As Russia, China, and other nations hostile to the US boost their presence within South America, should it come as a surprise to find uranium being trafficked by South American drug runners?…
Douglas Macgregor: We’re Seeing the End of the Dollar-Based Global Economy…
Ret. Col. Douglas Macgregor on Friday warned we are seeing the end of the dollar-dominant global economy in an interview with FOX News host Tucker Carlson. “I think we’re seeing the end of the dollar-based global economy,” Macgregor said. “We’ve weaponized the global monetary system that we largely dominant and control…
Joint ICE Operation with International Partners Yields 113 Arrests of Suspected Child Predators…
“This collaborative effort by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and its foreign law enforcement partners has put dangerous criminals behind bars and, most importantly, has led to the rescue of innocent children”…
Trump Initiative Seized $1B Worth of Drugs at Sea Amid Pandemic…
A Trump administration initiative to stop drug smugglers moving narcotics from South and Central America into the United States resulted in more than $1 billion worth of drugs seized in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced Tuesday that Coast Guard and Navy ships deployed 1,500 miles south of […]
South America, Again, Leads Fight Against Neoliberalism…
The presidential election in Argentina was no less than a game-changer and a graphic lesson for the whole Global South. It pitted, in a nutshell, the people versus neoliberalism. The people won – with new President Alberto Fernandez and former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) as his VP. Neoliberalism was represented by Mauricio Macri: […]
Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn by Pepe Escobar…
Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity prescription, which deploys weapons of mass economic destruction to smash national sovereignty and foster social inequality, South America finally seems poised to reclaim the power to forge its own history. […]
Thousands of Guns, Grenades Mailed to South America Are Seized in Crackdown on Florida Ring…
Thousands of assault-style weapons and explosives shipped through the mail from South Florida to South America were seized this week in a law enforcement crackdown on arms traffickers who rake in millions on the black market while supplying criminal gangs, federal authorities said Friday. A portion of the 5,300 firearms and components was confiscated in […]
Pushed to Act, U.S. to Send Military Hospital Ship Toward Venezuela…
Under pressure to take military action in Venezuela, the Pentagon will deploy a military hospital ship to the region to help care for Venezuelan refugees. Vice President Mike Pence, speaking at a gathering of Latin American diplomats at the State Department, announced the USNS Comfort will be dispatched in June for a five-month humanitarian mission […]
It Doesn’t Matter if Ecuador Can Afford This Dam. China Still Gets Paid…
The dam sits under the glare of an active volcano, with columns of ash spewing toward the sky. Officials had warned against the dam for decades. Geologists said an earthquake could wipe it away. Now, only two years after opening, thousands of cracks are splintering the dam’s machinery. Its reservoir is clogged with silt, sand […]
Marine Corps Vet with Dual U.S.-Mexico Citizenship Oversaw Massive Cocaine Operation…
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran with dual U.S.-Mexican citizenship was indicted in a San Diego court Friday for his alleged role in a massive cocaine operation that stretched from South America to the U.S., according to court records. Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr., a former Marine with combat experience, rose to power as a reputed drug […]