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The Honduras Narco-State Began With US Coup

October 24, 2019 John Perry, Lrb.co.uk , , ,
Donald Trump said last year that migrant caravans, mainly of Hondurans, were coming to the US from ‘shithole countries’. But now he says that the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, is doing a ‘fantastic job’. Trump and JOH recently reached an agreement declaring Honduras to be a ‘safe place’ for asylum seekers trying to reach the US. JOH also promised to help the US tackle transnational criminal organisations. He’s well placed to do this. Last November, his brother Tony was arrested in Miami and accused of drug trafficking and possessing illegal weapons.

How Venezuela Defeated Washington’s Coup Attempt At The United Nations

October 9, 2019 Anya Parampil, Thegrayzone.com , , ,
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez passed through the doors of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on the afternoon of September 27 and flashed a smile to reporters waiting near the entrance. Flanked by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza and UN Ambassador Samuel Moncada, Rodríguez raised her arms into the air and waved a photo in her left hand before disappearing up the escalators which lead to the General Assembly hall. That photo showed the US-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó posing with Colombian narco-paramilitary members from the Los Rastrojos gang...

The U.S. Led Coup Attempt In Iraq May Further Weaken That Country

October 7, 2019 Staff, Moonofalabama.org , , ,
The current unrest in Iraq began a week ago after a prominent general was removed from his post: Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi was the great Iraqi military hero of the war against Isis, leading the assault on Mosul which recaptured the de facto Isis capital after a nine-month siege in 2017. But at the weekend he was suddenly removed as the commander of the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) shock troops, the elite corps of the Iraqi armed forces, by Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi. He was instead given what the general considered to be a non-job at the Defence Ministry.

Following Grayzone Exposé, Top Venezuelan Coup Official Ricardo Hausmann Is Forced To Resign

September 28, 2019 Max Blumenthal, Thegrayzone.com , , , ,
Hours before an expected vote at the United Nations General Assembly on the legitimacy of Venezuela’s Maduro-led government amidst a US-led coup, a senior official of Juan Guaidó’s coup regime was forced to resign from his position. Economist Ricardo Hausmann stepped down from his post at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) following an exposé by The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil of his conflicts of interest and opaque financial practices. While Hausmann worked at the IDB as an ambassador of Guaidó’s shadow administration, he was also employed as the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of Political Economy at Harvard University.

Brazil: Temer Admits Impeachment Of Dilma Rousseff Was A Coup

September 19, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , , , ,
Brazil's former President Michel Temer acknowledged that the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff, Worker's Party leader, was indeed a coup d'etat. During a TV interview watched by millions on Monday, the man who ruled Brazil from Aug. 2016 to Dec. 2019 stated that he never supported the "coup" which led to the impeachment of Rousseff, a leftist economist who held the Presidency from 2011 until her removal. "I never supported or committed to the coup," Temer confessed and added that he tried to prevent the political trial against Dilma.

(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, And Guaidó’s Attempted Coup

July 12, 2019 Layla Brown-Vincent, Aaihs.org , , , ,
On January 23, 2019 with the support of US Vice President Mike Pence, Juan Guaidó, a white supremacist, anti-people, opposition “leader” declared himself interim president of Venezuela under the pretense that Nicolás Maduro, the pro-people candidate, had stolen the 2018 election. Shortly thereafter the white supremacist, anti-people alliance including Canada, Israel, several European countries, and various Latin American nations known as the Lima Group followed suit in recognizing Guaidó.

Crisis & Critique: Norway, Bachelet, And The Twilight Of Guaido’s Insurrection

July 11, 2019 By Ociel Lopez, Venezuelanalysis.com , , , ,
Guaido’s uprising is going through its terminal phrase. He does not yet appear to have reached his end as leader, as he still produces and consolidates an important consensus among the opposition. What has decisively failed is his attempt to form a government without elections with the backing of the hawks in Washington. In almost six months since his self-swearing in as “interim president,” it has become palpable that his governing is truly impossible.

Book Review: Live From Nicaragua: Uprising Or Coup? A Reader

July 10, 2019 Roger Stoll, Popular Resistance ,
Live From Nicaragua: An Uprising Or A Coup, is a collection of writings, which the editors call a “Reader,” includes some of the most important essays, investigative journalism, interviews and first-hand accounts of the war that have yet appeared. It is a thoughtful and multifaceted collection of news, analysis and historical pieces covering a highly significant event in modern revolutionary and anti-imperialist history.

Venezuela Unveils New Coup Plot Against President Maduro

June 28, 2019 Staff, Albaciudad.org , , ,
The Vice President of Communication, Tourism and Culture, Jorge Rodríguez, presented on Wednesday evidence of a plan that involves the Venezuelan and international right in a new coup d’etat attempt against the constitutional president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. This operation aimed to free Venezuelan General Raúl Isaías Baduel, who is detained in the facilities of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), and then transfer him to the headquarters of Venezolana de Televisión, in Ruices, Miranda state, to proclaim himself President of the nation (yes, you are reading right).

Honduras: Ten Years Of Coups And Neoliberalism

June 26, 2019 Katu Arkonada, La Jornada , , ,
Riot control police in Honduras have called off a three day work stoppage demanding better food and pay hikes, but they warned, they are not going back to repress thousands of demonstrators who are in the streets demanding President Juan Orlando Hernandez to quit. Popular mobilizations have been following one another in Honduras. Now, 60,000 doctors and teachers are struggling against a political system that is trying, at the orders of the International Monetary Fund, to privatize health and education. There is so much people’s support in those demonstrations that the National Police joined the strike...

From Exxon To “Ambassador”: How Carlos Vecchio Became Venezuela’s Top Coup Lobbyist

June 21, 2019 Anya Parampil and Diego Sequera, Thegrayzone.com , , , , ,
May 24th was a day of hard-earned celebration for Carlos Vecchio, the man tasked with leading the Trump administration’s coup attempt in Venezuela from the US capital. His face was largely obscured in the grainy Twitter video of the moment he and his gaggle leaned out of a third-story window and hoisted a brand new flag onto Venezuela’s former diplomatic mission in Washington DC, but Vecchio was clearly beaming as a small crowd of supporters cheered from below.

How The Coup In Venezuela And The US Housing Crisis Are Inextricably Connected

June 19, 2019 By Ajoke Williams and Kei Pritsker, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
The United States economy is organized such that all commodities, including both weapons and housing, drive the lion’s share of profits upward, into the pockets of a wealthy elite class, at the expense of the masses of working people who generate those profits through their labor power. The functioning of this system in the interest of a tiny few at the expense of the many is made equally apparent by the orchestration of war against Venezuela by the U.S. ruling class and the orchestration of a massive housing crisis within U.S. borders by wealthy developers.

The Real Owner Of The House That Lula Is Accused Of Owning Is Selling It

June 2, 2019 Staff, Resumen , ,
The fact that a court has approved the sale of a property they claimed belonged to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Atibaia municipality, Sao Paulo, as part of a payment for alleged political favors, refutes the accusations against the Brazilian ex-president. The Federal Public Ministry approved the sale request made by entrepreneur Fernando Bittar, the actual owner of the property. The action strengthens the arguments submitted by the lawyers of the former president, who argued that he has no relation with that house. The process against Lula, “without evidence and without crime, has resulted in a legal anomaly.”

The American People Are The True Victims Of Our Latest Coup

May 30, 2019 By Eleanor Goldfield, Mintpressnews.com , , ,
There’s an office that you go to overthrow a government. CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou stands in front of a packed house in the Chavez Room at the Venezuelan Embassy. A mural of Hugo Chavez looks on from the back wall. Bookcases stand empty, a fitting sign of the bumbling idiocy of empire. The lobby has been converted into a makeshift gallery: images of Maduro and Chavez flank the unused metal detector and security desk. Two dry-erase boards announce to passersby in English and Spanish that “This Embassy Belongs to the Elected Government of Venezuela.”

Failed Coup In Venezuela Intensifies Battle At Embassy

May 7, 2019 Staff, Blackallianceforpeace.com , , ,
Yet a battle rages at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., where activists living inside at the invitation of the Maduro government have been under siege. They have been assaulted by blaring bullhorns, sirens, strobe lights, and a violent opposition that has been drilling holes into the building and attempting to knock down the embassy door. The opposition also reared its racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQIA+ head, with its members spewing slurs at activists and journalists, and stalking a journalist. All this while the Secret Service and the Metropolitan Police Department have looked away and arrested more embassy activists than opposition members.
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