A roundup of the biggest stories from this week and stay with us for going underground next here on r t international. Now about 200. 00 times here were going underground on the 74. 00 that have a story of the establishment of u. S. Cofounded to promote justice and the rule of law and garvey holding its 40th general conference as latin american countries from bolivia to chile to ecuador face an all out fight for democracy coming up on the show a legacy of the brutal british back to stroke in the sherry we talked to one of the most popular politicians in south americas richest country surely Gorgio Jackson about overthrowing governments and not in america or washington london and brussels and Award Winning journalist greg palast explains our new liberalism born. Western Business Schools has led to revolution wherever the people of latin america have sought freedom and justice plus the director of moscow winning film still alice wash westmoreland on the plus fold lines at the core of his
In this car bomb, and all of this happened at sheridan circle, on embassy row in washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were two colleagues from ips, Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael moffitt. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a gray sedan. In that gray sedan were two cuban americans who had helped put a bomb underneath the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by augusto pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that Orlando Letelier, a former ambassador to the United States from chile, was taking on in washington, so we know now that it was the dictator who ordere
Maduro may still be in power in venezuela custodian of the worlds greatest known reserves of oil even after attempts by the European Union to overthrow him but in chile washingtons man is in trouble accused of reviving the days when u. K. Companies armed pinochet to torture his people after so many years of trying to recover from a long dictatorship of almost 20 years you have an open wound in the Chilean Society when you have the military on the street and thats another thing that we have to take into account when understanding this crisis is that that trauma of to land society of having the military on the street is open again with this repression in human rights violation joining me now via skype is a member of the chamber of deputies of chile the democratic revolution politician or jackson who is envelop ariza a city that has seen violent clashes between protesters and police want your thanks for joining us before we get to the latest violence reminds us way of the global south and
This hour were going to start which is braced for a tense weekend because today marks the one Year Anniversary of the best movement thousands are expected to run in paris despite the numbers predicted for the weekend there has been a dip in support for the movement the number of activists that show up for the regular demonstrations has dropped significantly compared with a year ago. But according to a poll out this week more than half of those. Best but 63 percent say they dont want the protests to begin again. Looks back at the 12 months of protests that have rocked the country. France once revolutionary now a catalyst for a few years populist movements a country where protest is in the blood and over the last year and nation defensiveness against the yellow vests paris landmarks of troy and for left defaced and its iconic streets smashed and looted it even left the most jaded well shocked. Makower it come to power with his own no idea of a french revolution it was one of reform he wo
Run the clock across the world this is our international from the team myself and you know neal a low and welcome our Top Story Police used tear gas to Disperse Protesters in. Braces for a tense weekend saturday marks the one Year Anniversary of the Yellow Vests Movement and rallies are expected right across the country 33 demonstrators have been arrested we believe in the french capital so far are. In the thick of the action in paris for us. Well this weekend the Yellow Vests Movement is marking its one Year Anniversary so people here theyre trying to take a stand but as you can clearly see theres not much success in it because the riot police who we are running along right now so you have to excuse me if im a little bit out of breath because weve been doing it for for quite a long time there has been tear gas we have already seen tear gas there have been people arrested essentially the protests are trying to take a stand here but the police who are over there theyre not allowing them