Ep 142 Regime Change Resistance: OAS, Bolivia and Dominica feat Jeb Sprague

Guest: Jeb Sprague. We discuss how regime change projects seem to be on overdrive right now, the key role played by the Organization of American States (OAS) in regime change operations in Latin American and Caribbean states (former colonial states). Recently in the Commonwealth of Dominica (an island country in the West Indie), there was a successful resistance to regime change. In Bolivia, there was strong resistance as well, but the coup plotters succeeded. Jeb's research and reporting on the role of Bolivia's top police and military brass in planning and executing the coup, shows that it was a long term project with training at the School of the Americas. 

Dr. Jeb Sprague is currently a Research Associate at the University of California, Riverside. He formerly taught at the University of Virginia and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a founding member of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC) and has taught in  the Caribbean, East Asia, and North America. He is the author of two books: "Globalizing the Caribbean: Political economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class" (2019) and "Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti" (2012).

FOLLOW Jeb Sprague @JebSprague and find his writing at The Grayzone, MintPress News, The Canary and at his website jebsprague.blogspot.com. 

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Recorded on December 6, 2019. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military's School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs, Jeb Sprague, The Grayzone
2. Book: "Globalizing the Caribbean: Political economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class" (2019), Jeb Sprague
3. Book: "Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti" (2012), Jeb Sprague
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