Far-right Proud Boys member Jeremy Joseph Bertino (second from left) joins other supporters of President Donald Trump as they attend a rally at Freedom Plaza, December 12, 2020, in Washington
A MAN pleaded guilty on Thursday to plotting to violently stop the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 US election, making him the first member of the far-right Proud Boys to admit a seditious conspiracy charge.
Jeremy Joseph Bertino, 43, has agreed to co-operate with the Justice Department’s investigation of the role that Proud Boys leaders played in the mob’s attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a federal prosecutor said.
Mr Bertino’s co-operation could ratchet up the pressure on other Proud Boys charged in the siege, including former national chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio.
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Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD