Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast
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Footage uploaded to X by US attorney general shows its forces landing on the tanker in major escalation of Trump’s pressure campaign

US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      You all are sleep walking into another forever war nobody wants. I implore everyone to read your own and Latin American history from the last 50 years. It’s not taught.

      https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and (Ask Anna for a copy.)

      Venezuela

      Name: Army Commander in Chief Efrain Vasquez and General Ramirez Poveda

      Country: Venezuela

      Dates/courses: Attended the SOA in 1988; 1972

      Info: Both Vasquez and Poveda helped to lead a failed coup in Venezuela in April of 2002, despite supposedly receiving training at the SOA that encourages respect for democracy and civilian governments. Otto Reich, then Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, shared his support for the coup and a new government, and in the same year was appointed as a WHINSEC Board of Visitor member to “oversee” democracy and human rights curriculum, as well as operations at the school. Reich met with these SOA graduates prior to the coup and advised business leader Pedro Carmona, who subsequently seized the presidency.

      Name: General Ramon Davila Guillen

      Country: Venezuela

      Dates/courses: Attended the SOA in 1967 for Irregular Warfare training

      Info: General Guillen was indicted in November 1996 in connection with a shipment of one ton of cocaine into Miami in 1990, which he says was authorized by the CIA in an effort to catch drug dealers. In 1993, the CIA called the shipment “a regrettable incident” and dismissed the CIA agent involved. (CAP, 9/21/97)

      https://soaw.org/notorious-soa-graduates

      • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        do you think i should study a bit more socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus quickly?

        • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          No, I read that book (The School of the Americas by Leslie Gill) before I knew what socialism was in a Political Theory of Latin America class. It radicalized me and I have used it to radicalize ex military confused libertarians and liberals. It is good without theory, it is pure history. If you read enough history, you can passively get theory via trends and vice versa. That is ultimately what they discuss anyway if the author is decent, via materialist analysis (though that obviously brings its own problems). I am happy to send audio and pdfs as needed to whomever. I am not sure if there is an audiobook of this one, but I am due a refresher regardless.

          • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            like i wanna study for socialist theory, but there’s something about it makes my head spin. do you have any tips on “studying in layperson’s terms”?

    • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      does anyone think i should study a bit more on socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus?