US coup

USAID Funds Salaries Of Venezuelan Politicians As It Doubles Down On The Coup

October 22, 2019 Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. Educate! Juan Guaido, US coup, USAID, Venezuela

The payment of Mr. Guaidó’s representatives is a serious conflict of interest that is generating concern among Venezuelans. Do Vecchio and other members of the Guaidó team represent the Venezuelan people or the interests of the government that is paying their salaries? It is a point worth reiterating: a foreign politician is being paid by the United States to influence policy in the United States. The subsidies to the Venezuelan opposition have never been so blatant, but they are also nothing new. USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives began the indirect financing of the opposition in 2002. It began by funding opposition affiliated non-governmental organizations, students and parties; now it has progressed to paying politicians directly. The goal has always been the same: regime change.

US Unearths Cold War Treaty To Target Venezuela

September 12, 2019 MercoPress. Educate! OAS, US coup, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

The TIAR is a mutual military defense agreement that clears the way for foreign intervention, a threat the Trump administration has refused to rule out over the past eight months of slow-motion coup since Guaido declared himself president in January with Washington’s blessing. While several US allies rushed to recognize his leadership and denounce President Maduro as a “usurper,” Guaido has repeatedly failed to actually seize power, leaving his backers looking increasingly ridiculous – and desperate. While US ambassador to the Organization of American States Carlos Trujillo insisted that the TIAR was activated “not to invoke military force,” but to “seek a legal framework” for it, Guaido’s self-proclaimed government has been operating outside the legal realm since the beginning.

US-Trained Honduran Police Get Midievel

August 18, 2019 Adrienne Pine, Mintpress News. Resist! Honduras, Police abuse, Studentsse, US coup

Tegucigalpa, Honduras - “It’s sad how the United States is supporting this corrupt government,” Honduran political prisoner Edwin Espinal told MintPress News immediately after his release from prison, where he had spent 19 months. Edwin’s case — and the medieval violence to which U.S.-trained police in Honduras tried to subject me — perfectly illustrate the often lethal repression that has fueled the migrant crisis. After hours of police hurling stones and tear gas at student protesters last week, young children gathered the aluminum scraps from the ground to sell, underscoring that the poverty brought on by U.S.-backed neoliberal measures has gone hand-in-hand with police violence in fueling the human-rights catastrophe at the heart of the central American exodus.

How The U.S. Created The Central American Immigration Crisis

August 18, 2019 Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch. Educate! Central America, Immigration, US coup, US Imperialism

It’s hard to believe that more than four years have passed since the police shot Amílcar Pérez-López a few blocks from my house in San Francisco’s Mission District. He was an immigrant, 20 years old, and his remittances were the sole support for his mother and siblings in Guatemala. On February 26, 2015, two undercover police officers shot him six times in the back, although they would claim he’d been running toward them with an upraised butcher knife. For two years, members of my little Episcopal church joined other neighbors in a weekly evening vigil outside the Mission police station, demanding that the district attorney bring charges against the men who killed Amílcar. When the medical examiner’s office continued to drag its feet on releasing its report, we helped arrange for a private autopsy, which revealed what witnesses had already reported

Protests In Honduras Intensify As President Implicated In Drug Trafficking

August 15, 2019 Greg Wilpert, Real News. Resist! Drug Trafficking, Honduras, US coup, Violence

The protests against Honduras’s President, Juan Orlando Hernandez, which have been going on for several months now, are showing no signs of letting up. If anything, they have been intensifying ever since it became known last week that Hernandez was involved in a conspiracy to use drug trafficking money to support his 2013 presidential election campaign. That is, on August 3rd, the television channel Univision published a report that cited documents related to his brother’s drug trafficking trial in the United States. According to these documents, Hernandez’s brother, Tony Hernandez, has been involved in drug trafficking since 2004. As a drug trafficker, he funneled $1.5 million to the presidential campaign of his brother.

‘Fuera JOH’: Honduras Protests, Police Respond With Violence

August 8, 2019 From Daniel Langmier, Honduras Forum Switzerland. Resist! Honduras, Police abuse, Students, US coup

Protests are happening daily now calling for the president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, to resign. Here is a compilation of reports provided by The Honduras Solidarity Network we received last night. Honduras lived through another day of protest and the participants suffered more repression by the JOH regime. The international press started to cover this new wave of protests. The Honduras Solidarity Network denounces three injured students at least one by bullets, in Tegucigalpa. In San Pedro Sula, the police threw tear gas into buses transporting university students. UNAH dean Francisco Herrera called it "a barbaric act". The Platform for the Defense of Education and Healthcare calls for new protests today including one in front of the MP demanding the issuance of an arrest warrant against JOH and his family.

People’s Mobilization To Stop The US War Machine

July 27, 2019 Popular Resistance. Resist! Empire, United Nations, US coup, Wars and Militarism

The US War Machine must be stopped, and only we can stop it. That's why we are organizing the People's Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine, a series of actions in New York City from September 20 to 23 while the United Nations General Assembly meets. At a time when all of the world leaders gather, we will say we've had enough of the US War Machine. We demand the US be held accountable for its destructive acts. It's time for the US government to obey the United Nations Charter by stopping regime change operations, ending the use of unilateral coercive measures (aka sanctions) and ceasing military attacks. We demand the US sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty, rejoin the Iran nuclear agreement, disband NATO and close bases and outposts around the world. We demand an immediate transition to a peace economy that uses our resources to meet human needs and protect the planet.

How Officials Discuss Foreign Policy When Nobody’s Watching

July 20, 2019 John McEvoy, The Canary. Educate! Chile, Ruling Class, US coup, Wars and Militarism

On 11 September 1973, the Chilean military violently removed the elected government of Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship under Augusto Pinochet. UK-manufactured arms were used in the coup, and prime minister Margaret Thatcher would go on to call Pinochet a “true friend” and lobby against his persecution for war crimes. Less known, however, is how UK officials discussed Chile’s coup behind closed doors. Declassified foreign office documents published by historian Mark Curtis shed light on how UK officials discuss foreign policy when nobody’s watching. UK planners were quite aware of the bloody nature of the coup.

US And Right-Wing Allies Weakening OAS And Failing To Achieve Their Objectives

July 5, 2019 Chuck Kaufman, Alliance for Global Justice. Educate! OAS, US coup, Venezuela

Uruguay walked out of the meeting in protest of the seating of a delegation representing Venezuela’s US puppet, self-declared President Juan Guaidó. They were followed by Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Mexico. Uruguay did not return to the meeting although the other countries did. Almagro is from Uruguay. He has been expelled by his party over his unprofessional behavior with regard to Venezuela. Lack of support from his own country ought to deal a death blow to his re-election chances, although his current reign has so damaged the regional body’s institutionality that anything could happen. Valdrack Jaentschke, head of Nicaragua’s OAS delegation said, “In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela there is a democratically elected constitutional government led by President Nicolás Maduro Moros,” he said.

How Many Coups (And Lives) Will It Take Before The US Surrenders In Venezuela?

July 1, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Oil, Revolution, US coup, Venezuela

Venezuela used to be an "oil republic," which made oil executives from the United States and the wealthy class in Venezuela very rich. That lasted until the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 when the Bolivarian Process began and oil profits were used to provide for basic needs of all the people. Ever since then, the US and its allies have used everything they have to overthrow the revolution, but like Cuba, the people have resisted, despite great suffering being inflicted on them, and the US has failed. We speak with Dan Kovalik about his newest book, "The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela" and the tremendous resistance of the Venezuelan people. We also cover some recent news and have a tribute to Bruce Dixon, co-founder and editor of Black Agenda Report, who died last week of cancer.

Trump Does Not Want To Get Too Involved With Venezuela

June 30, 2019 Staff, Telesur Educate! US coup, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The U.S. President tacitly acknowledged the failure of the actions aimed at destabilizing Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. In a tacit reference to an eventual U.S. military action against Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Saturday that he does not want to get too involved in the Latin American country, although he also held that his tactics could "change at any time." In a press conference held at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, Trump confessed that he had spoken about Venezuela "with almost every leader" with whom he met this week.

Exceptional American Historical Amnesia About Iran

June 23, 2019 Brett Wilkins, Commondreams. Educate! Iran, Mike Pompeo, US coup, US Imperialism

Someone attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. The Trump administration wants the world to believe that Iran is the culprit. Yet there is no serious evidence that Tehran was behind the attacks on the Norwegian and Japanese ships. Still, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Iran for what he called a “blatant assault” on the tankers. Pompeo also said that the attacks “should be understood in the context of 40 years of unprovoked aggression” against the US and other “freedom-loving nations” by Iran. There is no such history. Iran hasn’t started a war since the mid-19th century, when it was still the Persian Empire. The true context which must be understood is one of a century of US and Western exploitation of Iranian people and resources, and decades of US threats and aggression against Iran that once reportedly included a plan to stage a false flag attack very similar to last week’s tanker incident.

Actions: No War, No Coup, End The Sanctions, Troops Home Now

June 22, 2019 UNAC and Green Party Peace Action Committee, Popular Resistance. Resist! Iran, Sanctions, US coup, Venezuela

As you know, two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman were disabled by explosions on Thursday, June 13. The US government announced that it was Iran that did it. Iran knows that such a move would immediately make them suspect and therefore would not do it. The US statements have been contradicted by the crew of one of the ships and the ships owner and most countries, even allies of the US, have said there is no proof. This is very much like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led the US to war with Vietnam leading to 4,000,000 Vietnamese dead and 60,000 US military dead. Today we know that the Gulf of Tonkin incident never occurred, we were lied to and millions died because of that lie. Do not let it happen again. Read the press statement from Iran on the incident here and join us on or around the weekend of July 13 & 14.

The Embassy Protection Collective Continues, In Court

June 18, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, US coup, Venezuela

The Embassy Protectors are continuing their efforts in solidarity with the people of Venezuela by defending themselves in federal court. The next hearing of the four inside Embassy Protectors is July 9 at 9:30 am before the chief judge of the US District Court in Washington, DC, Judge Beryl A. Howell. If convicted, the Embassy Protectors are facing up to one year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine. Help the Embassy Protectors raise enough money to defend themselves against prosecution by the US government. Donate here.

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