Regime Change

Bolivia: As Elections Near, US-Backed Interim Gov’t Mobilizes Military, Arrests Opposition Leaders

January 27, 2020 Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Bolivia, Electoral Politics, Latin America, Regime Change

Wednesday, January 22 marks the day that Jeanine Añez is set to stand down as “interim” President of Bolivia, beginning the process for fresh elections set for May 3. Añez came to power in November, following a U.S.-backed coup that deposed the Movement to Socialism’s (MAS) Evo Morales. However, she is certainly not acting as if she intends to relinquish her power, let alone move towards new elections. Instead, she has sent the military...

Venezuelan Assembly to Investigate US Funding to Guaido

January 27, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

The president of the National Assembly, Luis Parra, announced the creation of a commission to investigate the financing of USAID to the right-wing opposition sectors led by Juan Guaido. The president of the National Assembly (NA), Luis Parra, announced this Monday that the Parliament will name a special commission that will be in charge of investigating the use of the alleged humanitarian aid funds sent to sectors of the extreme right of Venezuela, by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Venezuela: Juan Guaido’s Reasons For An International Tour

January 23, 2020 Marco Teruggi, Pagina 12, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Venezuelan legislator Juan Guaido’s international tour has raised eyebrows and expectations among coup monger sectors in the country once again. The series of photographs coming out, first with Colombian President Ivan Duque and then with U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo and Special Envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams, revealed again Guaido with strong international support.

Giuliani Told U.S. His Client Deserves Leniency For Financing Venezuela’s Opposition

January 23, 2020 Aram Roston, Matt Spetalnick, and Brian Ellsworth, Reuters.com Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At a lavish August gathering at a private estate in Spain, a wealthy Venezuelan businessman under criminal investigation in the United States introduced Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to the father of Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaido. The affair was part of a campaign for leniency for the businessman, Alejandro Betancourt, who sought to demonstrate his close ties to opposition figures looking to oust Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro...

Demonstrators Call For Juan Guaidó To Be “Put On Trial”, Not Legitimised By UK Government

January 23, 2020 By Mohamed Elmaazi, Sputniknews.com Resist! coup, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaidó led a US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela in 2019 after declaring himself "interim president" of the country. Guaidó also backed US sanctions on his country which the Center for Economic and Policy Research blamed for killing 40,000 Venezuelans between 2017 and 2018. Over two dozen people gathered across from the UK Prime Minister’s residence to denounce a visit by Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaidó. The protest was arranged at the last minute by the Hands Off Venezuela (HOV) ...

Glenn Greenwald Faces Possible Imprisonment By Bolsonaro Regime

January 23, 2020 Ilana Novick, Truthdig.com Educate! Brazil, Latin America, Regime Change

When Edward Snowden was an anonymous National Security Agency subcontractor with documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs, Glenn Greenwald, then at The Guardian, was among the small group of journalists Snowden trusted to publish the documents in 2013. The publication earned Greenwald a reputation as an outspoken defender of free speech and whistleblowers. He went on to co-found The Intercept, and then The Intercept Brasil, after moving to Brazil in 2005.

In Venezuela, Reactionary Guaidó Humiliated By Assembly Defeat

January 20, 2020 By John Catalinotto, Workers.org Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

The self-appointed “interim president” of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, received a humiliating setback in that country’s National Assembly vote on Jan. 5. He was deposed as leader of the parliamentary body. Throughout 2019, Guaidó served as the designated puppet of U.S. imperialism in Venezuela. He made five attempts with a reactionary, pro-U.S. regime to overthrow and replace the Bolivarian government led by President Nicolás Maduro. Guaidó had no base among Venezuelans outside of his own assembly district and little credibility even among the opposition.

“Where Are The US Dollars?”: Suspected Corruption Over Guaidó Splits Opposition In Venezuela.

January 20, 2020 Fania Rodrigues, Diariodocentrodomundo.com.br Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Since coming to the presidency of the National Assembly of Venezuela in January 2019, Congressman Juan Guaidó has implemented a series of actions against the government of Nicolás Maduro that have been unsuccessful, which has eroded his leadership. Furthermore, the frequent corruption scandals, denounced by the allies themselves, caused a wave of dissatisfaction within the Venezuelan opposition sector. National Assembly deputies now accuse Juan Guaidó of hiding the fate of funds sent by foreign governments and donors, as there have been no accounts to date.

Poll Shows Nicaraguans Have Consigned The Coup To The Dustbin Of History

January 18, 2020 Chuck Kaufman, Afgj.org Educate! coup, Latin America, Nicaragua, Regime Change

The latest poll by independent M&R Consultants covering the last quarter of 2019, shows that less than two years after the failed coup attempt of April-July, 2018, the Sandinista government, led by President Daniel Ortega is more popular than ever and all but a tiny minority of Nicaraguans reject the violent tactics and street blockades used by the US-supported opposition. In the face of these poll numbers it is hard to maintain any credibility for the opposition and corporate media narrative that says Ortega is a dictator, the police are repressing the people, and that Nicaragua is collapsing into a failed state.

“The International Communications University Is Born”

January 15, 2020 Mario Hernández, Rebelion, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau Educate! Latin America, Regime Change

I was invited to the International Communication Encounter that brought together about 140 popular communicators, counter-information analysts, and alternative media outlets from around the world but particularly from Latin America. During three days we discussed what we could do to strengthen the entire counter-information system in these moments in which Latin America is enduring terrible attacks from the U.S. Empire, as is the case of Bolivia and popular rebellions too. The urgency is to develop and connect communicators to be on a par with the moment.

Bolivia’s New Right-Wing Government Intensifies Crackdown On Journalists, Doctors

January 13, 2020 By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Bolivia, Latin America, Regime Change, Repression

The U.S.-backed right-wing coup government of Jeanine Añez continues its moves against media and other dissenting voices. The latest victim of the crackdown was Marcelo Hurtado, president of the ATB media network. Hurtado was paraded before cameras; handcuffed and forced to wear a vest labeled “arrested.” He was flanked by two black clad, masked and armed members of the country’s infamous police, who led a successful coup against socialist president Evo Morales in November.

‘Killing His Own People’ – Previous Regime-Change Lies And Their Consequences

January 11, 2020 By Gavin O'Reilly, Ahtribune.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Regime Change

Prior to his assassination in a US Drone strike in Baghdad last Friday, Qasem Soleimani would perhaps not have been the most well-known of figures amongst Western onlookers, despite the crucial role he played in Middle Eastern geopolitics. As commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp’s (IRCG) elite Quds Force branch, General Soleimani was instrumental in destroying the Caliphate that Islamic State (IS) had established in Iraq and Syria; with Iraq having been destabilized following the 2003 US-Anglo invasion, and Syria suffering a similar fate...

This Might Be The Final Episode Of Juan Guaidó’s Surreal Venezuela Regime-Change Reality Show

January 10, 2020 Leonardo Flores, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Juan Guaido, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Fistfights and screaming matches broke out at Venezuela’s National Assembly on January 5, when the legislative body was scheduled to elect its leader. But the melee was not what the corporate US media has portrayed it as. The fights weren’t between the Chavistas who support the Bolivarian Revolution and President Nicolás Maduro on one side and opposition members on the other, but rather between competing members of the opposition itself.

Venezuela: Five Coup Attempts By Opposition Foiled In 2019

January 4, 2020 By Marco Teruggi, Workers.org Resist! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Five major violent right-wing operations in Venezuela were put out of commission in 2019. That explains, in part, why the country is ending the year with a tranquility that many find surprising. The last major operation was supposed to take place Dec. 15. No one could have known at the beginning of 2019 how the year would end. Juan Guaidó had proclaimed himself “president” of Venezuela in an operation created and publicly supported by the U.S. under President Donald Trump. The country appeared to be heading for a violent confrontation with no end in sight.

Crisis & Critique: Venezuela, A Paradox Of Stability?

January 4, 2020 By Ociel Lopez, Venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

For Venezuelans, the start of 2019 was perhaps the tensest moment in the past seventeen years. Unlike the political violence of 2017 and the electoral abstention drama of 2018, we faced a real scenario of foreign military intervention in Venezuela. And for the first time, Washington’s long repeated threats to use military force, like in Iraq, Libya, Panama, etc., appeared credible. As the year wore on, the errors and miscalculations implicit in the US strategy became increasingly evident. A “parallel government” headed by Juan Guaido was created, but it had minimal capacity to shape events inside the country...

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