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João Goulart was president of Brazil (Photo: Keystone via Getty)

Britain’s hidden hand in Brazil’s 1964 coup d’etat

10 November 2021

Tagged Brazil
Ousted Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz in Paris, 1955 (Photo: Bettmann / Getty)

How British intelligence destabilised democracy in Central America

8 November 2021

Tagged BelizeGuatemala
Colombian police (Photo: Colombian National Police)

British diplomats seek to “improve perceptions” of UK in repressive Colombia

13 October 2021

Tagged Colombia
Julian Assange (Photo: Carmen Valiño / Supplied)

Assange extradition case has cost British public over £300,000

21 September 2021

Tagged AssangeUnited States

Revealed: UK military unit in Colombia ‘assisted’ police force that killed 63 protesters

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22 July 2021

Tagged Colombia

Revealed: Secretive British anti-crime agency spent millions training Colombia’s repressive police

11 June 2021

Tagged ColombiaPolice

Revealed: The UK government campaign to force Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy

28 April 2021

Tagged AssangeEcuador

The British ambassador who supported a coup

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30 March 2021

Tagged Bolivia

Revealed: The UK supported the coup in Bolivia to gain access to its ‘white gold’

8 March 2021

Tagged Bolivia

Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme

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6 January 2021

Tagged Venezuela

Conservative Party donors and the battle for offshore oil claimed by Venezuela

8 December 2020

Tagged GuyanaVenezuela

Revealed: UK Foreign Office has spent nearly half a million pounds in aid setting up anti-government coalition in Venezuela

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21 October 2020

Tagged AidVenezuela

Keenie Meenie – Britain’s private army

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8 October 2020

Tagged Keenie Meenie ServicesNicaraguaSri Lanka

Exclusive: Secret cables reveal Britain interfered with elections in Chile

22 September 2020

Tagged ChileDeclassified files

Torture ‘for your amusement’: How Thatcher’s government misled MPs and public about its dealings with the Pinochet regime

21 April 2020

Tagged ChileDeclassified files

UK minister who approved Trump’s request to extradite Assange spoke at secretive US conferences with people calling for him to be “neutralized”

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22 February 2020

Tagged Assange

EXCLUSIVE: Britain uses vast swathes of one of the world’s most biodiverse countries for military training — and pays nothing 

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4 February 2020

Tagged Belize
The Falkland Islands (Photo: John5199 / Wikimedia)

New Argentine government will step up demands to UK over Falklands, says top official

31 January 2020

Tagged ArgentinaFalklands

Margaret Thatcher’s secret dealings with the Argentine military junta that invaded the Falklands

29 January 2020

Tagged ArgentinaDeclassified files