Category: Coup

Pinochet’s Caravan of Death and Its Significance for Chilean Memory

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Ramona Wadi | Strategic Culture Foundation | September 12, 2021

Chile’s September 11, in 1973, brought a brutal end to Salvador Allende’s socialist rule. In its wake, violence permeated Chilean society, through the U.S.-backed military coup which was to provide gruesome inspiration for the later regional systematic surveillance and elimination of socialists and communists known as Operation Condor, in which several Latin American countries were involved.

Pinochet’s Caravan of Death and Its Significance for Chilean Memory

Guinea and the Military Coup Incubator, AFRICOM + Guinea’s Shiny New Military Government, Brought to You by U.S. Interference

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Guinea and the Military Coup Incubator, AFRICOM

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The coup in Guinea was backed by the United States, in its unending imperialist war drive as the new Cold War spreads in Africa. Washington’s goal? Move China out of the mining business. Kambale Musavuli, activist, writer, and analyst with the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa, explains.

Guinea’s Shiny New Military Government, Brought to You by U.S. Interference

Why Isn’t U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua Working?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

After the U.S.-Russian summit in June, there was no apparent irony in President Biden’s response to a question about electoral interference. “Let’s get this straight,” he said. “How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?” But of course much of the world does take this view; by one count the United States has intervened in no fewer than 81 elections between 1946 and 2000, many of them in Latin America. Biden’s question reveals a fundamental gap in U.S. foreign policymaking: Why do its leaders appear unable to judge how U.S. actions are seen by ordinary people in the countries they affect?

Why Isn’t U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua Working?