Thursday, July 22, 2010

The US Military Moves Into Costa Rica

by Mike Vorpahl from Workers Action. The author looks at the recent stationing of US Naval forces in Costa Rica in the context of the Empire's strategy to maintain control over Latin America.
This begs the question, however, if such an over the top display of military muscle is needed now to combat the drug cartels, what will be done in the next few months to make their presence unnecessary? The history of such U.S. military deployments around the world suggests a more credible outcome than what the agreement states. Once the U.S. moves such massive forces into a country, they rarely move them out.