Members and supporters of the Belgian LaRouche movement Agora Erasmus, who were close to the events in Brussels when they happened Tuesday, are reportedly safe. Agora Erasmus released the following statement following yesterday’s terrorist attacks:

Today Brussels is in tears. At this tragic juncture, our thoughts and heart goes to the victims, their families and friends. Our affection and support goes to the first aid workers, the police forces, the security services, the authorities of the government and to all those simple citizens who kept calm and showed solidarity in this horrible hardship.

However, we cannot but call on the Belgian government to draw the lessons of these attacks, and uproot immediately both the known networks as well as the godfathers of this barbarism:

– First of all, the decades long, evil role of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, in spreading the Wahhabite and Salafist ideologies and the financing of terrorist organizations, on which the Belgian, as well as the US, the British as well as the French government, have closed eyes and even beyond, to which some… have offered honorific distinctions…

– Then, there is the complicity with Daesh of Turkey, a member state of NATO whose headquarters are 8 km from the attacks. While Erdogan and his family buys Daesch’s oil and provides them with weapons and equipments, the EU submits itself to Turkeys wishes by exchanging refugees and offering him billions of Euros.

– Finally, there is the financing of terrorism, which would be impossible without the banking facilities of the fiscal safe heavens offered by the City of London and Wall Street, as documented in a US Senate report in the case of British bank HSBC. In Belgium, an investigative parliamentary commission on the financing sources of terrorism, if allowed to do their job, would quickly arrive at the conclusion that an orderly banking reorganization, through a banking separation law based on the Glass-Steagall Act, would be an excellent weapon in the war on terrorism.

Besides those three concrete measures, we need a shift in our overall political orientation. Because the monsters that hit us today are the same monsters that western leaders have created and promoted yesterday in their cynical game of geopolitical domination against Russia and China. As a matter of fact, NATO’s secret wars created, not only the breeding ground for the evil terrorism, but also the chaos of the refugee crisis. So the policies that were promoted by our leaders yesterday, willfully or by our submission, are now backfiring as a boomerang and hitting us with full force in the face.

Instead of looking endlessly for confrontation and geopolitical domination, Belgium, as well as other member states of NATO and the EU have everything to win from detente, entente and cooperation with Putin’s Russia, who happens to be the only head of State sticking to principles, and really committed to ending Daesh.

Let’s also deepened our cooperation with China, with whom Belgium is celebrating 45 years of very good relations, and is working for mutual development with its New Silk Road vision. Only economic development shall create better living conditions and cultural exchanges between peoples that will allow us, for real, to eliminate the threat that hit Brussels today.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa hit the nail on the head when he charged last Friday that the “regime change” operations being unleashed against “progressive” governments of South America are a new “Plan Condor,” this time using “submissive judges” and corrupt press.

Correa was referring to the “regime change,” or “color revolution” operations, that have been unleashed against the South American governments allied with the BRICS grouping in forging a new, development-centered world order. In the 1970’s, George Shultz’s and Henry Kissinger’s “Operation Condor,” like Obama’s replay in Victoria Nuland’s 2014 “Maidan” coup in Ukraine, used Nazi networks which survived the Allied victory against Hitler under the protection of the MI-6 and the Dulles brothers’ CIA, to install military dictatorships which imposed Schachtian (that is, Nazi) economic policies across South America, starting with Pinochet’s bloody dictatorship in Chile.

“They no longer need military dictatorships; they need submissive judges, a corrupt press, and the judicialization of politics,” Correa said in a March 18 local press conference. As Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron has said, “this new Condor Plan does not seek to disappear people, but the truth.”

Pointing to the “very serious” operation against Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and former President Lula da Silva, and what is being done against Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the current governments of Bolivia and Venezuela, and his own government, Correa charged that they are seeking “not only the return of neoliberalism, not only to crush humans … but are seeking revenge against those progressive leaders who dared to challenge the power of those elites and the hegemonic power of those countries that have always crushed us,” Correa said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff spoke similarly Tuesday, in a three-hour meeting at the presidential offices with hundreds of lawyers and judges who have formed the group, “Jurists for Legality and In Defense of Democracy,” against the Constitutional violations being carried out by the “Clean Hands” judges operation ripping the country apart. The impeachment against me is being run as if Brazil were a parliamentary system, in which political suspicion against a president is a sufficient condition to bring down a president; but we are a presidential system, Rousseff said, in which a president can only be impeached for crimes committed and duly proven. To condemn someone for a crime he or she did not commit is a “brutal injustice… I was already a victim of that before, during the dictatorship, and I will fight so as to not be a victim again, in full democracy. What is in progress, is a coup d’etat against democracy. I will never resign. Those who ask for my resignation … are trying to hide precisely this coup against democracy.”

For more on Plan Condor, see EIR‘s 2005 article, “Nazis, Operation Condor, and Bush’s Privatization Plan”