Demonstrators in Paraguay have flooded the streets after one of the country’s main banks collapsed, depriving millions of their cash and savings. Campaigners have pointed to the collapse as a ‘dry run’ by the powerful to field-test what they can get away with. And a discovery by police and officials investigating the bank collapse does nothing to diminish that theory.
‘US-Israel ‘Black Mirror’
The raid on the home of deposed president Santiago Peña found a secret vault crammed with “Israeli biometric tech”, leading observers to compare the region to an episode of dystopian TV series Black Mirror because of interference and sabotage by the US and Israel:
Whether the discovered tech was linked to the bank’s collapse remains to be seen. But the penetration of Israel and the US into governments around Latin America – and much further afield – is a serious problem that needs to be exposed and dealt with.
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