The Narco-Terrorist Machinery by Erick San Juan

From hereon we are going to post/publish old articles of Erick San Juan in his Customsweek column Carte Blanche. We will select at random his columns which are still timely and relevant.

The Narco-Terrorist Machinery

Erick San Juan

March 17-23, 1997

Customsweek


The January 31, 1997 issue of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) reported that global speculator George Soros “is not only the primary financier of the international drug legalization lobby, but is also a leading financier of the drug cartel’s narco-terrorist machine”.

Soros’s Human Rights Watch (HRW), a major international “human rights” hit squad is deployed against nations targeted by the British financial oligarchy. It functions as an integral part of the cartel’s drug production and terror apparatus in at least three leading drug-producing countries of South America – Peru, Columbia and Bolivia.

The HRW’s principal agent, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is reported to have also played a prominent role in the seizure of the Japanese envoy’s residence in Lima (Peru) by the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), confirming its history of logistical and political support for varioius narco-terrorist groups.

In her investigation of Red Cross activities, Valerie Rush of EIR states: “In April 1994, Gen. Alfredo Rodriguez, commanding the Peruvian Army’s largest-ever offensive against the MRTA - Shining Path alliance in the Upper Huallaga Valley, charged that the Red Cross was responsible for sabotaging the offensive, by lying about the military conduct at precisely the point that the Army has positioned to capture key narco-terrorist leaders. The leaders then escaped.” (Ibid, p.32)

No wonder, ICRC representative Michel Minnig is seen freely coming and going in and out of the Japanese ambassador's residence in the on-going hostage drama in the Peruvian capital.

In early January, President Alberto Fujimori revoked the right of the Red Cross to hold unsupervised visits with jailed MRTA leaders. As of this writing, the policy is still in effect and will remain so until the hostage crisis is over.

In Mexico, the Red Cross was reported to have sided openly with the Zapatista National Liberation Army, which led an abortive uprising in 1994. The Red Cross fed lies to the media regarding the Mexican Army’s “human rights violations” despite a total lack of evidence, and ferried Zapatistas around in their ambulances.

In Columbia, the Red Cross often serves as mediator in kidnappings of foreign citizens and Columbian nationals, according to Columbian Army sources.

Another Soros creation, the Andean Commission of Jurists, much cited in the international press as an independent source on human rights abuses in Peru, is one oft the leading drug legalization lobbies in Ibero-America, with offices in the six Andean countries. It functions as a de facto branch of HRW/Americas. Its executive director, Diego Garcia Sayan, authored the foreword for America Watch’s 1992 book defending the terrorists, “Peru Under Fire”.

What the rest of the world do not know is that the MRTA has become the latest prototype for an international terrorist force. Deployed out of Lima, in the Upper Huallaga Valley, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement was founded in 1982 as a clandestine subversive movement linked to drug trafficking, with a long history of robberies, kidnappings, extortion, blackmail, assassinations, car-bombings, and confrontations with security and defense forces. One might even say that the MRTA, to the larger extent, is Peru’s “Kuratong Baleleng Gang”.

Its arms supplies operations have involved El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Columbia and Chile. In France and Germany, MRTA members have received the status  of “political refugees” while in other countries like Bolivia and Uruguay, they have been granted the status of “refugees” under the protection of the UN High Commission for Refugees.

Regarding the drug trade, their activities range from protection of drug flights to links with coca growers of Peru, Bolivia and Columbia. (The MRTA commando group that seized the Japanese ambassador’s residence has demanded, among other things, safe passage to the Upper Huallaga Valley, the world center of coca production and processing. The area is jointly controlled by the MRTA, Shining Path, Columbia’s FARC and Bolivia’s Evo Morales Group.)

The MRTA’s Special Force of Extortion and Kidnapping was the most effective of its operations, and the one which gave it the most notoriety. Its members are well experienced in terrorist activities, having worked closely with the Basque terrorist ETA.

The leading figure of the MRTA, Victor Polay Campos is the son of a Congressman from Callao province. (Callao has been, for over a hundred years, the most active center of Peruvian secret societies).

MRTA members are known followers of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, draping the organization in anti-imperialist, anti-US “nationalism”. They consider themselves responsible for completing the “liberation” of the region from imperialism, begun by Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin, all of which is presented with secret society rhetoric.

In order to make itself locally acceptable, the MRTA spouts “indigenism”, and upholds as its banner the indigenous uprisings of Tupac Amaru and Juan Santos Atahualpa. It has repeatedly expressed racial hostility toward the Japanese descendants in Peru.

The MRTA also gets a lot of mileage from the British and anglophile press such as Reuters, CNN, and London’s Financial Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Also the Alternative Press Information Agency (APIA), under the alleged sponsorship of Austria’s Secretary of State, publishes the pro-terrorist magazine Nueva Tierra Nuestra (Our New Land) which defends the MRTA, FMLN (Sandinistas of Nicaragua), Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front and many others.