Although it is already a systematic pattern that the opposition’s leading layer cannibalizes itself when the coup’s agenda fails, this time, both because of the nature of its internal conflict and its scope, the wall of cross accusations may lead to a new configuration of the political map for the year 2020, thereby compromising the…
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Sudan Withdraws 10,000 Troops from Yemen
Peoples Dispatch Prime minister Abdallah Hamdok announced the withdrawal of the Sudanese soldiers on December 8. The prime minister of the transitional government of Sudan, Abdallah Hamdok, announced on December 8, Sunday, that the country has withdrawn two-thirds of its forces from Yemen. According to him, 10,000 of the 15,000 Sudanese soldiers deployed in Yemen…
Stella Calloni: The New Counterinsurgency War is Not Operation Condor II. It is a Project of Recolonization.
Hector Bernardo Contexto spoke with Stella Calloni about the current situation in Bolivia, the assassination attempts against President Morales and the re-edition of her deep investigation into the relationship between the United States and the Bolivian coup plotters. What is the current situation in Bolivia? The de facto government in Bolivia is presumably trying to…
Stella Calloni: “We are Under a Counterinsurgency War”
Lautaro Ortiz “In Bolivia there is no longer any security to hold free elections,” says Calloni. Image Daphne Gentinetta The writer and journalist, author of this essential research, analyzes the situation in Bolivia, in the context of the interference of the United States in the region. The civic, police and military coup d’état perpetrated last…
Fascists, With Help from the US, Are Trying to Take Control of Latin America
Popular Resistance Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed William Camacaro, a Venezuelan activist living in New York City who is active with the Solidarity Committee with Venezuela NYC and organizes food sovereignty tours to Venezuela, on the eve of the December 3 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) meeting in Colombia….
US Sanctions and Gender Violence in Venezuela: A Conversation with Maria Hernandez Royett
Cira Pascual Marquina and Maria Hernandez Royett Maria Hernandez Royett is a feminist activist committed to fighting patriarchal structures in Venezuela. She also researches the impact of US sanctions on the Venezuelan family. In this exclusive interview we learn about sexist violence in Venezuela and about an interesting new initiative that has emerged to assist…
U.S. Crusade Against Cuban International Medical Cooperation
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs As MINREX warned in a statement released August 29, 2019, the United States government has, since last year, been waging an intense, offensive campaign against the medical collaboration Cuba provides, along with threats of sanctions against Cuban leaders and pressure on recipient states to end such cooperation. Directed…
OAS Electoral Report on Bolivia Confirms Role in Coup
Franco Vielma After the OAS “preliminary report” was issued, the Armed Forces “suggested” the resignation of President Evo Morales. Photo: Erbol The Organization of American States (OAS) recently published a report entitled “Analysis of Electoral Integrity General Elections in the Plurinational State of Bolivia” (Análisis de Integridad Electoral Elecciones Generales en el Estado Plurinacional de…
Latin America: Imperialist Subversion Forges Full Speed Ahead
The United States is losing ground. Its projected dream of an American century, in the 21st, is fading away, and the Yankee battleship sinking. For its experts, it is no secret that the People’s Republic of China, with its booming economy, is on its way to becoming the world’s number one power by 2030, and…
Our America in the Face of the Onslaught of Imperialism and the Oligarchies
Declaration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 3, 2019 The most recent events in the region confirm that the US government and the reactionary oligarchies bear the primary responsibility for the dangerous unrest and political and social instability that broke out in Latin America and the Caribbean. As was anticipated by the First…
Bolivia and Balkanization: The Imperial Mirror of the Future of Latin America
Alejo Brignole Latin America has become a complex and changing scenario that requires a post-conjectural outlook, in the face of the U.S. advance that has in its agenda new coups followed by political persecution and fascist regimes in the south of the continent. Not long ago I read an interesting article by sociologist Atilio Boron…
U.S. War On the Defenseless: Sanctions Harm 1/3 of the World’s People
Sara Flounders The most insidious and pervasive form of modern warfare by Wall Street and the Pentagon, acting in coordination, is passing largely unnoticed and unchallenged. This calculated attack is rolling back decades of progress in health care, sanitation, housing, essential infrastructure and industrial development all around the world. Almost every developing country attempting any…
