Jumat, 24 Februari 2012
By Jamie Douglas Chile has been involved in a long running trial, going back to the years of the shameful overthrow of President Salvador Allende. Judge Jorge Zepeda has just issued an indictment request for U.S. Captain Raymond E. Davis for his alleged involvement in the extrajudicial execution of two U.S. citizens, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, the first a reporters affiliated with the American Information Source, a purported left wing organization that was a strong supporter of President Salvador Allende. Horman was a 31 year old film maker while Teruggi was a 23 year old student.Captain Davis was commander of the US Military Group in Chile, answerable directly to the CIA which at the time had their dirty hands in most countries in Latin America under the guise of “preserving democracy,” an effort which ultimately ended up costing tens of thousands of lives in the region and in fact helping to pave the way for brutal dictatorships to take the place of democracy. Captain Davis at last stands accused today, 38 years later, of bearing responsibility for ratting the two U.S. citizens out to the Chilean Secret Police while collaborating with the now imprisoned Chilean Army Brigadier General Pedro Espinoza Bravo, a leader of the feared secret police called DINA who in 1976 planned the execution by car bomb in Washington D.C. of Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier, a former member of Salavador Allende’s cabinet. The bullet-riddled bodies of both of the U.S. citizens were found on a street in Santiago de Chile after they had been executed along with many others in the capital’s National Stadium. The United States did nothing for their citizens, except help to cover up their murder.Documents declassified in 1999 clearly showed the involvement and contribution of intelligence by Captain Davis that led to the death of the two U.S. citizens. The whereabouts of Captain Davis are currently unknown, and it is very unlikely that the FBI or any other U.S. law enforcement agency will assist in the detention and deportation of this highly decorated war criminal.Brazil still leads the world with the highest interest rates, and has done so for the last 23 months, in spite of dropping the base rate by 0.5% to 11% recently. Financing any purchase in Brazil is a costly affair, and many merchants selling consumer goods, like in Argentina, are offering interest-free installment credit to anyone with a national ID card. It must be noted that not making payments is a criminal offense, where you get locked up without a trial until the debt is satisfied. Brazil leads the world with the highest rates, followed by Hungary, Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, China, Russia, Australia, Colombia, and Taiwan.Argentina has been less than forthcoming with their official inflation rate, since former President Néstor Kirchner † replaced all the INDEC technocrats with his handpicked political cronies. The figures that have been released to the public since that time have been rather disingenuous, rarely approaching even one-half of what is taken for reality. For a while, private consulting firms have issued their own highly academic figures. They arrived at their data with good old scientific methods: Sending hordes of people to all kinds of commercial establishments to ascertain the cost of consumer goods across a wide spectrum of items. Their figures, unlike those of the government appointed cronies, do not lie. So to combat the contrariness of those darn truthsayers, the government of President Christina Fernلndez de Kirchner had her Secretariat of Domestic Trade file a lawsuit against the private consulting firms. These same firms had already paid heavy fines for the audacity of speaking the truth against the official fiction created by the government lackeys.Judge Alejandro Catania, who as a friend of the Kirchners’ was assigned this case, tried to get the International Monetary Fund involved in this, to show that the wayward Melconian & Santangelo private consulting agency were indeed at fault. The government of Presidenta Cristina is on a collision course with the IMF over the false information disseminated by INDEC, and an agreement signed with the IMF will have to be fulfilled by January 10 of 2012. The Argentinean government apparently prefers to be a financial rogue state. [image: Statue of Salvador Allende in front of Palacio de La Moneda, Santiago, Chile,I encourage you to write to me, jamie@expatdailynews.com with any questions or suggestions you may have, and if necessary, we can establish a voice communication via Skype. Disclaimer: I am not in any travel related business. My advice is based on my own experiences, and is free of charge. (Donations accepted). It is always my pleasure to act as a beneficial counselor to those who are seekers of the next adventure.Jamie Douglas is an Adventurer, Writer and Photographer with an amazing array of Nikon equipment, and a lifetime of experience traveling and documenting. To contact him for assignments, email: jamie.douglas [at] yahoo.comWe would love to have your feedback on this post so leave your comments below.
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Brazilian Embraer Super Tucano aircraft in the USALast year, South America, the juggernaut, Brazil, has a prestigious order, after a visit to President Obama's United States Air Force ordered 200 Embraer Super Tucano has the Mission of the light attack aircraft, built in the us. The selection was made on the basis of performance and cost, Hawker-Beechcraft wasted years and untold millions of dollars trying to bring the original of the models, the Swiss Pilatus PC-9 up to required standards, with very little success. After the initial requirements for u.s. military use, the joint primary aircraft training system (JPATS), was available to the various competitors, Hawker Beechcraft took off the shelf version of PC-9 and added a "small" changes.The result was a completely new aircraft, worth 40% more and weighing 22% for what has been entered. Already in April 2007, the principles, which were notified according to the Ministry of Defense (DOD) were a serious violation of cost overrun. This was based on change Nunna, aimed at curbing the growing bilking the Government of the United States in the "cooked" contracts, which was paid for by continuous cost overruns, mechanism, which was based on a deliberate cut and collusion between the suppliers of defence and procurement officers from the DOD. But it was good enough to pawn off some overpriced examples in the "new Iraqi air force", while the procured 78 Tucano machine. Also remarkable is that the UNITED STATES army private from Xe services, formerly known as Blackwater, is the operator of one such model.With Boeing's recent announcement that it would cease operations in Wichita, of course, it comes as a bad dessert for the main city in the air. Enter the politicians, and you'll have a pretty complex. The US air force removed Wichita built the design for the "... not having adequately corrected the shortcomings and deficiencies", making it technically unacceptable, result in an unacceptable risk of mission the plane is to be built in Jacksonville, FL Sierra Nevada, the main supplier on the basis of the US, while all avionics are to be delivered by another Red not trust the American firm Elbit Systems, Haifa, Israel. "Stay, tuned for Congressional and judicial wrangling that prepares American armed forces a valuable tool for years to come.Peru unpopular Vice President Omar Chehade finally had to admit to the inevitable and withdraw from their positions are one of the two Vice Presidents of the Andean countries. Occupying the largely ceremonial post, now the former Vice President was trying to save a seat in Congress, from which can be revoked as well. His openly corrupt behavior has done much for the promise of the President to get rid of Humala country of corruption, but the President's popularity has gone up 54% after crackdown on anti-mining protests, and it is likely to increase more. Former Vice President insists he's innocent of charges that he used to help his brother, the exclusion of workers from the cooperative sugar plantations, that his company wants to take over the national police.Internal flights to Bariloche again postponedIt seems that once again his Volcan Puyehue plans to walk the beautiful scenery offered in Patagonia in the Bariloche region. Ash from the Volcano which caused the closure of the airport, which is now closed for all trade routes in 6 months, again to prevent the resumption of air services. The last eruption are Aerolineas Argentinas flights, more South to Esquel, funny, while LAN disperse Neuquén. Bus services in the area are of course remain unaffected and Micro-operators running additional services for the higher than normal volume of passengers. Of course, my sympathy to all the shop employees in all the chocolate and gnome stores whose hours cut back since the start of work. Lo siento!Falkland Islands cruise cancellationPermanent display discombobulated foreign policy, Foreign Minister of Argentina Héctor Timmerman reared against the decision of the owner of the boat Star Princess and the Government of the Falkland Islands is not land in Puerto Argentino "as was planned for the presence of gastroenterocholitis.The ship has, at present near the British Falkland Islands, 3600 passengers on board, among them several Argentine. His Foreign Minister, hoping that it's not just another hostile act against the tourists from other Nations. The original charges were made a most remarkable man medical profession, Argentine psychologist Luis Hauser. But I can attest to the fact that the decision was sound. While this may be disappointing for many people on board, I was on Christmas Island near the Equator South of Hawaii on a large cruise ship landed hundreds of affected passengers, striking several sanitary facilities on a small atoll and the nobles, leaving several hundred people on a small island.[image: Colombian air force A-29 Super Tucano, via Wikipedia]We recommend you to write to me, jamie@expatdailynews.com with any questions or suggestions, you may have and, if necessary, we can establish voice communication via Skype. Disclaimer: I'm not any travel related business. My advice is based on their own experience and is free of charge. (Donations accepted). It's always a pleasure as a true Advisor to those who are applicants for more adventure.Jamie Douglas is an adventurer, writer and photographer with prodigious number of Nikon equipment and lifelong travel experience and documentation. 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