South America

South America (Continent)
A continent subject to terrorisation by the US

South America is a continent. The main languages spoken are those of the colonisers, ie. Portuguese in Brazil and otherwise Spanish.

Terrorisation

During the 1970s the continent was hit by US foreign policy instruments such as Operation Condor which carried out many assassinations and forced disappearances.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Philip Agee	“[CIA] operations help sustain favorable operating conditions for U.S.-based multi-national corporations. These conditions, together with political hegemony, were our real goals. So-called liberal democracy and pluralism were only means to those ends. "Free elections" really meant freedom for our candidates. "Free trade unions" meant freedom for us to establish our unions. "Freedom of the press" mean freedom for us to pay journalists to publish our material as if it were the journalists' own. When an elected government threatened U.S. economic and political interests, it had to go. Social and economic justice were fine concepts for public relations, but only for that.”	Philip Agee	1987
Rudi Dekkers	“A few months ago Rudi wanted to visit, drink some beers. But he never showed up. He said over the phone 'I've never been so poor in my life'. I saw him making beautiful trips to South America and Middle America. In light of recent developments, maybe you need to place questions at that.”	Rudi Dekkers Arne Kruithof	2012
Peter Gøtzsche	“Bribery is routine and involves large amounts of money. Almost every type of person who can affect the interests of the industry has been bribed: doctors, hospital administrators, cabinet ministers, health inspectors, customs officers, tax assessors, drug registration officials, factory inspectors, pricing officials and political parties. In Latin America, posts as ministers of health are avidly sought, as these ministers are almost invariably rich with wealth coming from the drug industry. In the beginning of this chapter, I asked the question whether we are seeing a lone bad apple now and then, or whether pretty much the whole basket is rotten. What we are seeing is organised crime in an industry that is completely rotten.”	Peter Gøtzsche	2013
Netherlands/Deep state	“The Netherlands has a long history with cocaine. In the early 1900s, the Dutch East India Company – having exploited and enslaved millions of people – began growing coca in its colonies in Indonesia. There was even a cocaine factory in Amsterdam, which supplied marching powder to all sides in World War One. When international treaties finally put a halt to the Dutch’s rampant coke dealing, Rotterdam emerged as a key import site for the illicit trade of the drug from South America.”	Vice News	2020
John Perkins	“I asked [Lula's emissary] whether Lula had been corrupted and for how long. It was obvious that this question made him extremely uncomfortable. After a long pause, he admitted that Lula was part of the system. "Otherwise, how could he have risen to such a position?" However, Jose also professed his admiration for Lula. "He's a realist. He understands that in order to help his people he has no choice ..." Then he shook his head. "I fear," he said, "that Washington will try to bring Lula down if he goes too far." "How do you think they'd do it?" "Everyone has—as you say—skeletons in his closet. Every politician has done things that can look bad, if brought into the light in a certain way. Lula has skeletons. If the powers that run your empire want to bring him down, they'll open the closet door."”	John Perkins	2007
Donald Trump	“When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably – probably – from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.”	Donald Trump	June 2015

 

Nation states

Nation state	Description
Argentina	Second biggest country in South America.
Bolivia	Mountainous country in South America. Formerly part of the Spanish Empire.
Brazil	Very large and not particularly populous country which has made a priority of biofuels.
Chile	Spanish-speaking MEDC in South America. It occupies a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
Colombia	Colombia is an important state in the trafficking of cocaine to North America.
Ecuador	Offered asylum to Julian Assange.
Guyana	The only UK colony on the mainland on South America.
Paraguay
Peru	Nation state in South America with cocaine growing capacity used by the SDS
Uruguay
Venezuela	Venezuela possesses the world's largest oil reserves

 

Event

Event	Description
Operation Condor	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
CIA Media Operations in Chile, Jamaica, and Nicaragua	Article	16 March 1982	Fred Landis	How the CIA takes over the major newspaper in a country targeted for regime change, and uses it as an instrument of destabilization. The method is still very much used in 2021.

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