El Salvador country
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Claims (38)
United States funded
El Salvador host_asserted
“This is around the 1980 timeframe. The U.S. was supporting the government of El Salvador. And President Reagan said it was because they were trying to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terrorists and also outside interference. Any …”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 7:12
Jorge Alberto Villacorta exposed
El Salvador book_quoted
“Jorge Alberto Villacorta, in his resignation letter in 1980, stated that, quote, during the first days of the reform, to cite one case, five directors and two presidents of the new organization were assassinated, and I am informed that this…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 32:03
Carter Administration funded
El Salvador documented
“was to be taken seriously, his administration clearly had no alternative but to side with the Salvadorian opposition or to at least keep its hands strictly out of the fighting. The Carter administration, however, with only an occasional bac…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 36:04
United States funded
El Salvador book_quoted
“There were the forces and resources which were brought into action to impose a widespread repression and wage war. Years later, the New York Times quoted as follows. In El Salvador, American aid was used for police training in the 1950s and…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 13:42
United States trained
El Salvador book_quoted
“Throughout the 1960s, multi-faceted American experts occupied themselves in El Salvador by enlarging and refining the state's security and counterinsurgency apparatus, the police, the National Guard, the military, the communications intelli…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 13:15
Swan Island supplied_arms_to
El Salvador 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
Ronald Reagan host_asserted
El Salvador host_asserted
“This is around the 1980 timeframe. The U.S. was supporting the government of El Salvador. And President Reagan said it was because they were trying to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terrorists and also outside interference. Any …”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 7:12
United States funded
El Salvador host_asserted
“He's American trained, and that's incredibly important. That's what you find with most of these people that do these horrible things. During the early months of 1980, the government with direct American influence and input enacted a program…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 29:13
Reagan administration funded
El Salvador book_quoted
“When Reagan advisors considered, they already considered Nicaragua lost. One of Reagan's top policy objectives in 81 and 82 was to keep that from happening in El Salvador. And keep in mind, Felix Rodriguez was in El Salvador attacking the S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 33:54
El Salvador carried_out_attack
Death Squads host_asserted
“At the height of the campaign, residents of the capital city, San Salvador, would wake up to find 40 new bodies every morning. The Salvadoran government officially denied any connection with the death squads, but they were running them. The…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 36:56
Pyramid International supplied_arms_to
El Salvador documented
“responsible for collecting military-related foreign intelligence. It was heavily involved in the Contra War and in the Civil War in El Salvador. The detectives were confused. DIA? Had Lister said Weakley was with the CIA? What the hell was …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 18 @ 40:48
Roberto de Azevedo carried_out_attack
El Salvador host_asserted
“was the leader in El Salvador while he was setting up all of his death squads. The CAL conference in Argentina in September of 1980, they met. Delachey, Gladio operator, meeting with the guy setting up the precursor to MS-13 in Argentina at…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 39:52
El Salvador supplied_arms_to
Contras documented
“This is what he's talking about. Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador fronted arms shipments for the Contras. In both cases, the CIA turned to the People's Republic of China, meaning Taiwan, to supply additional weaponry and missiles to its…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 24:57
Ronald Reagan funded
El Salvador host_asserted
“Reagan administration in, and he was hiding the aid for the fascist in El Salvador in the form of the government and the elitist in U.S. food supplies for starving Africans. He also hid some aid in a request they sent over for emergency fue…”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 4:06
Ronald Reagan funded
El Salvador host_asserted
“actually received from abroad, necessarily limited to what could be carried by the occasional clandestine small truck or boat, plainly did not belong in the same league, nor on the same planet, for that matter, as the huge transport, plane …”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 33:30
Roberto D'Aubuisson trafficked
El Salvador documented
“He killed tens of thousands of people. Of course, he's mentally unstable. And the CIA paid him to do it. And so their own documents document that they're paying a mentally ill person to assassinate fellow countrymen. It also indicated that …”
▶ Operation Gladio- El Salvador Part 2 @ 43:20
Ron Lister supplied_arms_to
El Salvador documented
“Lister, quote, led a sales team on a futile mission to Civil War-wracked El Salvador in the summer of 1982 to market surplus American arms, military equipment, and use school buses to the Salvadoran military. The trip was financed, the asso…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 8 @ 24:32
CIA trained
El Salvador host_asserted
“Many of the people that I've talked to, especially the ones that were involved in that were like in El Salvador, I've talked to two people specifically that were part of the operation to overthrow the Sandinista government that were in Nica…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 54:06
Reagan administration funded
El Salvador documented
“could hold the insurgents no more than at a stalemate. The amount of American military aid to El Salvador from 1980 to the early 90s for the hardware alone ran into the billions of dollars. Six billion.…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 39:25
Atalcatl Battalion carried_out_attack
El Salvador documented
“In February 1989, Vice President Dan Quayle told Army leaders that death squad killings and human rights violations attributed to the military had to be ended. Ten days later, the U.S.-trained Atalcatl Battalion, which was believed to have …”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 1:00:42
Cesar Vilman Joya Martinez carried_out_attack
El Salvador documented
“Hoya Martinez stated that the advisors had used the names Marico Torres and Raul Martina Lazo in his unit had carried out 74 assassinations of Salvadorian dissidents between April and July 1989, and that he himself had been personally invol…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 1:02:39
Ronald Reagan funded
El Salvador host_asserted
“So he had cut them off at the knees. And do you know who reinstalled it day one? Ronald Reagan. All of those countries with death squads killing their own peoples, foreign aid was immediately reinstalled when Ronald Reagan took over. So the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - PART 39 - _JIMMY CARTER & PANAMA CANAL_ - EP.372 @ 1:03:06
Israel supplied_arms_to
El Salvador host_asserted
“We're giving aid to Israel, and Israel's selling guns to the Contras and the Guatemalans and the Costa Ricans and the El Salvadorians and blah, blah, blah, to the point where they're actually setting up arms manufacturing plants in their co…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Angola, Portugal and arms dealers @ 10:33
Nayib Bukele overthrew
El Salvador documented
“Well, there's the talk about El Salvador and Bukele, and everyone's really happy because the crime rates in El Salvador have dropped down to, you know, like the safest country in South America now in terms of murders and everything like tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 1:27:10
Brigade 2506 carried_out_attack
El Salvador 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 member_of
El Salvador book_quoted
“a friend and former CIA boss in Vietnam, who was now the National Security Advisor to Vice President Bush. He didn't make the rounds. He was working for Don Gregg. That's a proven fact. So Felix meets Oliver North. As part of his work for t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 24:58
Sandinistas supplied_arms_to
El Salvador book_quoted
“had been running circles around the country's corrupt and inefficient military. The rebels' fight was being assisted by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, who have admitted supplying to them. The Reagan administration was concerned about what wa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 33:22
Ron Lister supplied_arms_to
El Salvador book_quoted
“Soon after Lister paired up with Blanton and Menendez, his security company began doing business overseas. Blanton told the Justice Department interviewers that he and Menendez entered into an informal partnership with Lister for the purpos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 7 @ 30:28
CIA carried_out_attack
El Salvador 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
Wackenhut carried_out_attack
El Salvador host_asserted
“In El Salvador alone, Wackenhut had 1,500 employees there in 1985. They were engaged in businesses that were described as, quote, things you wouldn't want your mom to know about, unquote, by a former international operations director for th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 9 @ 35:09
United Fruit Company undermined
El Salvador host_asserted
“or that they were, sorry, very similar to programs that the U.S. had advocated in other third world countries since the 1950s. But they advocate them and the international syndicate like United Fruit would go in and undermine them. And for …”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 29:49
Elliot Abrams defended
El Salvador host_asserted
“He was intimately involved in defending the death squad leader in El Salvador under the guise of human rights. He had a knock down, drag out fight with the actual human rights commission in his support of the El Salvadoran government that w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 6:01
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
El Salvador host_asserted
“as the ones who are going to stand up and lead a resistance if necessary. And by doing this in advance, they have already done their homework. And when you start looking into Operation Gladio and them having done this around the world and t…”
▶ Gladio 101 El Salvador @ 34:41
Catholic Church covered_up
El Salvador host_asserted
“That was done in El Salvador. There were priests being murdered. By this apparatchik. All over the world. They used the Vatican church. To propagandize. Northern. Over almost a million. Northern Vietnamese. Were psychologically tortured. To…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:25:25
Felix Rodriguez member_of
El Salvador 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
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
El Salvador 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
El Salvador host_asserted
“sometimes saying the letters CIA, you know? And it's like, meanwhile, in the alternative media, the alternative left media, which I, you know, gradually came to realize was extremely controlled and quid pro quo, you would get a lot of talk …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 7 @ 1:16:56
Richard Nixon targeted_for_regime_change
El Salvador host_asserted
“and the soda market down there and a whole bunch of so itt um uh anaconda freeport mining and um pepsico all offered nixon money to overthrow the um salvador linda government interesting interesting now we see where i mean the gladio glass …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 9 @ 1:12:57
Mentions (120)
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Okay, if I could ask everyone, if you wouldn't mind, to repost the space so we can get started. We're going to talk a little bit about El Salvador today. And I want to make sure everybody knows where it's at and a little bit about it. So, o…
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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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U.S. military bases to stage any of the Gladio operations out of for Operation Condor in South America, unlike all of their neighbors, which is totally weird just on the surface. So just wanted to put that out there. And geography wise.…
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You can take a look at the neighbors of El Salvador. I'll let y'all do that while I get started on the subject at hand. And I thought going over what we think is kind of a good news story after the fact on...…
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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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This is around the 1980 timeframe. The U.S. was supporting the government of El Salvador. And President Reagan said it was because they were trying to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terrorists and also outside interference. Any …
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as a corridor from South America into North America posed a threat.…
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him, let me get, I want to give you an exact quote, to halt the infiltration into the Americas by terrorists and by outside interference. And those who aren't just aiming at El Salvador, but I think are aiming at the whole of Central and po…
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El Salvador didn't have anything. Nobody was actually focused on El Salvador for anything. If there were insurgents in El Salvador, the smallest country by far of all Central and South America, if they were engaged in a plot to capture the …
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Not that they wouldn't use it as a corridor, but that's not where they would congregate. However, when you look back on it, it cannot be asserted that the Salvadorian people rushed into revolution at the first painful sting of being repress…
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They definitely tried to work within the system, and they also tried to keep outside agitators from destroying their country. For as long as anyone could remember, the reins of El Salvador's government had resided in the hands of one milita…
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Basically, the coffee trade spread around the world, generally where the British colonies traded. In December 1980, the New York Times reporter Raymond Bonner asked Jose Napoleon Duarte why the guerrillas were in the hills. Duarte, who had …
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Throughout the 1960s, multi-faceted American experts occupied themselves in El Salvador by enlarging and refining the state's security and counterinsurgency apparatus, the police, the National Guard, the military, the communications intelli…
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There were the forces and resources which were brought into action to impose a widespread repression and wage war. Years later, the New York Times quoted as follows. In El Salvador, American aid was used for police training in the 1950s and…
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According to the PAR spokesperson, the principle involved was support for the agrarian reform, which, of course, during this period of time was taking place throughout Central America because U.S. corporations had went down there and basica…
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that the government had sanctioned because they were all paid off and bought off by the same international mercantilist. Undeterred, a center-left coalition called the UNO was formed and put forth a Christian Democrat, Jose Napoleon Duarte.…
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as its presidential candidate in 1972. Though the UNO was confronted by violence against its candidates and campaigners, including the murder of an aide of Duarte and the sabotaging of the coalition's radio broadcast, it arrived at Election…
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after first announcing a victory for PNC, shocked everyone by declaring that a recount had shown the UNO to be the winner instead. The government quickly imposed a news blockout, and the next two days, nothing was heard concerning the elect…
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In the 1974 and 76 legislative elections, and again in the 77 presidential elections, the government employed similar creative counting along with gross physical intimidation of candidates, voters, and poll watchers. It's all been tried bef…
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The result was nothing less than a bloodbath. The death toll was in the hundreds. In the immediate aftermath, top leaders of the UNO were exiled and the party's followers became liable to arrest, torture, and murder. The country's president…
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had been sporadic in the 60s but became commonplace in the 70s as more and more Salvadorians, frustrated by the futility of social change through elections, resorted to other means. While some limited themselves to more militant demonstrati…
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machinery, bombings, kidnapping for ransoms. The government and its paramilitary right-wing vigilante group called death squads, or in our terminology, gladio operators, is the self-named modern genre, countered with a campaign centered upo…
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and religious workers. And they even had a slogan called, be patriotic, kill a priest. Church people were accused of teaching subversion to peasants, what the church people themselves called the word of God. The CIA and the U.S. military pl…
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They are equally, if not more so, involved because the person pulling the trigger would have no clue how to get to the people without the CIA's involvement. In October 1979, a group of younger military officers, repelled by the frequent mas…
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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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We're giving aid to Israel, and Israel's selling guns to the Contras and the Guatemalans and the Costa Ricans and the El Salvadorians and blah, blah, blah, to the point where they're actually setting up arms manufacturing plants in their co…
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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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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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Reagan administration in, and he was hiding the aid for the fascist in El Salvador in the form of the government and the elitist in U.S. food supplies for starving Africans. He also hid some aid in a request they sent over for emergency fue…
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In order to continue the military funding, because Congress, with the reported massacres coming out of El Salvador almost daily at that point, via death squads had began to ask questions. So you just do what they did now that we continue to…
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So we also learned about Reverend Louis Olivares, the Catholic priest that had been threatened here in the United States. And the one woman that was picked up who has been a former citizen and she was assaulted and raped and they left spray…
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that they were from the death squads. And those were things that was happening here in America as it related with immigrants from El Salvador. And they had started setting up gangs in like Los Angeles, et cetera. So also we read about Colon…
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Carranza, who was head of the Treasury Police, was one of the most brutal assassins in the overall security forces that had been trained by the United States and that the CIA had continued to pay him $90,000 a year for years on end to manag…
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Vice President Dan Quell, who told Army leaders that the death squad killings had to stop. Yet 10 days later, a U.S.-trained battalion, which was believed to have had a U.S. trainer embedded in it at the time, attacked a guerrilla-filled ho…
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The warning was not worth the paper it was written on. And in 1989, former Salvadoran Army Commander Cesar Villalman Martinez was in an interview on CBS, and he basically was saying that he was a member of the 1st Brigade, that they were a …
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Martinez went public in the U.S., one of the most shocking atrocities of the war happened. And that's when six Jesuit priests at the University of Central America in San Salvador was shot to death in cold blood at their campus residence, al…
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in the U.S. and internationally. There was a special congressional task force referred to, the one that we were just referring to. Two months later, nine officers and enlisted men were arrested. A platoon from that death squad battalion, se…
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supervised by U.S. Special Forces Green Berets in El Salvador, almost like that was a training mission for them. Almost two years passed before any of those arrested were convicted of the crime. They were all low-level officers with the hig…
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There were thousands of people that had been killed in military death squads and no officer had ever been tried, let alone convicted. Officers, let's see, the Salvadorian military tolerated the trials of the officers this time because Congr…
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After the convictions, officials of the Bush administration appeared to be trying to thwart an investigation and aid into the cover-up and the tactics used. So here's some of the things that they did to try to thwart an investigation. They …
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They refused on grounds of national security to provide a Salvadorian court with classified documents. This is the U.S. doing this, that dealt with the case, withholding on the same ground substance material from journalists via FOIAs. Thre…
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who had been stationed in El Salvador, who had learned of the military's culpability in the murders from a Salvadorian Colonel Carlos Aviles. Then they imposed a series of conditions on Buckland's questioning that served to conceal most of …
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such horrendous interrogation that he underwent a nervous breakdown. Five, so basically the U.S. government destroyed a military officer who not only they commanded to train people to assassinate their own citizens, but then once they got c…
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had revealed to Buckland, which caused Avila much grief. Poor baby. Father Charles Byrne, the vice rector of the Jesuit University, declared in 1991 that the, quote, the Americans were helping to protect the Salvadorian army, high command a…
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a certain amount of caution. In February 1988, the New York Times reported the following. Villagers say the rebels publicly executed two peasants because they had applied for and received new voter registration cards. According to the villa…
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The story was included in a State Department booklet to highlight the rebel, quote, campaign of intimidation and terrorism, unquote. The booklet was mailed to Congress, newspaper editors, and opinion makers. But the story, as it turns out, …
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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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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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disclosures of information, all of which never proved to be true. The world was also informed that the Soviet and Chinese weapons had been seized from the rebels and that this was cited as further proof of outside communist aid and the fact…
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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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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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El Salvador, Panama, anybody that became a competitor in the drug market for the CIA, operations were launched out of the Guatemala. And it basically was used as a staging area. And we're going to see how that turned out.…
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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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the Americas, that these people are going to flee. And if they're training them on how to kill people and they come up to the United States, we already know that MS-13 from El Salvador had been co-opted in many ways and used by this police …
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and then Panama, and then into South America. That's why when you look at those countries, they became critical. Belize is kind of a sideshow off to the east, and El Salvador is basically a sideshow off to the west, which El Salvador kind o…
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But you don't have to go through it in order to get through the entire length of Central America. And so that does lend itself. And again, we know that Operation Gladio lends, they will do the borders of the countries that they're targeting…
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That was done in El Salvador. There were priests being murdered. By this apparatchik. All over the world. They used the Vatican church. To propagandize. Northern. Over almost a million. Northern Vietnamese. Were psychologically tortured. To…
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And everybody has something, evidently, except for El Salvador. Their president says they have nothing. But generally, everybody has something that the international syndicate wants. Go ahead, Stellar. Along with what Miles was saying, in S…
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set up all of these terrorist training camps surrounding the entire country. They were in Costa Rica. They were in Guatemala. They were in El Salvador. They were in Honduras and just launched holy hell on these people that just wanted to fr…
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The National Endowment for Democracy is one of the places they ended up. And they were basically still engaged in coups. They were engaged in regime change. And we saw that throughout the 1980s with Angola and Nicaragua and El Salvador, bla…
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The Center for Democracy organized a quote-unquote bipartisan group of election lawyers to oversee the preparation for the 1986 elections in the Philippines. Now, that's very interesting because that's at the same time that they're messing …
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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.…
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at a camp just outside of Immokalee. And they then sent them all over the world, Angola, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, blah, blah, blah, El Salvador, Vietnam, to be assassins and killers and torturers and kidnappers. And they were all tra…
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Mass murder. They were involved in the staging in El Salvador of the mass murder and complete village annihilation throughout Nicaragua. And we were lying about who they were attacking. They labeled these people as communists and they had n…
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committee in the United States Senate. He was funding regime changes. And that's thanks to Reagan. So Jimmy Carter, unlike Reagan, tied all foreign aid to human rights. He cut off all foreign aid to Nicaragua because the government was not,…
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Those people went to El Salvador. They went to Honduras. They went to Guatemala. They were in Angola. They were in Nicaragua. He's been everywhere. He's the guy that was standing there when they arrested Che Guevara and killed him in either…
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El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, all of them. They all went to Taiwan to this like intermediate school. Then the kind of creme de la creme, if you were going to get like your own cartel network and you were going to run drug routes …
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He was in El Salvador with the death squads. He was in Honduras with the death squads. He was working on the CONFRA thing out of the Bush vice president White House for Donald Gregg, because Donald Gregg, who was the national security advis…
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And we're going to arm the Contras because they're freedom fighters. They're the heroes. They're actually the bad guys. And you military, we need you to bring in all of these resources. We're going to set you up in El Salvador and we're goi…
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Sandinistas win the election in Nicaragua and basically begin kicking out United Fruit and everybody else. The entire thing falls apart, and that's Contras. So the Contras get housed over in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador. They're flying …
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are put in solitary confinement to hide them from everybody, to include their lawyers, not unlike what we've seen with January 6th. You don't find them normally recruiting out of prisons. These people, most of the people, for example, the C…
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show that we did today on Badlands. And I was going back over that information. And one of the things, for example, in El Salvador, you have this D'Ambrosin guy. I don't know how you pronounced his last name. It's a D apostrophe A and a who…
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were actually the death squad members. And, you know, they got a few other people that weren't trigger pullers, but basically they used the auspices of a political party to cloak the assassins in. So if you go into El Salvador and you go in…
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terror threats to people in the incoming administration mirror the struggle in Latin America of the non-infiltrated political parties trying to come to power like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and I forget what the name of the guys were in …
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El Salvador. But every time anybody that was good got elected that was anti-CIA, they got quickly overthrown for shit like this. There were death threats. Their kids would be. When we get to that part in the Alpha series, what they did to t…
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quote-unquote Cuban exiles, which we refer to as Operation Gladio operatives, in order to conduct not just raids on Cuba, but throughout all of Latin America. You find these Cuban exiles in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua. You f…
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El Salvador was going on during that time. Afghanistan was going on during that time, the Mujahideen version of it. So I just wanted to kind of picture this for you in a completely different plane being time wise as well, because that's oft…
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by wealthy foundation-funded, you know, rich corporations. Foundations are subsidized by rich corporations. And it's really like, it's almost like a strategy of a windshield beating raindrops. Sure, the little stuff, like, that's not going …
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what this author calls right wing groups at a Mexican, at many Mexican universities. Frito Lorenz believed that his country elected leaders that were blind to the spread of international communism in the Americas. In other words, he's just …
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that Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras basically became supporters of their ambassadors and CIA assets on the ground in those countries, all organized behind Crito Lorenz in order to overthrow Guatemalan duly elected, you know, democracy, t…
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in places like El Salvador, Honduras, and basically all over. We found them in Angola. We found them in the Congo. And they've just become paramilitary, being used for Operation Gladio, overthrows, and any other kind of paramilitary act.…
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Cuba after the Spanish-American War, as we've talked about. They've just kind of perfected this as they go forward. The connection between the Phoenix program and later events are clearly evident to include El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua, Ho…
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And actually, if you look at the U.S. sent the exact same people that had been involved in the Phoenix program to advise El Salvador on how to run a very similar program, if not the same program with its people, how to set it up. And obviou…
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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 …
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And there's some overlap to some of the things that we have seen in the Middle East, in Iraq. There were people that actually called it the El Salvador solution, and they sent people who had helped in El Salvador and the terror campaign tha…
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And there are people that we trained in El Salvador that moved around to several of the other because they have to have people that look like them in order to be able to pretend that they're doing these false flags and to be able to get awa…
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And I just did a piece today, a very long thread, about the Operation Phoenix program used in Central America between Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica against Nicaragua. I mean, they implemented it to a T. As a matter of fact, I've eve…
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Al-Zaym did the U.S.'s bidding and allowed the Trans-Syrian oil pipeline to be built. It instigated talks with Israel and imprisoned trade unionists and basically anybody the CIA said they didn't like. He was executed in his pajamas within …
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He said he delivered bags of money sometimes two or three times a day. I paid a lot of money, maybe millions. In 1996 interviews with the Washington Post, Cesar and Chamorro both said the CIA was fully aware of their involvement with the Co…
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So in other words, everybody knew that they were setting up Pastora. After his first meeting with the Contras, Morales testified that he agreed to give men aged C-47 cargo plane that he had stored in Haiti. He also gave them $10,000 to fly …
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airport. Pastora's plane had been hangared there since 1983 under an arrangement worked out between the CIA pilot and the San Salvadorian Air Force. The C-47 was the first of many aircraft the Colombian trafficker would give to the Contras.…
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Another one of the C-47 pilots Kitney found was Geraldo Duran, a Costa Rican drug pilot who also served as chief pilot instructor for the Southern Front Contras. Duran was convicted of narcotics trafficking in Costa Rica in 1987 and thrown …
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where it was reloaded with drugs before flying back to Florida, Kidney reported. This assertion is entirely plausible and even somewhat corroborated in Justice Department charges that Morales was importing cocaine at the time for the larges…
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Congressional testimony confirmed. Chamorro gave the subcommittee a list of flights made by the C-47 to ferry arms into El Salvador and to Costa Rica. That was in a Senate subcommittee report. It went on to say between October 18th of 1984 …
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was secured through the World Anti-Communist League. Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, and South Africa immediately recognizes them. A victory party was held in Buenos Aires in which the U.S. was represented by NAC, N-A-T, Hamrick, H-A-M-R-I-C…
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The growth of cocaine production in Colombia and trade involved in the ascendancy of military-civilian regimes committed to extending the market relations with the U.S. were created. These included Argentina's military junta of 1976, Bolivi…
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And Greg's daughter married William Buckley's son. Yeah. And William Buckley, CIA. Right. Have you ever had any? It's all in the family. Right. It was Bush's office that deployed Rodriguez, the Central American, made arrangements for him to…
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de Osborne of El Salvador to restrict the movements of leaders of the FMLN in Panama, and more important, failing to comply with the demands of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North to provide military assistance to the Nicaraguan Contras. Norieg…
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to isolate the FARC from their rural support base as part of an official counterinsurgency strategy. This is an actual quote. The security forces acted under the premise that gained currency in El Salvador of draining the sea, which means t…
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and otherwise into accepting the Washington Consensus. And again, I have to point this out. What's interesting about this man's words is it's exactly what we saw and we've been through repeatedly in detail in Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, El Sa…
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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…
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us to break all diplomatic ties with Washington. In the immediate aftermath, I participated in several meetings with U.S. officials in New York, during which Elliot Abram, and we're going to go over him in a minute. Elliot Abram's name keep…
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As Assistant Secretary for Human Rights, Abrams defended the Reagan administration's support for El Salvador's military junta during their civil war, where they had death squads roaming around killing thousands of people. In 81, he downplay…
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even though later declassified U.S. embassy cables confirmed all of it. However, his stance helped secured U.S. aid totaling $6 billion overall going to El Salvador as they murdered their own citizens. Ultimately, it is estimated that over …
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proclaiming an end to the guard which had hunted the rebels mercilessly for more than a decade. Those National Guard officers who could escape poured across the border into El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Some of them hid inside the …
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He wanted to have the names in writing before he went to the grand jury. Lister said the people listed were only business people. The last two names on the list was Roberto de Abusan, which is the El Salvador guy in charge, and a guy that t…
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This is what he's talking about. Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador fronted arms shipments for the Contras. In both cases, the CIA turned to the People's Republic of China, meaning Taiwan, to supply additional weaponry and missiles to its…
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For those of you who may have missed yesterday's show, what the U.S. government and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is trying to do is set up the Sandinista Nicaraguan government as drug traffickers when they are trafficking drugs from Colo…
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In early 1986, it wound up with none other than CIA contractor Southern Air Transport, where it was used for Contra supply runs out of the El Salvador airport until its fatal flight. Unfortunately, the informant's allegations of the guns fo…
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outside his purview. And he also stated that he knew Senator John Kerry's Senate subcommittee was investigating it. But it appears that Walsh's office never passed the Rudd memo to John Kerry. Castillo's investigation, that's the good DEA g…
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thanks to the activities of the American ambassador to El Salvador, Edwin Corr, C-O-R-R, to whom Castillo was regularly reporting. Corr... Excuse me, Colonel, if I can interrupt for a second. Sure. They're having sound issues over on Rumble…
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They did what they thought was appropriate. Meanwhile, John Kerry is investigating all of this stuff in another Kabuki committee hearing. And the DOJ is sending everything to Walsh, but he's not sending it to John Kerry. So it's a big botto…
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Because his investigation had the potential to, quote, unquote, destroy relationships with the Salvadoran officials that had taken so long to build, unquote. Now, keep in mind, the Salvadoran officials he's talking about is the guy running …