>>48696
They are what they are, tractors represent agriculture. The parades happen everywhere and are both civilian and military in content, back in middle school I remember marching past the town hall with my class. But this is the first time tractors partake in the capital's parade. The subtext is Bolsonaro's alliance with agribusiness.

>>54196
The authors mischaracterize Goulart's March 13th rally ("in which he called for constitutional amendments, among them the legalization of the communist party"), his speech never mentioned the Communist Party - but indeed, banners calling for its legalization are prominent in famous photographs of the event. I was more intrigued by their mention of "the right-wing forces from whom the U.S. was already distancing itself or from the major industrialists or landowners whom the U.S. had already been willing to sell out". History proves Americans can abandon their allies, but Marxist analysis would absolutely rule out abandoning industrialists tied to American capital. In fact, this strand of thought would place economic interests far above geopolitical concerns, ultimately dismissing all talk of communism as a smokescreen for upper class interests harmed by potential social democratic reforms. I'd say early attempts at a constructive American relationship with Goulart do suggest a tolerance for moderate reforms if coupled with a pro-Western foreign policy.

On the inverse topic, that of Eastern Bloc support for Goulart's camp, two intelligence documents from the JFK files have made the news, one covering the 1961 crisis and another written after the coup. Actually it seems both were released years ago and this year's versions just have slightly less redacted sections.

The file I'm sharing reinforces what was already known to historians on Cuban projection of soft power and training of guerrilla operatives. The insignificant scale of the latter was made evident during and after the coup, when no insurgent cell made any attack of note against the military and the left was by and large caught unarmed and unprepared. Leftist insurgents only picked up in number after 1968.

Events are unfolding in a completely predictable course. The opposition holds demonstrations but the military and police remain loyal. Maduro is content to sit on a throne of bayonets. Lula and other moderate leftists in the continent have offered negotiations, all of which have so far been rejected by Maduro. Lula is in an uncomfortable position, trapped between losing a longtime regional ally and losing votes for his party. Suggesting negotiations allows his ally to whitewash legitimacy without the PR disaster of directly endorsing Maduro's electoral results, which is precisely what Lula's party did. He has gone so far as to publicly disavow his party's position. Lately he called the Venezuelan regime "very unpleasant" and "authoritarian", but "not a dictatorship", which neither side was pleased to hear.
Negotiations could be a clever move by Maduro. He's done it before, goading the opposition into backing down from confrontation and fooling it with empty concessions. A repeat election would be even better, it would be a second chance to demoralize voter turnout and rig the results. Lula knows this, he's giving his ally a way out. Maybe Maduro will accept under further international pressure. So far he refuses to back down even on a rhetorical level, counting on his coup-proofing measures. The National Guard, Militia and even the colectivo paramilitaries are potential counterweights to Army unrest. Cuban advisors, even a handful of them, keep a watch on suspicious officers. Even then, all of this is a risky bet. Coup-proofing is always perfectly successful until it isn't. Individual officers know popular acclaim or even CIA cash await them if they refuse to disperse demonstrations.

Hispanophone Maduro apologetics resort to cheap claims like the voting tallies already having been submitted to the Supreme Court (whose presiding judge is a card-carrying member of the ruling party) or the release of tallies not being needed at all. Anglophone apologists resort to the beaten litany of color revolution, CIA-backed, upper class oppositionists and so on.
I've watched clips from Maduro's speeches and he's nothing like that. His rhetoric has some classical far left components (fascism, imperialism, bourgeois representative democracy is a lie, we're building a new democracy of the 21st century) but it's a chaotic mix. There's room for religion (reading the Bible, accusing his enemies of Satanism, mentioning the "Venezuelan family", describing himself as in a "spiritual fight between good and evil"), generation shock (uninstalling Whatsapp, attacking tech companies), Palestine-baiting or Jew-baiting (claiming his enemies are financed by international Zionism) and other colorful influences.
A much livelier personality than his defenders. He's funny in a buffoonish, unintentional way. None of Chavéz's charisma.

Also notable are the intelligence and police services running psychological terrorism through heavily edited footage of their arrests of opposition figures. Another bullet point to Venezuela's cyberpunk status. It's not cyberpunk because of purple filters and flashing lights (though these might appear) but from authorities publicizing a crackdown like it's a funny meme. It could even be awe-inspiring if they had a proper production quality.

I hear lot about the Best Koreans these days. I don't think I can add much, as far as I know there is no evidence they are fighting against AFU, or that they even at the western border of Russia, any documented movements of theirs is on the Russian Far east.
But check this out. From Rodong Sinmun.
>Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Guides Performance Test of Suicide Attack Drones of Various Types
>produced by an institute and enterprises under the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Complex
>newly developed unmanned aerial vehicles
The ingenuity of the Korean people knows no boundaries. These drones are also look very unique with this X-wing design, surely nowhere else in the world we can observe such thing.

Successfully executing a strike on the symbol of Capitalism.

>>48420
I have found this:
>https://policetribune.com/pastors-say-cell-phone-video-of-malcolm-johnson-shooting-shows-execution-after-he-shot-cop/
>https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=TW2-_R2yF2c
>https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-michael-brown-kansas-police-shootings-07c9ee2bca9013d73d8751a263932aa5
Apparently it happened more than a year ago, but the case has been "in review" since the video above was revealed. The dude in the floor was a nignog suspected of having participated in a deadly shooting. The police claimed they shot in response after he produced a gun and shot a policeman in a leg. However, this is disputed by other people who believe he was unarmed and the shot came from another police (probably that woman seen in the video)

While looking for that I found vids related.