A very interesting article about the ongoing processes associated with the Panama canal and fight the US and Russia for influence in Latin America.
NICARAGUAN CANAL AND RUSSIAN TANKS SPIES USA
Nicaragua June 14, was sent to the Americans, whose activity has caused reasonable suspicion of the authorities. Two of them were from customs and border protection service (Customs and Border Protection) without the consent of the authorities of the country tried to “check” the work of the Nicaraguan customs. They have also taken steps to obtain information on the supply of military equipment from Russia, including the chronogram of receipt of T-72 tanks. The U.S. Embassy in Managua protested about the expulsion and explained the interest of their “auditors” to the performance objects the objectives of the fight against international terrorism. From the country were also deported Evan Ellis (Evan Ellis), Professor of the Military College of the Ministry of defense of the United States, arrived in Nicaragua at the same time with “auditors” and settled in the same hotel Hilton Princess. If judged by publications, academic productivity Ellis is extremely high. He specializiruetsya on the problems of the Chinese and Russian penetration in Latin America and the Caribbean, usually resorting to the confrontational terminology of the cold war.
In Nicaragua, Ellis is interested in inter-oceanic canal, which is being built in this country. According to the Professor, he was preparing his visit to Managua in private and pre-discussed the program with the Nicaraguan Ambassador to the United States, the President of the Directorate of the inter-oceanic canal Manuel Coroneles Gautam, a number of other responsible Nicaraguan officials. Planned meetings to gather information on the channel with the functionaries of the government, businessmen, diplomats, journalists, activists of social movements.
However, the Professor was able to stay in Nicaragua for more than a day. Where “pierced”: I talked with the agent of the Sandinista counterintelligence, opened their hostile plans. In the end, to the expulsion Ellis managed to visit just for the photo exhibition organized by the National Council for the defence of the land, lake and sovereignty, a non – governmental organization which opposes the construction of the canal. That evening in the room to Ellis came to the immigration officers and stated that he has no official permission to conduct the investigation in respect of an inter-oceanic canal and therefore must immediately leave the country. Closest flight American sent to the United States.
After the expulsion Ellis could not restrain himself and spoke out on the Internet. All of his accusations coincide with the position of Washington, which is hostile to the construction of the Nicaraguan canal, a likely rival the Panama canal, under the informal control of the United States. First of all, Ellis questioned the feasibility of the project and States that”the Nicaraguan government manages the project of a canal under cover of secrecy; perhaps to cover the personal gain of those who engage in it with the Nicaraguan side.”
For Ellis, the expulsion of U.S. diplomats is evidence that the strategy “respectful and constructive compromise with the Nicaraguan regime is not working.” Therefore, the US administration ahead of the November elections in Nicaragua,”has the right and moral obligation to engage with civil society groups to move towards a meaningful democracy.”The failure of observers of the US administration and Carter Center to monitor elections in Nicaragua is to Ellis’s “restriction of democracy”. So now, he calls, the United States should intervene to Nicaragua finally slipped into an authoritarian regime, “similar to Venezuelan”. Speaking about the possibility of “criminal behavior” of the Nicaraguan authorities, Ellis points to the necessity of permanent monitoring of the power structures of the USA.Sound in his publications and menacing tone: “Those associated with transnational organized crime or enriched at the expense of the Nicaraguan people will not escape justice, will not be able to use their criminal proceeds, when will leave their posts”.
Offer Ellis on monitoring is not accidental: the Sandinista leadership – the constant negative stimulus for the Obama administration. On the intensive surveillance of US intelligence Daniel Ortega is well known. But he, in his time, Hugo Chavez, takes it calmly, because secret foreign Bank accounts has not, like the tendency to kleptocracy. Another motive for the attack on the Ortega regime” – the military-technical cooperation between Nicaragua and Russia. Here Ellis also urges not to reduce the degree of vigilance. For example, “Training center imeni Marshala Zhukova”: what is it actually used? Only for training of specialists for land forces? Or another example – supply in Nicaragua two and four missile patrol boats. Why so many? It’s the outbreak of the Russia unprecedented scale of the arms race in the waters of the Caribbean sea and the Pacific ocean! Concerned about Ellis and supplies to Nicaragua modernized tanks T-72B1. The first batch of 20 units, all Nicaraguan tankers before the end of the year will receive 50 armored vehicles. To the Sandinistas not to rattle the steel muscles with impunity, Ellis recommends more vigorous to work with neighbors Nicaragua, for example with Costa Rica. In this case, is referring to an American Professor, is not entirely clear. To provide a traditionally peaceful Costa Rica to creating a full-fledged regular army? Or to create on its territory a regular base Pentagon?
It is known that in December last year of work on the Interoceanic canal in Nicaragua has been postponed until August this year. The reason that caused the delay were financial difficulties for the main contractor – Hong Kong consortium НКNicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ellis notes that since the establishment of the first infrastructure project is not too advanced: was built two deep-water ports, warehouses, factories of building materials, the completion of which was scheduled for April 2016. Moreover, increasingly active environmental NGOs, encouraged by the Americans and spur the protests of the peasants, who suddenly preoccupied by the deforestation along the lake Nicaragua, of the rivers Brito and Las Lajas.
With the assistance of such experts as Ellis,Pro-American media told the Nicaraguans that the channel is a “propaganda of the Sandinistas” and that the complexity of its construction are formidable. For this reason, in the mass media of the USA and the Americans controlled the media in Latin America pays special attention to the lighting operation of the modernized Panama canal. The leitmotif is obvious: in the Western hemisphere can do without alternative channels, because Panama is able to solve almost all problems of the Asia-American trade, until the passage of ships with a capacity of 14 thousand containers. Appeared the corresponding picture: a Chinese container ship Cosco Shipping Panama has successfully passed through the new locks of the Panama canal.
Ahead of the elections in Nicaragua Washington doing everything it can to undermine the positions of Daniel Ortega, who once again nominated for the presidency by the party, “the Sandinista national liberation front”. This explains the sending to the country a different kind of emissaries and experts. The fifth column in Nicaragua is in isolation and needs the support. Often used to support citizens of Latin American countries. So, Viridiana Rios Viridiana Rios), a Mexican employee of the Center name of Wilson in Washington, after the expulsion of Americans in panic fled Nicaragua because she had thought that she was being watched. According to her, she was collecting information on public safety. Some of its developments are used the CIA, the DEA and the FBI. So the reason for panic and flight, she still was. Suspicious events unfold and the group of Latin American students-environmentalists who were detained in the South of Nicaragua. Apparently, these “environmentalists” taught the Indians the blasting.
The expulsion of foreign provocateurs shows that the Sandinistas will not allow destabilization in the country. Hence the hysterical campaign in the international media about the “Ortega dictatorship”.
Socio-economic progress of Nicaragua, improving the lives of Nicaraguans, stability and security (in comparison with the increase in crime in most Central American countries) is largely due to President Ortega. He consistently defends the interests of Nicaragua in the international arena and enjoys the support of the majority of Nicaraguans. Therefore, the disruptive technology of US intelligence and the “strategy of chaos” in Nicaragua do not work.
http://www.prometej.info/blog/pylayushij-kontinent/nikaraguanskij-kanal-russkie-tanki-i-shpiony-usa/ – zinc
As with Cuba or Venezuela, with Nicaragua, the United States will not be simple, especially that apart from subversive activities against leftist Latin American regimes, there is the problem of the struggle for the restriction of military-technical cooperation of these countries with Russia and the economic influence of China. However, if there are Americans have certain difficulties, for example in Brazil and Argentina they have already achieved substantial success in supporting the reversal of these countries to the right that undermined the processes of palevene South America, which stretched from the late 90s.
