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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Chile: ''Human Rights Activists Protest New US Base''

the sociopaths in WASHDC keep telling us we are BROKE, yet they keep expanding the empire........go figure????

From Upside Down World

''A US military training center in the port city of Concón, in the central Chilean province of Valparaíso, will be used for exercises "clearly oriented toward the control and repression of the civilian population," according to an open letter that more than 20 human rights organizations sent Chile's Defense Minister Andrés Allamand on May 7. 

The US government has spent $460,000 constructing the installation, which opened on April 5 at the Chilean military's Fort Aguayo naval base. UPI Business News writes that the site "is growing into a major destination for regional military trainers and defense industry contractors."

''The US currently has about 800 bases worldwide, with 22 in Latin America, including bases in Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Paraguay and Peru; naval stations in Aruba and Curaçao; and a "CSL" under construction in the Dominican Republic.''

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