Cooperation for Repression in Latin America

Revista Crisis The ultra-right governments cooperate at the regional level to guarantee the greatest deployment and use of repressive instruments against the people, in the midst of social uprisings. South-South cooperation has been twisted into its repressive version, in which the ultra-right, linked to the economic and industrial power blocs, and local oligarchies, establish cooperation…

When Did the “Cold War” End? Part II

Vladimir Acosta Part I: When Did the “Cold War” End? I have said on other occasions that our humanity, and not exclusively its youngest members, tends to live not only in the world of images, but also in the world of the immediate, and that its inclination to read is increasingly reduced. The current world…

The Battle of the South Atlantic and South American Integration

César Trejo 48 soldiers and crew lost their lives when the RFA Sir Galahad was attacked in June 1982 Credit: Rex Features The further we move away from the event, the more evidence emerges that the war fought between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain was provoked by the USA in…

US Uses Guyana to Harass Venezuela

Andrés Gaudin The Venezuelan government has pledged to defend the country’s claim over the Essequibo Strip. (Presidential Press) Oil is always the great desire and corporations are mapping out the terrain for Biden. Once the direct military option has been ruled out, they insert a wedge in an old border dispute while destabilizing actions persist….

U.S. Police and Military Commit State Sponsored Murder and Terror Worldwide

All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) History of the Police Make no mistake, the brutal images of police murders that frequently surface on our social media and in the news are not anomalies and are not accidental. These images represent a continuation of an ongoing, deliberate, systematic form of violence which the United States settlers…

Bolivia: The Resources of the Dictatorship

Atilio A. Boron The very serious situation in Bolivia has multiple facets, each one more aberrant. They all have a common denominator: the systematic violation of human rights, public freedoms and individual rights and guarantees. These are the foreseeable results of any dictatorial regime, and without doubt the government that has taken over Bolivia today…

The U.S. Launches Itself in the Most Violent Way Imaginable to Definitively Seize Bolivia

Maya interviewed Argentine sociologist Atilio Boron, one of the most internationally renowned political analysts today, so that in just three questions he can give us his vision of the crisis Bolivia is going through. How would you characterize the coup d’état in Bolivia? Without a doubt, the coup d’état in Bolivia is part of the…

Top Bolivian Coup Plotters Were School of the Americas Grads, Served as Attachés in FBI Police Programs

Jeb Sprague The United States played a key role in the military coup in Bolivia, and in a direct way that has scarcely been acknowledged in accounts of the events that forced the country’s elected president, Evo Morales, to resign on November 10. Just prior to Morales’ resignation, the commander of Bolivia’s armed forces Williams…

Commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces Involved in the Coup Received Training at the School of the Americas

He appeared on television, on behalf of the Bolivian Armed Forces, and suggested to President Evo Morales that he resign in order to stabilize the country. His name is Willams Kaliman Romero, 56 years old, current commander in chief of the Armed Forces, appointed on December 24, 2018 in this position by President Morales. Who…

Five Men Sentenced to Life for Operation Condor Killings Trained at School of the Americas

Brett Wilkins A group of “Mothers and relatives of disappeared detainees,” “Observatorio Luz Ibarburu” and of other Uruguayan human rights organizations participate in a video conference with members in Rome regarding the “Operation Condor” trail, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Monday, July 8, 2019. Uruguay’s government says a court in Italy has sentenced 24 people to life…

The Muslim Brotherhood as a Supplement to the Pentagon and NATO’s Gladio

Thierry Meyssan We are continuing the publication of Thierry Meyssan’s book, “Right Before Our Eyes“. Introduction In 1998, Saudi Osama bin Laden and his personal physician, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, published the “World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders”. This text was circulated by their London office, the Advice and Reformation Committee. Al-Zawahiri organized the…

Bolivia’s Anti-Imperialist Military School

redfish Published on May 16, 2019 With governments in Latin America – and around the world – increasingly targeted by aggressive U.S. interventionist policies and coup attempts, Bolivians are not waiting to see if they could be next. redfish went to the world’s only anti-imperialist military school to find out how Bolivia is preparing to…

The Counterinsurgency War: Nicaragua in the Spotlight

Stella Calloni Original in Spanish If the most serious opposition to President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua does not set itself apart from the mercenaries who continue to commit atrocious crimes against dozens of Sandinistas for their simply supporting the government, including torture and public flogging (videos recorded by professional journalists), and if they fail to…

“Ortega y Somoza son la misma cosa”: Foreign PSYOP Disinformation Campaign

Lauren Smith Disinformation campaigns from foreign supported right-wing controlled media create discontent in Nicaragua and hide its embedded enemy, the imperial United States. The CIA’s psychological warfare program (PSYOP) makes traitors out of Nicaragua’s elite families, stooges out of religious organizations, and pawns out of well-meaning, but misguided, students. Mural at Nicaragua’s Revolutionary museum.Photo: Lauren…

Behind the Murder of Berta Cáceres

By Chris Fry Honduran Indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot to death a year ago at her home in a gated community, supposedly under Honduran government protection. An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian revealed Feb. 28 that the death of Cáceres, winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015,…

US Court Protects ‘School of the Assassins’

Since the Cold War the school has provided counterinsurgency training to a number of Latin American dictators and death squad members. A U.S. court has sided with the Pentagon that it does not have to publicly release the names of attendees from the training school, formerly known as the School of the Americas, on Friday….

US Triples Special Operations Deployment to Latin America

By Neil Hardt From 2007 to 2014, the United States tripled the deployment of special operations forces to Latin America, according to documents obtained via FOIA request by the non-profit Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). The deployment of Green Berets, Navy Seals and other elite units to Latin America is bound up with American…

Bolivia Opens New ‘Anti-Imperialist’ Military Academy

The academy is a kind of anti-School of the Americas – the opposite of the US training ground responsible for Latin America’s worst human rights abuses. Bolivian President Evo Morales opened Wednesday a new regional military defense school – a kind of anti-School of the Americas – which will offer courses on a wide range…