not just Mubarak
Joshua Holland AlterNet
Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens
El controvertido presidente egipcio Hosni Mubarak, cuyo régimen ha recibido miles de millones de dólares de ayuda estadounidense, está últimamente en el centro de la atención mediática global. Hace tiempo que es “nuestro hijo de puta”, pero no es el único.Echemos un vistazo a los demás dictadors del planeta que son lo bastante afortunados para gozar del beneplácito del Tío Sam.
1.Paul Biya, Camerún
Biya ha gobernado Camerún desde que ganó una “elección” en 1983. Fue el único candidato y le fue bastante bien: obtuvo un 99% de los votos.
Según el artículo de Wikipedia sobre el país: “EE.UU. y Camérun trabajan juntos en las Naciones Unidas y en otras organizaciones multilaterales. Cuando estuvo en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU en 2002, Camerún colaboró estrechamente con EE.UU. en una serie de iniciativas. El gobierno de EE.UU. sigue suministrando un financiamiento sustancial para organizaciones financieras internacionales, como el Banco Mundial, el FMI, y el Banco de Desarrollo Africano que proveen ayuda financiera y otras a Camerún”.
Amnistía Internacionales detalla ejecuciones ilegales, periodistas encarcelados y muchás otras actividades repugnantes.
Como parte de una estrategia para asfixiar a la oposición, las autoridades perpetraron o condonaron violaciones a los derechos humanos, incluidos arrestos arbitrarios, detenciones ilegales y restricciones de los derechos de libertad de expresión, asociación y reunión. Defensores de los derechos humanos y periodistas fueron acosados y amenazados. Hombres y mujeres fueron detenidos por su orientación sexual.
2.Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov (o Berdymukhamedov), Turkmenistán.
Berdymuhammedov llegó al poder en 2006 cuando murió su predecesor y el sucesor constitucional fue encarcelado.
Según el Departamento de Estado: “Durante varios años en los noventa, Turkmenistán fue un protagonista clave en la Iniciativa Energética de la Cuenca del Caspio de EE.UU., que trataba to facilitate negotiations between commercial partners and the governments of Turkmenistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey to build a pipeline under the Caspian and Turkmen gas export to Turkey's energy market and beyond-the so-called Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (TGGP) - " Parade Magazine's list of worst dictators in the world found that "U.S. Turkmenistan continues to import oil (worth $ 100 million in 2008), while Boeing delivered Turkmen government aircraft. Chevron ... opened an office in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. "
Human Rights Watch says that although Berdymuhammedov has taken steps "to reverse some of the ruinous social policies "of his predecessor," the government remains one of the most repressive and authoritarian in the world. "
3.Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea.
Thirty-two years, Obiang Nguema ousted, and then executed, his uncle, Francisco Macias, in a bloody coup. Peter Maas called it not only "the worst dictator in Africa", but "a man whose life seems a parody of the genre dictatorial." Obiang
... promised more benevolence and kindness than its predecessor, but in the nineties, including the U.S. ambassador in Equatorial Guinea received a threat death of a person trusted by the regime and had to be evacuated. Shortly after oil was discovered offshore and the first wave of revenue-some 700 million dollars were transferred to secret accounts under Obiang's personal control.
According to Parade: "America imported more than 3,000 billion in Equatorial Guinea oil products in 2008.
4.Idriss Deby, Chad
That year also imported oil worth U.S. $ 3,000 million for Chad. According to the Department of State: "U.S. Mantine cordial relations with the Deby government. Chad has proved a valuable partner in the global war terror and to provide shelter to some 200,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur crisis along its eastern border. "
The 2010 report Amnesty International has an impressive picture Chad: Civil
and humanitarian workers were killed and kidnapped ; women and girls were victims of rape and other violence, used children as soldiers. The authorities failed to take adequate measures to protect civilians from attacks by bandits and armed groups. Suspected political opponents were illegally arrested, arbitrarily detained and tortured or otherwise mistreated. Continued harassment and intimidation of journalists and human rights human. The demolition of houses and other structures continued throughout 2009, leaving thousands of homeless people.
Although Chad's military have been accused of using child soldiers, Parade notes that "U.S. Chad continues to train commands. "
5.Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan
Karimov What makes it so special is his (alleged) love for boiling his political opponents until they die.
Karimov of Uzbekistan has been president since 1990, when he won by a huge margin in the first of a series of fraudulent elections. Torture, arbitrary detentions and mass arrests of religious minorities is common in Uzbekistan, según Human Rights Watch. Pero el país ha sido un socio crucial de EE.UU. en su “guerra contra el terror”, albergando tropas de EE.UU. en la base aérea Karshi-Khanabad hasta 2005. Las relaciones se enfriaron un poco después que Karimov alentó a EE.UU. a abandonar la base, pero como señala Parade: “El comercio con Uzbekistán se duplicó en 2008, ya que los estadounidenses siguen importando inmensas cantidades de uranio uzbeko, utilizado para centrales y armas nucleares”. Al año siguiente “Uzbekistan Airways compró aviones jet de Boeing porvalor de 600 millones de dólares”.
6.Meles Zenawi, Etiopía
Zenawi ha gobernado Etiopía durante 20 years. Only last year, after what Human Rights Watch called "months of intimidation of opposition party supporters," the party of Zenaqi, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, won 99.6% of the vote. Legitimacy!
Ethiopia is a key strategic partner in the "war on terror", and contributes significantly to African operations of peacekeeping. According to the Agency for International Development USA, USA has been the largest donor to Ethiopia. Congress passed a law, despite the objections of the Bush administration, which restricts military aid to Colombia until it has a free press Zenawi regime and improve its human rights data, but, and is a very important, but excludes support for "counterterrorism." Therefore, despite the fact that, according to Amnesty International, Ethiopian opposition groups are illegal, NGOs have been banned and Ethiopians often disappear without trial, USA continues to train Ethiopian troops.
7.Rey Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz, Saudi Arabia.
Apparently, when an Islamic theocratic state committed horrible crimes against its citizens, it is only important if this state is called Iran. Saudi Arabia, of course, is one of the major U.S. allies The government U.S. has provided security for the Saudi royal family for decades, in exchange for oil ....
Abdullah has instituted some reforms since coming to power in 2005, but Human Rights Watch says that "the initiatives have been largely symbolic, only small improvements or specific institutional protection for the rights." The Amnesty International report of 2010 accused the Saudi authorities continued use of "a wide range of repressive measures to eliminate freedom of expression and other legitimate activities."
Hundreds of people have been arrested as suspected terrorists. Thousands more were arrested in the name of security in years earlier still in jail, including prisoners of conscience. Some 330 security suspects received unfair trials before a new tribunal specialized and exclusive, one was sentenced to death and 323 were sentenced to prison.
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