Category: Latin America
Israel worried as anti-Zionist leftist Gabriel Boric wins Chile elections over Pinochet-admirer far-right candidate
[MintPress News] “If its media is any indication, Israel is freaking out over the election results in Chile. “Anti-Zionist Gabriel…
Finally revealed: Australia assisted CIA coup in ‘Chile’s 9/11’ that installed Pinochet’s murderous military junta
[Michael West Media] “On the eve of its 48th anniversary, documents just declassified by the Australian National Archives show the…
Colombia court refuses to try general complicit in 104 murders as he collaborates with peace tribunal
[ABC News] “A court refused Monday to allow a trial for a retired general accused of offering incentives that led…
Letter by 30 cross-party MPs calls on Bolsonaro to cease his assault on Amazon, its people, and planet’s future, claims UK government complicit
[The Independent] “The UK government is complicit in Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s assault on the Amazon rainforest, a cross-party group of MPs have warned.”…
Under Bolsonaro, illegal migrants (miners, loggers, ranchers) invading ever-larger Indigenous territory, leading to conflicts and a surge in killings of local activists
[E360] “One afternoon last month, several vehicles descended on a village in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where Avelin…
Propaganda Watch: Cuba protests supporting government portrayed in MSM as anti-government, anti-communist – even as 26 Julio flag is clearly visible
[Alan Macleod, The New York Times, The Guardian, Fox News, Financial Times, Wikipedia] The New York Times: “Anti-government protesters gathered…
Bolivia: Officials of the 2019 coup government plotted a second coup in 2020 using U.S. mercenaries to block MAS from returning to power
[The Intercept] “A TOP OFFICIAL in the outgoing Bolivian government plotted to deploy hundreds of mercenaries from the United States to…
Hypocrisy: in 2017, Kamala Harris said “everyone is welcome”, now she tells migrants “do not come to US”
[Twitter, BBC] “US Vice President Kamala Harris has urged would-be migrants in Guatemala not to try to enter the United…
Long history of Israeli support for Colombia’s right wing government, connections to death squads and massacres
[MintPress News] “The murder of Milcíades Contento [, a member of the newly-formed Patriotic Union (UP),] marked the beginning of…
History of CIA coups, assassinations, false flag operations and mass murder
[CovertAction Magazine] “Vijay Prashad’s new book Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, details how manufactured foreign threats…
About the protests in Colombia, a Chilean neo-Nazi advising Police, and extrajudicial killings (Video)
[Behind The Headlines] “Colombia is on strike and the police and military are terrorizing the population to crush it.” A…
UK trains Colombian police killing civilians
[The Canary] “Over recent days, the Colombian national police have killed a number of civilians protesting a proposed tax hike on basic…
Russian Oil Sales to U.S. Record High Despite Tough Talk
[Bloomberg] “Even as Washington champions energy independence and warns European allies against becoming too dependent on Moscow, American refineries are…
Brazil: Lula is free, may run against Bolsonaro in 2022
[openDemocracy] “Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [commonly known as Lula, who led Brazil between 2003 and 2011,]…
Bolivia: HRW against blanket amnesty for political prisoners jailed by Áñez regime, avoids calling it ‘coup’
[Human Rights Watch] “A presidential decree approved by Bolivia’s Congress in February 2021 opens the door to impunity for serious crimes,…
Revealed: The UK supported the 2019 coup in Bolivia to access its Lithium
[Daily Maverick] “After a coup in the South American country of Bolivia in November 2019, democratically elected president Evo Morales…
Colombia’s US-backed government is accused of 90 separate massacres, resulting in 375 deaths, in the year 2020
[MintPress News] “It is the festive season in Colombia, but not everyone is celebrating. Sunday brought news of the ninetieth massacre of…
The UK’s covert activities in Latin America in the 1960s revealed
[BBC] “British intelligence engaged in a far more active programme of covert activity in Latin America in the 1960s than…
Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger under house arrest for winning landmark Amazon pollution case against Chevron
[The Nation] “More than a quarter-century ago, Steven Donziger, a young American human rights lawyer, joined the legal effort to force…
Accusations against The Grayzone concerning Assad, Russia, Nicaragua, China, and Maduro
[Joshua Collins] “Enter Grayzone, a supposedly leftist crew of “journalists” with opaque financing and Russian support.” “This all-caps charge against…
Human Rights Watch’s support for a U.S.-backed right-wing coup in Bolivia
[MintPress News] “Bolivia is currently in turmoil after President Evo Morales was deposed in a U.S.-supported coup d’état on November 10….
Bolivia Is the Latest Successful US-Backed Coup in Latin America
[MintPress News] “On October 20, Morales had secured enough votes to win the election outright in the first round without…
Netanyahu’s ‘hug-a-fascist club’: Duterte, Orban, Salvini, and now Bolsonaro
[Haaretz] “Until very recently, Jair Bolsonaro was a big player in domestic Brazilian politics. For years he’d been projectile-vomiting baleful rhetoric at…
Israel cosies up to the World’s far right
[The Washington Post] “Under Netanyahu’s watch, Israel has amassed a conspicuous crop of illiberal allies. Some, like Salvini and Hungarian Prime…
Propaganda Watch: “Leftist” opinion in The Guardian says forget the bad things Tony Blair did and the good things Fidel Castro did
[The Guardian] 2014: Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record “From Northern…
Operation Timber Sycamore: Saudis provide money and arms, U.S. trains Syrian rebels
[The New York Times] “When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013, the spy…
The bizarre life of Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Evo Morales’ would-be assassin killed by police in Bolivia
[TIME] “Journalist-turned-Croatian independence fighter Eduardo Rosza-Flores […] was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern…
Irish, Hungarian and Romanian nationals shot by police in Bolivia, accused of Evo Morales assassination plot
[REUTERS] “Bolivian security forces said they thwarted an assassination plot against President Evo Morales on Thursday, killing three people in…