To put it bluntly #Trump has not guaranteed the freedoms of #Venezuela, but may have assured that we'll be seeing a #militaryjunta form - that indeed #Maduro was caught so easily because the #military powers wanted to expand.
Of course this means that the #NobelPeacePrize25 winner won't be taking up power anytime soon, if at all. It only means that the last vestiges of power have a choice to make and that their choice might not be favorable to the ambitions of the #US.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-us-explosions-caracas-ca712a67aaefc30b1831f5bf0b50665e
US plans to 'run' Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says
President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily after an audacious military operation plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country. Trump on Saturday also described plans to tap Venezuela's vast oil reserves to sell to other nations. The dramatic action capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on the South American nation and its autocratic leader and months of secret planning. It resulted in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Legal experts immediately raised questions about whether the operation was lawful.
🕸glané sur le net🕸 Myanmar's “general's election” has failed before it has even started: A suite of repressive laws make the outcome of Myanmar's 2025–26 general election a foregone conclusion, but the public and the international…
#MyanmarElections #MilitaryJunta #DemocracyInMyanmar #HumanRightsMyanmar's “general's election”...
Myanmar's “general's election” has failed before it has even started – Centre tricontinental
On 15 December, at a press conference in Yangon, Myanmar's deputy minister for information, Major General Zaw Min Tun, said that the country's upcoming election was intended for the country's…
Myanmar activists to sue Norway’s Telenor for handing data to military
Claimants say government used data to track and target activists in the wake of 2021 coup.
Telenor Faces Legal Action Over Human Rights Abuses in Myanmar
With support from OSJI, Myanmar victims and civil society organizations have taken the first step towards suing Norwegian telecoms giant Telenor for their role in serious human rights violations in Myanmar.
In 1973 on
#ThisDayInHistory,
#AthensPolytechnicUprising began. Students gathered to protest the
#MilitaryJunta ruling
#Greece since 1967. It turned to open revolt. On the 17th a tank rolled onto campus; 40 students were killed, 2000 wounded. The régime fell a few months later.
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