Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher, freelance journalist, book reviewer and blogger. She writes about the struggle for memory in Palestine and Chile, historical legitimacy, the ramifications of settler-colonialism, the correlation between humanitarian aid and human rights abuses, the United Nations as an imperialist organisation, indigenous resistance, la nueva cancion Chilena and Latin American revolutionary philosophy with a particular focus on Fidel Castro, Jose Marti and Jose Carlos Mariategui. Her articles, book reviews, interviews and blogs have been published in Middle East Monitor, Upside Down World, Truthout, Irish Left Review, Gramsci Oggi, Cubarte, Rabble.ca, Toward Freedom, History Today, Chileno and other outlets, including academic publications and translations into several languages.

Chilean Court Orders Re-Enactment Of The Death Of A Revolutionary Leader

By recreating the series of events that led to the death of a MIR leader in 1975, a Chilean judge hopes to establish whether the man’s death was an execution planned by Pinochet’s U.S.-backed dictatorship.

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Chile Coup Anniversary

Augusto Pinochet’s obsession with eradicating socialist opposition to his dictatorship prompted the creation of specialized brigades operating with the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) – a fact established many times throughout Chilean history and in court cases pertaining to the assassinations and disappearances of Communist Party and

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Iran’s “Nuclear Threat” Bolsters Israel’s Imperialist Domination In The Middle East

Israel and the U.S. share a common goal: preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But is the so-called “Iranian threat,” invoked so often by Israel, anything more than a smokescreen for Israel’s strategy of evasion?

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By Ramona Wadi

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly invokes the “Iranian threat” as a means to divert attention away from Israel’s settler-colonial activity in Palestine. With Operation Protective Edge -- a collaborative effort by Israel, the United Nations, the international community and even Palestinian leaders themselves -- fading from

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Pinochet’s Chile: A Playground For Complicit Foreigners

An agricultural commune-turned Pinochet detention and torture center led by a German man accused of child sexual molestation could provide a major key to unraveling and laying bare the atrocities of the dictatorship era.

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CHILE GERMAN COLONY

Ongoing investigations into human rights violations committed during Augusto Pinochet’s U.S.-backed dictatorship in Chile between 1973 and 1990 have led Judge Mario Carroza to visit the former detention and torture center known as Colonia Dignidad (“Dignity Colony”), later renamed Villa Baviera (Villa Bavaria). According to Chilean news website

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In Recognizing Palestinian State, Sweden And UK Legitimize Israeli Settler-Colonialism

Though largely applauded as a promising first step toward broader recognition of the legitimacy of a Palestinian state, Sweden and the U.K.’s recognition of a Palestinian state, in fact, only further legitimizes Israel’s illegal, imperialist-backed colonization.

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By Ramona Wadi

Following the atrocities committed by Israel during Operation Protective Edge over the summer, which left over 2,000 civilians dead, including over 400 children massacred, Palestinian leaders have scrambled to return to diplomatic pathways in an attempt to establish recognition of a Palestinian state based upon dubious legitimacy. This legitimacy

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While America Sends Troops To Fight Ebola, Cuba Sends An Army Of Doctors

Cuba continues to show the world what internationalism means in the context of training medical professionals and sending them to battle health crises throughout the world. As Fidel said of Haiti in 2010: “We send doctors, not soldiers!”

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Cuba Doctors Ebola

Jean Marie Le Pen, founder of France’s right-wing Front National party, stated in May that Europe’s immigration problem would be solved if the Ebola virus were to resurface. Rising xenophobic attitudes in Europe, fuelled by political agendas, have resulted in the detachment of immigration from the ramifications of colonial and imperialist violence

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Analysis: How The CIA Got Away With Murdering Revolutionary Che Guevara

Che Guevara’s body was uncovered from beneath a Bolivian landing strip 10 years after his death, but the truth behind how his body ended up in that secret burial location wouldn’t surface for several decades.

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Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara’s words on guerrilla warfare become particularly resonant on the anniversary of his death on Oct. 9, 1967, when he was murdered at the hands of the CIA and the Bolivian government. At the time of Che’s murder, U.S. intentions were to stifle the internationalist aspect of the Cuban Revolution – an attempt not only to destroy

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Declassified Docs Reveal US Intent To Retaliate Against Cuban Internationalism

When Cuba lent support to Angola during the former Portuguese colony’s struggle against imperialism after gaining its independence, the U.S. was not pleased, fearing opposition and anti-colonial sentiment might continue to spread around the world.

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People hold up images showing Fidel Castro, second from right, Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez, center, and Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, bottom left and right, during a May Day march in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. The image of Chavez carries the words in Spanish "Chavez : Our best friend." (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba’s commitment to the anti-colonial struggle is well documented through its support to countries struggling for liberation. Recently declassified documents published by the U.S. National Security Archive showcase the United States’ plans to retaliate against Cuba following Fidel Castro’s decision to support Angolan troops in 1975. Those

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