#death squads

This is only the latest in a series of revelations closely linking Israel to drug cartels, military juntas, and death squads throughout Latin America’s history, as well as to the plundering of common resources and to systems of surveillance and repression.

F𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙮 18, 2026 — 𝙏𝙚𝙟𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙣, 𝙆𝙚𝙘𝙝, 𝘽𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣 Dolat Baloch, son of Badal, from Tejaban Singaband, belonged to a poor farming family, working the land of his ancestors. In March 2022, the Frontier Corps raided his home. Dolat and his 12-year-old brother were forcibly disappeared and held in darkness. After one month, they were released, but the shadow of oppression never left him. Dolat…

Declassified documents reveal that the Unification Church was attempting to form formal connections to CORU (Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations), a CIA-backed anti-Castroist terrorist organization known for bombings and assassinations, including on U.S. soil. A church representative shared with an agent or informant present in a meeting between Moonies and CORU in 1978 that Moon and his organization actively sought to fund “radical anti-communist groups,” and that WACL was 85% funded by the UC. WACL was one of the primary funders of anti-communist death squads all over the world.

Sources:  https://vault.fbi.gov/sun-myung-moon/sun-myung-moon-part-10-of-15 https://www.governmentattic.org/22docs/FBI_UnificationChurch_1967-1988updt.pdf *This meeting between CORU and the Moonies took place in 1978, prior to the publicly known UC-funding of the Contras. The US-funded Contras became active in 1979.

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Continent: Latin AmericaCapital: Guatemala CityPopulation: 18,687,882% Urban: 54%Population Under 15 yrs: 34%Official Language: SpanishLanguages: 42Literacy Rate: 81%Life Expectancy: 69.2 yrs% Christian: 96.1%People Groups: 59Least Reached People Groups: 1% Unevangelized: 1% Pray For Guatemala Guatemala is a nation that is filled with extreme violence and war. It has the highest murder rate of…

Rodrigo Duterte, autocratic former president of the Philippines, has been arrested and is being flown to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity. 👍🏼

Philippine police have arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity over his deadly "war on drugs". The 79-year-old was taken into police custody shortly after his arrival at Manila airport from Hong Kong. He has offered no apologies for his brutal anti-drugs crackdown, which saw thousands of people killed when he was president of the South East Asian nation from 2016 to 2022, and mayor of Davao city before that. [ ... ]

The ICC earlier said that it has jurisdiction in the Philippines over alleged crimes committed before the country withdrew as a member. But activists called the arrest a "historic moment" for those who perished in his drug war and their families, the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) said. "The arc of the moral universe is long, but today, it has bent towards justice. Duterte's arrest is the beginning of accountability for the mass killings that defined his brutal rule," said ICHRP chairman Peter Murphy. Duterte had been in Hong Kong to campaign for the upcoming 12 May mid-term elections, where he had planned to run again for mayor of Davao. Footage aired on local television showed him walking out of the airport using a cane. Authorities say he is in "good health" and is being cared for by government doctors.

Holding rogue leaders accountable is essential if there is to be such a thing as the rule of law. The arrest of Duterte is a major step forward.

Duterte's arrest marks the "beginning of a new chapter in Philippine history", said Filipino political scientist Richard Heydarian. "This is about rule of law and human rights," he said.

As president he may have killed as many as 6,000 people without trial. And that doesn't count his time as mayor of Davao.

Duterte served as mayor of Davao, a sprawling southern metropolis, for 22 years and has made it one of the country's safest from street crimes. He used the city's peace-and-order reputation to cast himself as a tough-talking anti-establishment politician to win the 2016 elections by a landslide. With fiery rhetoric, he rallied security forces to shoot drug suspects dead. More than 6,000 suspects were gunned down by police or unknown assailants during the campaign, but rights groups say the number could be higher. A previous UN report found that most victims were young, poor urban males and that police, who do not need search or arrest warrants to conduct house raids, systematically forced suspects to make self-incriminating statements or risk facing lethal force. Critics said the campaign targeted street-level pushers and failed to catch big-time drug lords. Many families also claimed that the victims - their sons, brothers or husbands - were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Investigations in parliament pointed to a shadowy "death squad" of bounty hunters targeting drug suspects. Duterte has denied the allegations of abuse. "Do not question my policies because I offer no apologies, no excuses. I did what I had to do, and whether or not you believe it... I did it for my country," Duterte told a parliament investigation in October.

Duterte took the law into his own hands. Now he's in the hands of the law.

Donald Trump can't be too happy about the arrest of Duterte and that of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea.

Duterte idolized Trump and Putin and appeased China.

His populist rhetoric and blunt statements earned him the moniker "Donald Trump of the East". He has called Russian President Vladimir Putin his "idol" and under his administration, the Philippines' pivoted their foreign policy to China away from the US, its long-standing ally. Marcos restored Manila's ties with Washington and criticised the Duterte government for being "Chinese lackeys" as the Philippines is locked in sea dispute with China.

Duterte's daughter Sara is the current vice president of the Philippines. She is being impeached for corruption and for making death threats against President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr..

Philippines feud escalates as lawmakers vote to impeach vice-president

Trump’s recent call for a “violent day” of policing is part of his plan to push cops to be as brutal as possible and shield them from accountability

- posted on Oct 3, 2024

A lot of minorities voted for Trump.

Just in time for the US elections, Philippines authoritarian former president Rodrigo Duterte freely admits he employed a death squad.

The 79-year-old, making his first public appearance on Monday since his term ended in 2022, said he offered “no apologies, no excuses” for his presidency, during which as many as 30,000 people were killed in a “war on drugs”. “My mandate as president of the republic was to protect the country and the Filipino people. Do not question my policies, because I offer no apologies, no excuses. I did what I had to do, and whether you believe it or not, I did it for my country,” he said. Duterte had entered the hearing walking with a stick and was defiant throughout, often cursing as he addressed senators.

None of what he's proud of doing had anything to do with Philippines law or international standards of human rights.

“I can make the confession now if you want,” Duterte said. “I had a death squad of seven, but they were not policemen, they were also gangsters.” “I’ll ask a gangster to kill somebody,” Duterte said. “If you will not kill [that person], I will kill you now.” When asked by senators for further details of the death squad, he said he would give more information at the next hearing. Duterte also said that he ordered officers to encourage criminals to fight back and resist arrest, so that police could then justify killing them. “What I said is this, let’s be frank, I said encourage the criminal to fight, encourage them to draw their guns. That was my instruction, encourage them to fight, and if they fight, then kill them so my problem in my city is done,” he said, in comments reported by Rappler, an independent news outlets.

When voters fail to keep lowlifes like Duterte, Putin, or Trump out of power they get lawless gangsterism and corruption.