Suriname country
also: Dutch Guyana, Serenami, tsunami
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So there was another country that was watching all of that go on and was like, what the hell is going on? That country was called Suriname. And that is the old. So just for you guys, again, another history lesson. Guyana, which we talked ab…
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And it was divided up into three during the decolonialization. There is Guyana proper, which is next to Venezuela. There is British Guyana. And then there was Dutch Guyana, which changed its name to Suriname. And I don't know if I'm saying …
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We rolled right out of those two, the Morocco and the Suriname, into Libya. And then Nicaragua, Panama, Bulgaria. And Bulgaria started towards the end of Reagan's administration, but most of it happened during the Bush senior administration…
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State Department equivalent cable communications. It's paramount to this entire investigation. Okay, so we're going to talk just real quick about Serenami. So again, this is the British, or excuse me, the Dutch former portion of Guyana in S…
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British Guyana and Suriname as part of the entire old former Guyana country. It was unusual to be sure that the director of the CIA would inform Congress in advance of an agency plan to overthrow a foreign government. President Reagan said …
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I'm sure that's not how you say it. That's how I'm going to say it. The agency's plan reportedly called for the formation of an exile paramilitary force to invade Suriname because Bouters had taken power in a 1980 military coup, was leading…
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had threatened to expel two U.S. diplomats it accused of encouraging the country's conservative trade unions of playing a key role in organizing anti-government demonstrations and strikes aimed at bringing the government down. Imagine that.…
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were actually asked to leave because of their destabilization activities, i.e. strategy of tension. In July 1983, the New York Times reported that an invasion of tsunami scheduled for the first of the month by Florida-based mercenaries, i.e…
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by an internal security agency inside of the Netherlands. And keep in mind, this tsunami used to be a Dutch colony. So there were lots of Dutch people still living in this country and they kept very close tabs on the country. And there were…
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So there's lots of communications going back. And it is through that vehicle that they figured out what was going on. As had become customary concerning American targets in Latin America, stories about the presence of large numbers of Cuban…
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These warriors remained mythical figures, i.e. they didn't exist. In the spring of 1983, tsunami entered into agreements with the neighboring right-wing governments of Brazil, which provided for economic and military aid and military traini…
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So they're probably infiltrating these training sessions with the CIA, unbeknownst to the Suriname people. The simple truth was that Suriname, like other developing nations, was always willing to accept help, like from Brazil. As the matter…
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almost all of the Cuban advisors and embassy personnel, including the ambassador, and suspended all agreements with Havana. The expulsions were announced the day the U.S. invaded Grenada and was influenced because they didn't want to be par…
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So you see how they just keep using Castro's presence there to extort people and coerce them into doing what they want them to do anyway? The belief about Cuba being in tsunami had no relationship to the truth at all and may have been encou…
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Newsweek magazine later reported that U.S. diplomats in the capital of Suriname made sure to keep voters current on evidence that the Cuba had aided the grenadine coup, which was a lie, and that the rest was left to his well-prepared parano…
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They're actually telling you that they mounted a propaganda campaign to convince the Suriname president that they were coming for him and that they were going to do to him exactly what they did to Maurice Bishop, which was assassinate him a…
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In December 1983 through January 1984, tsunami was shaken by thousands of striking workers protesting against various different subjects. And while they were saying that it was hard to get cold, hard evidence of the CIA's involvement, what …