Many in Latin America are also suspicious about the eventual course of any U.S. intervention in regional affairs—Washington has a long and troubled history of stepping in, with deadly and disastrous results.
The examples are numerous. The United States sought to overthrow Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende in the 1970s, a move that eventually led to the brutal 27-year rule of Augusto Pinochet. It used a humanitarian-aid program in Nicaragua in the 1980s to hide $27 million in weapons for right-wing groups fighting a leftist government, fueling a civil war (a scandal that involved Elliott Abrams, who is now Donald Trump’s special envoy for Venezuela). And in 1989, the U.S. left hundreds of civilians dead in Panama when American forces invaded to overthrow the country’s de facto leader, Manuel Noriega.
Source : theatlantic.com
And EVEN WAPO ( Washing Post) is raising questions with their headline
" The massacre Trump’s envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget "
... Elliot Abrams, Abrams, Omar reminded the hearing, had pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress — essentially lying over the Iran-contra affair in the late 1980s while serving as an official in the Reagan administration. In 1992, though, he was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush and later joined the younger Bush’s National Security Council. Out of office, he has remained a fixture in Washington’s foreign policy establishment as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Elliott Abrams plead guilty to withholding information from Congress and called the US policy in Nicaragua in the 1980s a "fabulous achievement." Abrams pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress — essentially LYING over the Iran-contra affair in the late 1980s while serving as an official in the Reagan administration. In 1992, though, he was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush and later joined the younger Bush’s National Security Council. Out of office, he has remained a fixture in Washington’s foreign policy establishment as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Elliott Abrams plead guilty to withholding information from Congress and called the US policy in Nicaragua in the 1980s " A fabulous achievement."
Just the right man to organise the havoc and mayhem that the Venezuela people so desperately need them, right ?
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Many in Latin America are also suspicious about the eventual course of any U.S. intervention in regional affairs—Washington has a long and troubled history of stepping in, with deadly and disastrous results.
The examples are numerous. The United States sought to overthrow Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende in the 1970s, a move that eventually led to the brutal 27-year rule of Augusto Pinochet. It used a humanitarian-aid program in Nicaragua in the 1980s to hide $27 million in weapons for right-wing groups fighting a leftist government, fueling a civil war (a scandal that involved Elliott Abrams, who is now Donald Trump’s special envoy for Venezuela). And in 1989, the U.S. left hundreds of civilians dead in Panama when American forces invaded to overthrow the country’s de facto leader, Manuel Noriega.
Source : theatlantic.com
And EVEN WAPO ( Washing Post) is raising questions with their headline
" The massacre Trump’s envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget "
... Elliot Abrams, Abrams, Omar reminded the hearing, had pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress — essentially lying over the Iran-contra affair in the late 1980s while serving as an official in the Reagan administration. In 1992, though, he was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush and later joined the younger Bush’s National Security Council. Out of office, he has remained a fixture in Washington’s foreign policy establishment as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Elliott Abrams plead guilty to withholding information from Congress and called the US policy in Nicaragua in the 1980s a "fabulous achievement." Abrams pleaded guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress — essentially LYING over the Iran-contra affair in the late 1980s while serving as an official in the Reagan administration. In 1992, though, he was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush and later joined the younger Bush’s National Security Council. Out of office, he has remained a fixture in Washington’s foreign policy establishment as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Elliott Abrams plead guilty to withholding information from Congress and called the US policy in Nicaragua in the 1980s " A fabulous achievement."
Just the right man to organise the havoc and mayhem that the Venezuela people so desperately need them, right ?
Nicaragua next in the sites of the US, that just came out today.. the US will be at war with everyone soon.
robplum: Russia is supplying Venezuelan super markets
Russia was supplying aid long before the United States. Everyone.. wants Venezuela's oil and natural resources. Just like France and China want North Africa's Ugh.. going to get ugly.
President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States is foolish enough to want one and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike.
The Cuban Missile crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a US missile deployment in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, sparking a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
More than five decades on, tensions are rising again over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe as a landmark cold war-era arms control treaty unravels.
Maduro closes the border with Brazil; Guaidó leads caravan to Colombian border
President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of Venezuela's border with Brazil on Thursday in an increasingly fraught power struggle. Guaido set out in a convoy of vehicles to personally pick up US aid being stockpiled on the other side of the Colombian border, defying Maduro's military to stop him.
Recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries, he left the capital Caracas for the Colombian border in a convoy of several vehicles for the 900-kilometre trip.
Embattled Maduro has dismissed Guaido's humanitarian caravan as a “cheap show” and slammed aid as a precursor for a US military intervention in the oil-rich but crippled Latin American country.
The 35-year-old leader of the Venezuelan legislature proclaimed himself acting president Jan 23 and wants to oust Maduro, set up a transitional government and hold new elections.
A separate caravan of buses and trucks containing opposition lawmakers had earlier left eastern Caracas bound for the border.
Several of the trucks were stopped by security forces and their drivers forced to get out, but the rest of the caravan was allowed to continue, lawmakers said.
“We know that the regime is going to put all obstacles to prevent us from reaching the border, but nothing is stopping us, we are going to continue,” said opposition lawmaker Yanet Fermin.
Signaling his growing disquiet, Maduro announced on Thursday that the border with Brazil - which along with Colombia is one of the main potential avenues for aid delivery would be “completely and absolutely” closed from 8:00 pm until further notice.
Maria Teresa Belandria, Guaido's designated ambassador in Brazil, said aid deliveries would go ahead nonetheless. “The operation goes on. There's no going back”.
She said 100 tons of food, medicines and emergency kits were waiting to be trucked from Boa Vista to Pacaraima on the Venezuelan border.
Maduro also warned on Thursday he was considering “a total closure of the border with Colombia” to Venezuela's west.
He has already ordered the military to barricade a major border bridge to prevent supplies from entering the country from Cucuta, Colombia, where tons of humanitarian aid are being stockpiled, most of it from the United States.
The military announced a ban on vessels putting to sea from Venezuelan ports until Sunday to avoid actions by “criminal” groups.
Meanwhile, Maduro - mirroring Guaido's move in an attempt to show his socialist government was able to look after its people - ordered a shipment of thousands of food boxes to be distributed to the needy along the Colombian border.
Shipments of food and medicine for the crisis-stricken population have become a key focus of the power struggle between Maduro and Guaido.
Guaido, who says 300,000 people could die without an influx of aid, says he aims to rally a million volunteers to start bringing it in by Saturday.
It remained unclear how he proposed to do so if the blockade continues, but experts have pointed to the notoriously porous 2,200 kilometre border, which is perforated by well-worn drug trafficking and contraband routes.
Guaido said the planned entry points for aid were the Brazilian and Colombian borders, the island of Curacao and the seaports of Puerto Cabello and La Guaira.
Venezuela's vice-president Delcy Rodriguez said the government was shutting down air and sea links between Curacao and Venezuela.
However Carlos Faria, one of the leaders of a group of Venezuelans organizing aid shipments via Curacao, revealed a plane carrying 50 tons of food and medicine was expected from Miami on Thursday and would be loaded onto a Venezuela-bound ship on Friday.
Amnesty International's Americas director Erika Guevara urged authorities to “guarantee access” for those bringing in aid.
#Venezuela Aid Showdown reaches its climax today as Juan #Guaido's opposition tries to bring aid into the country. Will #Maduro's armed forces resist? The U.S. and other countries (about a dozen) have sent hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid to the Colombian and Brazilian border of Venezuela. The opposition is mobilizing citizens today to bring the aid into the country. Venezuelan President Maduro, however, has vowed not to let it happen, and his armed forces are guarding border crossings. Which side will give?
All he needs to do is search the shipments. All of these people hanging around. What good does it do them? Do the supplies get distributed directly to them or will they be taken to a warehouse and then distributed? It seems unorganized. Oh, now the guys in the blue vests have a mic and people are chanting and clapping.
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