Tag: Economic Sanctions

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another — Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. In recent days, the US stands globally isolated in its support of Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians, voting against a UN General Assembly resolution for a Gaza ceasefire backed by 153 countries with 89% of the world population, and opposed by just the US and 9 small countries with less than 1% of the world population.

US Foreign Policy Is a Scam Built on Corruption

A group of US representatives call for an end to the Monroe Doctrine and interventionism in Latin America

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Two centuries after the speech that inaugurated the United States’ policy toward the region, five Democratic lawmakers call for an end to the Cuban embargo and the declassification of secret CIA files, as well as reforms to the IMF and the OAS

A group of US representatives call for an end to the Monroe Doctrine and interventionism in Latin America

Doubtful that this will ever happen.

Previously:

AOC-Led Delegation Can Push for New Approach to Latin America

President Maduro’s speech welcoming the freed Alex Saab to Venezuela

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

December 20, 2023

Good afternoon to all Venezuela, to the National Radio and Television network, to all national and international media and those through social networks. I want to welcome this brave, patriotic man who resisted 1280 days, 40 months, in the most adverse, most painful conditions of kidnapping, filthy prisons, physical torture, psychological torture, threats, lies. And after 1280 days of kidnapping, he has triumphed. The truth has triumphed, justice has triumphed – what had to happen. Welcome, Alex Saab Moran. From your days of pain, of persecution against you, against your family. This I told Alex when I just gave him this hug. On this beautiful afternoon, with this beautiful sun in Caracas, on this happy Christmas of our people waiting for the year 2024. I knew that this day had to come and this day came. Blessed day, December 20, unforgettable forever in the year 2023. We have to talk about so many things. You have faced the toughest tests that a brave man with Palestinian blood knows how to endure.

President Maduro’s speech welcoming the freed Alex Saab to Venezuela

Previously:

Venezuela Secures Release of Gov’t Envoy Alex Saab

Clear signs of US trying to topple Sheikh Hasina govt: Regime change operation underway in Bangladesh and why India should be alert

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
Full video

Regime change operation underway in Bangladesh and why India should be alert (archived)

Related:

Bangladesh: The government must stop killing protestors and silencing dissent (OMCT*)

*OMCT Donors and Finances

National Endowment for Democracy, Oak Foundation, Open Society Foundations (George Soros), Open Society Justice Initiative, European Commission, United States of America,

Michael Kugelman (Wilson Center**): The U.S. Ups the Ante in Bangladesh

**Wilson Center Sponsors

BAE Systems, Coca-Cola, BlackRock, Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, ClimateWorks (Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg) Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman,

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Venezuela’s Maduro orders foreign companies to leave Guyanese concessions

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that foreign companies working in the disputed Guyanese county of Essequibo would have to withdraw within three months, asserting his right to do so after Venezuelan voters backed their nation’s control of the territory in a referendum Sunday, Bloomberg reported Tuesday night.

Venezuela’s Maduro orders foreign companies to leave Guyanese concessions

Related:

Venezuela: FANB Deployed in Territory Bordering Essequibo

Military personnel carry out the construction of bridges, repair roads, and provide medical care to the inhabitants of the community.

Essequibo: Guyana may “ask UN member states to take military action to force Venezuela to comply with the ICJ order”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Guyana to take Venezuela to UN Security Council after Maduro’s announcements about Essequibo; GDF contacts US Department of Defence

Dr Ali added that there was “nothing to fear” as Guyana’s international partners and international community “are ready to support us.” He said the Guyana Defence Force was “on full alert” and has contacted the Florida-based United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), one of the 11 unified combatant commands in the US Department of Defense. “The Guyana Defence Force is on full alert and has engaged its military counterparts including the US Southern Command,” he said, without elaborating. Dr Ali added that the US, United Kingdom, Brazil and France as well as the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guitteres have been contacted. “By defying the court. Venezuela has rejected international law, the rule of law generally fundamental justice and morality and the preservation of international peace and security. They have literally declared themselves an outlaw nation,” he said.

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Attorney General Anil Nandlall earlier Tuesday said the UN Security Council could be asked to approve economic sanctions on Venezuela or ask UN member states to take military action to force Venezuela to comply with the ICJ order that Venezuela must not take any action which would modify the situation that currently prevails in the territory in dispute, whereby Guyana administers and exercises control over Essequibo.

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Notes: Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister, Amery Browne, has said that it’s a violation of the Caribbean Community’s policy for them to mediate a solution. Guyana was a founding member of CARICOM. Their aim was “to use [CARICOM] as leverage against Venezuela” and to prohibit them “from pursuing its Essequibo territorial claim”. [source]

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