Misión Verdad There is abundant evidence that exposes the intrusion of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into the internal affairs of the Latin American region, in the form of coups d’état and the promotion of civil wars. Its operations in Venezuela have been modified over time. From having an undeclared base in the 1960s to…
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Guaido’s “Operation Liberty” Based on US Regime Change Manual
Whitney Webb Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed “interim president of Venezuela” who is supported by the United States government, recently announced coming “tactical actions” that will be taken by his supporters starting April 6 as part of “Operation Freedom,” an alleged grassroots effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. That operation, according to Guaidó, will be…
Five US “Humanitarian Interventions” that Ended in Disaster
Misión Verdad Editor’s note: Since the early months of last year, this platform has been analysing the serious consequences of military interventions for supposedly humanitarian purposes. Now that the Venezuelan opposition, articulated under the absolute tutelage of Washington, is drawing a new “D-Day” (February 23) to introduce “humanitarian aid,” it is convenient to refresh the…
The Religious Crusade of the Southern Command Against Venezuela
Misión Verdad As you know, the Pentagon never stops working. Its work in Latin America and the Caribbean is carried out by SOUTHCOM, which aims to safeguard U.S. military interests in the region. These are reflected in the document presented by Admiral Craig S. Faller (Posture Statement 2019), commander of the Southern Command, before the…
Venezuela: If I Were the Invader
José Roberto Duque If I were the invader, I would already have organized the penetration actions of multinational troops, ready to act and attack within the territory of Venezuela. Those troops would come organized in battalions under the aspect of plain carriers of bags and boxes, hypothetically containing food. Some would wear the respective uniforms…
CIA in Venezuela: 7 Rules for Regime Change
Jefferson Morley As President Trump pulls U.S. troops out of Syria and Afghanistan, his secretary of state Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton are taking their frustrated interventionist impulses south to Venezuela. Why Venezuela, a country of 32 million people on the north coast of South America? The country poses no threat to…
NED, the Uyghurs and the US Conflict with China
Godfree Roberts The escalating trade war against China, threats of sanctions over allegations of Uyghur detention camps in Xinjiang, threats of sanctions if China buys Russian defense equipment, all is aimed at disruption of the sole emerging threat to a Washington global order. How China’s authorities are trying to deal with this full assault is…
Nicaragua and the Limits of Tolerance
Stephen Sefton For three months starting on April 18th this year, Nicaragua’s political opposition and their allies terrorized people across the country. In well coordinated attacks, using firearms and arson, they destroyed or severely damaged offices of central government and local authorities in over a dozen cities. They attacked ambulances, invaded hospitals and schools and…
USAID to End Operations in Occupied Palestinian Territories
Gaza remains under a decade-long Israeli military blockade which has thrown the enclave into a humanitarian crisis. | Photo: Reuters Since Israel’s founding in 1948, an endless battle for both parties to exist has ensued. Palestinians have been unable to recover. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that all operations in…
How a US Government Sponsored Think Tank Obfuscates Destabilization Efforts in Nicaragua
Redfish National Endowment for Democracy (NED )and Ford Foundation funded think tank “Global Americans” yesterday published an article claiming a redfish documentary contains “lies and distortions” regarding the role that the media, including its own website, has played in the crisis that has ravaged Nicaragua since April this year. The redfish documentary called “The New…
Nicaragua and the US Neo-Fascist Offensive
Fabian Escalante Font In April of the current year, media headlines pointed to a ‘revolution’ breaking out in Nicaragua against the Sandinista Front government headed by Commander Daniel Ortega. Until then, and for 11 years, the government of that country, legitimately chosen in elections supervised by regional organizations, had carried out wide-ranging programs for reducing…
Nicaragua: “We’re talking about terrorism, about financing terrorism, murder, bodily harm, torture, kidnapping that occurred from April 18th to date”
Tortilla Con Sal Interview with Police Commissioner Farle Roa, Director of the Judicial Assistance Office Tortilla con Sal: What is the Judicial Assistance Office and what has been its function within the context of the coup? Commissioner Farle Roa : The Judicial Assistance Department, is established by law, as the body be in charge of…
The Nicaraguan Crisis: A US Regime Change Operation
Camilo Mejía Over the past four and a half months western corporate news reports about Nicaragua have painted a harrowing picture about the Central American country, historically known for a revolutionary legacy that has put the nation at odds with United States foreign policy and interests. In this latest iteration of conflict between the two…
Iran: Nicaragua, An ‘Anti-imperialist’ Nation
“Relations between Nicaragua and Iran are excellent as they are two friendly countries and respect each other” Farzam Vanaki Relations between Nicaragua and Iran are excellent as they are two friendly countries and respect each other, said the Nicaraguan ambassador to Tehran. Mario Barquero Baltodano noted that in multilateral organizations, such as the UN, we…
The Atlas Network in Latin America
Aram Aharonian and Álvaro Verzi Rangel Part I: Atlas Network, the right-wing libertarians Atlas works with 450 foundations, NGOs, think tanks and advocacy groups, with an operating budget of 5 million US dollars (2016), given by their “charitable and nonprofit” foundations. Aram Aharonian and Álvaro Verzi Rangel, co-directors of the Observatory in Communication and Democracy…
The Atlas Network Against Latin America
Manuel E. Yepe The Latin American Freedom Forum, took place in 2017 in Buenos Aires with the participation of President Mauricio Macri and Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. It discussed a strategy to defeat socialism at all levels, with tactics ranging from camp battles on university campuses to nationwide mobilization to force the removal of…
If I Worked for the Nicaraguan Opposition…
Forget my boring job. I have a new career path in mind. I want to be an advisor for the Nicaraguan opposition. Junior Taylor After 90 days of civil conflict, Nicaraguan roads are all open again, the markets are filled with colorful fruits, vegetables and people, and the smiles are returning to the faces in…
Recolonization of America: The Taking of Nicaragua. NGOs and the Fourth Generation War
Pablo Heraklio Translated by Internationalist 360° Nicaragua is the new objective of the classic style of color revolutions, the application of XXI century war strategy, financed by international holdings in which banks, corporations, mercenaries and armies are combined, using local political and fascist actors simply called “opponents”, supporting them with state-of-the-art professional equipment and all the…
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