Echo Chamber posted:

Sorry; I know it's been goldmined, but I was still inspired.

Frijolero posted:

Roll pink tide

RottenK posted:

did you know that cuba and venezuela have a giant, well funded network of superspies that are secretly orchestrating the uprisings against pure, innocent capitalists who just want to create jobs, preserve freedom and make everyone wealthier

comedyblissoption posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WHqnxjfx4

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Activista boliviana por #DDHH. Bolivian Human Rights Activist. Co-fundadora @RiosDePie @StandingRivers. Freedom Fellowship Manager @HRF & @OsloFF. Opinions mine

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A controversial son of Venezuela's elite brings a Cold War sensibility to the chaotic 21st century. "I'm not washing my hands here," says Thor Halvorssen.

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"The truth is that I'm a rather unfortunate son of Venezuela's elite," Halvorssen said in an interview with me on the last day of the Oslo Freedom Forum in May. We were up in the press room in the Christiania Theater in central Oslo where he had impressed the importance of Christian Bale on Chen Guangcheng, a few blocks away from the Royal Palace. I had been waiting to do the interview for about an hour as Halvorssen buzzed around the room, talking to his staff, introducing people to each other, and becoming absorbed in his laptop at random intervals.

Halvorssen's name is as Nordic as anyone else in the forum's host country, but culturally and linguistically, he belongs nowhere. He speaks four languages fluently — English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese — and says he understands Norwegian, adding, rather cryptically, that "it's easier" if people don't know he speaks it.

Halvorssen was born in Venezuela, as were his two siblings (a younger sister named Randi, a Pilates instructor in England, and older brother Edward, a construction contractor in Miami). His mother, Hilda Mendoza (also at the conference, along with Randi), is a descendant of Simón Bolivar whose family has been in Venezuela since the 1530s, Halvorssen says. His father, Thor, and uncle Olaf were in their day "Venezuela's most eligible playboys," as The New York Times described them, and the elder Thor was a senior aide to President Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodriguez.

The first Pérez term — he served twice, once from 1974–1979, and the second time from 1989–1993 — was a time of newfound prosperity in Venezuela, as Pérez, who had been exiled during an earlier authoritarian period, nationalized the country's oil industry. The second was more challenging, marked by unrest and coup attempts as well as a $4.5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. One of the coups was led by Hugo Chávez. Pérez was impeached and booted from office in 1993 for corruption. The elder Halvorssen served as the president of the state telephone company during Pérez's first term, and the anti-drug minister in the second.

In 1993, Halvorssen fell from grace and found himself locked up. In an op-ed he published in 1994 in the Wall Street Journal, he wrote that his work led him to "incontrovertible evidence of money-laundering in Venezuelan banks" and that he alerted U.S. authorities. Halvorssen was arrested shortly thereafter and beaten, he wrote, as well as "psychologically and physically tortured." He was accused of having planned a series of bombings in Caracas the year before.

The elder Halvorssen was also a CIA informant, though never a paid agent. He admitted to the University of Pennsylvania's newspaper that he had worked closely with Duane Clarridge, a former top CIA official in Latin America who was indicted during the Iran-Contra affair and who now runs his own spy agency.

The younger Halvorssen rejects the idea that his father had a special relationship with the CIA.

"My father was the ambassador for drugs," he told me. "He talked to every government and every intelligence agency. It's an absurd statement. When he was in prison, all sorts of stuff started coming out. [Pablo] Escobar's people were on a rampage to silence him."

As his father fought it out in Venezuela's domestic politics, which would soon be reshaped by a new left under Col. Hugo Chávez, the younger Halvorssen went off to college at family alma mater Penn. He edited an alternative conservative school paper called Red and Blue and lived the life of an American college kid, albeit one more worldly than most. His crowd was "the international crowd," he told me. "Lots of Brazilians, Mexicans, and Persians." Halvorssen found ways to cross paths with influential American and international figures.

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Halvorssen is a Venezuelan citizen but hasn't been back there in five years. He says he'll be arrested if he returns. He is also, for a sort of international celebrity, an intensely private figure: He refuses to talk about his sexuality or relationships on the record ("irrelevant"), or where he lives exactly, citing death threats he's received (though he is based in the United States and travels constantly). He even refuses to discuss his hobbies on the record. "That's irrelevant for BuzzFeed or anywhere else," he said. He did tell me about how he has already paid up to have his body cryogenically frozen, an idea he says he picked up from Peter Thiel.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/is-this-the-face-of-a-new-global-human-rights-movement#.eregxXQQXa

Algund Eenboom posted:

Idk if there's anything suspicious about a coup supporter appearing in a couped nation several years ahead of time to teach "pro-democracy tactics" when they're a paid member of an organization founded by a cia operative that runs child porn-distribution apps and has a close relationship to israeli intelligence services. Thats normal

Fast Luck posted:

https://twitter.com/prostgrad/status/1194060070188978176?s=21

This is the same woman that when Brazilian ranchers set the Amazon on fire said Morales also was not good enough for the environment and was to blame, and she was one of the early ones pushing that bs #SOSBolivia hashtag (a replica of the #SOSNicaragua hashtag from the attempted coup there). She also got picked up by mainstream media at that time. She’s just a sweet progressive and environmentalist recently back from Harvard who oh by the way is now cheering violent fascist Christian freaks as they coup the elected government who will surely unleash Bolsonaro-style scorched earth against the indigenous and the Bolivian rainforest.

[url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49481710]BBC: Amazon fires: What about Bolivia?[/url]

100% poisoning the well for Evo among western liberals ahead of the planned election-time coup amplified by the MSM - and this was picked up without scrutiny by western climate activists. 100% CIA.

Breakfast All Day posted:

i ventured briefly into the wrong forum to see if the same people going to bat for guaido were gonna do so again. not only are they but theyre still insisting guaido wasnt US backed

coups are just news seasons of American's Next Top Military-Mediated Democracy to these people

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1194394098486173699?s=20

gradenko_2000 posted:

freckle posted:

https://twitter.com/JhanisseVDaza/status/1194389343072391168

comedyblissoption posted:

the US has a history of inserting saboteurs in target countries to attack their infrastructure, it doesn't just have to be about the coups

Algund Eenboom posted:

They have an xtremely ramshackle website that doesn't even fit on the screen properly https://www.silvercorpusa.com/ "We also offer consultation and to local and state law enforcement. Our Agents have advised some of the most prolific units on the planet to include Delta Force, Israeli Duvdevan, German KSK, Polish Grom, Italian Col Moskin, British SAS, and French GIGN." lol

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Militaires Sans Intelligence