The United
States has been intervening covertly and overtly in many countries
since the late 1800s, however the CIA's first black ops date back to
the World War II after Harry S. Truman signed the act by which the
agency was created on July 26, 1947. The Central Intelligence Agency
is responsible for terrorism, assassinations, military coups and
rebellions around the globe and has deceitfully used many NGOs guised
as organisms that promote human rights, democracy, freedom and
economic development, including USAID, NED and IRI, just to mention a
few.
Their true
objective is imperialist in nature. The U.S. has interest in every
country, be it for its natural resources, cheap labor force or
because of its strategic geographical location.
In order to
meet its goals, the CIA recruits influential, intellectual and
charismatic personalities. The agency also resorts to threats,
kidnapping, torture, enforced disappearances and assassinations. The
organization incites violence, uprisings and military rebellion, and
causes economic chaos and misery to the people through scarcity of
basic foods and so on. The CIA has been exposed on a number of
occasions through documented evidence, leaks of information and
whistleblowing by active and former agents.
Panama
- 1989
Another unprecedented incident occurs in this Central
American country. A CIA agent rises to power as a dictator in the
form of Manuel “Pineapple Face” Noriega. Washington's interest
here, among others, is the inter-oceanic canal.
When President Omar Torrijos tried to take over control
of the Panama Canal, the CIA planted a bomb on his plane and that was
the end of that.
In 1983, Noriega took power. He was a drug trafficker
for the CIA. He had been for some 30 years. That was fine with
Washington. He was of huge service to them. In fact, he was
instrumental in the Iran-Contra affair, by which the CIA circumvented
Congress' prohibition to provide the Nicaraguan contras with weapons
to be used against the leftist Sandinista movement. Noriega helped
with cocaine to be sent mainly to the Los Angeles, California, where
it was sold in form of crack and served to poison vast Black
communities, another of the devious objectives of the CIA. The
proceedings were used to buy arms in Iran to provide the contras with
them.
Money and power transforms the weak and devious. Noriega
wasn't exempt. It went to his head. He now believed he was
untouchable and felt he could ignore Washington's orders and instead
of helping the U.S. place Guillermo Endara in power in Nicaragua, he
decided he would impose a president of his own choosing: Francisco
Rodriguez. Noriega also began harassing U.S. military bases in
Panama. The U.S. was not about to put up his unruly behavior.
Washington deployed troops to invade Panama in December 1989.
They captured Noriega and locked him up in a Miami jail,
but before that, they killed 3,500 innocent civilians and displaced
20,000 more. Fair? Not for CIA's operation against Panama dubbed
"Just Cause."
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