The Fleet is approaching! (a tongue-in-the-cheek account)

It’s the fleet! They’re navigating towards Latinamerica again! Up there in the White House they say the purpose of the mission is humanitarian. Oh.

Does that mean the navigators will not be interested in gathering information on the estimated 33 billion barrels of petroleum waiting off Brazil’s shores to be exploited?

Does that mean the Pentagon’s ulta-tech detection and spying devices will not take note of the situation in the deforestation of the Amazons by local and multinational lumber companies, or spy on guerrilla communications in Colombia, or intervene the cryptic messages of drug dealers or try to get an insight into the struggle in Bolivia between the government and provincial leaders demanding autonomy...or take note of that waged by the agricultural businesses in Argentina against export taxes? 

This fleet, to tell the truth, is a bit more advanced in technology than that of Christofer Colombus! Tehnology has certainly accompanied the corporate dream of globalization. Yet there remains a certain lingering similarity between the concept of "preventive wars," embraced by Washington, and the more explicit term for the Spanish "Conquest."