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After Socialist Victory in Bolivia, Media Still Whitewash Coup
Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party won a decisive victory in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday, with its candidate Luis Arce apparently winning by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff, likely achieving an absolute majority. The leading opposing candidate, neoliberal Carlos Mesa, and the right-wing unelected President Jeanine Áñez congratulated Arce on… Continue reading
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As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup
Reports like the Washington Post‘s (11/10/19) failed to convey the reality that Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced out by the military. In the Bolivian elections last October 20, incumbent President Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS in Spanish) won a 10-point victory over his nearest challenger, as pre-election polls predicted. The… Continue reading
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WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup
President Evo Morales won re-election in Bolivia’s presidential election last October 20, as pre-election polls predicted. He received 47% of the vote in an election with 88% turnout. He beat his nearest rival by just over 10 percentage points, which meant a second round was not required. Continue reading
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Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and multi-millionaire – with foreign support
When Luis Fernando Camacho stormed into Bolivia’s abandoned presidential palace in the hours after President Evo Morales’s sudden November 10 resignation, he revealed to the world a side of the country that stood at stark odds with the plurinational spirit its deposed socialist and Indigenous leader had put forward. Continue reading
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We will come back, says Bolivia’s Evo Morales after rightist coup forces him to resign
Amidst a right wing coup, Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign Sunday. Evo’s forced exit from the Bolivian presidency was a right wing coup by army and police chieftains with imperialist backing. Continue reading
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Prosur, Plan Condor II: Latin America Under Threat
The political changes in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years have been reflected in a serious weakening of regional multilateral organizations. The nefarious and retrograde OAS was revived, which, symbolically, is a serious antecedent against regional sovereignty, and perhaps we are now witnessing the emergence of Plan Condor II. Continue reading
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Assange Newslinks 17-18 August 2012
18 August 2012 Australian government lines up behind British threats against AssangeWorld Socialist Web Site Today at 17:01 Canberra’s refusal to publicly criticise, let alone challenge, the British government further demonstrates its role as a co-conspirator in the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 17 August 2012
17 August 2012 Ecuador determined to save AssangeStrategic Culture Foundation Today at 10:27 Continue reading
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My Return to Haiti By Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Ever since being driven into exile by the United States in 2004, the democratically elected former president of Haiti has sought to return to his devastated country, now occupied and dominated by foreigners. ‘An exogenous plan of reconstruction – one that is profit-driven, exclusionary, conceived of and implemented by non-Haitians,’ says Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ‘cannot reconstruct… Continue reading
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Colombia and Venezuela Rattle Their Sabres By Jeffery R. Webber
Outgoing Colombian President, Álvaro Uribe, dropped a figurative bomb in the Andes on Thursday, July 22, just weeks before the scheduled inauguration of President-elect Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe’s former Defence Minister. At the behest of Bogotá, an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) was convened to hear Colombia’s… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine latest publications 21-25 March, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-03-25 Aleksandr SALITZKY Vladimir TATSIY China’s Accelerating Economic Growth (II) “ China’s huge package of economic stimuli continues to draw attention worldwide. The investments into manufacturing assets in 2009 totaled 22 trillion yuan, a 30.1% hike compared to 2008 The super-ambitious investment plan intended to keep the Chinese economy crisis-free is being… Continue reading
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Haiti Report for December 30, 2009
The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described in Haiti and international media prepared by Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY. Continue reading
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Cunning Micheletti Determined to Outfox Zelaya, Insouciant U.S. Diplomats; Meanwhile, Clinton Delivers a Likely Fatal Blow to Ousted Honduran President Zelaya’s Already Grim Prospects
After adamantly rejecting all attempted negotiations, the Honduran de facto government signed an agreement on October 29th ostensibly opening space for a potential resolution to the country’s four-month standoff. The agreement called for the formation of a unity government that will assume power and oversee the November 29th presidential elections. But even under the most… Continue reading
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"Honduran Popular Movements Wait for Insulza outside OAS in Tegucigalpa"
Bolivarian News Agency (ABN) correspondent Freddy Fernández reported that members of Honduran popular movements, numbering 100,000 today, will persevere outside the OAS facilities in Tegucigalpa till they can petition Insulza for the unconditional return of President Manuel Zelaya to presidency. Continue reading
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Honduras: Fidel Castro Ruz, "A Suicidal Error"
Before dawn today they deployed 200 professional and well-trained soldiers to attack the president’s residence. Roughly pushing aside the Honor Guard squadron, they then kidnapped Zelaya, who was sleeping at that point, took him to the air base, forcibly bundled him aboard an airplane, and transported him to an air base in Costa Rica. Continue reading
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Who is Representing Who? The Haitian People Need a Lobbyist By RICHARD MORSE
If the Main Stream Media ignores the recent Haitian elections, maybe it’s because no one is supposed to say that it was a voting nightmare. When you hold an election and no one shows up, it’s a nightmare. Continue reading
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Emir Sader, “‘What about Cuba, Mr. Obama?’”
More than four decades and ten US presidents later, Cuba is still alive. It in fact has broken the blockade, not only through its links with other countries of the continent — even Costa Rica, the last in Latin America, just restored its relations with Cuba — but also through its ability to revive tourism,… Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: Evo Morales: I want to declare myself as a marxist and communist, let's see if the OAS expels me
‘Cuba was expelled for being Leninist, Marxist, communist. I want to say to the members of the OAS, here, I want to declare myself Marxist, Leninist, communist, socialist and now let them expel me Continue reading
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U.S. reaps what it sows in Bolivia
While it appears too late for this White House to roll back the present tide of anti-U.S. sentiment in the region, the next U.S. president must embrace the irreversible changes that have taken hold among our neighbors to the south. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 