Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish operation
also: draining the sea
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subchapter is called Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish. It was part of the PSYOPs war against the FARC insurgency. The Colombian military had adopted a method used in America's war in Vietnam, which became known as draining the sea to kill …
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Similarly, in Colombia, this method had been applied to drive all of the rural FARC supporters out of their homes into the countryside in order to separate and isolate the FARC. In 2002, Uribe declared emergency powers, i.e., I'm going to b…
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led to further investigations by human rights groups and Montoya's eventual resignation in 2008. 2008 from 93? Really? The reason why he resigned became known as the false positive scandal, inflating body counts by shooting innocent civilia…
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to isolate the FARC from their rural support base as part of an official counterinsurgency strategy. This is an actual quote. The security forces acted under the premise that gained currency in El Salvador of draining the sea, which means t…
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The AUC may not be a proxy army of the United States, but it functions as a vanguard force of the counterinsurgency strategy in the Colombian countryside. Yeah, they may not be a proxy. They're just trained and funded by us. But how would t…