Trump’s Ex-Security Company and Their Botched Plot to Overthrow the President of Venezuela

By Rodrigo Acuña

12 May 2020

Reports coming out of Venezuela and Miami, Florida in the United States are bordering on the hilarious. If you thought you had seen it all with Venezuela’s hard right-wing opposition and their allies in the U.S. with their actions to overthrow the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro, well, think again. In recent days, images of two captured North American mercenaries have been flooding the air waves in the South American country of Venezuela where Maduro remains the president, despite harsh U.S. economic sanctions.

Ecuador: Rebellion against Lenin

By Rodrigo Acuña

American Herald Tribune

19 October 2019

With most of the world’s corporate media giving endless coverage to protestors in Hong Kong, a far more critical political crisis has just taken place in the South American country of Ecuador. Although the government of Lenin Moreno continues to be in power, it has only just survived after a series of major protests led by the country’s indigenous communities, transport unions and student groups.

Venezuela: Regime Change in Real Time

By Rodrigo Acuña

American Herald Tribune

20 July 2017

Images of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) firing tear gas at protestors in Venezuela cannot be provided to us in large enough quantities by the mainstream media. Look through the pages of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times or even the UK’s liberal Guardian and the government of president Nicolas Maduro is a dictatorship in all but name. As of the time of writing this article, with 103 people dead, television and print images of opposition protestors being tear gassed by police are what count and not any actual context of the violence taking place, or who, for that matter, is predominantly perpetrating it.