his approval for Argentinas Dirty War. The Dirty War was only one part of a larger plan known as Operation Condor. Condor was a campaign of political repression and terror involving assassination and intelligence operations implemented in 1975 by the dictatorships of Chile and Argentina. The former Secretary of State was heavily involved in Operation Condor. Kissingers approval of Argentinas decision to move forward with their repressive campaign has been suspected for years and confirmed since at least 2004 when the National Security Archive released a secret memo recounting a conversation between assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, Patt Derian, and the US ambassador in Buenos Aires, Robert Hill. The two met in April 1977 and discussed a meeting between Henry Kissinger and Argentine Foreign Minister Cesar Augusto Guzzetti. Kissinger gives Guzzetti explicit permission to move forward with whatever they must do to repress terrorism. In 1987, Martin Edwin Andersen reported that Kissinger had given the Argentine Generals permission to carry out their state-sponsored terrorism. In 2014, Andersen released another memo which is even more clear than the National Security Archive file. The memo contains the conversation between Ambassador Hill and Secretary Derian discussing Argentinas fears of lecturing from the United States. The Argentines were very worried that Kissinger would lecture to them on human rights. Guzzetti and Kissinger had a very long breakfast but the Secretary did not raise the subject. Finally Guzzetti did. Kissinger asked how long will it take you (the Argentines) to clean up the problem. Guzzetti replied that it would be done by the end of the year. Kissinger approved. In other words, Ambassador Hill explained, Kissinger gave the Argentines the green light. In the memo Kissinger expresses concern over new human rights laws requiring the U.S. to certify that foreign aid would not go towards terrorism. Kissinger wanted the generals to hurry their campaign and get back to normal by the end of the year. Kissinger is well known for promoting the idea of taking action whether legal or not. A leaked transcript from Monday, March 10, 1975 outlines Kissingers thoughts on the legality of government sponsored crime. Kissinger: Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings, The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer. [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, Im afraid to say things like that. Kissinger has evaded questions and legal summons by investigators in France, Spain, Chile and Argentina. They seek answers about his involvement in disappearances of citizens in the US and other countries in regard to Operation Condor. On September 10, 2001, the family of General Schneider initiated a civil action in federal court in DC, claiming that Kissinger gave the agreement to murder the general because he had refused to endorse plans for a military coup in Chile. November 13, 2002, 11 individuals brought suit against Kissinger for human rights violations following the coup. They accused him of forced disappearance, torture, arbitrary detention, and wrongful death. The suit claims that Kissinger provided practical assistance and encouragement to the Chilean regime with reckless disregard for the lives and well-being of the victims and their families. Both cases were dismissed based on sovereign and diplomatic immunity. Its been forty years since Henry Kissinger gave the green light to Argentinas campaign of death and destruction yet the wounds are still fresh. It is more important than ever to understand the truth about U.S. history. If the free hearts and minds of this land are going to create a new world based on freedom and justice, we must learn from the past and hold criminals accountable for their actions. For a deeper understanding of the crimes of Henry Kissinger, check out this report. Image Credit Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the Lead Investigative Reporter for selfnewsPost.com and the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him on Twitter. Derrick is available for interviews. This article may be freely reposted in part or in full with author attribution and source link. Serbs are remembering today the start of bombing : 17 years ago, on March 24th 1999 US/NATO has started the bombing of Serbia without the UN resolution and in massive lying/diabolizing media attacks! You should remember Chile (killing a democratic elected president Aliende and instaling Pinoche dictatorship), remember stealing 700 bilion Iraqi petrol dolars and poisonoig through radioactivity the entire land, stealing Gaddafis gold from Libyian people, stealing Ukraninian gold, El SAlvador massacers, Nicaragua terror, Panama injustice, destroying Syria (google: US crimes all over the world) Japan (1945) China (1945-46) Korea China (1950-53) Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69) Indonesia (1958) Cuba (1959-61) Congo (1964) Peru (1965) Laos (1964-70) Vietnam (1961-1973) Cambodia (1969-70) Grenada (1983) Lebanon (1983-84) Libya (1986) El Salvador (1980s) Nicaragua (1980s) Iran (1987) Panama (1989) Iraq (1991-2000) Kuwait (1991) Somalia (1993) Bosnia (1994-95) Sudan (1998) Afghanistan (1998) Pakistan (1998) Yugoslavia (1999) Bulgaria (1999) Macedonia (1999) US Use of Chemical Biological Weapons The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following locations abroad: Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s) Canada (1953) China and Korea (1950-53) Korea (1967-69) Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970) Panama (1940s-1990s) Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96) And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without their knowledge, in the following locations: Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950) SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67) Minneapolis (1953) St. Louis (1953) Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967) Florida (1955) Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58) New York City (1956, 1966) Chicago (1960) And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including: Egypt South Africa Iraq US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since 1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. It has done so in nations such as China (1945-51) South Africa (1960s-1980s) France (1947) Bolivia (1964-75) Marshall Islands (1946-58) Australia (1972-75) Italy (1947-1975) Iraq (1972-75) Greece (1947-49) Portugal (1974-76) Philippines (1945-53) East Timor (1975-99) Korea (1945-53) Ecuador (1975) Albania (1949-53) Argentina (1976) Eastern Europe (1948-56) Pakistan (1977) Germany (1950s) Angola (1975-1980s) Iran (1953) Jamaica (1976) Guatemala (1953-1990s) Honduras (1980s) Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71) Nicaragua (1980s) Middle East (1956-58) Philippines (1970s-90s) Indonesia (1957-58) Seychelles (1979-81) Haiti (1959) South Yemen (1979-84) Western Europe (1950s-1960s) South Korea (1980) Guyana (1953-64) Chad (1981-82) Iraq (1958-63) Grenada (1979-83) Vietnam (1945-53) Suriname (1982-84) Cambodia (1955-73) Libya (1981-89) Laos (1957-73) Fiji (1987) Thailand (1965-73) Panama (1989) Ecuador (1960-63) Afghanistan (1979-92) Congo (1960-65, 1977-78) El Salvador (1980-92) Algeria (1960s) Haiti (1987-94) Brazil (1961-64) Bulgaria (1990-91) Peru (1965) Albania (1991-92) Dominican Republic (1963-65) Somalia (1993) Cuba (1959-present) Iraq (1990s) Indonesia (1965) Peru (1990-present) Ghana (1966) Mexico (1990-present) Uruguay (1969-72) Colombia (1990-present) Chile (1964-73) Yugoslavia (1995-99) Greece (1967-74) US Perversions of Foreign Elections The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign elections, and sometimes engineered sham demonstration elections to ward off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such practices have occurred in nations such as: Philippines (1950s) Italy (1948-1970s) Lebanon (1950s) Indonesia (1955) Vietnam (1955) Guyana (1953-64) Japan (1958-1970s) Nepal (1959) Laos (1960) Brazil (1962) Dominican Republic (1962) Guatemala (1963) Bolivia (1966) Chile (1964-70) Portugal (1974-75) Australia (1974-75) Jamaica (1976) El Salvador (1984) Panama (1984, 89) Nicaragua (1984, 90) Haiti (1987, 88) Bulgaria (1990-91) Albania (1991-92) Russia (1996) Mongolia (1996) Bosnia (1998) US Versus World at the United Nations The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of no votes, the US was the sole nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time. Heres a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987: US Is the Sole No Vote on Resolutions or Treaties For aid to underdeveloped nations For the promotion of developing nation exports For UN promotion of human rights For protecting developing nations in trade agreements For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations For development as a human right Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa For cooperative models in developing nations For right of nations to economic system of their choice Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times) Versus Namibian apartheid For economic/standard of living rights as human rights Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times) Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa For world charter to protect ecology For anti-apartheid convention For anti-apartheid convention in international sports For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times) For prevention of arms race in outer space For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times) For international law to protect economic rights For Transport Communications Decade in Africa Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction Versus naval arms race For Independent Commission on Disarmament Security Issues For UN response mechanism for natural disasters For the Right to Food For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination For UN study on military development For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries For Industrial Development Decade in Africa For interdependence of economic and political rights For improved UN response to human rights abuses For protection of rights of migrant workers For protection against products harmful to health and the environment For a Convention on the Rights of the Child For training journalists in the developing world For international cooperation on third world debt For a UN Conference on Trade Development US Is 1 of Only 2 No Votes on Resolutions or Treaties For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times) Versus foreign intervention into other nations For a UN Conference on Women Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times) For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states For a Middle East nuclear free zone Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times) For a new world international economic order For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa For the Law of the Sea Treaty For economic assistance to Palestinians For UN measures against fascist activities and groups For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US. **For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism (including its underlying causes) For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua US Is 1 of Only 3 No Votes on Resolutions and Treaties Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times) Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times) Versus return of refugees to Israel For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times) For an embargo on apartheid South Africa For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times) For the independence of colonial nations For the UN Decade for Women Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories For a Middle East Peace Conference For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times) In addition, the US has: Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights initiatives Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming Refused to back the World Health Organizations ban on infant formula abuses Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on Political Civil Rights (30 years after its creation) Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic Social Rights Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development Environmental Protection Sampling of Deaths From US Military Interventions Propping Up Corrupt Dictators (using the most conservative estimates) Nicaragua 30,000 dead Brazil 100,000 dead Korea 4 million dead Guatemala 200,000 dead Honduras 20,000 dead El Salvador 63,000 dead Argentina 40,000 dead Bolivia 10,000 dead Uruguay 10,000 dead Ecuador 10,000 dead Peru 10,000 dead Iraq 1.3 million dead Iran 30,000 dead Sudan 8-10,000 dead Colombia 50,000 dead Panama 5,000 dead Japan 140,000 dead Afghanistan 10,000 dead Somalia 5000 dead Philippines 150,000 dead Haiti 100,000 dead Dominican Republic 10,000 dead Libya 500 dead Macedonia 1000 dead South Africa 10,000 dead Pakistan 10,000 dead Palestine 40,000 dead Indonesia 1 million dead East Timor 1/3-1/2 of total population Greece 10,000 dead Laos 600,000 dead Cambodia 1 million dead Angola 300,000 dead Grenada 500 dead Congo 2 million dead Egypt 10,000 dead Vietnam 1.5 million dead Chile 50,000 dead Other Lethal US Interventions CIA Terror Training Manuals Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination, subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression, psychological torture, death squads, etc. Specific Torture Campaigns Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran, Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama Supporting and Harboring Terrorists The promotion, protection, arming or equiping of terrorists such as: . Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists, after WW II . Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose terrorism has come back to haunt us . Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas (Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft. Benning GA) . Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean, Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and torturers Assassinating World Leaders Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state (some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile) Arms Trade US Military Presence . The US is the worlds largest seller of weapons abroad, arming dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe . The US is the worlds largest provider of live land mines which, even in peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day . The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which have led to frequent victimization of local populations. . The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991) This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50 years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: The unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. This sounds like the terrorism we just experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since 1945 that Ive just described. Kinda like The Bush Administration over Iraq. No doubt it will be a case of Diplomatic Immunity. ZioJewmerica will be destroyed. It is a disgrace that Hillary Clinton has access to Henry Kissinger for his advices to her but that the governments of Chile, Argentina, The hands of US in the assassination of thousands of Chileans and Argentines are epitomized in the picture above of Kissinger and his lap dog General Jorge Rafael Videla. 