US coup

Brazil’s Ex-President Lula Speaks Out On Venezuela

April 4, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Brazil, Imperialism, US coup, Venezuela

The far-right government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is one of Washington’s closest allies in Latin America. It has played a major supporting role in the Donald Trump administration’s coup attempt against Venezuela, even supporting a terror plot against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. This March, the Bolsonaro administration signed a historic military agreement, bringing Brazil directly into the US imperial sphere of influence, essentially merging the country’s defense industry with Washington’s military-industrial complex. Days before the deal was finalized, however, Brazil’s former president, the left-wing labor organizer Lula da Silva, spoke out vociferously against US meddling in Latin America, harshly criticizing Washington’s putsch against Evo Morales in Bolivia and its ongoing coup attempt against Venezuela.

Letter From President Maduro As US Threatens Venezuela With War

April 2, 2020 Nicolas Maduro, Popular Resistance. Educate! International Solidarity, US coup, US Empire, Venezuela

Associated Press reports the United States is sending naval ships to patrol the Caribbean as the US falsely accuses the Maduro administration with trafficking narcotics while ignoring the countries actually engaged in drug trafficking such as US allies Ecuador, Colombia and Honduras. "President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Navy ships are being moved toward Venezuela as his administration beefs up counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean following a U.S. drug indictment against Nicolás Maduro." AP adds, "The deployment is one of the largest U.S. military operations in the region since the 1989 invasion of Panama to remove Gen. Manuel Noriega from power and bring him to the U.S. to face drug charges. It involves assets like Navy warships, AWACS surveillance aircraft and on-ground special forces seldom seen before in the region."

Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment Of Maduro Already Backfires

March 28, 2020 Leonardo Flores, Popular Resistance. Educate! DOJ, Juan Guaido, US coup, Venezuela

For twenty years, right-wing extremists in Miami and Washington have been slandering the Venezuelan government, accusing it of drug trafficking and harboring terrorists without ever offering even a shred of evidence. They finally got their wish on Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled indictments against President Nicolás Maduro and 13 other current or former members of Venezuela’s government and military. In addition to the indictments, Attorney General William Barr offered a $15 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Maduro, as well as $10 million rewards for Diosdado Cabello (president of Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly), Tarek El Aissami (vice president for the economy), Hugo Carvajal (former director of military intelligence) and Cliver Alcalá (retired general).

United Nations Expert: “The United States Is Committing Crimes Against Humanity”

March 23, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Bolivia, COVID-19, Sanctions, US coup

It was recently confirmed that the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, won the last presidential election in October. He was forced to resign in a US-assisted coup that has brought a violent and fascist government into power. We speak with Alfred de Zayas, a legal expert on civil and political rights and an independent expert to the United Nations, about the legal implications of the coup and interference by the United States in other countries besides Bolivia. Mr. de Zayas describes the US government's history of flouting international law and why the international legal system is unable to enforce those laws. He also discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and what the world needs in this time of crisis.

Two New Coup Disappointments In Venezuela

March 15, 2020 Marco Teruggi, Sputnik News. Educate! Elections, US coup, US Regime Change, Venezuela

The Venezuelan right faces a sustained crisis in the ability to mobilize its social base. The latest actions have been an expression of that picture of little strength that cannot be disguised. March 10 should be the day to reverse that trend. The call for mobilization, led by the self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó, lasted three weeks and the promise was greater than before: this time it was about reaching the National Assembly (AN), in the center of Caracas, the heart of power national politician. People gathered in Chacao, in the east of the city, the usual opposition area, around 10 am local time. As Guaidó had announced, during this gathering, flyers with the slogans to find out how to mobilize during the day would be delivered.

US And OAS Lobby For Nicaraguan ‘Political Prisoners’ Who Murder

March 1, 2020 Ben Norton, The Grayzone. Educate! Nicaragua, OAS, State Violence, US coup

Jinotepe, Nicaragua – “It was wrong to let him out. Because maybe if he were locked up he wouldn’t have killed my niece,” Yadira Acevedo cried out, holding back tears. “What we are asking for is justice,” she continued as she showed me photos of the young woman, Ruth Aburto, on her cracked phone. On her niece’s killer, the message was simple: “He has to pay!” Were it not for the efforts of Nicaragua’s political opposition, or for pressure from the US government, Aburto would be alive today. Tragically, her boyfriend’s name appeared on a database of supposed “political prisoners” compiled by a top US government-backed opposition group.

Interim Bolivian Government Taps Same Lobby Firm Hired To Sell The Coup In Honduras

February 12, 2020 Lee Fang, Resumen English. Educate! Bolivia, Honduras, US coup

Coup President Jeanine Áñez, who came to power in November, has rejected claims that her predecessor, Evo Morales, was ousted in a coup — while cracking down on dissent and calling for new elections to solidify the rule of conservative opposition forces that seized control of the government in Morales’s absence. As many critics have noted, the cycle bears a striking similarity to the coup d’etat that ousted Honduran President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya a decade ago. The left-wing leader was whisked out of office by the military, only to be replaced with an interim government led by right-wing opposition forces that swiftly consolidated power through a controversial election process. The parallels were apparently not lost on the Bolivia’s new rulers.

Film: Nicaragua: The April Crisis & Beyond

February 5, 2020 Dan Kovalik, Camera Viva Resistance Report Nicaragua, US coup

Nicaragua: The April Crisis & Beyond (50 min.) is a documentary film that explores the troubling events of the summer of 2018 in which much of Nicaragua was enveloped in chaos and violence. The film, which includes interviews with Nicaraguans from Managua, Leon, Grenada and the rural town of Santa Teresa, as well as with ex-pats who moved to Nicaragua to support the revolutionary process there, paints a very different picture than that presented in the mainstream press. The film shows that the Sandinista government, far from being the villain in the events of 2018, acted in a restrained and cautious way to confront a counter-revolutionary movement, funded from abroad, which attempted to sew violence and chaos to topple the government and destroy the Sandinista Revolution. The film also shows generally how the Sandinista Revolution, begun in 1979, changed people’s’ lives for the better and how it continues to be a viable and effective force 40 years later.

An Epic Act Of Resistance And Trial Of Our Times

January 26, 2020 Lauren Smith, Telesur English. Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, Trump Administration, US coup, Venezuela

The U.S. government’s accusation against of the four members of the Embassy Protectors Collective is merely a pretext used for their arrest and prosecution, since they haven’t broken any laws. On Feb. 11, four American peace activists, known as the Embassy Protectors Collective, will be tried before the U.S. empire for “interfering with certain protective functions” of its Federal government for their occupation of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. to prevent it from being handed over to coup leaders sponsored by the Trump administration. Their occupation ended on May 16, 2019, when federal agents broke into the sealed embassy, against international law, and arrested them in a swat style raid. The government’s accusation against them is merely a pretext used for their arrest and prosecution since they haven’t broken any laws.

MAS Party Under Threat as Bolivia Moves Towards New Elections (Without Evo)

January 19, 2020 By Emily Achtenberg, Rebel Currents, NACLA Educate! Bolivia, Elections, Evo Morales, US coup

As anthropologist Nicole Fabricant has argued, to defeat Bolivia’s ascendant right-wing forces—which will continue to be nourished and fortified by the Añez regime during the run-up to the election—will require a broad united front of left-Indigenous groups across the historic pro- and anti-Morales divide. For the MAS, choosing a presidential slate that is more independent of Morales could help to appeal to popular opposition sectors. For the anti-Morales left, which has been disturbingly silent regarding the Añez regime’s abuses, taking a stand against political persecution, racist discourse, and the erosion of democracy occurring under the de facto government could go a long way towards reconciliation.

Bolivia’s MAS Leader: “Our Advantage Is Not To Be Afraid Of Death In Defense Of The Country”

December 24, 2019 Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Bolivia, Evo Morales, Human Rights, US coup

The arrival of Evo Morales to Argentina was accompanied by a massive arrival of leaders of his party, the Movement to Socialism (MAS), to meet with him and outline the policy to face the coup in Bolivia. Among those who traveled to Buenos Aires for these days was Rodolfo Machaca from the Political Directorate of the MAS, former Deputy Minister of Interculturality and leader of the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB). In dialogue with NOTAS, he denounced the dictatorship of Jeanine Añez which continues to violate human rights, persecuting the population and delivering the country’s natural resources to multinationals. However, he was optimistic about next year’s elections.

TIME Magazine Won’t Say It, But Maduro Is The Man Of The Year

December 19, 2019 By Iroel Sánchez, La Pupula Insomne, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau. Educate! Democracy, Nicolas Maduro, US coup, Venezuela

On January 4, 2019, the governments of the now decadent Grupo de Lima announced that from January 10 – the date on which, after winning elections whose numbers were better in terms of majority and participation than those legitimized by several of the leaders who questioned him, Nicolás Maduro would be proclaimed President of Venezuela – they would no longer recognize the Bolivarian government as the representative of the Venezuelan people. From that moment on, the actions, sanctions and statements against Maduro’s government followed one after the other without pause. Visible was an open presence of the United States government, in the person of its President, its Vice President, its Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor.

Chile: People Come To This Square For Bread, Not Weapons

December 15, 2019 J. Lynn Jackson, Popular Resistance. Resist! Chile, Dictatorship, Neoliberalism, US coup

On November 14, Chile's indigenous nations called for a day of peaceful solidarity, remembrance, and ritual in Santiago's central square, which still bears its colonial name, Plaza de Armas (Weapons Square). It was the one-year anniversary of when police in the south of Chile killed a Mapuche man, Camilo Catrillanca. On all four sides of the square (about the size of two soccer fields) we counted and photographed no fewer than 40 heavily armed police in military-style riot gear and about five tear gas tanks and two water cannons. This was not for one of the bigger gatherings 10 blocks away in what the pro-democracy protesters now call Dignity Plaza. This massive show of force unlike anything I've seen in the US - supposedly to "keep the peace" - was for about 2000 people who gathered in front of the nation's Catholic Cathedral in order to pray to the four directions, light candles, sing songs, fly flags and dance.

United States Takes Drastic Measures As It Loses Control Of Latin America

December 2, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Neoliberalism, OAS, US coup, US Imperialism, Venezuela

This week, Latin American countries allied with the United States are meeting in Colombia to invoke a post-World War II treaty, the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, TIAR in Spanish, which would permit military intervention in Venezuela. This comes as the US-appointed coup-leader Juan Guaido faces the end of his term as president of the Venezuelan National Assembly and all efforts to install him as the president of Venezuela have failed. We speak with William Camacaro, a Venezuelan activist living in the United States, about the impact of TIAR and what people in the United States can do to stop US interference in Venezuela. We also discuss what is happening in the region as the United States loses control. Plus, we provide current news and analysis.

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