US Sponsored “Regime Change” in Burkina Faso? Coup Leader Trained by Pentagon | Global Research
The ousted leader Compaore had come to power in Oct. 1987 after leading a
coup against Capt. Thomas Sankara, a Marxist revolutionary leader and
theoretician who had also taken charge through a seizure of power four
years earlier. Sankara attempted to break with the legacy of French
neo-colonialism advancing a program of self-reliance, women’s liberation
and international debt cancellation for Africa.
