Cape Verde country
also: Cape Verdean, Gina Basu, Kate Verde
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United Statescountry · 15Alex Saabperson · 7Elliot Abramsperson · 5Interpolorganization · 4Mike Pompeoperson · 4Amílcar Cabralperson · 4Nicolás Maduroperson · 3Russel Marthaperson · 3Miamiplace · 3U.S. State Departmentorganization · 2Cape Verdean authoritiesorganization · 2Mark Esperperson · 2United States governmentorganization · 2Irancountry · 2USAIDorganization · 1U.S. taxpayersorganization · 1Venezuelacountry · 1Soviet Unioncountry · 1U.S. Navyorganization · 1U.S. Department of Justiceorganization · 1The New York Timesorganization · 1William Barrperson · 1Portugalcountry · 1A Sacred Oathbook · 1
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Cape Verde documented
“Following the diplomat's detention, U.S. officials wrote out a conveniently timed $100 million direct investment in Cape Verde's economy alongside plans to spend $300 million renovating our embassy in Cape Verde. So a $400 million bribe of …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 45:49
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Alex Saab documented
“his extradition to the U.S. They decided that the $400 million was more important than complying with the law. Cape Verde did not officially ship the diplomat to Miami until October 16th. At around 5 p.m., a Gulfstream owned by the U.S. Jus…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 48:46
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Let me try to send it to you again, Lux. Oh, you got it? Okay. Awesome. All right. We're going to get started. Okay. There's an island called Cape Verde off the coast of Africa. And there were many incidences at Cape Verde. Lots of incident…
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Its figure, and I'm going to butcher his name, is Amalir Amakar Cabral until his assassination in 1973. And that's a whole different story. Cabral led West Africans fight for sovereignty from Portugal, a prolonged guerrilla campaign like Op…
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Gina Basu and Kate Verde, just months following his murder. A skilled military strategist and cunning political theorist, Cabral stands among the giants of the 20th century and anti-colonial resistance. He was the Lumumba of that area. And …
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would credit Cabral with inspiring his own effort to free Venezuela from foreign subjugation at the dawn of the second millennium. Each January 20th, on the anniversary of Cabral's death, Cape Verdeans observed National Heroes Day, an offic…
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and contemporary Cape Verdean officials have nakedly disgraced their patriotic sacrifice. In June 2020, they willfully converted Amalir Cabral's International Airport into the site of an unprecedented kidnapping scheme, betraying their hist…
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Abduction in Cape Verde targeted a Colombian-born Venezuelan official who had established his own legacy in the global struggle against the West. In 2016, with inflation and unpredictability in their supply chains brought on by U.S. sanctio…
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Cape Verde, a routine excursion that did not require him to exit the plane or pass through immigration. They were just there for fuel. As Saab's aircraft refueled on the tarmac of the airport, Cape Verdean authorities suddenly demanded that…
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Cape Verde claimed to have detained Saab in compliance with an Interpol red notice seeking his arrest. Who put that Interpol red notice in the system? You're about to find out. Yet while Interpol did eventually post a red notice for Saab, i…
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After the arrest, Saab's legal team said, they were looking for a red notice to justify the arrest. Interpol's former director of legal affairs, a Dutch lawyer, Russel Martha, reinforced the legal team's view, asserting that the agency brea…
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Speaking to Nigerian media in January of 2021, Martha said that his own explanation for the discrepancies in the timing of Saab's arrest, alleging U.S. authorities only submitted a formal Interpol request for his detention after they learne…
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Martha pointed to the fact that the local authorities took multiple unnecessary steps designed to delay Saab's departure, trying to get the red notice put in the system, including forcing him to obtain a visa as evidence that Washington had…
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There was no red notice from Interpol, nor were there an arrest warrant from Cape Verde. This makes his arrest arbitrary and illegal, an ex-Interpol chief said. Noting the agency's red notice protocol is not instantaneous and would have req…
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which never happened. Cape Verde was acting on the orders of the U.S. government, Saab's attorney said. Their claims are further backed by media reports that a private jet owned by U.S. government contractors, Presidential Aviation, that's …
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The plane was on standby for a chartered flight to Miami, Florida for his extradition, where a sealed indictment on money laundering charges awaited him. Assertions that Washington orchestrated the diplomat's extradition and his kidnapping …
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Mike Pompeo wrote that Trump's Venezuelan envoy and Iran-Contra crook, Elliott Abrams, first briefed him on the plot days before it went into effect. According to Pompeo, Abrams informed him that some clever drug enforcement agency folks ha…
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Upon learning the diplomat's jet would stop in Cape Verde to refuel, Pompeo said he called Attorney General Bill Barr and arranged for our ambassador in Cape Verde in the Department of Justice to file the paperwork for his extradition to th…
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to intercept an Iranian-Venezuelan plot in real time and convince a small island nation to hold a wanted man. Wanted for feeding people outside the State Department and USAID. Yet even as Pompeo and his collaborators succeeded in extra-lega…
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Before the U.S. could put Saab on trial in Miami, it would have to physically transfer him to Florida, a task complicated by the fact that no formal extradition treaty was in effect between Cape Verde and Washington. Unless Cape Verde is a …
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his lawyer asserted. For the ideologues commandeering Trump's Latin American policy, however, ducking and dodging law was a preferred pastime. Four months following Saab's June 2020 arrest, a U.S. naval cruiser called USS San Joaquino set o…
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the Atlantic to Cape Verde. Though no former war had been declared upon Cape Verde, Hawks embedded within Trump's administration had dispatched the ship to increase pressure on Cape Verde to extradite Sopp. Their ploy was exposed in Decembe…
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Particularly, Abrams had pushed for the ship's deployment out of fear the US would lose an unusual opportunity to punish Mr. Maduro. That was in the New York Times. If Saab's detention lingered on, Abrams and his cronies claimed that withou…
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to invade Cape Verde and break him out of prison. According to then U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the paranoia allegations was just one of several unsubstantiated rumors that Abrams circulated throughout the media about the diplomat. I…
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Esper detailed a slew of wild theories that Abrams and his colleagues floated about Saab. This is a quote of one of them. Maduro persuaded President Putin and Russian special forces to spring Saab from jail. Russian mercenaries in Libya wer…
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a special plane to fly to Cape Verde to repatriate Saab, and Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops were preparing the rescue mission, unquote. That's what Abrams was floating around Washington, D.C. during this time. Just as their weapons of m…
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the U.S. Navy ship ultimately returned to Norfolk in time for the Christmas holidays. By then, U.S. taxpayers had financed the deployment, costing us about $2 million just to set off the coast of Cape Verde. Which, by the way, is how we got…