Counter Revolution

Celebrating The Sandinista Revolution, Ongoing Resistance To US Intervention

July 13, 2023 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, Nicaragua, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance/Clearing the Fog, July 11, 2023 On July 19, Nicaraguans will celebrate the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. This month also marks the fifth anniversary of the defeat of the US-backed coup attempt against President Daniel Ortega. Clearing the FOG speaks with solidarity activist and journalist John Perry, who is based in Masaya,[…]

Tennessee Goddam

April 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, Democracy and Consent, Racism, White Supremacy

Editorial, published on Workers World, April 10, 2023 Bulletin: The Nashville Metropolitan Council voted to have Rep. Justin Jones reinstated to the Tennessee House of Representatives. The Shelby County Commissioners will vote on whether to reinstate Rep. Justin Pearson. Alabama’s gotten me so upset Tennessee made me lose my rest And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam (Mississippi Goddam, Nina Simone,1964)[…]

Black People to Attack Revolutionary Governments

April 14, 2023 UNAC Editor Caribbean, Censorship and Propaganda, Counter Revolution, coup, Cuba, Latin America, Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s Troubles: A View From the Caribbean Coast Mike Phipps reviews: To Defend the Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua, by Courtney Desiree Morris, Published by Rutgers University Press by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, April 12, 2023 The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue[…]

Protests Spread in Peru Demanding President Pedro Castillo be Reinstated

December 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, coup, Lawfare, Peru

by Abayome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, December 14, 2022 Unrest continued in the South American state of Peru after the December 7 impeachment of socialist President Pedro Castillo. The ousted leader remained in detention after an entire week of demonstrations and clashes between supporters and opponents of the former teacher and union leader who was just elected in a[…]

Cuba: A Tale of Two Hurricanes

October 23, 2022 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, Cuba, U.S. Aggression

by Miriam Elizalde, produced by Globetrotter , October 14, 2022 Ernest Hemingway learned in Cuba that the best way to get through a hurricane is to have your ears tuned to a battery-powered radio and keep your hands busy with a bottle of rum and a hammer to nail down doors and windows. The American writer appropriated the typical jargon of[…]

21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America (so far)

January 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Counter Revolution, Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Latin America, Lawfare

by Stansfield Smith, published on Dissident Voice, January 6, 2022 During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon. However, this[…]

Nicaragua at a Revolutionary Crossroads and in Imperialist Crosshairs

October 10, 2021 UNAC Editor Black Liberation Movement, Counter Revolution, Indigenous peoples, Nicaragua

by Netfa Freeman, published on Hood Communist, September 2, 2021 U.S. attack on Nicaragua targets its Black community. There is a page in the playbook for U.S. imperialist regime change in Latin America that includes exploiting the identity politics of Blackness. A recent example was the unrest in Cuba a month ago that included a sophisticated attempt to paint the[…]

Post-Coup Covid-19 Report from Bolivia

July 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Counter Revolution, Indigenous peoples

from Resumen English, by Primera Linea, published July 21, 2020 Bolivia has surpassed the 61,000 person barrier of Covid-19 with more than 2,200 deaths in four distressing months of the pandemic. However, the official data only shows a small part of the reality, that which is used for inscrutable purposes. In the midst of this spiral of contagion that attacks[…]

Eye Witness to a Massacre in Bolivia

November 26, 2019 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Counter Revolution, Hybrid Warfare, Latin America

by Medea Benjamin, published on MintPress News, November 22, 2019 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[…]

After Morales Ousted in Coup, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia

November 20, 2019 UNAC Editor Bolivia, Counter Revolution, Indigenous peoples, Latin America

by Vijay Prashad, published on Common Dreams, November 12, 2019 Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. It is important to recall that Bolivia has suffered a[…]