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The American Role in Lumumba's Murder

American officials plotted to assassinate Lumumba, the Congo's first prime minister, in 1960. While a CIA plan to poison him was abandoned, U.S. officials enabled his overthrow, supported his opposition, and secretly approved his transfer to executioners who murdered him on January 17, 1961.
July 21, 2026

BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —de Granma International—WITH the participation of Bush’s spokeswoman in Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, terrorist-at-large Carlos Alberto Montaner and former Venezuelan TV magnate Marcel Granier, the Inter-American Press Association has just ended another one of its shows in Miami aimed at generating headlines against the Cuban Revolution and against Bolivarian Venezuela.

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