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Bolsonaro’s Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil’s Indigenous Genocide

Kit Klarenburg delves into the brutality meted out during the tenure of former President Jair Bolsonar by Brazil's infamous Rural Indigenous Guard—an undercover, lethal elite police force clandestinely established by the CIA.
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VIDEO: Ecuador’s gov’t buckles under indigenous strike pressure

In part 3 of our documentary series on the indigenous-led rebellion against the neoliberal policies of Ecuador’s billionaire president, Guillermo Lasso, we examine the government’s agreement with the strikers and the tactics that overcame Quito’s harsh repression.
The post VIDEO: Ecuador’s gov’t buckles under indigenous strike pressure appeared first on The Grayzone.

VIDEO: Ecuador’s uprising escalates despite violent gov’t repression

The Grayzone interviews leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous-led revolt against the neoliberal policies of billionaire banker and President Guillermo Lasso, documenting how his security forces have escalated violent repression against demonstrators, and treated them as enemy combatants while protest ranks fill with society’s most desperate members.
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VIDEO: Ecuador’s indigenous revolt against their neoliberal president

The Grayzone spoke with leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous movements, now engaged in ferocious street protests against the privatization policies of President Guillermo Lasso, a billionaire banker. The activists defended their demands and detailed the brutal repression they have witnessed as their rebellion spreads across one of the last right-wing controlled countries on the South American continent.  

Nicaragua explains why it’s leaving OAS, responds to US attacks on its elections

Nicaraguan diplomat Michael Campbell Hooker tells The Grayzone’s Ben Norton why they are leaving the Organization of American States (OAS), which he says is a “failed,” “coup-plotting” organization dominated by Washington. Campbell also responds to US attempts to discredit Nicaragua’s November elections, and explains the importance of autonomy for Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities on the Caribbean Coast. Transcript BEN NORTON: This is Ben Norton with The Grayzone. I just sat down for an interview with Michael Campbell, a foreign policy […]

From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand

March 2, 2021 was the five year anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, who opposed the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras.  That date was less than one month after the deaths of dozens of people from Tehri Dam disaster in Uttarakhand, India.  The two stories together tell us far more about consequences of the […]
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Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

By Vandana Shiva In March 2015, Bill Gates showed an image of the coronavirus during a TED Talk and told the audience that it was what the greatest catastrophe of our time would look like. ...
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They’re Killing Us Like Dogs: A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help

I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power.