Tag: United States coup
Bolivian President Luis Arce on assassination plot against him, 2019 US-backed coup, rejection of IMF
On this episode, we speak to the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce. He discusses the position of developing Global South countries at COP26 against ‘green capitalism’ in the fight against climate change, the centrality of Bolivia’s lithium reserves in the US-backed coup by Jeanine Anez and the UK’s role in supporting it, the assassination plot …
Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China
Ben Norton discusses how the US military trained elite forces that carried out a coup in Guinea, a West African country with many natural resources, including the planet’s largest reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Western government-funded think tanks boasted that the Guinean coup is a blow to China and its Belt and Road Initiative. Washington’s new cold war has Africa in its crosshairs. …