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In a nauseating interview on Pod Save America, Elizabeth Warren endorsed suffocating US sanctions on Venezuela, backing Trump’s strategy to stop their “ability to have an economy” while parroting neocon regime-change myths. She then whitewashed the far-right military coup in Bolivia. by Ben Norton Part 1 For the millions of Venezuelans suffering under a suffocating US blockade, there is no functional difference between Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren. In fact, the liberal Democratic presidential candidate just enthusiastically endorsed the far-right president’s strategy of relentless warfare against Venezuela and its nearly 30 million inhabitants. After praising the US government’s sanctions on Venezuela, which violate international law and have led to the preventable deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, Warren went on whitewash the far-right military coup in Bolivia, where the Trump administration has helped put racist Christian extremists and actual fascists in

globinfo freexchange Right after the coup in Bolivia the blog created a poll on Twitter, asking people which Latin America country they think it comes next. Naturally, Venezuela came in the first place with half of the votes. Yet, it was a kind of a small surprise to see Mexico in the second place with 22%, after the end of the poll. Initially, Nicaragua had a good chance to take the second place. Yet, it seems that the decision of Mexico to give asylum to Evo Morales, in order to protect him from the fascists, was decisive for the final result. Mexico has now a Leftist government and gave asylum to a Leftist leader. Someone could argue that the country has now become a top-priority target for the US imperialists. However, its size and its proximity to the US, may eventually save it, for now. A far-right xenophobic government, like Trump's, would probably hesitate to risk a political unrest next to its borders, because it could boost the migrant flows that would se

Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton Part 2 - Emerging from the shadows to lead a violent far-right putsch While Carlos Mesa timidly condemned the opposition’s violence, Camacho egged it on, ignoring calls for an international audit of the election and emphasizing his maximalist demand to purge all supporters of Morales from government. He was the true face of the opposition, concealed for months behind the moderate figure of Mesa. A 40-year-old multi-millionaire businessman from the separatist stronghold of Santa Cruz, Camacho has never run for office. Like Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó, whom more than 80 percent of Venezuelans had never heard of until the US government anointed him as supposed “president,” Camacho was an

"Bolivia's lithium belongs to the Bolivian people. Not to multinational corporate cabals." by Eoin Higgins The Sunday military coup in Bolivia has put in place a government which appears likely to reverse a decision by just-resigned President Evo Morales to cancel an agreement with a German company for developing lithium deposits in the Latin American country for batteries like those in electric cars. " Bolivia's lithium belongs to the Bolivian people, " tweeted Washington Monthly contributor David Atkins. " Not to multinational corporate cabals. " The coup, which on Sunday resulted in Morales resigning and going into hiding, was the result of days of protests from right-wing elements angry at the leftist Morales government. Sen. Jeanine Añez, of the center-right party Democratic Unity, is currently the interim president in the unstable post-coup government in advance of elections. Investment analyst publisher Argus urged investors t

The Last American Vagabond The US government armed Osama Bin Laden; it armed Saddam Hussain with chemical weapons to be used against Iran in 1980; it armed the very groups that later became ISIS. Yet we are sold an entirely different yarn by the US government and its lap dog MSM. James Corbett, once and for all, demonstrates who is actually responsible for the creation and the rise of ISIS. 

Απαγορευμένη λέξη αποτελεί και πάλι για τα διεθνή μέσα ενημέρωσης που καλύπτουν τις εξελίξεις στη Βολιβία o όρος «πραξικόπημα». Όπως φαίνεται, δεν τους αρκεί το γεγονός ότι ο πρόεδρος της χώρας, Έβο Μοράλες, εξωθήθηκε σε παραίτηση, ύστερα από παρέμβαση του αρχηγού γενικού επιτελείου στρατού. του Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου Δεν συγκινούνται ούτε από το γεγονός ότι κυβερνητικά στελέχη και μέλη τη εκλογικής επιτροπής συλλαμβάνονται από τους πραξικοπηματίες, ενώ τα σπίτια αρκετών πολιτικών (συμπεριλαμβανομένου του προέδρου) πυρπολούνται ή καταστρέφονται από ομάδες ακροδεξιών που στηρίζουν τη χούντα. Τα διεθνή media έχουν φτάσει στο σημείο να αποκρύπτουν αποσπάσματα από το τελευταίο διάγγελμα του Μοράλες, στο οποίο καταγγέλλει το πραξικόπημα, προκειμένου να προβάλλουν μια εικόνα κανονικότητας και συνταγματικής νομιμότητας. Οι εξελίξεις, όμως, έχουν όλα τα χαρακτηριστικά ενός πραξικοπήματος, το οποίο εξυφαίνονταν για χρόνια, με ενεργή παρέμβαση των ΗΠΑ. Στο επίκεντρο των προσπαθειών α

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globinfo freexchange We already pointed out Bernie Sanders' wrong position on several foreign policy matters, especially concerning Latin America. His latest completely unacceptable response was when a corporate stooge pushed him to admit that Nicolas Maduro is a dictator. Bernie did something even worse. He called the legitimate president of the country a "vicious tyrant".  Others, like Roger Waters, tried to warn him too.  Immediately after the coup against the democratically elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, many Leftist leaders around the world didn't hesitate to condemn it. Among them, the newly freed, former Brazilian President and political prisoner, Lula da Silva. In Europe, even moderates, like the former Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, rushed to side with Morales. And Jeremy Corbyn didn't hesitate to do the same, despite that he has a very crucial election ahead and the corporate media seek the slightest excuse to attack him. An

Bolivia’s ousted socialist president, Evo Morales, has credited Mexico with saving his life, after the country offered him political asylum following his resignation from government. " I am very grateful to the president and the Mexican people, because he saved my life, ” Morales said on Tuesday, after he arrived in Mexico City to claim political asylum. Unaccounted for in recent days, Morales decried the “coup” against him, and recounted how a member of his once-loyal military was offered $50,000 to turn him in to the opposition on Sunday. Morales was re-elected to the presidency in October, in an election result that opposition leaders called fraudulent. Though he offered to hold fresh elections, protests continued and Morales stepped down on Sunday following a police and military mutiny. Nevertheless, the socialist leader – who presided over Bolivia through a period of relative stability and economic growth – vowed to remain politically active in exile. “ As long as

Democracy Now! In Brazil, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was freed from prison Friday after 580 days behind bars. Lula’s surprise release came after the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled to end the mandatory imprisonment of people convicted of crimes who are appealing their cases. He was serving a 12-year sentence over a disputed corruption and money laundering conviction handed down by conservative Judge Sérgio Moro, an ally of current far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and has long maintained his innocence. Lula has vowed to challenge Bolsonaro in the 2022 elections. At the time of his imprisonment in April 2018, Lula was leading the presidential polls. A new documentary, “The Edge of Democracy,” chronicles the imprisonment of Lula and impeachment of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. It also looks at the aftermath of the rise of President Jair Bolsonaro — a former military captain who glorifies Brazil’s past military regime, denies the climate cri