Peru - Following the increase in clashes between national security forces and the group Peruvian terrorist "Sendero luminoso", the US government has declared that it will send in Latin American country up to 3200 soldiers destined to improve operations in collaboration with the Peruvian Navy to defeat the aforementioned rebels and drug traffickers.

The operation has received approval from the United States Congress, the 3200 American marines will be in Peru, for short or long periods during the coming year. Their purpose, according to a source official Peruvian military, is educational. In fact, the first contingent of 58 American soldiers are arrived last 1 February and will remain for a year of work in five districts. Two weeks more Later, 67 marines arrived for a six week stay. The 1 ° September of the ca, 3200 soldiers would disembark in the area, from the amphibious assault ship "America". The ship has already, visited the Latin American country in September 2014, year in which Peru has rediscovered its ancient status of the world's first producer of coca. However, clear is the signal that the presence of troops in the territory in force to strengthen the role of the same as anti-insurgency and against the war on terrorism.

Local analysts have seen, in this arrival of American troops as "a real army of occupation". For many years American soldiers have been able to settle across the region to offer medical, dental, technical and / or engineering assistance. In the 2012, military teams throughout the South American area have provided medical services for more than six weeks. Soldiers have witnessed Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, Chile.

According to a November report, 2013, for example, the government of Paraguay would have followed along with the American defense, a project that was in response to the growing presence of the Leninist Marxist guerrillas known as the "Army of Paraguay". A local newspaper revealed that, "the initiative to set up a military base was proposed by the United States." Paraguayan soldiers allegedly would work in tandem with their US counterparts nearby.

It is worth mentioning a recent report by a local analyst, according to which the interest of the United States in the North of Paraguay derives from the strategic importance of the underlying Guaranì aquifer, the largest in the world, (more The water war and the SAG in South America) with its abundant natural resources, optimal point from which spying on neighboring Brazil and Argentina, and whose resistance in the area is increasingly strong for the monopoly of soy production.

Ultimately, the American presence in the area becomes more and more wide, arouses much curiosity, for example, the fate of the next lessons in Venezuela at the end of the year, where already in February this year, the "Humanitarian" support of American power he made his voice heard, but he contradicted himself economically, imposing sanctions on the same country. An increasingly "American" presence was written, certainly, with ever deeper roots, the military roots of its democracy.

Maria Grazia Labellarte

(photo: US Navy)