Researchers are encouraged to explore any time period they wish and if they'd like to explore historical events from a classic or unique perspective they're completely welcome to do so.

Likewise, if you'd like to make a case in support of "humanitarian intervention" we'd be interested in hearing from you on the subject.

Here’s the link to the original DD12 post

Some Steemians would have you believe that @deepdives is somehow bias because it does not post, upvote or resteem "pro-regime change" articles.

The @deepdives position is this:

If no research submissions are made on the behalf of your preferred side that does not in any way reflect a bias. What it shows is simply there were no contributions that agree with sentiments held by a particular group. If you are unhappy with the articles, it's up to YOU (the community), not @deepdives, to create the content you would like to see.

For the record, the @deepdives account has never made an entry into the research challenge, the account was created to host and reward community driven research.

Be sure to read the contest details before making baseless claims.

A final point to understand about @deepdives is that one of the aims of the research challenge is to

Find an overlooked, underrated, underreported or obscure leak/ email/ cable/document/ court filing...

Deep Dives is not looking for material that parrots MSM outlets (CNN, NYTimes, Fox News, etc.), instead our research community is dedicated to going beyond institutional propaganda.

Moving on. For this challenge researchers were asked to include reference to documents found in several substantial databases available online to the general public.

https://wikileaks.org/

https://www.cia.gov/library

https://vault.fbi.gov/

https://cryptome.org/

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/foia

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/

Deep Dives 12 Official Participants

@valued-customer

@richq11

@natepower

@krnel (2)

@elchacal6

Unofficial Entries

@v4vapid

Regime Change in South America - The US Role in Chile's 9-11Coup

This edition of #deepdives was another extended research challenge providing participants with more than three weeks to make their entries. Contributors were also able to submit more than one submission during that time period.

We'd like to take a moment to thank both @valued-customer and @echacal6 for making their very first submissions to Deep Dives. Welcome aboard!


Once more, we'd like to give a big thank you to all the participants in the Deep Dives research challenge. We value your original submissions, the light you shed on under-reported stories and your dedication to digging into areas that some find controversial or taboo. Much respect.

Winners

First Place (20 SBD)

Psychological Warfare Conducted By The USG Against Americans To Support The Coups in Venezuela

by @valued-customer

An impressive debut contribution by @valued-customer describes a sustained campaign of the USG to realize regime change in Venezuela since the earliest days of the Hugo Chavez government. A key actor in the present campaign to overthrow the Venezuelan government is the appearance of self-declared interim president Juan Guaido who has leapt on to the scene with the backing and blessing of Washington. The article recounts Guaido's training overseas in Serbia with the CANVAS program previously known as Otpor. This secretive organization has ties to the CIA, Stratfor and the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) . The CIA, NED and CANVAS have all previously been linked to coups and regime change operations in other countries. Guaido's training with CANVAS is a critical aspect in understanding the full scope of the escalating tensions and unfolding events in Venezuela. Although reported by a few independent media outlets, such as The Grayzone, it's unreported/underreported in the media and largely remains unknown by the greater public.
The psychological operations against the minds of US citizens are out in full force at the moment. After Obama legalized propaganda against Americans, the msm has been bombarding the unsuspecting public with falsifications aimed at manufacturing consent for war and interventionism in multiple 'theatres of war'.

A great piece by @valued-customer and we hope he continues to be a customer in future challenges. Great contribution and analysis, well done!

Second Place (12 SBD)

https://steempeak.com/deepdives/@richq11/regime-change-african-style-western-intervention-into-african-politics

by @richq11

Now, there's a new colonialism, neocolonialism where the only thing that's really changed is that the monarchies are no more, replaced by multinational corporations and banks such as the IMF, World Bank and Bank of International Settlements, all striving to keep the African nations in a state of indentured servitude... the tool, a state of virtually constant regime change. Regime change keeps the citizens poor and compliant, in a state of perpetual turmoil. What the multinationals fear more than anything is that these nations will organize and take control of their own economies...

Another top notch article by the prolific steemian @richq11. This Deep Dive plunges into the mechanisms that have shackled a continent for hundreds of years. Neocolonialism accomplishes the same goals of resource control, wealth extraction and subjugation defined by the colonial era but with a different facade. Today, multi-national corporations benefit from destabilized regions marred by internal conflict.

If you were a multinational corporation looking for a country to exploit using regime change would you choose a nation with ethnic solidarity and risk pushback, or one with a variety of different ethnicities that can be exploited by turning one against the other? In this vein it seems that, according to Posner, democratization caused ethnic divisions, or at least allowed outside interference to do so.

This piece also traces the tragic end to the democratically elected leader of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, by Mobutu with backing from the CIA. Another example, of long list of regime changes backed by US intelligent agencies that remove democratically elected governments and subsequently replace them with a dictatorship with Washington's blessing. Powerful piece @richq11! One that covers a lot of ground and we definitely encourage more people to read it in it's entirety. Well done!

Third Place (8 SBD)

https://steempeak.com/deepdives/@natepower/petro-caribe-the-economic-hitmen-another-nail-in-venezuela-s-coffin

by @natepower

This entry by @natepower looks at the ongoing campaign of regime change in Venezuela that's been underway for almost two decades. Something we don't here much about from the business end of the legacy media bullhorn are the positive actions the Venezuelan government have been involved with impoverished nations of the Caribbean. Petro Caribe was a regional agreement based on political solidarity and economic support of the participating nations.

The features of the agreement include an institutional platform, ALBA Caribe Fund for social and economic development, operating aspects, financing mechanisms and compensations, and energy efficiency.

Wikileaks cables demonstrate that the USG and Big Oil companies were clearly upset with countries benefiting from the agreement, and with Haiti and Honduras in particular. Two nations that have experienced long term economic hardship.

"Post sees a distinct possibility that Zelaya may be seeking to supplant the fiscal disciplines of an IMF program with the relatively easy money that the financing conditions of PetroCaribe would provide. "

Neocolonialism anyone?

A great dig producing a string of emails that reveal that the USG policy in the region is to keep impoverished nations in a debt cycle with the IMF while simultaneously steering them away from working together and from agreements that clearly benefit their own people.

Keep up the solid research @natepower, great finds!

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