Wampum

Nicaragua is seeking safe passage for Alberto Pizango out of Peru, and Alan Garcia's regime is seeking to arrest him as cover for the consequences of Garcia's issuing a movement order for some 450 police to engage and seize by lethal force a defensible position from several thousand Indians, which resulted in a symmetric rather than asymmetric fatal casualty outcome.

If the Russians were still in business Obama would play the role of every president since Eisenhower and support the pro-democratic government of ... eventually Roberto D'Aubuisson's Escuadróns de la Muerte, and the Indians would either die in windrows as scripted or trade in spears for AK-47s.

Modernly, absent the Soviets and their proxies in Havana, the Obama administration has the opportunity to chose differently, to (a) find the Indian, not the hydrocarbons, and (b) hit the biodiversity lamp post head on and react in the Western Amazon, as the overwhelming American electorate has with ANWR, and find more species of everything, snakes to psychotropic spores, than exist in the rest of the Americas combined, not the sodding goddam fossil hydrocarbons.