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9jaDoomCountry:
How many years did Castro rule Cuba? Now you divide it by the number of assassination attempt you are quoting. Then you have the number per year.



Abacha even staged his own coup to rope Diya.




Many children on nairaland though[/s]

timay:
Yet the US also won't send in the Navy seals to invade Venezuela and kill the president. They will do it with rag tag militias and people with plausible deniability if they get caught, like what is happening now

Those two Ex soldiers among them might be CIA agents cordinating the operation but got their cover blown.

Like I read on quora one time, CIA agents are not your regular muscular guys with perfect shooting skills , who can fight with martial art that you see in movies, the real field agents are the boring regular guys that you and I see on the street everyday. They can go undercover without drawing attention and remain anonymous.

The fact that you don't suspect them as government agent is even what makes them the perfect spies. A spy is not supposed to stand out in appearance like the way it's portrayed in Hollywood , A spy is supposed to blend in, look boring like a regular guy, with obese look and his pot belly, such that you won't even suspect such person can hold or handle any weapon.

Dismiss this guys as non-government agents at your own peril , because those boring ragtag, uncoordinated looking guys you see in that picture are the real life spies, not the muscular ones you see in movies

your head dey there. You know as e dey go

mansakhalifa:
If that was really an invasion[which I really do not doubt by the way], then I don't think for a second that the US government- as an institution- was behind it.

It was way too sloppy a job to have been orchestrated by the government of a proper country.

If anything, I strongly believe that it was the job of a few military adventurers funded by some American billionaires and Venezuelan opposition leaders in exile.

That means that there is a high possibility that it was a private invasion/coup attempt. Not government-funded as the Venezuelan government wants us to believe.

From the very first minute that I watched the video, I did not believe that the US government was behind it.

But trust Maduro to pounce on this and label it as an attempt by the US government to overthrow him. It would look good for his propaganda drive for sure and buy him more sympathies at home.

If you want to know how sloppy and shoddy private coup attempts like these can be, then read up about the Wonga Coup. Those things hardly take off properly.

That does not mean U.S does not have a hand in it. There were many sloppy and shoddy coup attempt orchestrated and funded by the CIA in an attempt to unseat and even assasinate Castro during the cold war. Cuban dissident groups in the U.S. like Alpha 66 and Omega 7 had connections with the U.S government. Eduardo Arocena the leader of the Omega 7 even confessed he was trained by the CIA.

Miguel Orozco and Pedro Vera Ortiz were cuban dissidents that helped private organizations and U.S government to carry out sabotage operations in Cuba. It's normal for America to deny its involvement in an operation like this.

-Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Kim Jong Un a commemorative war medal marking the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, the Russian embassy in Pyongyang said Tuesday.

The medal was awarded to the North Korean leader for his role in preserving the memory of Soviet soldiers who died on North Korean territory, the statement said.

Russia’s ambassador in North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, presented the award to the country’s Foreign Minister Ri Son-gwon on Tuesday. Kim, who was rumored earlier this month to have fallen ill, didn’t attend the ceremony.

Photos of the meeting in Pyongyang showed Russian and North Korean officials wearing face masks despite the fact that North Korea so far has not reported a single case of the new coronavirus.

Last year Russia invited Kim to visit Moscow on May 9 and attend the military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory. Putin announced the decision to postpone the parade indefinitely last month because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2015, the North Korean leader rejected a similar invitation to the 70th anniversary, citing domestic affairs.

https://www.voanews.com/europe/putin-awards-commemorative-wwii-medal-kim-jong-un

illitrate:
The us does not need to physically send citizens there to stage a coup, those guys are venezuelans. The fallacious concoction, concocted to hoodwink the gullible, I am not one.

You don't know what has been going on in Venezuela for over a week. My question is what were those U.S military veterans doing in Venezuela?

You said the U.S does not need to physically send citizens to venezueala to stage a coup? That means you are ignorant of U.S. activities in South and central america. This is not a new thing America did it well during cold war, they were busy arming militias to overthrow governments in South America.

U.S. really wants Maduro to go they need to control the oil in Venezuela and they would do all it takes to take maduro out.

yungchop:
please is there any movie on it?

Yea there's a documentary on the failed U.S. assasination attempts tittled "638 ways to kill castro" .

DelTel:
How many times did US invade Cuba and failed .

Bravo!!!

You remind me of the bay of pigs invasion. The escambray rebellion and over 657 assasination attempt on Fidel Castro's life by U.S. CIA, everything failed.

Venezuelan authorities have detained two US citizens allegedly working with a US military veteran who has claimed responsibility for a failed armed incursion into the oil-producing country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday.

In a state television address, Maduro said authorities arrested 13 “terrorists” on Monday allegedly involved in a plot he said was coordinated with Washington to enter the South American country via the Caribbean coast and oust him.

Eight people were killed during the foiled incursion attempt on Sunday, Venezuelan authorities said.

Maduro showed what he said were the US passports and other identification cards belonging to Airan Berry and Luke Denman, who he said were in custody and had been working with Jordan Goudreau, an American military veteran who leads a Florida-based security company called Silvercorp USA.

“They were playing Rambo. They were playing hero,” Maduro said, adding that Venezuelan authorities had caught wind of the plot before its execution.

Goudreau, who identified himself as an organiser of the invasion on Sunday, told Reuters on Monday that Berry and Denman were also involved.

“They’re working with me. Those are my guys,” he said by telephone.

The State Department did not provide any immediate comment on the alleged arrests. US officials have strongly denied any US government involvement in the incursions.

A person familiar with the matter said the two US citizens were captured on Monday in a second-day roundup of accomplices and were believed to be in the custody of Venezuelan military intelligence.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the details came from contacts with Venezuelan security forces.

Opposition leader, Juan Guaido, who the US has backed to be president of Venezuela, cast doubt on the government’s version of Sunday’s events, insisting Maduro is seeking to distract from other problems in recent days including a deadly prison riot and a violent gang battle in Caracas.

Guaido’s communications team on Monday denied media reports that Guaido had hired Silvercorp to remove Maduro by force, adding the opposition leader and his allies “have no relationship with or responsibility for the actions of the company Silvercorp.”

In a statement on Monday evening, Guaido’s team said: “We demand the human rights ... of the people captured in recent hours be respected.“

Washington has imposed tough economic sanctions against Venezuela in an effort to oust Maduro, whom it accuses of having rigged elections in 2018. Maduro’s government says the United States wants to control Venezuela’s massive oil reserves.

Monday’s arrests come after Maduro’s government on Sunday said mercenaries had attempted to enter the South American country on speed boats from neighbouring Colombia, saying eight people had been killed and two detained.

Later on Sunday, Goudreau released a video identifying himself as an organiser of the alleged invasion, alongside dissident Venezuelan military officer Javier Nieto.

Goudreau said in the video that fighters on the ground continued to carry out operations in different parts of the country.

He identified one of the fighters as “Commander Sequea,” which appeared to be a reference to Antonio Sequea, who was identified on Monday by state television as one of the people arrested.

Silvercorp’s website describes Goudreau as a “highly decorated Special Forces Iraq and Afghanistan veteran.“

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/05/venezuela-detains-two-americans-allegedly-involved-in-failed-raid-to-remove-maduro

Originality007:
Am sure most of his citizen wants the man dealth

Really? How did you know? Originality is now a North Korean. Lol
Do you know the political culture of an average North Korean and the personality cult that surrounds Kim?

Lalasticlala

North and South Korea have exchanged gunfire in the Demilitarised Zone which divides the two countries.

Gunshots fired by North Korea at 07:41 (23:41 BST) hit a South Korean guard post in the central border town of Cheorwon, Seoul's military said.

No casualties were reported on the South Korean side.

In response, South Korea fired "two rounds of gunfire and a warning announcement according to our manual", the military statement said.
It is not clear what provoked the initial gunshots. The joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said that they were trying to contact North Korea through their military hotline to determine the cause of the incident.

This is the first time in five years that North Korean troops have directly fired on the South.

The demilitarised zone (DMZ) was set up after the Korean War in 1953 in order to create a buffer zone between the two countries.

For the past two years, the government in Seoul has tried to turn the heavily fortified border into a peace zone.

Easing military tensions at the border was one of the agreements reached between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a summit in Pyongyang in September 2018.

This exchange of gunfire comes a day after Kim Jong-un appeared in public, following an almost-three-week unexplained absence that sparked intense global speculation about his health.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52518844

Horlubunmmy:
Since when this pandemic started, Donald Trump have never put on face mask. ....
Why

He has been injected with disinfectant so he does not need filter mask.

amaniro:
I swear unnecessary fan base. Lemme here then complain about Buhari when their role model is that dictator from the poor North Korea

If you are the communist leader of a country and you don't want America to unseat you through a coup then you have to handle your people with iron hand that's why i won't blame Kim and other dictators before him. If there is no bully there won't be a dictator.

You guys can call him whatever you like he does not care he has achieved what we call deterrence. America would think twice before invading his country.

They won't be poor if not for harsh western sanctions. The west would want you to believe the North is the problem but look at the history of the North, the Korean war and U.S policies during the cold war era then you won't even blame Kim and his predecessors. Not that i like dictators but if you take a critical look at the game between the capitalist west and socialist countries during the cold war era then you'll see the truth.

Welcome back chairman Kim.

Nairaland needs overhauling. How was this guy able to clone the real explorers username? Seun you need to sanitize nairaland's database.

Tokziby:
Gather here if u watch it more than ten times and still shed tears

I've watched it more than 30 times and I'm watching it now. I just love those songs in that movie. That Sunnita girl beautiful like

Keemsleek005:
The promise. Love that movie

Yeh vaada raha.
He acted Vikram

"Yeh vaada raha"
Vikram with his beautiful Sunnita
That movie remains my best Bollywood movie. Rest on Sir

Antiochus:
It's like Iran is giving these people nightmares. Everyday Iran Iran with their corona virus woes.

Lol. America knows it won't materialise Russia and China will veto such attempt. The arms embargo is not even part of the nuclear deal Iran and western powers reached in 2015 and it will expire in some months to come.

And this is just a futile attempt because the country is self sufficient they build their defence equipments locally. What they would like to add to it now are Russian fighter jets and the S-400 which i believe America really dreads. If Russia and China veto this move America would resort to threat as usual, threaten Russia and China with sanctions should both countries sell defence equipment to Iran.

The military satellite Iran launched last week was a big shock to America the question of how Iran was able to launch a satellite configured with military modules amidst crippling sanctions is what they still find difficult to answer.

They are busy arming Saudi Arabia, UAE and Israel but it is a sin for Russia and China to sell weapons to Iran. Lol

The United States has circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would indefinitely extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October, a move almost certain to spark opposition from Russia, which has made no secret of its desire to resume conventional weapons sales to Tehran, U.S. officials and U.N. diplomats said Tuesday.

The draft document, which as of Tuesday had been circulated only to a small number of Security Council members, would strike the expiration of the arms embargo from the council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal between six major powers and Iran, according to Trump administration officials and U.N. diplomats, who were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. officials said the aim is to present the resolution for a vote in May when Estonia, a NATO member and close U.S. ally that is not party to the nuclear deal, holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council.

The arms embargo was not a part of the landmark 2015 accord, but Iran has long sought its removal and its expiration was included in the council resolution as a reward for Iranian compliance with the agreement's nuclear restrictions. Since Iran is admittedly no longer complying with several elements of the nuclear deal, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the administration believes it has a case to make that the embargo should not be lifted, the officials said.

Still, any attempt to extend the embargo will likely face stiff opposition from Russia and China, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council who have argued it should be removed and want to resume arms sales to Iran. Russia has been more outspoken on the matter and has derided U.S. attempts to bring the matter up for discussion, criticizing President Donald Trump for withdrawing the U.S. from the nuclear deal in 2018 and re-imposing tough American sanctions on Iran.

Despite that opposition, which is almost certain to see the American effort fail, the U.S. officials said the administration is not planning at this point to raise the controversial matter of “snapback” – or restoring all U.N. sanctions against Iran that had been lifted or eased under the terms of the 2015 deal.

Although the administration pulled out from the deal two years ago, the U.S. maintains that it retains the right to invoke a sanctions snapback that the deal envisaged in the event of “significant non-performance” by Iran.

Source:https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/28/world/asia/ap-un-united-nations-us-iran-arms-embargo.html

thundafire:
My gee oppressing dey Islamic bombing nation

Two partners in crime imagine that man saying he is confident America would support the annexation of west bank.

mykelkay:
How does your H contribute

You are wicked

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “confident” he would be able to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank this summer, with support from the US.

Speaking on Sunday to an online gathering of evangelical Christian supporters of Israel, Mr Netanyahu said US president Donald Trump’s Middle East plan envisioned turning over Israel’s dozens of settlements, as well as the strategic Jordan Valley, to Israeli control.

“A couple of months from now, I’m confident that that pledge will be honoured, that we will be able to celebrate another historic moment in the history of Zionism,” Mr Netanyahu said.

Israeli annexation of West Bank territory would be highly controversial, drawing widespread international condemnations and extinguishing any lingering hopes of establishing a viable independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

The Palestinians, with wide international backing, seek the entire West Bank as part of an independent state.

They have already threatened to cancel existing peace agreements if Mr Netanyahu moves forward with his plan, while the European Union foreign policy chief said annexation would be a violation of international law and force the bloc to “act accordingly”. The UN’s Middle East envoy said such a step would “ignite” the region.

But Mr Netanyahu and his hard-line base are eager to move ahead while Mr Trump remains in office.

Annexation would be popular with Mr Trump’s evangelical base as he seeks to shore up support ahead of a difficult reelection battle.

Mr Netanyahu reached a power-sharing deal with his main rival, Benny Gantz, last week.

Although Mr Gantz, a former Israeli military chief, has given only lukewarm support for West Bank annexation, their coalition agreement allows Mr Netanyahu to present the plan to his cabinet and to parliament for fast-track approval.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, and its settlements are now home to some 500,000 Israelis, in addition to over 200,000 Israelis living in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

After Mr Trump unveiled his Middle East plan in January, Mr Netanyahu pledged to begin annexing territory immediately.

But the Trump administration quickly delayed the plan, and the sides set up a joint committee to formulate a plan together.

Mr Netanyahu addressed a conference marking the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference, a post-First World War gathering in Italy that helped lay the foundations for Israel’s establishment in 1948.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/netanyahu-confident-us-support-west-172556911.html

rationalhuman:
See again, 99% are late 80s 90s Design Iran Khodro or few new Peugeot.

But the cars I'm seeing in that picture you uploaded are cool cars though not all. You don't expect everyone in Iran to be rich, modern societies are class societies stratified along classes. Rich and poor, the haves and have nots. So you don't expect every car in every country to be of luxury.

rationalhuman:
Tehran main square, Another image, Tell me where are those cars?

Are you saying every street in Iran should be filled up with cars like the first picture Efewestern posted? And by the way do you watch news have you seen Iran on BBC, Aljazeera, CNN and the rest?

rationalhuman:
I had never seen these cars on roads of Tehran. Remove China, India France from Iran and it will be Yemen.
Situation there is dire. You think there is no corruption over there? You can not realize unless you go and talk to people in private.

Hotels in Tehran are full of Chinese, Indian and French Businessmen and Engineers(They are the lifeline of Iran). Iran makes low tech equipment rest are imported. I can literally post thousands of Industrial equipment, Technology being imported in Iran. I lived there for 2 years.

Iran is better then Arab world no doubt,

My brother no vex o. Na Somalia you live for two years no be Iran

jboixxx:
[color=#0000ff]Valid! [/color]

Do you think they can return items this time because of the COVID some PO are not fully functioning, i got to my own PO last thursday and i was told they were only doing skeletal work. I told them my packages have landed since April 1 but they refused to help me check the counter. I just vex comot the place.

Eborty:
Well you don't want to answer my question. Everyone in nigeria are saying that securing the well being and comfort of lives is the first and foremost obligation of any govt. Why are the iran's govt. less concerned about its citizens. Instead they prefer to spend billions of dollar every year on military achievements while the economy and its populace are striving to survive on their own. Same iran govt. pleaded for a $5 billion loan earlier this month from IMF, is now launching a military satelite not even health or disaster satelite. Maybe if u re her citizen your will understand better.

Libyans enjoyed all these before U.S and NATO came to destroy the country we all know how Libya is today. That is what Iran is avoiding. All these goodies you've mentioned can only happen under a country that is functioning and free of U.S. aggression and war mongering.

Eborty what you don't understand is Iran will continue to develop those military capabilities as long as america continues its hostile policies towards the Islamic republic.

Eborty:
Dermmy, does this satelite has any significance to the current state of populace in iran....? If yes please enlighten me..!!!

If you think Iran's military programme is what is impoverishing the country then you are in a state of coma. Western sanctions is what is making life difficult for ordinary Iranians.

The question you should be asking is why does America hate Iran. Is it a crime to take back your country from America's grip through a revolution? Must every oil rich country become America's puppet? These are the questions you should be asking

Significance? Their military programme is the only thing preventing America from invading and they won't give it up. They are wise to have invested in their military over the years and they are reaping the benefits now and that benefit is called deterrence.

Heffalump:
You are very correct bro. It can only be jihadists that are celebrating Iran's military satellite launch. If you probe into that stupid guy called dermmy, he's certainly a jihadist Muslim, and perhaps a Yoruba Muslim. They are a big problem!

God will not let them succeed, accept if it's his desire.

You have nothing to offer Heffalump. I was expecting you to engage me intellectually by stating historical facts as i have done here but you couldn't all you have done so far is insult me call me jihadist. You need professional surgeons to help you remove that lump in your brain mr heffalump.

Bbbwings:
America is a two-faced devil.
They create the problems then proffer solutions

Exactly. God bless you