Surprise, surprise! USA is building another military base (Telesur article) from February!
We can’t afford this. We need to close bases and bring troops home.
Argentina’s Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich announced in Washington that the Mauricio Macri administration is going to allow the U.S. to build a military base in Posadas, Misiones, bordering Brazil and Paraguay.
Of course, the people who made this decision to invite USA in don't want it set up in the middle of their cities, they want to steal indigenous land. USA has a lot of practice at stealing indigenous land.
I'm wishing best of luck and power to the communities fighting to prevent this.
There’s a new Telesur video article on facebook, This short report includes a statement from a Mapuche, (transcription of translated subtitles):
“We demand as an Indigenous community to not allow a military yankee base in our territory. We’re people who have been living here historically.”
All the jobs and resources in “our” bloated “Defense” Department would be better used locally to rebuild our social services and infrastructure.