Or that police have systematically terrorized, imprisoned and murdered minorities in the United States. Unfortunately, the list of the U.S. government's violations of human rights could go on and on. And let's not forget that U.N. delegates also know about the coup d' tat that put George W. Bush in the White House. Putting the U.S. on the U.N.'s Commission on Narcotics was a case of the fox guarding the hen house. The CIA, under command of Dubya's dad, brought tons of cocaine into the U.S. and used the profits to finance their criminal contra wars.
Drugs are a huge cash crop for the banks, military and organized crime.
Baby Bush has nominated John Negroponte for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In the 1980s, he was Ronald Reagan's ambassador to Honduras and directed the CIA's training of Battalion 316 in the most advanced techniques of torture and murder. They executed union organizers, and raped and threw nuns from helicopters for fighting for human and democratic rights. This story is in the Ecadre newswire archives. Go to the archives homepage.