Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua ‘national security threat’ and targets Mexico

After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a “national security threat” and announced new sanctions, while Trump designated drug cartels in Mexico as “terrorists” and refused to rule out military intervention.
By Ben Norton

[thegrayzone.com]

You have to be well conditioned or brain dead not to see the revolving relationship within our illegal foreign policies when it comes to interfering in other countries. A few from a large section of the comparisons in the article to entice one to read.

{Trump’s announcement seemed to surprise the Mexican government, which immediately called for a meeting with the US State Department.

The designation was particularly ironic considering some top drug cartel leaders in Mexico have long-standing ties to the US government. The leaders of the notoriously brutal cartel the Zetas, for instance, were originally trained in counter-insurgency tactics by the US military.}

{Throughout the Cold War, the US government armed, trained, and funded right-wing death squads throughout Latin America, many of which were involved in drug trafficking. The CIA also used drug money to fund far-right counter-insurgency paramilitary groups in Central America.} Can I get a Robert Parry or Gary Webb? Hello Reagan, again.

{These tactics were also employed in the Middle East and South Asia. The United States armed, trained, and funded far-right Islamist extremists in Afghanistan in the 1980s in order to fight the Soviet Union. These same US-backed Salafi-jihadists then founded al-Qaeda and the Taliban.}

It goes on to mention effects in Libya and Syria in regards to ISIS and Obama. Project Gunrunner anyone?

As you might read in the end, they must go back in again to dirty and bloody the lands with capitalism that socialism replenished decades after their first round of crimes. That real sense of freedom and democracy that has cleaned the slate of capitalism out will not be tolerated for those in the US to begin to understand.