Steve Lalla On April 9, 1948, Colombian Liberal politician, movement leader, and social activist Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala was murdered in the capital city of Bogotá. His killing changed the country’s history forever. During the 1940s the charismatic orator and lawyer had steered the Liberal party towards socialism. Gaitán was leading the presidential race at…
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Venezuela Has a Strategy: Bolivarian Shield
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Civilians practice combat tactics for the defense of their homeland, Feb. 15, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @Bauxilum_CVG Throughout history (at least since the end of World War II) the interventionist imprint of the United States has had the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as the main actor. The entire conspiratorial framework that led…
Violence and Humanitarian Crisis Intensify in Colombia
Peoples Dispatch The situation of violence in Colombia has led to the force displacements of around 15,000 people in different parts of the country. Photo: CONPAZCOL/Twitter According to the INDEPAZ, as of April 6, 43 social leaders and 14 ex-combatants of FARC have been assassinated by illegal armed groups. 91 people have been killed in…
Still Unsolved: the Great Crime that Triggered the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Jeremy Kuzmarov Remains of plane carrying Rwanda’s President Juvénal Habyarimana whose death triggered the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. [Source: bbc.com] After 27 years, strong evidence implicates Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame and the CIA in the downing of Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana’s airplane. Just after 8 p.m. on the night of April 6, 1994, two surface-to-air…
Ecuador: Lenin Moreno and the CIA against Andres Arauz
Katu Arkonada The second round of the Ecuadorian election between the candidate of the pro-Correa citizen revolution Arauz and the banker Lasso is approaching, and things are accelerating in the axis formed by Lenin Moreno and the United States, with its intelligence services at the forefront. Recently, a secret meeting took place in the Galapagos…
US Military Bases, Training, and New Threats
Pablo Ruiz In Latin America and the Caribbean, the army, the DEA, the CIA, and other U.S. agencies, have innumerable bases of operations, facilities, offices, as military agreements that allow them to operate at any time in our territories. In the past, they claimed that their objective was to combat communism, subversion, revolution, which challenged…
“The Western Firewall is Complete”: The CIA’s Vast Modern Anti-Communist Propaganda Effort
Rainer Shea With Covid-19, the coming of the 2020s “Greater Depression,” and the climate catastrophe that’s increasingly afflicting our society with disasters like last month’s Texas blackouts, class conflict in the United States has reached the highly intensified state that it was destined to reach when neoliberalism first became implemented. You can’t drive down the…
Haiti: The United Nations and the US-Backed Regime of Terror
Pierre Michel Chéry On Friday, March 5, 2021, Joseph Lissner Mathieu was extradited to the United States, arrested by DEA and FBI agents. The police spokesman preferred to use the word “transfer” as if that would make a difference in a country where law and justice no longer exist. The news caused a sensation in…
Black Lives Matter Canada Stands in Solidarity with Deposed Tigrayan Puppets for US Imperialism
Ann Garrison #R2P Propaganda for US War in Tigray Reaches Young Anarchists and Black Lives Matter Not just white phony “leftists,” but Black Lives Matter activists have been conned into mouthing vicious CIA and State Department propaganda against Ethiopia and Eritrea. “The propaganda used to lure First World leftists to imperialism against the Third World…
U.S. Government Turns Somalia Into Failed State to Steal Its Oil for Shell and Exxon-Mobil
Nick Alexandrov U.S. Special Forces soldier trains Somali operative. [Source: geeskaafrika.com] United States foreign policy in Somalia has always sided with the wrong side.” That’s how Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, a young Somali historian studying for his doctorate at Oxford, summarized Washington’s legacy there in an interview with CovertAction Magazine. Instead of promoting what it claims…
The Bolivian Coup: Neither Forgiveness, Nor Forgetting, Nor Reconciliation
Revista Crisis On March 12, former Bolivian dictator Jeanine Áñez was arrested at her home in Trinidad. The arrest was in response to a judicial process initiated by the Attorney General’s Office for her role in the most recent episode of democratic rupture in the region. In addition to the massacres that followed the coup…
Dictatorship & Mass Extermination Are the Endgames of Neoliberalism
Rainer Shea The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will…