Americas
Britain’s hidden hand in Brazil’s 1964 coup d’etat
How British intelligence destabilised democracy in Central America
British diplomats seek to “improve perceptions” of UK in repressive Colombia
Assange extradition case has cost British public over £300,000
Revealed: UK military unit in Colombia ‘assisted’ police force that killed 63 protesters
Revealed: Secretive British anti-crime agency spent millions training Colombia’s repressive police
As protests in Colombia are met with deadly violence, Declassified reveals the UK’s National Crime Agency trained the Colombian police in a multimillion-pound five-year programme that is shrouded in secrecy.
Revealed: The UK government campaign to force Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy
The British ambassador who supported a coup
Britain’s ambassador to Bolivia, Jeff Glekin, played a personal role in events leading up to the 2019 military-backed coup that deposed the country’s democratically elected president, Evo Morales — and strongly supported the new regime as it carried out two massacres of unarmed protesters, Declassified has found.
Revealed: The UK supported the coup in Bolivia to gain access to its ‘white gold’
After a coup in the South American country of Bolivia in November 2019, democratically elected president Evo Morales was forced to flee. Foreign Office documents obtained by Declassified show Britain saw the new military-backed regime, which killed 18 protesters, as an opportunity to open up Bolivia’s lithium deposits to UK firms.