Chronicle of a
Coup Foretold
By Brian Mier
December 20, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
Will the US left
work to normalize the impending coup attempt in Mexico
the way it did for Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and
Nicaragua?
Last July I gave a speech in the Left Forum in
Brooklyn. When it was over, A young activist stood up
and announced, in perfect English, that they were an
anarchist from Mexico who had traveled to the Left Forum
to speak out against the human rights abuses being
perpetrated by “neoliberal” Mexican president Lopes
Obrador against protesters. Since the panel I
participated in had nothing to do with Mexico, I
imagined an entire battalion of self-proclaimed Mexican
vanguard leftists changing the subject in panel after
panel at the left forum to damage AMLO’s image by
exaggerating the connection between the Mexican
president and local police forces under the control of
opposition governments, as had happened to Brazilian
President Dilma Rousseff during the lead up to the World
Cup. ‘So it begins’, I thought. As we say in Brazil,
‘I’ve seen this movie before’.
Based on
the fact that the Integral State – the government,
media, corporations, academic institutions, political
parties, think tanks and NGOS which support the
imperialist project – loves to recycle regime change
tactics and strategies, I would like to predict how
actors within the US left might, either overtly or
inadvertently, strengthen support for the coup attempt
which is obviously already kicking off against Mexico –
a country that has petroleum deposits and other natural
resources coveted by US corporations; a country whose
children are already being held in American cages. This
article is meant to help identify warning signs and
hopefully lower the number of American progressives who
fall for the same psyops techniques that were used
against Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, Nicaragua, Venezuela
and Bolivia during recent US-supported coups and coup
attempts in those countries. Although this article is
satire, I have inserted links to similar types of
articles from progressive media outlets about Latin
American countries that have suffered from
recent US-backed regime change attempts.
