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The US is waging war on the Latin American left:

After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a “national security threat,” while Trump designated Mexican cartels “terrorists” and refused to rule out military intervention
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
The Trump White House issued a statement on Nov 25 absurdly calling Nicaragua an “extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," extending a state of "national emergency"

The US is restarting its coup attempt there
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
The US OAS rep announced Trump is imposing new suffocating sanctions and declared "The pressure against Nicaragua is going to continue"

After a failed bloody coup attempt in 2018, the US is relaunching efforts to overthrow Nicaragua's elected leftist govt
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
Mexican alternative media outlets that support left-wing President AMLO are already worryingly discussing the possibility of Trump imposing sanctions or even militarily intervening in Mexico.
revoluciontrespuntocero.mx/por-que-donald…
This article is skeptical that Trump can sanction or attack Mexico, but Obama absurdly designated Venezuela a "national security threat" back in 2015, which laid the "legal" basis for US sanctions and set the stage for Trump's mass-murdering blockade
revoluciontrespuntocero.mx/por-que-donald…
Nicaragua's democratically elected socialist government is next to be targeted by even more aggressive forms of illegal US economic warfare

In September the Trump admin quietly updated its sanctions on Nicaragua, strengthening them

Now it's pledging more
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/ope…
Operation Condor 2.0: After overthrowing Bolivia's elected gov and repeatedly trying the same against Nicaragua and Venezuela, the US rogue state is propping up Latin America's deeply unpopular, violent right-wing regimes, trying to repress huge uprisings
The campaign against Mexico's popular left-wing president AMLO is escalating: Yesterday rich right-wing elite Mexicans held a march against him, on his first anniversary

They were supported by ex-president Calderón, who launched the murderous war on drugs
eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/politic…
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