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“Eva Zetterberg and her colleagues have set to work completely
unreservedly, helping
grease and shift the gears of the psychological warfare
machinery assembled over
decades by the CIA and the Latin American right wing”,
write Jorge Capelan.
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By Jorge Capelán, January
24th, 2013
Sent by Tortilla&Sal, Friday 25/01/2013
The governments of the United States and Sweden
are conniving directly with an extreme-right wing network in Latin America in a
move to sabotage the summit meeting in Santiago de Chile of Heads of State from
the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean
States (CELAC). To do so they are working with the CIA and the most reactionary
elements of the anti-Cuban mafia in Miami.
This week the Chilean Crónica Digital news outlet reported that the
Swedish embassy in Santiago and the extreme-right wing Centre for Openness and
Development in Latin America (CADAL), an Argentine think tank, with the help,
needless to say, of the US embassy, prepared for January 24th , two days before
the summit begins, an event called “Promoting International Democratic
Solidarity” with the main objective of attacking the Cuban Revolution and
Cuba's President Raul Castro.
The fundamental objectives of this event seem to be to create a problem
for Chilean President Sebastian Piñera while trying to skew the summit climate
away from any serious discussion between a European Union beset by very serious
crises of all kinds and a Latin America more
and more united and independent.
The active participation in this move of Sweden,
a country increasingly regarded as a slavish follower of the United States, probably seeks to
put pressure on those members of the European Union more readily open to taking
the summit seriously. However, the latest condemnation in Venezuela of
plans to assassinate Vice-President Nicolás Maduro and the President of
Venezuela's National Assembly Diosdado Cabello indicate that even more sinister
motives may lie behind the organization of the CADAL event.
According to the report in Crónica Digital, the organizers of CADAL's
meeting of continental reactionaries are
- Lawrence Corwin, regarded by the Cuban authorities as a US CIA official who was stationed in Cuba
between 1998 and 2001;
- The Swedish diplomat Anders Ingemar Cederberg, who dedicated himself full time during his period in
Havana to interfering in Cuba's affairs
to the point that the Cuban authorities made formal protests to the Swedish
government;
- Mijail Bonito Lovio, Secretary for International Relations of a body called Independent and
Democratic Cuba (CID);
- CADAL's Program Coordinator, Micaela Hierro Dori;
- And, finally, 18 politicians of the extreme-right
wing American Parliamentary Democratic Alliance (APDA).
CADAL is an extreme-right wing network, based in Buenos Aires,
from where it works to carry out an intensive program of propaganda and political
pressure against the countries of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, led by Cuba
and Venezuela.
Formed on February 27th 2003
in Buenos Aires,
CADAL has counted among its members very well known personalities and
ideologues of the Latin American right wing with roots in the fascist
dictatorships that submerged the Southern Cone in desolation during the 1970s. One
notes the presence, for example, of Danilo Arbilla, former Press Secretary of
the Uruguayan dictatorship (and also ex President of the Inter-American Press
Society); Hugo Martini, former editor of the Carta Política magazine, the
ideological organ of the Argentine dictatorship and also of General Pinochet's
former Labour Minister José Piñera, whose brother Sebastián is today the Chilean
President.
One might add to that list many other names that would make this article
far too long to read, but it is worth mentioning too the mastermind of the plan
to provoke the ethnic break-up of Bolivia, Mark Falcoff, a member of
the US Council for Foreign Relations who has served as an expert adviser in
seminars organized by CADAL. A couple of other names also should not go
unmentioned, the Venezuelan right wing ex-presidential candidate José Manuel
Rosales, his Bolivian soul-mate Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga and the reliable Swiss
army knife of right-wing provocateurs in Latin America, the Cuban Carlos
Alberto Montaner.
CADAL has relations with all the most recalcitrant right wing extremist
organizations in Latin America but of special interest have been its contacts
with the Directorio Democrático Cubano and individuals like Orlando
Gutiérrez-Boronat, and the ex-head of the US immigration service Emilio
Gutiérrez, a tireless protector of super-terrorist Luis Posada-Carriles.
OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST IS THIS NETWORK'S relationship with
Sweden.
In February 2011, CADAL awarded Swedish diplomat ANDERS INGEMAR CEDERBERG the Prize for Committed Democracy for
services rendered in Cuba.
In April of that same year, CADAL brought him to Argentina
to make a private report of his destabilization activities while representing Sweden in Havana.
CADAL published a book based on that exchange, funded by the Konrad Adenauer
Foundation in which Cederberg relates with complete lack of inhibition his “heroic”
exploits as a spy with diplomatic immunity in Cuba.
However, the love affair between CADAL and Sweden dates back much
further than Cederberg, since one of CADAL's first funders was the think tank
of the Swedish employers' organization Timbro. Furthermore, Swedish right wing
activist, former Chilean Mauricio Rojas has been one of the most loyal advisers
to CADAL over the years from his position on the organization's “Scientific
Council”.
Despite the reputation of Olof Palme, the kingdom
of Sweden has a very poor image in Nicaragua thanks to the notorious behaviour of Sweden's last ambassador there, Eva Zetterberg,
now Sweden's representative
in Chile.
From supposedly progressive concerns, EVA
ZETTERBERG routinely intervened in the country's political affairs as if she
were simply one more politician of the centre-right opposition Sandinista
Renewal Movement. An idea of her unreconstructed colonial attitudes, which she
shares with many of her European Union colleagues, can be gleaned from a remark
that she made once in an interview with Tortilla con Sal prior to the 2006
Presidential elections.
She remarked that, in her opinion, the IMF and the World Bank have to
intervene in Nicaragua
because Nicaraguans are incapable of managing their own affairs. For years,
this inexorable drift in Eva Zetterberg's ideological career has been very
clear. After Managua, it took just four months
for her to be assigned to the attractive post of Sweden's ambassador to Santiago de
Chile.
Now, Eva Zetterberg and her colleagues have set to
work completely unreservedly, helping grease and shift the gears of the
psychological warfare machinery assembled over decades by the CIA and the Latin
American right wing. Zetterberg has had a disappointingly predictable career.
From being an ardent supporter of armed struggle in the 1970s, she lapsed into
eurocommunism in the 1980s, advocated non-governmental activity in the 1990s
and now languishes in the fetid ponds of the corrupt, global right wing.
CADAL's attempt in Santiago
to sabotage the EU-CELAC summit will flop. With the peoples of Latin America
now wide awake, the relentless historical flow that has broken open Cuba's
isolation is far too strong to be stopped. To the frustration and dismay of the
US and Swedish governments
and their right wing regional allies, those currents are carrying Latin America towards its definitive independence.
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