Tag: South America
Trade warfare and interference in the free functioning of the judiciary are the current expressions of United States interventionism in Latin America, particularly in Brazil.
With the largest economy in the region and the eighth-largest in the world, Brazil holds a central strategic importance for the United States in its...
A darling of the Bush II and Obama administrations, Álvaro Uribe Vélez has had close connections to the Medellín and Cali drug cartels along with fascist paramilitary groups that committed heinous crimes in a war against left-wing guerrillas
In late July, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002-2010) was sentenced...
The Supreme Court of Justice upheld the sentence against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) of six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office. The case involves fraudulent administration regarding the awarding of 51 road-construction projects in the southern province of Santa Cruz.
The first striking detail...
(2023)Black-geared men, what’s your mission?Enter the favela and leave bodies on the groundBlack-geared men, what do you do?We do things that shock Satan…..Black-geared men, to bring this to an endWe’re BOPE and we’re trained to killAnd I’ll killI’ll destroyDestructionThat’s our mission—Regimented cadence performed by Rio de Janeiro’s Special Operations...
President Luis Arce came to power in late 2020 with a leftist discourse and as the chosen successor to Evo Morales.
Five years later, he ends his term without the possibility of running for re-election (he stepped down after polling at just 1%) and with hundreds of political prisoners—all of...
”It’s state terror / I’m gonna speak up / Maybe my time’s up / The world doesn’t accept trophies I’ve won in battle … / That’s why there’s hate in my words / Explain to a child why his hero is behind bars.”— lyrics from “Anti O.R.U.A.M. Law,” by...
In Ecuador’s presidential runoff, it once again became clear that the main political force is “anti-Correísmo”—those who oppose former President Rafael Correa. Regardless of who the candidates are, the same side has consistently won in recent elections: the right-wing opponents of the Citizen Revolution (RC), Correa’s party. This time,...
Black America has the term “Uncle Tom” for sellouts. In South America, a “vendepatria” is someone who is willing to sell their homeland to the highest bidder. Simón Bolívar, José Marti and Jan-Jak Dessalin conceived of a united, integrated Americas, or “la patria grande,” “the big fatherland;” and fought...
Recently released documents as part of JFK dump show how CIA took charge of American embassies around the world operating under State Department cover
Revealed in the recent document dump from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection as mandated by a presidential directive was just how extensively and...
Preface
Evidence related to local Rio de Janeiro intelligence operations in these matters have not been ascertained. Incidents are fairly new and ongoing. Two separate arrests of the main subject of this investigative series occurred over a two-week period in February 2025: One was for reckless driving; the other involved...
