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Feb 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
On this date in 2004, Haiti's immensely popular President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was abducted by US marines and replaced with a puppet leader, the World Bank consultant Gérard Latortue, who was living in the US at the time.

1/ Representatives from Canada, the US and France met in Meech Lake, Quebec, throughout January and February 2003 and hatched a plan to get rid of democratically-elected President Aristide.

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Feb 28, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
On this date in 1976 the Polisaria Front declared the independence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), liberating the region from Spanish colonialism.

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#SADR #History #OnThisDate #OnThisDay #WesternSahara The neighboring Kingdom of Morocco, however, occupied the state and laid claim to most of it. 15,000 to 20,000 have been killed in the struggle for SADR's independence, a conflict that is still smoldering.

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Oct 20, 2020 • 10 tweets • 15 min read
first lesson learned from #BoliviaElection 2020: don't RT, share, repost news from reuters, AP & controlled media at ny times, fox, cnn, aljazeera, cbs, msnbc, nbc, abc, usa today, time magazine++ ... on the other hand, who didn't cover up the military coup? #Bolivia #media 1/7 other us/English-language #media to call out/unfollow for deceptive coverage of 2019 #BoliviaCoup/#BoliviaElection:

new yorker, voice of america, washington post, theguardian, BBC, npr, cbc, vox, business insider, financial times, dw, wola, bloomberg, indendent 2/7