Protests and violent riots throughout the United States, nominally expressing outrage over the death of Minnesota man George Floyd, attracted Latin American leftist iconography this week – not a coincidence given months of violent riots throughout South America, observers told Breitbart News.
Autumn 2019 saw looting, burning, and assorted destructive acts in Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile, among other countries. Like the current situation in the United States, violence appeared to erupt nearly simultaneously throughout the continent and, like in America, many locals expressed frustration that the most violent acts appeared to be committed or paid for by foreign actors. Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile all arrested foreigners, most tied to the socialist and communist regimes of Venezuela and Cuba, accused of fueling violence in the countries.
At the time, one of the most prominent leftists on the continent, Nicolás Maduro henchman and U.S.-sanctions drug trafficker Diosdado Cabello, used his Venezuelan state TV show to warn the United States would soon face similar violence.
“What is happening in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Honduras is just a little breeze, and what is coming is a Bolivarian hurricane,” he said, referring to the Venezuelan socialist ideology. “The Bolivarian breeze will reach the United States and it will have someone who governs for the people.”
Cabello’s statement appeared to be a reference to the 2020 election at the time. His boss, Maduro, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2016 election but did not endorse in 2020. An investigative report by Project Veritas revealed that staffers on Sanders’ campaign this year had plans for violence against Americans regardless of Sanders’ performance in the election.
Chile experienced perhaps the most outrageous of the violence; leftists burned down churches, destroyed Santiago subway stations, and terrorized residential communities. Across the political spectrum, even without agreeing on the solutions, Chilean political officials appeared to concord in conversation with Breitbart News that the original problems triggering protests there last year were legitimate: a proposed subway fare hike in the capital, frustration with outrageously large student loans, and a declining economy, among other concerns. But they also agreed that, if the protests were once peaceful and just, by October, they had gotten out of the control of many organizers, now controlled by violent elements seeking to engage in widespread destruction.
George Floyd was killed in late May by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is now facing charges of murder, along with the officers present when he killed Floyd. A bystander filmed his death, which occurred after Chauvin crushed Floyd’s neck with his knee for nearly ten minutes. The video triggered widespread outrage, prompting nationwide protests against police brutality, particularly against black people. The protests rapidly yielded to riots against racism, many of which resulted in the destruction of black-owned homes and businesses.
Many of those participating in the destruction appear to be members of the largely white Marxist group Antifa, which President Donald Trump has vowed to designate a terrorist organization.
George Floyd’s family pleaded with violent actors to cease committing acts of destruction in the name of their loved one this week. Local authorities in multiple cities – including Minneapolis, Dallas, Richmond, and Denver, among others – blamed “outsiders” for the violence. Some claimed far-right “white nationalists” were involved, but no evidence has surfaced indicating so.
“The same urban guerrilla tactics we saw here are over there now, the exact same thing and the same posters, the same signs in their hands,” René Barba, a city councilman in Lo Barnochea, a suburb of Santiago, Chile, told Breitbart News this week, asserting that the rioters even targeted the same store brands to destroy in America as they did in Chile.
“The downtown [of Santiago] – they destroyed it, burned it, tore it apart, and it strikes me that [it’s] the same destruction I see in the images I see on TV of you, those were the same places they destroyed here,” Barba affirmed. His remarks echoed his description of the Santiago violence during a prior interview with Breitbart News in December, in which he asserted that organized radical leftists were “handing out food before the protests, alcohol, we assume drugs” to enable destruction.
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