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By Guillermo Alvarado

In a commentary published almost six years ago, on July 16, 2016, I explained that the legal axiom that goes like this: "By confession of the party, relay of evidence", means that when someone accepts having committed a fault, a crime or a mistake, it frees the counterpart from having to prove it.

I was referring then to the colonial status of Puerto Rico, but the subject comes very handy now after the former White House advisor, John Bolton, unabashedly admitted to the press that he has organized coups d'état in other countries on behalf of Washington.

It is not unheard of, of course, but when it comes from the party directly involved it serves to prove what we have been saying for decades, that the northern power is the main danger and focus of destabilization in our region and in the whole world.

Bolton knows very well what he is talking about, because he was the architect of the war against Iraq in 2003, which was based on the lie that President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in his possession and was willing to use them.

That military adventure destroyed the Mesopotamian country and left it at the mercy of irregular armed gangs, terrorist groups and other shadowy forces.

But his long and murky record does not end there. When the Republicans were out of power he continued to advocate military solutions in international relations.

He suggested, among other things, that through Israel Iran be bombed to destroy its nuclear program even though there was never a shred of evidence that it was intended to build weapons.

In 2018 Donald Trump brought him out of the shadows and appointed him Secretary of Security of the United States, dedicating then a good part of his time to try to destabilize the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and overthrow the legitimate President Nicolás Maduro.

Not for nothing in May 2019 the British publication The Guardian, assured that Bolton is "the most dangerous man in the world" and characterized him as a guy without any scruples to manipulate information, in order to move forward with his warmongering agenda.

He knows very well the strings that must be pulled, since during Ronald Reagan's presidency he worked in the coordination of programs and policies of the Agency for International Development, USAID, the spearhead of Washington's penetration of the planet.

A shady character for whom there is hardly a suitable circle in Dante's Inferno, except, perhaps, next to Satan himself.