Atilio Boron: Judicial-Media Tyranny Strangles Latin America

Renowned Argentine sociologist and author Atilio Boron joins The Grayzone to discuss the legal assault on his country’s former president, Cristina Kirchner, the attempts to sabotage leaders from Brazil’s Lula da Silva to Peru’s Pedro Castillo, and the elite forces behind what he considers a continent-wide program akin to the notoriously bloody Cold War-era Plan…

Despite the Left’s Victories, Warning Signs of a Fascist Backlash Appear in Colombia & Beyond

Rainer Shea The decaying colonial regime in Colombia has reached a crisis. Its people, devastated by corporate destruction of their living standards and a corrupt narco regime which has exacted tremendous brutality upon them, has elected a leftist presidential candidate. Not one who represents a radical change, but one who at least represents a break…

El Salvador: War and Revolution

Hugo Turner Women and children mourn as a truck carrying the caskets of their family members arrives in Guadalupe, El Salvador, on May 9, 1983.Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images With Special thanks to J. Patrice McSherry One of the more horrifying chapters in the history of American imperialism took place in the tiny nation of El…

Guatemala: War and Revolution Part II

Hugo Turner Guatemala: War and Revolution Part I This painting by Diego Rivera, “Gloriosa Victoria,” tells the story of the 1954 overthrow of the democratically-elected Jacobo Arbenz government. Coup Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas greets secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who holds a bomb with the face of Eisenhower, surrounded by people who were murdered…

Mexican President AMLO Pleads with Biden to End Failed Trillion Dollar “War on Drugs”

Jeremy Kuzmarov In June 2021, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) told U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Mexico City that he wanted to end military cooperation in fighting drug trafficking and to instead promote economic development. “We don’t want military cooperation,” he said, “we don’t want it to be like it was before when they…

Bolivia: 50 Years Since Banzer Dictatorship and Operation Condor

Ex-military Commander Alvin Anaya, Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga and Hugo Banzer on August 6, 2001 in Sucre. Five decades ago today, Hugo Banzer’s seven-year military dictatorship was installed in Bolivia through the civic-military coup of August 21, 1971—with all the attributes and objectives of Bolivia’s 2019 coup. Among the parallels, was Banzer’s Vice President during his…

Operation Condor II: “The Right-Wing Coalitions in the Region Have Washington’s Backing”

Revista Zoom Revista zoom interviewed Stella Calloni, a specialist in international affairs who analyzed the current situation in the region. R.Z.–The region and the continent are going through a very particular moment. Specifically, we wanted to talk about Cuba, Bolivia and Haiti. We would like to talk about everything that is happening in these places,…

Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-Led Operation Condor

Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy Bolivia’s ex-President Evo Morales. | Photo: Twitter/ @evoespueblo Plan follows precedent of 1970s state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists. Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s and early ’80s in six South American U.S.-backed dictatorships—Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay—that resulted in the torture and “disappearance”…

Plan Condor II: South America’s Right-Wing and the US “United Behind Bolivian Coup”

Nathalia Urban According to the spokesman of the Bolivian government Jorge Richter, Brazil and Chile may have been involved in clashes between protesters and security forces that took place in the country following the resignation of Evo Morales in 2019. Richter said that possible international collaboration will now be investigated, without giving further details. Richter’s…

Argentina Military Aid For Bolivia Coup Greater Than Initially Thought

Kawsachun NewsInvestigations carried out by Argentina’s Security Ministry have revealed that the military aid sent from Mauricio Macri’s government to the Añez regime was much larger than what had been published by Bolivia’s Foreign Ministry. The neoliberal Macri government sent 40,000 bullets to the Añez dictatorship in the first days of the coup, just days…

Italy Confirms Life Sentences For ‘Plan Cóndor’ Coup Officials

Kawsachun News The Supreme Court of Italy has today confirmed the life sentences of 14 people involved in Plan Cóndor, the operation in which the United States-backed dictatorships of South America coordinated across borders to brutally repress leftist opposition in the 1970s and 1980s, committing crimes against humanity. The sentence falls on 14 soldiers and…

NGOs and the New Plan Condor for Latin America

Manuel Zelaya Article of reflection and denunciation by the former President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, distributed in his capacity as President of the Peoples’ Anti-imperialist International. Beginning in the 1980s, with the advent of the neoliberal model of exploitation, organizations began to appear that in theory were to fill a vacuum that naturally arose between…

Peru’s Pedro Castillo Represents a Challenge to the Canadian Mining Industry

Owen Schalk Peru’s socialist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo, the favourite to win the runoff vote on June 6, will serve as a challenge to the Canadian mineral industry in Latin America. Photo from Twitter. Presidential front-runner is taking aim at the extractive sector, wants a bigger share of company profits to benefit Peruvians The June…

Operation Condor 2.0: Behind Aznar’s Award to Guaidó and the Atlas Network

Karen Méndez Loffredo Interview with Julián Macías Tovar, researcher and editor of Pandemia Digital. Former President José María Aznar presented the 10th FAES Freedom Award to former Venezuelan MP Juan Guaidó. The event was also attended by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida and the…

Origin and Current Status of Operation Condor

Fabián Escalante Font The National Security Doctrine of the United States, sustained and fed by the Monroe doctrine and other fascist concepts (Kissinger) were the fathers of Operation Condor, whose name, according to the Cuban-born terrorist Antonio Veciana, comes from the plot -so called by the CIA- to assassinate Fidel Castro on the occasion of…

CIA Docs Shows UK, France and West Germany Wanted to Bring “Operation Condor” to Europe

Whitney Webb A recently declassified CIA document has revealed that members of the intelligence agencies of France, the United Kingdom and West Germany discussed how to establish “an anti-subversive organization similar to [the CIA’s Operation] Condor” in their own countries. Described by the CIA as “a cooperative effort by the intelligence/security services of several South…

‘No Prisoners, Only Bodies’: US Declassified Documents Expose Argentine Dictatorship Crimes

The U.S. declassified historical documents expose the role the country played in aiding Latin American dictatorships and will help continuing prosecutions against dictatorship crimes in Argentina. The United States presented on April 12 to Argentina its fourth and final installment of the Declassification Process on human rights abuses made during the military dictatorship in Argentina…

Declassified CIA Documents Reveal Bureaucracy Within Condor Plan

Cuba Debate At the worst time of the Latin American dictatorships, a small forum existed where votes were taken. Delegates from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia at the Condor Plan headquarters discussed and unanimously elected their victims. Each delegate presented an “operational proposal” and a vote ended the discussion on opportunity, political cost and…