Information leaked from the United States embassy in Bolivia, systematized, among others, by the Center for Multidisciplinary Geopolitical Studies (CEGM), reveals a new plan by the United States to carry out the recolonization of Latin America. What is this plan about? Why would this recolonization be so urgent?
Currently, the world is experiencing the transition from a unipolar world governed by the United States to a multipolar world with various development poles. In this context, the greatest danger to American hegemony is the BRICS alliance, made up of: China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Hence the urgency to retake the “lost territory.”
According to economic projections, by 2050 China and India will occupy the first two places as world powers, displacing the northern country to third place. The fear that this would materialize caused, according to the CEGM, the United States to initiate a series of “plays” to ensure that it maintains its place as a world power. These are some of the most obvious:
Stop the development of the BRICS through several actions: Promote the war in Ukraine between Russia and NATO; support the Israeli invasion of Palestine to appropriate the Chinese trade routes in the Mediterranean Sea, the “Silk Road”, and politically divide Latin America.
At a macro level, to put it more precisely, the objectives of the plan called “Simón Bolívar” are to prevent Latin America from becoming economically empowered through trade with two Asian giants: China and India.
The next step, which would already be being carried out, is to isolate countries that are not related to it, that is: Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela. This, favoring the opposition and amplifying disputes between countries, with the collaboration of three bastions of American support: Peru, Ecuador and Argentina, a maneuver that would have already been implemented.
Specifically in the case of Bolivia, the strategy would be focused on its natural resources and the consolidation of a servile and right-wing government, for this reason the United States has as a priority the breakup of the MAS-IPSP seeking to make that instrument disappear from the political scene. .
To ensure that this hypothetical candidate comes to power in 2025, not only is the rupture within the MAS-IPSP supported, but it is also seeking to build an “outsider”, an outside candidate who has not yet appeared in the polls and who would be an option. the right and the large mass of undecided voters.
Regarding natural resources, the aim would be to take the largest lithium reserve in the world, taking advantage of and promoting the growth of the political crisis, which would result in an economic crisis increased by the obstruction of credits by operators in the Assembly. And it would not only be lithium that is the desired resource, but also reserves of iron, uranium and rare earths. This is not impossible, since Bolivia is surrounded by US military bases. The closest ones are on the border between Tarija and Argentina, where the US Southern Command gained strength.
The operators of this entire plan in Bolivia are Debra Hevia, the new US chargé d’affaires, a technocrat who has already started leadership training programs, and met with politicians from different parties and organizations throughout the country. Likewise, organizations through which the plan is financed would be involved: National Foundation for Democracy, the Institute of International Relations, the DEA, the Freedom and Democracy Foundation, directed by Tuto Quiroga in Santa Cruz, the Ríos de Pie foundation, the Construir Foundation, Comunidad Ciudadana, the Latin American Informative Alliance, Military Church Support Group – Centurian Project (Fort Bragg), and the Cruceñista Youth Union supported by Zvonko Matkovic.
Regarding the politicians included as part of these actions, the mayors Manfred Reyes Villa and Jhonny Fernández, and the former presidents Carlos Mesa and Jorge Quiroga. Within the Assembly, Luisa Nayar and Andrea Barrientos would be involved and, externally, the businessman Samuel Doria Medina, who was a candidate for the presidency on more than one occasion.
Many of the events detailed in this plan are occurring at this time, which would give more credibility to its existence and consolidation.
Beirut, Apr 8 (Prensa Latina) The head of the Cuban mission in Lebanon, Jorge León, reiterated here today his condemnation of the Israeli attack perpetrated against the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria.
During the signing of the book of condolences at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in this capital, León emphasized that such aggression by Tel Aviv constitutes a flagrant violation of Syrian sovereignty and the norms and laws of International Law.
According to a note to which Prensa Latina had access, the Antillean diplomat conveyed, on behalf of the Cuban government and people, sincere condolences to the authorities of the Islamic Republic, extended to the families of the victims and to the brother Iranian people.
In this sense, the Caribbean official pointed out that Cuba considers unacceptable these actions that increase the risk of escalation and regionalization of the conflict with unpredictable consequences.
A week ago, an Israeli attack destroyed the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital, causing the death of 11 people, including seven soldiers from the Islamic Republic.
From the Bahamas, Belize, Japan and Argentina, solidarity activists, friends of Cuba, compatriots and Cuban health collaborators joined the international caravan demanding the end of the US Government’s blockade, the Foreign Ministry reported.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the caravan against the North American siege called by the Puentes de Amor organization mobilized people in several cities under the slogan “Wherever you are, raise your voice for the Cuban people.”
“Among all Cubans inside and outside the island, we can do a lot to mitigate the effects of the blockade,” Cuban-American Carlos Lazo, organizer of this initiative that has become a movement, declared to Prensa Latina, which mobilized hundreds of people last Sunday. of each month and develops solidarity actions with the island.
Likewise, members of the Union of Cuban Residents in Argentina denounced the effects of North American policy against the largest of the Antilles and demanded an end to interference in Cuba’s internal affairs.
In Panama City, nationals and Cubans condemned the siege from the top of the emblematic Ancón hill, an elevation of 199 meters above sea level where the tricolor flag flies, a symbol of sovereignty for the Isthmus people.
The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, highlighted the mobilizations carried out this Sunday in the world through his profile on the social network faces a genocidal blockade imposed by the United States.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez also thanked the displays of solidarity and expressed in that social network that this Sunday “solidarity towards our people from different latitudes shone again.”
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples also reported activities of this nature in Australia, Nicaragua, Canada and Bolivia, among other countries.
On 6 April 1960, the US diplomat Lester D Mallory wrote a memo advocating an embargo “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. Sixty-four years later and the policy that Cubans call el bloqueo (the blockade) is still in force. It hasn’t achieved its stated aim of overturning the Cuban Revolution – but it has fueled years of desperation and justified anger.
Barack Obama came to recognize this by his second term. During a historic 2016 visit to Havana, he said that he had come “to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the Americas” and “to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people”. By then his administration had already made tangible steps in that direction.
US restrictions on travel and remittances were eased and the countries’ respective embassies were reopened in Havana and Washington DC. Crucially, Cuba was also removed from the state-sponsors-of-terrorism list and allowed to do business with US banks that are the linchpin of the world financial system. History’s longest standing sanctions regime was not completely dismantled, but the progress was immense, with benefits seen almost immediately by Cuban workers.
The surprise election of Donald Trump changed all of that. Influenced by Cuban-American politicians like Marco Rubio and a vocal lobby in Miami, he restored travel restrictions and banned dealings with state companies that comprise the bulk of Cuba’s economy. But Trump’s most provocative action came just days before he left office in January 2021, when he returned Cuba to the state-sponsors-of-terrorism list. This despite the two countries cooperating extensively on counterterrorism and successful Cuban efforts to encourage Latin American guerrilla groups like Farc to end armed struggle.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised a return to Obama’s approach, but he has delivered little change. Cuba remains isolated from important sources of trade and finance – even from non-US actors – as a result. These difficult conditions led to recent protests against food shortages and electricity outages in Santiago and much more widespread demonstrations throughout the island in July 2021.
Hawks in the US see a state in its weakest position in decades and believe that inflicting even more pressure on the Cuban people will lead to the end of Communist party rule. In reality, the embargo has only slowed down promising reform efforts and allowed the government to credibly blame economic conditions on an outside force.
Actions against Cuba started before Mallory’s memo, immediately following the 1959 victory of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces against the hated Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Ironically, considering the longstanding US designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, actions supported by Washington ranged from small acts of industrial sabotage to attacks on civilians to a full-scale invasion in 1961.
Despite this pressure, the Castro government implemented important measures. A literacy campaign reached more than 700,000 people, mostly in neglected rural areas. These Cubans also benefited from sweeping land reform, rural electrification and the nationwide establishment of free, high-quality healthcare and education. A one-party state was established, but there was widespread support for and participation in these efforts.
Abroad, the work of Cuban doctors and technical specialists continues to be praised across the developing world. Medical brigades have been sent to over 100 countries since the revolution, including after the 2010 Haitian earthquake and the 2014 west African Ebola outbreak. In the last two decades, another effort has cured 3 million patients in developing countries of visual impairments.
The role of Cuban military forces was also instrumental in the defeat of apartheid. At the cost of thousands dead and wounded, Cuba and their Angolan allies beat back the South African army in an effort that Nelson Mandela said “destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor” and “served as an inspiration to the struggling people of South Africa”.
Yet the economy underwriting these efforts was built on a shaky foundation. To counteract the impact of US embargo, Cuba became dependent on Soviet bloc support. Comecon countries provided subsidized oil, food and machine parts. They also offered a market for sugar, nickel and other exports at above-market rates. In 1989, 13m tons of fuel were imported from the Soviet Union alone, which also supplied Cuba with 63% of its food imports and 80% of its imported machinery. Meanwhile, most of Cuba’s sugar, citrus and nickel exports were sold to the USSR.
Eastern bloc support managed to mask some of the weaknesses in Cuba’s state-run economy, but the embargo itself predetermined the over-reliance on subsidies that Washington directly pressured Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev to wind up. After the final collapse of European state socialism, the economic situation in Cuba went from strained to catastrophic.
With popular discontent mounting in the early 1990s, Castro declared “a special period in time of peace”. Investment projects were put on hold; electricity consumption was slashed, along with food and clothing rations. Key factories were forced to shutter for absence of imported inputs. A lack of fertilizers and spare parts for tractors led to a freefall in agriculture. Cuban GDP dropped 40% in the early 1990s alone.
In Washington, the crisis was seen as an opportunity to score a final cold war victory. The rightwing Heritage Foundation called Castro not just “an anachronism, but a dangerous one” and pressed for a heightening of the embargo to finally produce “its intended result of destabilizing the island’s communist government”. The Clinton administration followed their script in lockstep. A tightening economic embargo was headlined by the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which expanded the scope of prohibited transactions and increased sanctions on violators, including foreign companies.
For America’s ideologues, questions of property rights were always foregrounded. Helms-Burton allowed US citizens whose wealth was redistributed by the Cuban revolution to sue individuals and companies that “trafficked” in those long-expropriated assets. Despite some Democratic opposition in Congress, Bill Clinton trumpeted the act as a measure that would “encourage the development of a market economy”.
Yet, Cuba adapted during the special period and survived. It opened itself to foreign investment, promoted tourism as a source of hard currency and decentralized some of its economy. The country also found new allies, with the election of a wave of leftwing governments in the region. Venezuela, in particular, provided vital oil and financial aid in return for Cuban medical and teaching assistance.
Reform efforts hastened after Raul Castro succeeded his brother in 2008, with a tripartite model of growth that married the traditional state economy with international investment and private entrepreneurship. Economic performance was mixed, particularly in agricultural and energy sectors, but more open debates about necessary changes and new experiments showed a government on the right track. Obama’s fleeting opening encouraged these positive tendencies.
Trump’s U-turn from his predecessor couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Cuban people. Already suffering from the health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on international tourism, the Cuban economy sharply contracted in 2020. High fuel and food prices were made worse by the country’s virtual inability to trade in even exempted items with its superpower neighbor. Even banks not headquartered in the US feared processing state-owned companies’ payments to international suppliers, much less financing development efforts. Long insulated from austerity, it was clear that the island’s lauded health and education programs also suffered in this environment.
Cubans were deprived of their material necessities, but Washington wasn’t any closer to its “regime change” ambitions. On the campaign trail, Biden rightly spoke of Trump’s “failed Cuba policy” and signaled a willingness to return to Obama’s approach. In office, however, he has done little to change course.
The embargo has not just stymied Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel’s recent reform efforts, it has colored 65 years of his country’s development. By some counts, it has cost more than $140bn in total, far outweighing Soviet support for Cuba, which in any case lasted less than half of the revolution’s history.
Simply, the US owes a debt to the Cuban people for its decades of economic warfare. At the very least, the president should make good on his campaign promises and immediately remove Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. If the US can establish full relations with Vietnam, a one-party state that it engaged in bloody armed conflict against for years, there is no reason why its cold war with Cuba cannot end.
Our message should be simple: let Cubans decide the future of Cuba without coercion. It’s time to overcome the objections of a small lobby of hawks and cease a policy that stands against the interests of ordinary Americans and Cubans alike.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel published on his profile on the social network X that “Several people have expressed their dissatisfaction with the situation of the electrical service and the distribution of food.” This is how he spoke about the events in Santiago de Cuba on 03/17 when some citizens protested in the streets.
The president added that “this context is being attempted to be taken advantage of by the enemies of the Revolution, for destabilizing purposes.”
He also mentioned that “very soon it will be 64 years since the well-known Lester Mallory Memorandum, explaining the criminal objective of the US economic and financial blockade of Cuba so that hunger and deprivation cause social unrest.”
According to declassified documents of the time, the Memorandum stated that “all possible means must be adopted as soon as possible to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision that would bring about a line of action that, while being as skillful and discreet as possible, would make the greatest progress by denying money and supplies to Cuba, reducing monetary policy and real wages. , to cause hunger, desperation and overthrow of the government.”
According to the Cuban president, “the troupe of the infamous wanted to go out [on 03/17] to dance with the pain of the Cubans. Mediocre politicians and terrorists in networks lined up from South Florida to heat up the streets of Cuba with interventionist messages and calls for chaos. “They were left wanting.”
Once again Cuba shows the world that the Revolution is more alive than ever and will continue standing in the face of the Genocidal Blockade. Never before has a people faced the fiercest empire in history so much and for so long; They do not forgive the Cubans.
The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reported that 21,320 Palestinians have died since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7.
The number of injured rose to 55,603. In the last 24 hours, 210 people died and 360 were injured.
The institution denounced the attack by the occupation forces in the vicinity of the Nasser Medical Complex and the Al-Amal Hospital of the Red Crescent Society in Khan Younis.
Israeli attacks on Gaza have left 312 health workers dead. At least 142 health facilities and 104 ambulances have been attacked, the Ministry declared.
In addition, 99 health workers, including hospital directors, remain detained by Israeli forces.
According to the Ministry, 50,000 pregnant women suffer from thirst and malnutrition, and 50% of displaced children are exposed to drought, malnutrition, respiratory and skin diseases, colds, plague, and there are no vaccines for newborns.
Montevideo, Dec 29 (Prensa Latina) The Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU) today reaffirmed its solidarity with Cuba and congratulated the Caribbean island in advance on the 65th anniversary of the triumph of its Revolution.
A statement from the Executive Committee of the PCU refers in these terms in a message to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, headed by first secretary Miguel Díaz-Canel, president of the Caribbean nation.
We reaffirm our solidarity with the Cuban people and their Revolution, now that the anniversary days of the feat that Fidel led and that forever transformed the history of our continent are approaching, the letter says.
The message adds that in changing times and “in the face of the aggressiveness of imperialism,” the “exceptional strength of Cuba’s example” contributes to the mobilization of the people of the world, particularly in Latin America, in order to “open paths to address the future”.
In the midst of great struggles and tensions, we feel that we have advanced on our path of unity to face the common struggle we are waging, the text continues.
The Uruguayan communists reiterated their support for the people of Cuba in their perennial confrontation with the “criminal blockade and aggressive actions” of the United States government.
On December 7, 2023, the Official Gazette of Cuba published Resolution 19/2023 of the Ministry of the Interior, referring to the National List of people and entities that have been subjected to criminal investigations and are wanted by the Cuban authorities, as of their involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, financing, support or commission of acts carried out in the national territory or in other countries.
As a result, 61 terrorists living in the United States were detained by the Cuban authorities and the government of the northern country refuses to deport them, as established by international standards. In fact, the US has been characterized by demanding this practice from other governments around the world, even for political purposes (as in the case of Julian Assange). History shows us that the political will of the different North American administrations (Republican or Democrat) protects those who carry out terrorism against the countries of the “axis of evil”, but condemns those who do so against their allies.
Therefore, there is no doubt that on this occasion the US administration will once again turn a “blind eye” and avoid making a statement. Forget, once again, that there is no good or bad terrorism, only terrorism.
The world eagerly awaits the moment when this practice of terror to achieve political ends ends. Each country has the moral and legal obligation to stop terrorism, not only that which is carried out in its national territory, but also that which is planned from its soil against sovereign nations.
On December 7, the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba published Resolution 19/2023 of the Ministry of the Interior, referring to the National List of people and entities that have been subjected to criminal investigations and are wanted by the Cuban authorities, as of of their involvement in the promotion, planning, organization, financing, support or commission of acts carried out in the national territory or in other countries.
The regulatory provision includes perpetrators of terrorist acts against Cuba from 1999 to the present. The open legal cases correspond to the carrying out of attacks against hotels and other tourist centers in Havana, infiltration along the coasts to carry out violent actions, attacks against the President of the Republic and other public officials, as well as the promotion of military maneuvers against the Major of the Antilles.
The list also indicates those responsible for inciting, organizing and financing actions that affect the social order in Cuba, through violent acts against public officials and the normal functioning of entities.
It highlights the participation of the terrorists cited in the publication in sabotage and other punishable actions, through the recruitment of people in the digital space.
The appearance in the document of Alexander Alazo Baró, subject of Investigative File 27/2020, initiated by the attack with a firearm on the Cuban embassy in the United States, stands out.
The legal foundations of the measure are found in Resolution 1373 of the Security Council of the United Nations, relating to the prevention and confrontation of terrorism and its financing; the Cuban Penal Code; as well as Decree-Law 317 of the Council of State and Resolution 16 of the Minister of the Interior, for the detection and confrontation of money laundering, financing of terrorism, the proliferation of weapons and the movement of illicit capital.
The law came into force on December 7, as of its publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Cuba.
The South African Association of Alumni in Cuba (CAASA) issued a statement of support for the people of Cuba represented by their government in the United Nations General Assembly during the vote against the United States Blockade against the Island during.
In the statement they reiterate CAASA’s support for the complete lifting of sanctions against Cuba.