The ongoing crises in Syria and Venezuela have been described by mainstream media as the result of failed leadership. In truth, their troubles are the result of U.S.-led regime change efforts masquerading as humanitarian aid to control both nations’ lucrative oil and gas industries.
Three South American countries are preparing to hold a large military drill near Venezuela later this year. The involvement of the U.S. military in the drill has raised concerns about the U.S.’ true intentions in the area, as it has already worked to covertly destabilize Venezuela’s economy.
The Mexican president’s meeting with Tintori reinforced his country’s pro-interventionist position on Venezuela.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is notorious for avoiding meetings with protesters. It took him an entire year to finally meet with the parents of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College who went missing in September 2014. Peña Nieto also cancelled talks with leaders of National Coordination of Education Workers, CNTE,
With just hours left for the Obama administration, independent geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser reviews the president’s legacy of destabilizing, militarizing, and exploiting Latin America.
“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world”
- William Shakespeare, from “Hamlet”
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Nicolas Maduro described Rousseff’s impeachment and removal as a parliamentary coup, stating the withdrawal of its ambassador is definitive.
The suspended Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff has been permanently removed from office by the country’s senate in an impeachment vote on Wednesday August 31, 2016. Rousseff was suspended in May 2016, after the senate voted to go ahead with the impeachment
Despite shifts on Cuba and Venezuela, the Obama administration’s appointment of a man who’s been involved in the overthrow of leftist governments since the 1980s, to head the White House’s top agency on Latin American affairs shows little may have really changed.
Mark Feierstein, former associate administrator for USAID and Washinton's new point man on Latin America, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Feierstein's legacy of covert regime change has many Latin American leaders questioning Washington's intents. WASHINGTON --- The Obama administration
One would be remiss not to look at the U.S. government’s rich history of orchestrated regime change.
