Michelle Bachelet person
also: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean president, Michelle Batchelor, Bachelet, Bachelorette, Besselot, Michelle Bachman
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Michelle Bachelet book_quoted
“kidnapped Michelle and her mother, subjecting them to torture as well, and forced them into exile in Australia. Now, this is the same woman who has been subjected to this torture through a U.S. regime change, who is now in charge of the U.N…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 8:58
Michelle Bachelet covered_up
Juan Guaidó book_quoted
“of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 10:02
Michelle Bachelet covered_up
Maria Corina Machado book_quoted
“of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 10:02
Michelle Bachelet covered_up
Orlando Figuera book_quoted
“of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 10:02
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human rights commissioner who had suffered torture at the hands of a right-wing U.S.-backed dictatorship herself. This blew my mind. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights was a former Chilean president, Michelle Batchelor. She travele…
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which was published at the Gray Zone, captured Bachelet scribbling down notes and glancing over the grisly photographs. One showed the anguished young man kneeling on the ground as a gang of anti-government thugs poured gasoline all over hi…
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These are not peaceful protesters. They were bloodthirsty. Bachelet should have been able to relate to the woman who was crying in front of her. Long before her 2006 ascent to Chile's presidency, the U.S.-backed militia junta of Augusto Pin…
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kidnapped Michelle and her mother, subjecting them to torture as well, and forced them into exile in Australia. Now, this is the same woman who has been subjected to this torture through a U.S. regime change, who is now in charge of the U.N…
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Bachelet had testified before, quote, they put a hood over my head, threatened me and hit me, unquote. Despite her family's own torture under the rule of Latin America, U.S. backed extremists, when Bachelet released her long anticipated Ven…
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of Figueroa's grieving mother and other casualties that she had heard about on her visit to Venezuela, Bachelet made no mention of opposition violence at all in her report. Instead, she focused her critique entirely on the Venezuelan govern…
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An effort to defend itself through the establishment of non-state civilian militias known as collectivos. And that was for the protection of the local people against insurgents. Yeah, let's talk about them. According to Bachelet, the CLAP p…
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but an intelligence gathering operation that spied on opposition families while blocking them from receiving benefits. Her evidence-free assertion are thoroughly dispelled by what we talked about earlier, where Anya, the author of this book…
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And in the report from the U.N., it offered no evidence, not a single name of someone who was starved that opposed the Maduro government. In addition to clap, Bachelet directed her ire at Venezuela's colectivos, demanding Caracas disarm and…
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while accusing them of exercising social control. As with Clapp, Besselot's view of the collectivos directly parroted claims of U.S. officials like John Bolton and Marco Rubio, who had branded the groups as disorderly terrorist gangs that M…
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promoted the arming of their civilian populations beyond the state's authority. Months before the publication of Bachelet's report, British journalist John McAvoy spent two weeks living with a collectivo in Caracas attempting to answer that…
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Were they around since the 1960s as self-defense militias? Though colectivos overwhelmingly lined up behind Chavez once he was elected, McAvoy insisted Bachelorette's report stripped the Venezuelan political situation of all historical cont…
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Colectivos played a key role in obstructing a foreign-directed mercenary invasion of Venezuela in May of 2020. With this context, Bachelorette's call for Colectivos to disarm appeared equally to demand a Venezuelan surrender of its last lin…
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They just happen to be U.S. people that were going to go and try an assassination attempt. And we're going to learn that in another chapter. But that's what these people do. They are like the deputies in the local community. After undermini…
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as Maduro's assigning blame for his own shortcomings. Her analysis was not only contradicted by evidence presented throughout this book, but also by the U.S. government itself. Months before Bachelet released her report, the U.S. State Depa…
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Weisbrot co-authored a report with economist Jeffrey Sachs, concluding that U.S. sanctions contributed to a 31 percent increase in Venezuelans mortality rate between 2017 and 18 alone. Yet just as she ignored the State Department's own stat…
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report authored by these economists. Instead, she provided official UN cover for Washington's financial war and justified attacks on the CLAP program, including the extrajudicial kidnapping of its facilitator, Alex Saab, one year following …
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as the main attraction appeared to be anticipated showdown between the frontrunner, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, and runner-up Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts. On stage, Romney and Gingrich took the center podiu…