by Byrne » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:10 pm
Stick,<br><br>there is a good article <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.hermes-press.com/impintro1.htm" target="top">here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, which discusses the history of oil, from the early players to the later entwinement of oil financiers with South American Dug BigWigs.<br><br>A snippet is below:<br><!--EZCODE HR START--><hr /><!--EZCODE HR END--><br> In June, 1999, Colombia's president Andres Pastrana arranged for Richard Grasso, head of the New York Stock Exchange, to meet with Raúl Reyes, the head of FARC finances, in the cocaine-producing DMZ of Colombia. The two were caught in an infamous embrace that saw very little exposure in the media.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.hermes-press.com/grasso.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br> Grasso, however, wasn't the only American big-money representative to cozy up to Colombian drug terrorists. Several months after Grasso's visit, two wealthy members of the American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) captured world headlines by flying to a FARC redoubt in the Colombian jungles to palaver with the terrorists' founder, 70-year-old Manuel Marulanda. After meeting with the communist drug terrorist, James Kimsey, co-founder and chairman emeritus of America Online Inc., and Joseph Robert, head of J.E. Robert Company, a global real estate empire, flew to Bogota to consult with Colombian president Pastrana. On returning to Washington, the CFR representatives said they were convinced that Marulanda and FARC are sincere in their claims of wanting peace and economic reform.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.hermes-press.com/marulanda.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>