SouthCom: Washington carries out its operations at Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras #
Opinion | Arnold August | 20/11/2009 | 
In line with media reports released on November 17, http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/ma ...the Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology, has been awarded the Control System , Communications and Computation of U.S. Southern Command (COMSUR-"SouthCom), operations and maintenance program for the Joint Task Force (FTC) Bravo at Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras. (The "SouthCom is the strategic command of U.S. armed forces responsible for ensuring control of Latin America.) This five-year contract task order includes one base year plus four one year options, and including all options is valued at $ 38 million.
This program supports critical infrastructure to FTC-Bravo Command, the Command of all U.S. military operations in Central America in the implementation of the strategy COMSUR to build partner nation capacity ( "Partner Nation Capacity") . It is designed to support security, stability and prosperity in the Americas. This responsibility includes, according to the press:
To promote new visions of the U.S. Government and institutions of the region.
Reduce sources of conflict and tension.
Promote partnership when needed.
Strengthen efforts to prevent drug trafficking and other international threats.
Harris is an international communications and information serving government and commercial markets worldwide. With headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $ 5 billion in annual revenue (five billion) and more than 15,000 employees, including approximately 7,000 engineers and scientists.
To the extent that the Honduran people are developing their struggle to boycott the fraudulent elections to be held on November 29 and for a Constituent Assembly, Washington and is arrogantly forward its agenda post-November 29. For imperialism is business as usual, without considering the position, sacrifice and feelings of the vast majority of people in Honduras.
The latter decision under an Obama administration, gives people a chance to see again what are the "new visions of the U.S. Government and institutions of the region." They are not new but is the same vision imperialist domination and interference by the U.S. throughout the hemisphere south of the Rio Grande. The only thing that is new is the appearance, in order that the peoples of the region and the world now accept the old politics disguised in a new rhetoric.
If the U.S. were really interested in the above stated objective to "reduce sources of conflict and tension," President Zelaya had long been reinstated in their jobs and a crackdown by the military trained by the U.S. not only had been arrested, but the culprits had been tried and punished for crimes against the people of Honduras.
However, after all, this is the same Washington that recently concluded the agreement with Colombia to the seven military bases there.
This program supports critical infrastructure to FTC-Bravo Command, the Command of all U.S. military operations in Central America in the implementation of the strategy COMSUR to build partner nation capacity ( "Partner Nation Capacity") . It is designed to support security, stability and prosperity in the Americas. This responsibility includes, according to the press:
To promote new visions of the U.S. Government and institutions of the region.Reduce sources of conflict and tension.Promote partnership when needed.Strengthen efforts to prevent drug trafficking and other international threats.Harris is an international communications and information serving government and commercial markets worldwide. With headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $ 5 billion in annual revenue (five billion) and more than 15,000 employees, including approximately 7,000 engineers and scientists.
To the extent that the Honduran people are developing their struggle to boycott the fraudulent elections to be held on November 29 and for a Constituent Assembly, Washington and is arrogantly forward its agenda post-November 29. For imperialism is business as usual, without considering the position, sacrifice and feelings of the vast majority of people in Honduras.
The latter decision under an Obama administration, gives people a chance to see again what are the "new visions of the U.S. Government and institutions of the region." They are not new but is the same vision imperialist domination and interference by the U.S. throughout the hemisphere south of the Rio Grande. The only thing that is new is the appearance, in order that the peoples of the region and the world now accept the old politics disguised in a new rhetoric.
If the U.S. were really interested in the above stated objective to "reduce sources of conflict and tension," President Zelaya had long been reinstated in their jobs and a crackdown by the military trained by the U.S. not only had been arrested, but the culprits had been tried and punished for crimes against the people of Honduras.
However, after all, this is the same Washington that recently concluded the agreement with Colombia to the seven military bases there.
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