From economic genocide to physical extinction
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November 6, 2026
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Nov 06, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom
(Kaieteur News) – “To bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”
Those were the chilling words of Lester Mallory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, in a memorandum dated 6th April, 1960, addressed to his superior in the U.S. State Department. He was discussing Cuba, then under Fidel Castro, and how the United States could bring about the collapse of its revolutionary government.
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