Assange talks about new WikiLeaks

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Assange talks about new WikiLeaks


"Hugo Chavez has been really impressive things," says Assange on Venezuelan president

An English policeman waiting night and day at the door of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. You are holding a gun, handcuffs and arrest warrant on behalf of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks , asylum in the embassy after being accused of sex crimes in Sweden. But that physical isolation, he has not moved away from its natural environment, the networking world, through which he has led the biggest leak of secret documents in history, particularly affecting the U.S..

"Persecution Pentagon may create practical difficulties, we can hurt WikiLeaks or me, but have not achieved its purpose of stopping the leaks" Assange said proudly.

From the computer that runs in the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​its tentacles covering the world in search of secrets.

For this year, along with the rest of the team WikiLeaks promises to publish more than a million new classified documents. Yesterday appeared 700,000 emails private intelligence agency Stratfor on Latin America. A quick search shows that 17,321 of the emails contain the name of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez . (In February 2012, WikiLeaks also revealed emails from Stratfor, see note at right).

The confrontation with the powerful has been a constant for WikiLeaks and its creator. attacks were increasing in intensity, says Assange.

"It started with a couple of fights, say less, with the base commander at Guantanamo . We sued a Swiss bank. One of my friends cryptographers was ambushed by intelligence agents in a parking lot in Luxembourg. tried to get information on WikiLeaks ".

A cryptographer? If you are not used to the jargon internautical, Julian Assange's story is full of characters and objects that seem straight out of a science fiction novel: cryptographers with vital secrets; scientists eccentric inventions that can destroy cyberspace if they fall into the hands wrong; small torrent files floating in an abstract space, capable even topple governments. But all are real. As real as the CIA seeking to stop WikiLeaks.

Mendax, the hacker. Today , Assange is the most famous dissident and persecuted in the Western world . With her ​​organization, WikiLeaks, has given the world access to more documents, not known, published in history. Documents have revealed the darkest secrets of organizations, private companies and especially the number one military superpower, USA.

How did it get there?

"I do this because I believe in transparency as a way to make the world more just. Only by knowing the inner reality of governments, organizations and companies can know how really powerful power works. And so we can only be the right solutions for humanity to reach its potential, "says Assange.

Assange denies emphatically that got where it is today by the special conditions in which he learned the young. But the peculiarity of his upbringing is undeniable. He was born on July 3, 1971 in the city of Townsville, Australia. There he was raised by his mother. It is said that, before age 14, the child had moved 30 times. In these circumstances, Mendax was born, the pseudonym internáutico the young Assange, and become a master of "hacking".

Collateral Murder. In 2005, Assange left the university where he studied natural sciences and philosophy, untitled but with a decisive experience.

"I saw how college was funded by the U.S. government and the military industry. Participate in work for purposes of building military equipment for use by the U.S. in Iraq and by Israel to demolish Palestinian homes. Other scientific projects were intended to develop systems of massive spying on the Internet, "he says.

The hacker irreverent perspective was enriched with the encounter with geopolitics. The result is WikiLeaks, Assange founded in 2006 by a handful of allies and in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland.

"Collateral Murder video is now the flagship of the war in Iraq," Assange said, proud of what was the premiere of WikiLeaks on the world stage. Collateral Murder The piece shows two Apache helicopter gunships attacked a group of unarmed Iraqis with 30 mm armor-piercing ammunition.

Bookseller rebel. The video was just the beginning. "In 2010 we published three packages of secret documents," says Assange.

The day of the war in Afghanistan is U.S. Army documents that reveal the truth about the killing of Afghan civilians committed by the NATO forces. The Iraq War Logs is a similar package of documents on the war in Iraq. Cablegate, finally, is a collection of cables sent between the State Department in Washington and U.S. embassies in 274 countries, dating from 1966 to 2010.

"Wikileaks is a rebel Alexandria library," said Assange, paralleling the famous library located in Egypt, the largest classical antiquity. "Only in Cablegate have delivered greater geopolitical encyclopedia of how the world really works ever existed," he says.

Together, the three packages containing more than 700,000 documents. With its 251,276,536 words, Cablegate is the largest package of classified material published in the history of mankind.

The advance of Chavez. The cables sent by U.S. officials from Latin America show, above all, the growing desperation of U.S. officials on the progress of Venezuelan President alliances on the continent.

" Hugo Chavez has been really impressive things , "says Assange on who appears in thousands of U.S. documents sent from all over the planet.

In a diplomatic cable describes how convincing attempt, unsuccessfully, to Brazil's defense minister to distance himself from Venezuela. Another document explains how the U.S. did not dare to bomb in Colombia, for fear of "scandal that Chavez would form a continental level."

The persecution. In May 2010, the young soldier Bradley Manning is arrested for alleged collaboration with WikiLeaks. They light alarms in the group of Assange. But it's just the beginning.

"U.S. political leaders made open calls to assassinate me. They proposed to declare WikiLeaks a terrorist organization. The Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI created special groups to work against WikiLeaks and began to pressure other countries to legally persecute us, "stresses Assange.

But what do you do here at the embassy of a South American country, formerly known as the quintessential banana republic, without voice or independent will in international politics? The answer has two parts. Assange, who is wanted by Interpol for alleged rape in Sweden, of which there is no evidence yet, do not want to end up like Manning, imprisoned in the U.S. under the UN describes as "cruel and inhuman".

"In addition, the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, is really a special person . He is an economist graduated from the U.S., is a nationalist in the best sense of the word and is a social reformer "he says.

Defend Assange Correa can cost dearly. But Ecuador is not alone . When the British threatened to revoke the diplomatic immunity status of the embassy to arrest and deport Assange , the entire South American continent joined Correa and forced the British Government to a humiliating retreat .

Candidate. "My plan is to throw as a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Australia ", says Assange, citing surveys that give more than 25% support, more than enough to choose a seat in the Australian Parliament.

The Assange who takes leave after midnight, British time, after an interview of two hours, it looks like the character physically impaired and morally defeated that is painted in the British media.

Account, to end the conversation, which has a martial arts coach, veteran British intelligence and improves his technique every day in boxing. But the other side of the door is the same police officer, visibly more tired than when we entered, but with the same wife and the same order of arrest and deportation.

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