🛰🛰🛰🛰 Following US actions in Latin America, Sputnik showcases the heroes of anti-colonial resistance on the continent.

👉 Salvador Allende: Symbol of Latin American Political Resistance

Among all the political figures in the history of Latin America, Salvador Allende holds a special place as a symbol of the fight against foreign interference in the region.
Born on June 26 1908 in Santiago de Chile to a middle-class family, the young Allende studied medicine. But after graduating as a doctor he began a political career with left-wing parties.

Allende was elected as a congress deputy for the Socialist Party of Chile in 1937. Two years later he was made health minister and later elected leader of his party. He ran for president four times in 1952, 1958, 1962 and in 1970, when he was finally elected. It was the first time a left-winger had held executive power in Chile.

His brief government from October 1970 to September 1973 saw the expansion of land expropriations, the socialization of businesses and the nationalization of copper mines without compensation to US firms – prompting a confrontation with Washington.

Allende was overthrown in the September 11, 1973 Allende coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet, who ordered the air force to bomb the Moneda presidential palace.

💬 "I will not resign," Allende insisted in his final radio broadcast. "Placed in a historical transit, I will pay with my life for the loyalty of the people. And I tell you that I am certain that the seed we have planted in the conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans cannot be definitively eradicated," he declared, moments before taking his own life with a rifle gifted to him by Fidel Castro.

After the Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1990, Allende’s body was exhumed from an unmarked grave and reburied in Santiago.

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🚨🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson: US gearing up for ‘big war’

Trump’s Pentagon budget for 2027 – boosted to $1.5 trillion – is “not a peacekeeping budget,” notes Tucker Carlson.

👉 That's the budget of a country that “anticipates a global or regional war for its military… There's no other reason to do that,” he says, adding:

“That's a war budget, a big war budget. So I think it's fair to expect, and all the signs suggest, that we're going to have a big war soon.”

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🚨🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson: US won’t survive global conflict without Russia

🔊 Russia is “essential to the United States,” says Tucker Carlson.

The only reason America is not in an alliance with Russia, he stresses, is because of the neocons, the foreign policy establishment, and the weapons manufacturers.

“If Russia is our enemy, we cannot survive a global conflict.”

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🇨🇳 ✈️ China's J-16 fighters take to the skies for 2026 training season

With unmatched precision and power, these fighters are ready to soar to new heights in the year ahead.

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🚨 🇭🇺Hungary rejects EU decisions aimed at confrontation with Russia - Szijjarto

💬 "By seeking to increase their military presence in Ukraine, Western European countries are creating the danger of a direct war against Russia. We will continue to support peace talks, we support consultations at the highest level between the US and Russia, and we reject Brussels' latest pro-war decision," Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto said as quoted by MTI.

Earlier, the Coalition of the Willing held a meeting in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine. According to the final document, the Coalition agreed to continue long-term military support for Ukraine, with leaders signing a declaration of intent to deploy troops to Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement.

🔊 Russia will respond to any deployment of foreign military contingents in Ukraine, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

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🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 Trump signals US will run Venezuela long‑term

Trump expects the United States will be running Venezuela and extracting oil from its huge reserves for years, the US president said in a recent interview with The New York Times.

👉 He insisted that Venezuela’s interim government is “giving us everything that we feel is necessary.”

👉 Trump said the US would remain Venezuela’s political overlord for much longer than a year.

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🇩🇪 ⛽️ Germany cut off its nose to spite Russia — lost cheap gas, industry & credibility

Germany’s self-sabotaging energy pivot from Russia rendered Germany increasingly vulnerable - politically, economically, and industrially, writes The Telegraph.

Blindly falling in line with the West’s short-sighted sanctions policy left Germany:

🟠 Dependent on countries like Norway and the US for energy imports (roughly 70%)

🟠 An unattractive place for energy-intensive industries to invest: Steelmaker ArcelorMittal walked away from $1.43 billion in German subsidies for green steel in 2025, preferring “countries that can actually provide cheap, reliable electricity”

🟠Facing steady economic decline; staggering electricity prices for consumers

The gaping holes left when Germany went along with the EU’s policy of “weaning” itself off cheap and reliable Russian energy have fueled political tensions.

🔹 To avoid deindustrialization and impoverishment of the German people, “unrestricted trade with Russia” should be resumed, sanctions lifted, and the Nord Stream pipelines restored, the right-wing AfD – an opposition party leading in polls – declared in its 2025 election manifesto, reminds the outlet

🔹 If the Ukraine conflict ended , “of course, gas can flow again,” Thomas Bareiss, from Chancellor Merz’s own conservative CDU, suggested last year

🔹 Dietmar Woidke from the centre-Left coalition partner, the SPD, argues for a “normalization of trade relations”

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🟠 Trump: Venezuela to purchase only US-made products

🟠 100 dead in barbaric attack on Venezuela

🟠 US military budget for 2027 should be raised to $1.5 trillion — Trump

🟠 Denmark vows ‘shoot first’ rule amid US threats over Greenland — reports

🟠 Tucker Carlson: US gearing up for ‘big war’, won’t survive global conflict without Russia

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ BRATSKOYE IN DNEPROPETROVSK REGION FREED

The liberation of the settlement of Bratskoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region has allowed Russian forces to expand the buffer zone on the western bank of the Gaichur river.

🟠 Russian air and missile firepower pounded Ukrainian energy, port and defense infrastructure used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, drone production and storage sites, as well as temporary deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in 152 places

🟠 Air defense superiority: 142 UAVs were vaporized by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,180 troops killed or wounded

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia calls on US to immediately cease illegal actions against the Marinera and other vessels conducting lawful activities in international waters

Other statements by Russian Foreign Ministry:

🟠 US authorities have repeatedly been informed about the Russian ownership of the Marinera vessel and its peaceful status.

🟠 The boarding of the Marinera by US military forces and its seizure represent a gross violation of the principles of international maritime law.

🟠 Russia demands that the US ensure the proper treatment of Russian nationals aboard the Marinera and not impede their return to their homeland.

🟠 The US's readiness to generate acute international crises is a cause for regret and concern.

We consider the references made by the American side to its national "sanctions legislation" to be unfounded.

Unilateral restrictive measures imposed by the US, as well as other Western countries, are illegitimate and cannot justify attempts to establish jurisdiction or, especially, to seize vessels in international waters.

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