Nicaragua country
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Claims (92)
Nicaragua carried_out_attack
CIA documented
“Domestic criticism gained a fierce intensity. Congress overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning the U.S. action. Nicaragua brought suit against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice. The Reagan administration suddenly felt com…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 52:38
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua documented
“Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 19:37
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua documented
“The court found in favor of Nicaragua. The court determined that the U.S. had no right to seek the overthrow of the Sandinista government, no right to attack Nicaragua in the name of self-defense of El Salvador, and no right to mine or atta…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 55:39
Anastasio Somoza removed_from_power
Nicaragua book_quoted
“In the pre-dawn hours of July 17, 1979, Somoza and his closest associates, his top generals, his business partners, and their family boarded two jets and flew to Homestead Air Force Base in Miami, Florida, to begin their exile. The vaulted …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 7:12
Somoza family headed
Nicaragua book_quoted
“As his enemy amassed in the hills and suburbs of his doomed capital, the dictator huddled in his mountainside bunker with his aides and his American advisors and cursed his rotten luck. For 46 years, Andasio Samosa's family had ruled the Re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 0:58
CIA carried_out_attack
Nicaragua documented
“had dropped anti-ship mines in the Nicaraguan harbor, cut off all CIA funding for the Contras. Despite the CIA's effort to keep Contra involvement in the so-called Frogman case from becoming public, some of the truth got out when Carlos Cab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 6 @ 55:38
Brigade 2506 deployed_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to Nicaragua under Reagan. So, um, there's some very nefarious things that he was involved in, but at the same time, he did some good things. So I'm, I'm still researching and I spend a lot of time on Nixon, by the way, um, for that very re…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 1:00:04
Carlos Izaca attempted_assassination_of
Nicaragua book_quoted
“Nicaraguan's foreign minister with a bottle of liquor that had thallium added to it. Icaza fled Nicaragua and went to work for the Contras in Honduras, as did his wife. Later, he became an attorney for Norwin Menendez. He arranged for the s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 21 @ 12:08
Ronald Reagan attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“By sneaking these covert agents into Angola to control their gold, diamonds, and uranium, and by attempting to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, he is doing exactly the opposite. He is seeking to control people by controlling the gove…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 19:29
Ronald Reagan funded
Nicaragua documented
“annexes, such as in 1985 with the Afghan escalation. Reagan approved covert actions against Nicaragua in a November 81 decision directive. About a year later, he sanctioned Bill Casey's activism that ordered global covert operations to prev…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 33:49
Ronald Reagan targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua documented
“a showdown with Congress over intelligence oversight and initiatives that took covert action outside whatever quote-unquote legal framework supported it, calling into question the role of the president himself. The operation began soon afte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 43 (45) @ 37:00
Contras carried_out_attack
Nicaragua documented
“The first serious strike occurred in mid-March when FDN units blew up two road bridges in northern Nicaragua. The next day, the government declared a state of emergency. By the end of the month, Managua could point to half a dozen instances…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 3:05
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua documented
“On the other hand, the predominance of the Southeast Asia over Latin America experience would hinder the operation. Meanwhile, in Washington, the Sandinistas seem especially vulnerable to internal dissension, economic weakness, and the pres…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 10:29
Juan Gomez carried_out_attack
Nicaragua book_quoted
“messages via this radio tower. Contra Air Commander Juan Gomez carried out the attack with a couple of planes flying out of the Salvadoran Air Base, Ilopango. Instead, Langley's project quickly morphed away from interdiction because it was …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 17:40
Dewey Claridge ordered_assassination_of
Nicaragua book_quoted
“going to the restricted interagency group to advocate that the U.S. begin attacking selective economic targets. According to Claridge, there was no objections, including from Secretary Shultz's representative. Given the limited activity ant…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 22:37
Dewey Claridge ordered_assassination_of
Nicaragua book_quoted
“Claridge account of the mine campaign is highly suspect. The Latin chief, Claridge, puts the timing towards the end of January of 84, telling a story of how for once he arrived home with time to reflect. Claridge achieved sudden clarity. Qu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 29:54
CIA supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua book_quoted
“Which is interesting because that's another verification that there was missiles paid to Iran in exchange for holding the hostages till after the election. Since at least 1981, a worldwide network of freestanding companies, including airlin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 51:48
CIA trafficked
Nicaragua guest_asserted
“again, intelligence agencies, were directly involved in the smuggling and distribution of drugs to raise funds for covert military operations against the government of Nicaragua. He provided Hart's staff with detailed maps and names of alle…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 30:15
CIA supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua book_quoted
“Guatemala military came in for special attention. The U.S. signed mutual security treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua, both countries hostile to Arbenz because, of course, he was making them look bad because they had already sold their cou…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Guatemala 1953-1954&1962-1980’s @ 34:15
Julio Zavala supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“had been making silencers and sending them to Nicaragua for the revolution. The same informant who reported the Contra leader, Adolfo Calero, the FDN's political boss and longtime CIA agent, was definitely involved in the cocaine traffickin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 5 @ 1:08:22
CIA carried_out_attack
Nicaragua documented
“For 12 months, the Contras had staggered from one public relations disaster to another. There had been a major uproar in Congress in the spring of 84 when it was revealed that the CIA was running the Contra project and had seeded Nicaraguan…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 10 @ 10:03
Contras carried_out_attack
Nicaragua documented
“had been told by the CIA officials that the Contras were merely border guards keeping the Sandinistas from getting into El Salvador. The Contras' first major act of war, in fact, had nothing to do with El Salvador. Under CIA direction, two …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 10:55
CIA installed
Nicaragua host_asserted
“unionists to go into these countries to quote unquote infiltrate and then manage fake unions and that way they could then broadcast to the world that all of these dictators had set up unions like in Chile and Nicaragua where the CIA had ins…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 59:35
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to make more than 87 cents a day in copper mines in Chile or picking bananas for United Fruit, an American company that had bought up all the farmland in Guatemala, Cuba, blah, blah, blah, Nicaragua. So the very country that now has this pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 58:22
CIA carried_out_attack
Nicaragua book_quoted
“Ronald Reagan approved anyway. McFarland concedes that the scheme was not one of the happiest episodes of the Reagan administration. In the fall of 1983, Casey implemented the plan. The CIA itself carried out the attacks and mining of the p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 45 (47) @ 26:01
Evergreen International Airlines supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“wanted removed from other countries and brought to the United States. You know, those Afghan national kind of people that shoot up Washington, D.C.? Yeah, Evergreen was flying those people. Quote, and we don't know when we supported them an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 42:54
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“wanted removed from other countries and brought to the United States. You know, those Afghan national kind of people that shoot up Washington, D.C.? Yeah, Evergreen was flying those people. Quote, and we don't know when we supported them an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 42:54
Summit Aviation supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“wanted removed from other countries and brought to the United States. You know, those Afghan national kind of people that shoot up Washington, D.C.? Yeah, Evergreen was flying those people. Quote, and we don't know when we supported them an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 42:54
Global International Airways supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“from Tanzania to Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica. A load of lettuce. Huh. The plane was diverted from its scheduled stop to a commercial airport, from a commercial airport to a military field. The pilot became suspicious and asked to chec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 40:33
Sandinistas member_of
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to be the farmers for the landed elite on cattle ranches and opium farms and all that other stuff. And so anytime you see the dilemma, it comes up every single time. So if one of those non-landed people rises up to be a leader, like with th…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 31:26
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua book_quoted
“This is exactly what happened with Nicaragua. The U.S. surrounded Nicaragua with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica and attacked from that ground into Nicaragua. So again, this is not something that's new. These subservient go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 9:33
Ronald Reagan carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“We are going to go overthrow the government of Nicaragua. We're going to go overthrow the government of Angola. We're going to go create the Iran-Iraq war. All of those things were going on during their administration. But because we were f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:38:26
CIA overthrew
Nicaragua host_asserted
“And so basically, and I know that is it sucks and it's going to suck for anybody that's been a special forces. But if you go down to the operations that were part of Operation Condor, like when we were overthrowing the Nicaraguan government…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 53:13
CIA trained
Nicaragua host_asserted
“the special forces are there and many times they're part of the training cadre for the forces as they, you know, send them into the meat grinder or whatever event they're in. And I honestly, because the intelligence comes from the CIA.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 53:43
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Worst case scenario, outside in. But anyway, so the only thing that kept any of these countries fighting to include the Congo, Chile, Nicaragua, any of them for any length of time in pushing back the CIA and this dictator fascist movement w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents’ Secret Wars John Prados Chap 3 @ 1:37:54
John Stein resisted
Nicaragua book_quoted
“the covert operations should be used. And Stein repeatedly resisted escalations of certain operations, specifically including Nicaragua. John McMahon, Casey's deputy director, it was supposedly said that he was opposed to the Libya plan as …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 41:22
Ronald Reagan supported
Nicaragua book_quoted
“And let's see. Well, one of them was in Meridius, which is an island. And operations went forward in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Libya. American involvement obviously happened in Angola, Cambodia. More than 50 covert operations happened during …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 42:24
NSDD-17 targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua documented
“Finally, Reagan had made some general decisions affecting the CIA's role in a national security decision directive. The authorization document, basically, one example of one signed in November 1981 was the covert action against Nicaragua th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Presidents’ Secret Wars Chap 17 @ 45:16
CIA carried_out_attack
Nicaragua documented
“In 1984, he participated in a joint CIA-DEA sting operation in an attempt to snare Sandinista government officials in drug smuggling because they desperately wanted to shift all of their drug smuggling onto the Contras, which somehow seems …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 6:00
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“decided it wasn't going to be in Nicaragua, that they were going to move it to Panama because of their buddies could make money because they already owned the land in Panama. And they basically set up Nicaragua to lose that by printing a st…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 34:17
United States installed
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Countries that allowed them free reign were considered progressive and friendly. Those that did not were turned into basically a war. The first burst of American expansionism was over by the time President Taft left office in the beginning …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 36:15
Contras carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“They used them to get rid of an elected president in Nicaragua in order to continue to use slave labor in Nicaragua. And in Tibet, you have their overall agenda was basically death by a thousand cuts to China because they want Chiang Kai-sh…”
▶ The Colonel’s corner president‘s secret wars chapter 8 cont @ 1:05:02
CIA supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“So Mossad is definitely one of those post-World War II intelligence agencies, along with the IDF. They both are very active in what I just said. As a matter of fact, what the US government has done repeatedly is when the Congress forbids th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #4 @ 1:35:18
Le Cercle attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“They overthrew Seychelles. They tried to overthrow Nicaragua. And Cuba was just a repeat every single day attempting to overthrow it. So they did the roadmap and Reagan dutifully implemented it, is the bottom line to that. It also then beca…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 37:53
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“They were not heroes. They were assassins. They were terrorists. They were trained by the CIA to attack people all over the world, not just Cuba. If they had only been isolated to Cuba, that would be one thing. I wouldn't agree with it, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 47:02
Felix Rodriguez carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Felix Rodriguez. Oh, yes, he was in El Salvador, too. And he was also involved with the overthrow of Nicaragua, setting that same thing up. And he had been a PRU advisor in the Phoenix program in Vietnam. And that guy, as you guys know, he …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Finale (9) @ 41:02
Jimmy Carter funded
Nicaragua documented
“The anti-Marxist campaign in Nicaragua, started by President Carter with a small grant to fund opposition media in 1980, had grown into a full-fledged war. And there was no Marxist there, by the way. So the U.S. was clearly on the side of t…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 38:55
United Fruit Company trafficked
Nicaragua host_asserted
“United Fruit did was they actually said, this is an actual quote, that they could buy a congressman, a senator was their word, they could buy a senator cheaper than they could buy a donkey in these countries. So they got crooked land deals …”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:30:47
CIA overthrew
Nicaragua host_asserted
“terrorist training camps operation gladio all around them we use the cuban exiles because they're a bunch of gladio operators that are assassins we flew them all in they created and trained all of these um people terrorists and they went in…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:31:57
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Same company that, by the way, just so happens to own United Fruit out of Boston. A lot of weird overlap there. And they're broadcasting not just propaganda into Cuba, but also into Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, all off of this island.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 24:20
Contras trafficked
Nicaragua host_asserted
“When, of course, we found out later, based on Iran-Contra, that it was actually the Contras that were primarily the drug traffickers. Narco-terrorism encompassed a variety of phenomenon. Guerrilla movements financed by drugs or taxes on dru…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 40:04
Ralph Pazulo lived_in
Nicaragua host_asserted
“And this kid is going around with his dad to all of these places and supposedly just offers up out of the blue that his dad comes home and tells him about all the shit he does every day. Probably not realizing we know all of this stuff. All…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 12:33
Roger Sandino Martinez trafficked
Nicaragua documented
“Roger Sandino Martinez and Jose Gonzalez. Roger Sandino was one of the guys from the old days, the old Contra connection, Blanton's lawyer said. He was the original gangster Contra. He was a veteran drug trafficker who seemed to enjoy the s…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 47:04
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Nicaragua documented
“Months after fleeing Virginia, Sandino showed up in Los Angeles just in time to take over Danielle Blanton's business, another known government-protected drug dealer. After Blanton moved, Ross said, he would call him in Miami time to time, …”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 50:13
Violeta Chamorro elected_president_of
Nicaragua documented
“public, wary of a decade of war and strife and tension with the U.S., voted the Sandinistas out of office. With the U.S. backing, Norwin's former business partner, Valetta Chamorro, was elected president. And the Chamorros has still, as rec…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 32:35
Nicaraguan National Police supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“the Somoza's National Guard. It had power over every part of your everyday life in Somoza's Nicaragua. Nicaragua is one of the few countries we are aware of in which all arms shipments that go into the country, whether they're sporting good…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 13:55
Daniel Blanton trafficked
Nicaragua documented
“cooperated Hassan's statement in a sealed search warrant affidavit. Filed in May of 1992, DEA agent Chuck Jones wrote, quote, Blanton fled Nicaragua after Somoza regime was deposed. Blanton had been a cocaine trafficker in Nicaragua prior t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 4 @ 59:51
United States government trafficked
Nicaragua host_asserted
“cocaine on. It didn't come from Nicaragua. It came from Colombia. And the president of the United States got on national news with a grainy photo saying, here's my proof. Nicaragua is trafficking drugs and killing our citizens. No, you assh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:16:09
United States government framed
Nicaragua host_asserted
“that they would try to frame it on the Nicaraguan government, who they hated because he got rid of their stooge called Somoza. That's the extent to which the U.S. government is corrupt. Well, sometimes it's not always, and this is what I wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 1:16:40
Norwin Menendez trafficked
Nicaragua documented
“well known as the Nicaraguan Mafia, dealing in drugs, weapons, smuggling, and laundering of counterfeit money. That's what the CIA cabled back. What happened next is still in dispute. After the raids, Sergeant Gordon and Deputy Juarez said …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 50:08
CIA carried_out_attack
Nicaragua documented
“Moscow's activity with journalists. Findings were also approved for operations against pro-Cuban government in Grenada, pro-Cuban government, a political action in Jamaica, and actions in Nicaragua and El Salvador, as those governments face…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 59:20
AFL-CIO funded
Nicaragua host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
Oliver North targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua guest_asserted
“On February 17, 1986, Steele was murdered in New Orleans by a quote-unquote Colombian hitman. Four months later, in June, North called the FBI and claimed that there was an active measures program being directed against him by the Sandinist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 7:29
Ronald Reagan targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“leaders that were very nationalistic in their approach as well, to include Nicaragua. He was 100 percent wrong in every aspect of that. And it wasn't because he was disengaged. It was because he was part of that. And so, you know, Jimmy Car…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:43:12
International Republican Institute carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“international republican institute they were used to regime change in foreign country so you you you hit a real um hotbed of very interesting you know i think that one of the reasons i think that kind of what has occurred is that you know l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 50:20
United States supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Hold on just a minute, Jeff. Mute your mic so I can. So the is from the Soviet Union delivering weapons to Nicaragua or to the Congo. You're going to have Israel. They're not only going to deliver arms for the United States to Nicaragua and…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson @ 1:33:12
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“and reoccupy it. And then all hell broke loose. So in the meantime, when we do that, we call them a communist because we cut them off. We mined Nicaragua's harbor when they decided that they weren't going to listen to what we wanted them to…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 41:12
United States funded
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to Europe, all done at the same time, all on purpose. And so what I want to caution people on, and I'm not saying this is the case, so don't misquote me. I want people to understand that in every one of these places that we have discussed s…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 9:14
Enrique Bermudez spied_on
Nicaragua guest_asserted
“He also said that FDN leader Enrique Bermudez was aware of the drug deals, and Pena described Bermudez as a CIA agent. When challenged by CIA questioner on that statement, Pena merely laughed. It's very obvious, he said, Bermudez had been S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 1:07:08
Israel supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“He has words that sound like anti-imperialist, we don't want to be your slaves anymore. And somehow that's bad. And they have no option but to side with Cuba, the Soviets, and Nicaragua at the time. Because remember, Nicaragua was being att…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 50:34
Ted Shackley attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Ted Shackley, obviously, not a good guy. And Ted Shackley was hell-bent on figuring out a way to work around Congress so that when they put the stop on funding Nicaragua, the Contras, and they also prohibited the funding of Angola.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 6:31
United States paid
Nicaragua host_asserted
“To bring people to them? Absolutely. But that's no different than what we've been doing with Operation Gladio in paying entire governments like in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Honduras, you know, you name any of them. We paid those people to o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 44:04
United Fruit Company attempted_coup_against
Nicaragua host_asserted
“kicked him out of the country and said, here's your money for your farmland. We don't want you here anymore. And they basically tried to overthrow his government repeatedly. So saying that you don't want to trade with anybody that engages i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:01:34
William Casey targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“politicians all over the world aligned with their fascist beliefs in power. I added the word fascist. No country was safe. From Egypt to Guatemala to Poland to Afghanistan to Spain to Angola to Nicaragua, every liberal government needed to …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 8:01
Allen Dulles targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“They're the ones that set up United Fruit. They're the ones that went into Nicaragua and to Cuba and all of these other places and basically negotiated with the government by slipping them money to buy land through corrupt government offici…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:46:58
Southern Air Transport supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“lent substance to her story. First, when a Southern Air Transport plane was shot down in Nicaragua in 86, flight plans found in the wreckage showed that the pilot had flown a Southern Air Transport plane to Colombia in 1985. Second, the U.S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 37:32
U.S. State Department targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“regime change aspect. You had the chamber portion of the slush fund of the NED doing the business interests. And then the union would go into places like Venezuela and Chile and Nicaragua, and they would then orchestrate basically fake unio…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID @ 9:59
CIA trafficked
Nicaragua host_asserted
“will smuggle through underground networks, drugs through a particular country to be able to go back because they want to regime change that country anyway, like Nicaragua, where they land Barry Seals' plane on the tarmac, roll out a bunch o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:31:38
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“will smuggle through underground networks, drugs through a particular country to be able to go back because they want to regime change that country anyway, like Nicaragua, where they land Barry Seals' plane on the tarmac, roll out a bunch o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:31:38
World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack
Nicaragua book_quoted
“In London, the anti-fascist periodical Searchlight was also collecting material on their conferences, their activities, and what they didn't know at the time was that there was any activity outside of Europe. In the 1980s, the World Anti-Co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 5:59
Felix Rodriguez targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“And when I say training people, I'm saying training terrorists to go in and terrorize and overthrow the government of Nicaragua.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 29:45
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Look, all of the tents are the exact same color. Look, you can, when they interview these people, they're not even students at this location. Can you not understand this is a pattern? This is the exact same thing they do in every dreams of …”
▶ Operation Gladio (240516) @ 54:45
CIA supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“in the, say, mid to late 1980s. I mean, a lot of time. And, you know, it's one of those kind of issues that was sort of in the news at the time, you know, because of Nicaragua and El Salvador and whatnot, as we just, you know, you just poin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:16:27
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Hold on just a minute, Jeff. Mute your mic so I can. So the is from the Soviet Union delivering weapons to Nicaragua or to the Congo. You're going to have Israel. They're not only going to deliver arms for the United States to Nicaragua and…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson @ 1:33:12
United States supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Honduras became critical because they were launching operations into Nicaragua, both from Costa Rica, but primarily Honduras. Go ahead, 71. Thank you, Colonel. Hopefully you all can hear me now. Yes, I can hear you. Good deal. Thank you, ev…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras @ 1:02:22
Honduras supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua host_asserted
“launching all of the Operation Gladio efforts into cooing the government in Nicaragua. So what I want to do is give you a foundation of each of the areas, and then we'll kind of zoom out a little bit. So we're going to do a micro look at a …”
▶ Antony Sutton_ Wall Street and Hitler @ 1:53:48
World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“to quote unquote, because they did it because of communism, right? Well, they had to set up a world anti-communist league chapter. You know, because what we just did, like when we overthrew Nicaragua, because they were all communists, but t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Philippines @ 1:46:13
Fabian Society carried_out_attack
Nicaragua host_asserted
“And so they will bomb Syria into rubble rather than allow an independent leader to be in charge of his country. That's who these people are. We've seen patterns of them doing this repeatedly. If you look in Latin America, where they mined t…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:38:57
Manuel Noriega removed_from_power
Nicaragua host_asserted
“Your individual humanity or rights are that of your children. It is just as plain as day that a system is being created, and they use these nations, they use Operation Gladio to shatter them. Then they place the people that will play ball w…”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 1:13:00
United Fruit Company targeted_for_regime_change
Nicaragua host_asserted
“coffee plantations and were middle class until United Fruit moved into Nicaragua and Guatemala and all those places and bought their government in order to sell their coffee farms to United Fruit for them to create banana farms. And then en…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Open Mic-Election Eve Discussion @ 1:56:56
United Fruit Company overthrew
Nicaragua host_asserted
“but we later cued the government and screwed the entire country up thanks to the United Fruit guys.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 22:38
United Fruit Company secretly_owned
Nicaragua guest_asserted
“you go back and you start reviewing the attempted overthrow of the Nicaraguan government under the same auspices that we don't want them to have their own farmland. They were primarily owned by United Fruit as well.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 1:07:04
Mentions (120)
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and American Banknote Company. Now, what's interesting about American Banknote Company, for those of you who follow me routinely, American Banknote Company was the company that screwed Nicaragua out of the Panama Canal. So for those of you …
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Congress-approved canal project that was given to the country of Nicaragua, but we later cued the government and screwed the entire country up thanks to the United Fruit guys. The way that they got the canal project out of Nicaragua was a s…
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American Bank Note Company kind of printed like money and stuff like that for foreign countries. They also printed stamps. And there was a tourist edition of stamps commissioned from Nicaragua. And American Bank Note Company put a volcano o…
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um a postcard with that stamp on it to all the senators drawing attention to the fact that there was a volcano that they alleged was right near the canal so that it was dangerous to build the canal in nicaragua and you really needed to go t…
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Basically, through all the money they had already spent on building the port and the initial part of the canal away and took the canal project away from Nicaragua. And that's what's so important about understanding our history and being abl…
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and the sugar cane plantations that were down there in the 1930s. They were also owners of consolidated coal. They owned, on the Roosevelt side as well, railroad steamboats. And one of them was chairman of the Maritime Canal Company. And th…
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And less developed countries like Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and all of the South American countries and all the countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, because they had less of a developed constitution and less of a developed judici…
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What Gladio operations have been perpetuated in that country that we can definitely describe as Operation Gladio. And what we will try to do is run region by region. So because oftentimes if you go to like Latin America, if you look at Hond…
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launching all of the Operation Gladio efforts into cooing the government in Nicaragua. So what I want to do is give you a foundation of each of the areas, and then we'll kind of zoom out a little bit. So we're going to do a micro look at a …
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But they also were deployed in Nicaragua. They were deployed in Honduras. They were deployed in El Salvador. They, in many cases, to include Felix Rodriguez in the whole Iran-Contra, number three guy in the Bush vice president Reagan White …
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like a commanding member of the Brigade 2506, which is basically a death squad. He did time in Vietnam working on the Phoenix program for William Casey, who goes on to be the CIA director. He was training people in El Salvador. He was train…
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in the support of the Contras in Nicaragua, the pilots will tell you that they were flying supplies in to help people defend themselves against communists. No, no, there was no communist anywhere in Nicaragua.…
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There were freedom fighters called Sandinistas that wanted their country back from an international syndicate. And there were assholes that the CIA was employing that they told you were the freedom fighters that were actually terrorists. An…
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regime change aspect. You had the chamber portion of the slush fund of the NED doing the business interests. And then the union would go into places like Venezuela and Chile and Nicaragua, and they would then orchestrate basically fake unio…
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The preponderance of the group that was involved in Watergate were trained by the CIA's Miami station as part of the quote unquote Cuban exiles, which are our Operation Gladio people. The Cuban exiles was used throughout America to do some …
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We have North America, Central America, and South America as kind of the primary Americas that people normally refer to. And Central America generally is considered Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Belize…
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understand that area. We're going to be covering basically El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama in depth. What's interesting, Costa Rica kind of plays a sideshow in many of the stories of their neighbors because the CIA o…
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South of Guatemala and to the west, you have El Salvador. And to the east, you have Honduras. So kind of on the same latitude, you have Honduras and El Salvador kind of as neighbors with Guatemala to the north. Now, no part of El Salvador t…
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In order to get from Guatemala to Nicaragua, you have to go through Honduras. So those become kind of the big players in the drug running, arms running type of scenario when you're going by land. Now, obviously, all of these countries have …
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That became very important when we were basically staging coups because we would go into harbors and mine the harbors. We would blockade the coastal area so that they couldn't get supplies. And that's basically one of the ways that we extor…
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Again, in many cases, we left Costa Rica alone, but we did stage Gladio operations out of the northern border of Costa Rica into Nicaragua. We did the same when we did operations into Panama. So, and keep in mind that Panama, prior to us bu…
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The civilian members of the government found themselves unable to exercise any control over the armed forces and was left to function only as a camouflage to real reform. Washington had supported the removal of the brutal Romero because onl…
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communist abated by the Soviet Union, by Nicaragua, and by Cuba. And Nicaragua only because the guy currently in Nicaragua when the statement was being written was the guy who was the Sandinista government that they were also attacking beca…
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a typical tactic. A few days later, it tacked on a request for support of the Nicaraguan Contras, more criminals, and Gladio operators to a bill to provide emergency fuel spending for the poor in parts of America, which were suffering a sev…
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to build a canal in Nicaragua. It had already been approved by Congress. It had already been started. They had already spent tons of money on it. And it was well on its way. But this French company, who tried to move on to build the Panama …
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So they have a huge investment in the Panama Canal. So the French failure made Americans all the more determined to finish their Nicaraguan Canal, basically to kind of show them up. And the site for the Nicaraguan Canal had been chosen in 1…
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and had all of the support of the southern states because that's where all of the produce and stuff like that from the Banana Republics came into the United States, into New Orleans, Galveston, Biloxi, all of that. This was a huge boon for …
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Cromwell and Curtis tried to show as many legislators as possible all of the statistic maps and everything else that they had already done and that it was 40% finished, according to them. So he thought that he was going to be able to wear h…
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In this crucial conversation, Senator Morgan tacked a simple rider onto a Senate version of the 1899 Rivers and Harbor Bill, asking for $2 million to start building the Nicaraguan Canal. The bill easily passed the Senate, but as an addition…
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not the Nicaraguan one. Not until the last frantic hour of the congressional session did the Senate understand that Reed would block the whole river and harbors bill if it had the Nicaraguan provision in it. The House version finally passed…
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was involved with the Panama Railroad that was there to take advantage of the Panama Canal. Meeting Hannah in Simmons' office, Cromwell extended the benefits of the Panama Route and donated $60,000 of the new Panama Canal Company's money to…
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was basically, he went off the charts. He said that Cromwell was interfering with everything and that he basically was in bed with the French. Senator Morgan should not have worried. The commission's preliminary report recommended Nicaragua…
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So it got the nod because there was going to be rights and everything else that was very laborious with the Panama Canal. Panama had its advantages, but complete control was the overriding factor for most of the people on the commission. Bu…
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Cromwell cabled Paris the same day, urging the company to take the $40 million, even though they had a $270 million investment into it. Instead of French consent, Cromwell got back a letter firing him. The French company that had hired him …
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backers of the 270 million that had already been dumped in there. So there's a big ruckus in Paris. But the offer came after the U.S. had already negotiated a treaty with Nicaragua and after congressional bills to appropriate the necessary …
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for the Paris company. He added the insulting condition that Cromwell accepted fees set by the company. Three days before the debate on the Nicaraguan bill at the opening session, Wisconsin Senator John Spooner, one of the most powerful Rep…
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his fertility of resources, etc., etc. And with it, he is generous, full of good impulses, and altogether a lovable man. In addition to his other accomplishments, he can bulldoze like damnation when he wants to, and I have seen him when he …
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which was not anywhere near the canal, was a, and this is just a side note because this isn't in this book, but I found this on another search project. Cromwell had hired a PR firm that had sent, they drafted these and got approved an offic…
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And so they had throughout this entire time set up a propaganda campaign throughout the House and Senate that the volcanoes in Nicaragua were perilously close to the Nicaraguan Canal and was going to be devastating if they ever erupted. And…
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It is the best broad liberal American policy for which we stand in the building of a world canal. I sympathize with all of those who in other days laboring for the canal had but one star to guide them, Nicaragua, and who must now naturally …
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Rockefellers, JP Morgan, all of their law firms, and Panama. That's the only reason we were even in Panama. Then you come into the whole issue of the Panama being a part of Colombia. And anybody that tells you that Colombia basically renege…
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functions that they can then blame on the people that they want. And the best example and probably the most notorious that everybody remembers is Barry Sill flying the drugs into the United States and rolling the bell of cocaine out on the …
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I said, here are a few examples of brilliant CIA-engineered coup attempts worldwide. I was proud of myself, Colonel, because I only had to Google a little bit of this list. A lot of this came off the top of the head. Its track record is ste…
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And I won't say extensively, but you can find it that the CIA and let me let me back up and just say this, since I already mentioned the Contras. The CIA purposely was taking Colombian cocaine, flying it into the United States and created t…
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landed a plane in Nicaragua, got off the airplane and took a picture of a bale of cocaine laying on the tarmac, put the bale back on the aircraft and took off. So there was a picture that the CIA could circulate and accuse the Nicaraguan go…
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And again, we're going to get off if I allow us to. But I'm just curious, what percentage of that entire operation down there do you think he was aware of? I already know the answer. He was aware of all of it. I knew it was going to be 100%…
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It started, like I said, 100 years before that. And we performed a coup in Hawaii. We deposed the queen there. We couped the Philippines. We couped Nicaragua, like back in the early 1900s. And the way we did that was a combination of using …
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leaders that were very nationalistic in their approach as well, to include Nicaragua. He was 100 percent wrong in every aspect of that. And it wasn't because he was disengaged. It was because he was part of that. And so, you know, Jimmy Car…
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we had no intentions of freeing them and that we were going to keep them as our own imperialistic type colonies. And that is, in fact, what we did. And in each of those cases, we used the U.S. Marines to some extent to do that. And that als…
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and children were murdered. Him and his wife were both professors in Nicaragua back in the day. And I kind of want to ask him and find out a little bit more about this, because he's getting pretty old, you know? But I didn't want to ask him…
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uh children were murdered by the cia in nicaragua back in i don't know was it early 80s 70s something probably that would be a fascinating conversation um because obviously there were a lot of people murdered by the cia back then in nicarag…
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overthrow by Stephen Kinzer, K-I-N-Z-E-R. This is the one that basically takes us from the first regime change in Hawaii to Iraq. And it goes through from obviously the early 1900s, late 1800s to the modern day taking.…
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I mean, if you go to, I'm actually shocked it's not more. I'm actually shocked it's not an everyday thing that happens. Because if you go to countries like we've delved into, Chile and Paraguay and Uruguay, and you read, especially Nicaragu…
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Look, all of the tents are the exact same color. Look, you can, when they interview these people, they're not even students at this location. Can you not understand this is a pattern? This is the exact same thing they do in every dreams of …
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and reoccupy it. And then all hell broke loose. So in the meantime, when we do that, we call them a communist because we cut them off. We mined Nicaragua's harbor when they decided that they weren't going to listen to what we wanted them to…
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And because they wanted to play both sides, they were helping Batista and they were helping Castro so they could control the aftermath. As a result of that, Castro was not going to be dictated to. And he did the same thing that they did in …
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come to America, they all said that they supported him during the revolution because there was so much corruption going on down there. And in the aftermath of that, he instituted land reform because the same company that had bought up all t…
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Two guy for Vice President George Bush when they were running the Iran-Contra scam and trafficking guns and trafficking drugs, helping the Contras, who were the bad guys, by the way, they were the Gladio operators, try to overthrow the Sand…
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That's their mode of operandi. That's exactly what they did in Italy. That's exactly what they did in Turkey with the Kurds. They dress, it's Operation Northwood. They dress up as the people that they want to pin the blame on. We saw it on …
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overthrow their government, we refer to that as a revolution. When the CIA, when those people through a voting mechanism, like in Nicaragua and Guatemala, actually elect somebody in Allende and Chile, elect somebody that's going to represen…
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America had declared war on Spain and we were going to free them. We didn't free them. We just made them another colony. We just overtook the colonialism that had already existed. And they did it with the use of the Marines back then, which…
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Because each and every time when they went to Guatemala, when they went to Nicaragua, when they went to Panama, when they went to Chile, when they went to, it was always Castro. We have to avoid having another Castro. Guyana, same thing. Ev…
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to basically Bulgaria. Because every time somebody picked up the phone and says the CIA is kicking my ass in Nicaragua or Guatemala or Chile or wherever, the phone basically ended up in Bulgaria for weapons. So business was very good, but o…
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He stated, it is possible these arms reached other groups, but we supplied them legally. If they are selling weapons after we ship them, that's their responsibility. Bulgaria's interior minister said in a 1992 statement that during the comm…
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who was kicking the CIA off the island. In Nicaragua, they're talking about the Sandinistas, who were actually the good guys, not the Contras, who the CIA supported. And the same is true in Yemen and Tanzania. So it's how the international …
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N-E-H-E-R, who had worked in Congo after Lumumba's assassination. Again, they just repeat the same people. Characterize Burkina Faso under Saqqara as a very radical, very troublesome country for you asshole international syndicate mafia, wh…
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He has words that sound like anti-imperialist, we don't want to be your slaves anymore. And somehow that's bad. And they have no option but to side with Cuba, the Soviets, and Nicaragua at the time. Because remember, Nicaragua was being att…
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according to the man. So again, this is exactly the same pattern. So we want to take over Nicaragua. So we're going to take over Costa Rica. We're going to take over Guatemala. We're going to take over El Salvador. We're going to take over,…
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So in Latin America, in countries like Nicaragua, where you had the United Fruit, who basically monopolized all of the land and basically stole land from all the coffee growers and put them into banana plantations. And the people, after the…
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And to get him in somebody that's more pliable to the overthrow. And the guy, I think his name is P-E-U-R-I-F-O-Y, like Purifoy, something like that, was the ambassador to Honduras. That this, oh, I'm sorry. He went to, the Purifoy guy goes…
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And when it was exposed in 2020, every single operation, every false flag, every where we were blaming another country, the Chilean coup, Nicaragua, the Contras, all of the Latin American countries had crypto AG. So the entire time that we'…
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That's the way they referred to it. Quote, bringing our own animals, unquote, was the way one CIA operative described the operation. The agency's pilots carried out regular bombing, strafing missions against insurgents. And the insurgents a…
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I mean, we saw in the one, I don't remember if it was Guatemala or Nicaragua, where the guy said it was cheaper to buy a mule than it was a senator. So they literally just go in and buy the government. And when they spent, you know, $5 mill…
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And I just wanted to speak to Detu. Detu, te voy a hablar en español. Oye, nací en Costa Rica. Nací en Costa Rica. Nicaragua está en el mismo, mismo lugar que ustedes. Lo sé, lo sé. Está sobre, te los matan. Si los estudiantes te revelan, ¿…
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would someone be that these people labeled as a communist? How much different would the guy that they overthrew in Nicaragua, who had the best interests of his people at heart and was setting up schools and building roads and taking control…
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We're going to go over just a couple of things that we went over yesterday to kind of capture where we were at in El Salvador, as with Guatemala, Nicaragua, and many of the other Central American countries, as we will see. And with Chile, w…
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were being controlled from the outside, like by the Soviet Union. Haig, however, declined to give any details on any of where he got that information. Challenged to prove his charges two days later, the general insisted that the U.S. had un…
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Cuban involvement and of course Nicaraguan at the time he's referring to the Sandinista government which was the good guys and he also said that they had a direct hand in the command and control of the El Salvador rebel fighters. Oddly enou…
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in San Salvador, which was their embassy there in the capital. The man was a student on his way back to school in Mexico from Nicaragua, traveling over land because he couldn't afford to fly. So they found a single Nicaraguan student roamin…
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in El Salvador and said, oh my God, the Nicaraguans are influencing the government. That's literally what they did. The following week, a Nicaraguan was captured fighting with guerrillas. He told the U.S. Embassy and the Salvadoran army off…
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presented the young man at a press conference in Washington, at which time he declared that he had never been to Cuba, he had never been to Ethiopia, and had joined the guerrillas on his own and made his previous statements under torture fr…
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and denied that Nicaragua had provided any aids to the guerrillas at all. Quote, then there were two Nicaraguan Air Force defectors, unquote, according to Time, quote, who were scheduled to bear witness to their country's involvement in El …
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They had decided that that wasn't going to work either. So they basically had one guy who did it on his own, and that was it. And a lot of egg on their face at the end of the day. In January 1981, U.S. diplomats disclosed that five boats ha…
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allegedly from Nicaragua, unquote. They knew the boats had come from Nicaragua because they were made of a special kind of tree wood not native to El Salvador. No sign of any of these people were ever discovered. It was just a rumor. But 10…
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Huge warehouses full of communist weapons of all kinds in the local area. Because what the CIA had been doing, both in Honduras and Nicaragua and other places, is they used this large stash of black ops communist weapons, Soviet Union weapo…
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Must be an awful lot of NATO black market selling going on. The world arms traffic is indeed wide open and fluid. In neighboring Honduras, the U.S. supported Contras, the bad guys, were using Soviet-made missiles to shoot down Soviet-made h…
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In a questionable way, it seems, much information in the white paper can't be found in the document at all once it's reviewed and compared. It was not merely the accuracy of the white paper that was in question, but the authenticity of the …
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We wouldn't want anybody that concerns themselves with human rights. Quote, the only thing that even makes me think that these documents were genuine was that they prove so little, unquote. When pressed to state what proof his government ha…
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Seeing what's being done to us right now by reviewing history to me is just illuminating and gives us affirmation that what we are seeing going on right now is in fact what we believe it to be. Despite American patrol boats in the Gulf of F…
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AWACS surveillance planes in the sky over the Caribbean, and an abundance of aerial photographs, despite a very large U.S. radar installation in Honduras manned by 50 American military technicians, the finest electronic monitoring equipment…
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The Reagan administration singularly failed to support its case that the fires of the Salvadorian Revolution were stoked by Nicaragua or Cuba or even the Soviet Union. So that's another very, very important point.…
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Your individual humanity or rights are that of your children. It is just as plain as day that a system is being created, and they use these nations, they use Operation Gladio to shatter them. Then they place the people that will play ball w…
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thought they may have been doing something. And again, it all was geared towards workers' rights. At a time when workers didn't have any rights, some of the examples that we went through in Nicaragua and Guatemala, these people were working…
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stealing apparatus, laundering our money through these governments, which, you know, on the face of it, and oh, by the way, the CIA is out giving them business because they go into Nicaragua, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, blah, blah, blah, a…
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And the freedom fighters, like in the case of Nicaragua, when they eventually were able to overthrow. And then you had El Salvador. So there has been hiccups. And then Castro threw a monkey wrench. They couldn't get rid of Assad. So they ca…
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You may want to try and... There you are. Can you hear me? Yeah, now I can hear you great. So basically what he's trying to articulate is that the Reagan administration, all of them, viewed Maurice Bishop, despite the size of Grenada, a big…
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We have no idea whether they actually carried through with it because we would have no way of knowing. The main thrust of the American campaign against Grenada was in the form of propaganda. There was a theme that Grenada was a paid up memb…
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the story about Cuba. We've went over it, right? That the CIA trained and backed Castro, but when Castro decided he was not going to allow the CIA to run his government and it become a drug haven again, he was thrown out with the bathwater.…
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this international syndicate, as is the senior military people, and then they continue to rape, pillage, and steal all of the resources. That's why they wanted Nicaragua. That's why they wanted the Contras to install their own dictator ther…
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about Guatemala is how it ties into El Salvador and Nicaragua and for that matter another one that we will do Costa Rica in that it became a kind of a hub of especially the second phase of it became a hub…
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A jumping off point for the consolidation of operations out of U.S. South Com and the overwhelming amount of weaponry and munitions that got stockpiled inside of Guatemala to use amongst the neighbors, specifically Nicaragua in the attackin…
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To the people to farm it that had been monopolized, just like we saw in Nicaragua by the elites and in Chile and everywhere else where the elite, you know, top one to 10 percent of the population get in bed with the U.S. and these foreign c…
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You have, and in this case it was true too, what they refer to as Cuban exiles, which is used as the U.S.'s gladio units, training paramilitary style on U.S. grounds to overthrow a foreign country. That is in every stretch of the imaginatio…
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They were all stationed in Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Panama Canal Zone, which, of course, is all of the places Nicaragua had already been taken over. So had Honduras and Panama. We had all the military bases down there, which they did a …
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Guatemala military came in for special attention. The U.S. signed mutual security treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua, both countries hostile to Arbenz because, of course, he was making them look bad because they had already sold their cou…
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threat to the Guatemalan military to persuade them to withdraw their support from Arbenz. They're basically trying to intimidate. They also deployed two U.S. Navy subs from Key West for further intimidation. Several days later, they sent Ai…
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Congress Against Soviet Intervention in Latin America, and it was hosted in Mexico City. That same month, Somoza called in the diplomatic corps in Nicaragua and told them his voice was shaking with anger that his police had discovered a sec…
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of the communist-controlled government. So I wanted y'all to hear those quotes, and that's just the first phase of this. There's a whole nother phase of this. The second phase happened in 1962 to 1980. Let me see. Yeah, this could very well…
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a particular Nicaraguan general who had fought the Marines sent to Nicaragua back during the Coolidge and Hoover timeframe, and basically was saying that, making the point that this had been an ongoing rolling coup throughout all of South A…
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to Europe, all done at the same time, all on purpose. And so what I want to caution people on, and I'm not saying this is the case, so don't misquote me. I want people to understand that in every one of these places that we have discussed s…
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or the ones done in Costa Rica where we were flying drugs out of and also launching attacks into Nicaragua, or in Panama, the Army School of Americas that Army colonels taught in and taught dictators how to torture their own people, do assa…
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tactics to take land away from the landed because you will find in Haiti the exact same situation we found in Nicaragua and Guatemala and Chile and everywhere else where they have created 90% poor people, a 10% elite that has been…
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to be the farmers for the landed elite on cattle ranches and opium farms and all that other stuff. And so anytime you see the dilemma, it comes up every single time. So if one of those non-landed people rises up to be a leader, like with th…
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because we can talk about him at the end. There's a lot to talk about. He liked to describe Honduras, which, if you pull it up on a map, is across the border from Nicaragua, as a country where a mule costs more than a congressman. And he's …
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In Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, coffee planters slowly accumulated capital. They invested in banks and other commercial enterprises and went on to assert a civic and political power, although it eventually was cued, al…
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united fruits land back for the people and you you notice that that's exactly what happened in nicaragua when we covered nicaragua um and that got that guy killed um this is the same thing and it also happened in chile um this land reform i…
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Nicaragua, by the way. When the Reagan administration asked him to turn Honduras into a base for the anti-Sandinista rebels, known as the Contras, he eagerly agreed. And keep in mind, this is when Felix Rodriguez deploys to Honduras because…
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Soon, hundreds of Contras were operating from the camps along the Nicaraguan border inside of Honduras, and thousands of American soldiers were flying in and out of an Aquacate, A-Q-U-A-C-A-T-E, airbase nearby. From 1980 until 1984, annual …
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And they're basically talking about what we have talked about with the Spanish-American War and ending up with Cuba and Puerto Rico and our involvement in that area. The U.S. resolved to build an interoceanic canal, which we've talked about…
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decided it wasn't going to be in Nicaragua, that they were going to move it to Panama because of their buddies could make money because they already owned the land in Panama. And they basically set up Nicaragua to lose that by printing a st…