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By Any Means Necessary
A military coup overthrew the government of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009. Zelaya was exiled to Costa Rica. Zelaya led Honduras to significant reforms including universal education and school meals for the country’s children, increase of the minimum wage, and provided electricity for impoverished communities. Zelaya also led Honduras into membership in ALBA in 2008. U.S. policymakers and military intelligence considered Zelaya as within the Chavez camp and conspired with right-wing elements to create a constitutional crisis to prepare the ground for a military coup. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton utilized economic pressure to Honduras's neighbors to prevent support for Zelaya’s return. Similarly, a 2012 coup against the government of liberation theologian Fernando Lugo in Paraguay. Elected in 2008, Lugo emphasized fighting against economic inequality in the country and rejected U.S. military presence in Paraguay. Regional governments challenged the legitimacy of the impeachment of Lugo by pro-U.S., right-wing opposition forces in the Paraguay legislature. Impeachment proceedings were immediately issued giving President Lugo two hours to prepare his defense against charges, widely believed to be trumped up by the opposition to create a domestic crisis. The U.S. supports regimes like Colombia who are loyal to the imperialist agenda and wage genocide against indigenous and African descendants in their country. The Columbian government agreed to grant reparations, including land redistribution, to indigenous and African descendants as result of 2016 peace accords and negotiations with the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Columbia’s right-wing government is a primary ally to U.S. imperialism in its destabilization and regime change efforts in Venezuela. The U.S. government is silent on Columbia’s failure to fulfill its agreed upon reparations to First Nation and African communities and has turned a “blind eye” to the numerous assassinations of indigenous and African leaders. Why Should Black/New Afrikan Liberation forces support revolutionaries in the Caribbean and Latin America New Afrikan people in the U.S. are oppressed by global system of haves and have-nots that enslaved and imprisoned our Ancestors, as well as working and poor people internationally. Some of the benefi-ciaries of this system are fighting to maintain the power and privileges of the inequality of this system. We witness within the U.S. imperialist state the promotion of a white supremacist and settlercolonial agenda including gentrification, increased voter suppression, repression of undocumented workers of color, and terrorist violence targeting Black youth. The modern-day expression of Monroe Doctrine is what the Trump Administration’s strategist for Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, calls “Hemispherism,” an agenda to stop the growth of socialism in the western hemisphere. In the tradition of the Monroe Doctrine, “Hemispherism” counters the right of self-determination of working and poor people of Haiti, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and other countries in the Americas to choose their own leaders and course of their economic development. As Malcolm X taught us, We must not only challenge white setter-colonialism and capitalism within the borders of the U.S. imperialist state. We must act in solidarity with oppressed people worldwide. We must support the grassroots movement in Haiti. We must support the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela and socialist development in Bolivia. We must expose the genocide and assassination of indigenous and African descendant leaders in Colombia. We must support the Caribbean states' calls for reparations from the British Empire. We must form relationships with the African descendant social movements throughout the western hemisphere along with forming alliances with other liberation fighting forces.