Grenada: the Americans are pulling out, the invasion mission accomplished. In the capital life gets back to normal … but there’s still the problem of reconciliation because the men now wearing blindfolds were yesterday the men in charge. TV Eye: US Invasion of Grenada, Thames TV 1983
The days of the revolutionary government were over. ibid.
A population of 110,000 people. ibid.
The price of peace is roadblock vigilance. ibid.
The Americans called their invasion of Grenada Operation Urgent Fury. ibid.
October 19th: That was the day that prime minister Maurice Bishop was killed by rivals in the revolutionary government. ibid.
‘Empire-building throughout history is the result of conquest – the use or threat of a superior military force. The US global empire is no exception … They cite imperial legal doctrine to justify their intervention to suppress a subject people in revolt. While empires arose through the direct or indirect use of unbridled force, the maintenance and consolidation of empires requires a legal framework … Legality is really an extension of imperial conquest by other means.’ James Petras, cited The Corbett Report: International Law, James Corbett online 2013
When the Iran/Contra scandal broke sixteen months later in November ’86 the big question was – What did the President know? Was he aware that his staff were breaking the law? Or did they have so much autonomy they could illegal sell thousands of sophisticated missiles without Reagan being aware of it? Altered Statesmen: Ronald Reagan, Discovery 2003
Although cleared of wilful deception the report did think Reagan was forgetful and unaware. It also described a situation in the White House of ineptitude verging on incompetence from the President down. ibid.
Serious investigation of the Salvadoran murders leads directly to Washington’s doorstep. Alan Naim
The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 28
El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans ... I have heard a single voice. Dan Quayle
El Salvador: The results are something all Americans can be proud of. George Shultz
People are not just killed by death squads in El Salvador – they are decapitated and then their heads are placed on pikes and used to dot the landscape. Men are not just disembowled by the Salvadoran Treasury Police, their severed genitalia are stuffed into their mouths. Salvadoran women are not just raped by the National Guard, their wombs are cut from their bodies and used to cover their faces. It is not enough to kill children, they are dragged over barbed wire until the flesh falls from their bones while parents are forced to watch ... The aesthetics of terror in El Salvador is religion. Reverend Santiago
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. Henry Miller
As the Kennedy brothers appeared to suddenly go soft on Cuba, [Lyman] Lemnitzer could see his opportunity to invade … Attempts to provoke the Cuban public to revolt seemed dead ... Lemnitzer and the other chiefs knew there was only one option left that would ensure war. They would have to trick the American public and world opinion. James Bamford, Body of Secrets
Soon CIA aeroplanes were buzzing Guatemala dropping small bombs. Secrets of War s1e56: Cold War: Eisenhower’s Operatives
Grenada has been a sovereign state since it was given independence by Britain in 1974 … The United States invades the nation of Grenada. Cold War Armageddon, Discovery 2016
Now America wins the wars she undertakes. Make no mistake about it. And we have declared war on tyranny and aggression. If this little nation goes down the drain and can’t maintain her independence ask yourself what’s going to happen to all the other little nations. Lyndon Baines Johnson
Here we are near the brink of nuclear war... because the United States just can’t keep its goddamn nose out of anyone’s backyard. Jeffrey Sachs
The United States is involved across the world. Our government has its rigid view of the world in Vietnam, in the Dominican Republic … FALN *****, short Youtube 32.05, 1965
The politicians who make decisions for us are too removed from us. More and more we go unrepresented. The words they use to justify themselves have lost a tangible meaning. The government turns against those who do not accept its views. The United States turns not with a decency, not with the mind open to the many different ways people have of seeking solutions. Who does our government speak for? ibid.
Venezuela, a sea of oil controlled by American companies. If the profits from the oil reached down to them, the eight and a half million people would live differently. But the profits leave. ibid.
Hope: They go to release the political prisoners. Shut away, abuse, for what one believes … Not they hunt out the secret police. ibid.
All is just as it was, just as it will be … No-one speaks for the people. ibid.
Vice-president Nixon comes to Venezuela. ibid.
How long can they wait? … Things get worse, not better. ibid.
The start of a terror worse than those before. Arrests go on around them. Their houses are searched. They do not remain apart. The government tries to crush the people who would change their lives. ibid.
1962: The armed forces of national liberation, the FALN, was formed to coordinate armed struggle … They remain responsive to the peasants. ibid.