Tag: Elliot Abrams

There are mounting signs of military planning for Venezuela

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By: Kyle Rempfer and Todd South

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US soldiers load a C-17 cargo plane with food, water and medicine for a humanitarian mission to Venezuela, at Homestead Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida, on February 22, 2019. (RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has been talking about ordering a military operation targeting Venezuela since 2017.

At first, that was widely dismissed as a rash threat, but the idea of a U.S. effort to force “regime change” in the oil-rich South American country may be gaining momentum in Washington.

“It’s a regime that, frankly, could be toppled very quickly by the military if the military decides to do that,” Trump said in September.

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Venezuelan Minister: ‘Opposition Was Planning to Kill People on the Border’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Venezuelan opposition, led by self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, attempted to force US-sponsored humanitarian aid into the country, including through Colombia, where an aid collection centre is located. Maduro has refused to allow in such aid, calling it a “fake show” and a ploy to oust him from power.
— Read on sputniknews.com/latam/201902251072713890-venezuela-aid-usa-opposition-border/

Enough Western Meddling and Interventions: Let the Venezuelan People Decide

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The West’s love-affair with intervention has little to do with restoring democracy, either in Venezuela, or anywhere else. ‘Democracy’ has been used throughout the 20th century as a tool that provided legal and moral rationalization for US and Western meddling
— Read on www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/02/14/enough-western-meddling-and-interventions-let-the-venezuelan-people-decide/

VENEZUELA DEFINES THE FUTURE OF THE REGION BY CLAUDIO KATZ

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

H/T William Bowles

13 February 2019 — MROnline

by Claudio Katz

Originally published: Claudio Katz Blog – Translated by Nicolas Allen (February 8, 2019)

Guaidó’s self-proclamation as Venezuelan president is the most ridiculous and dangerous coup attempt in recent years. With the shameless backing of Washington, the Venezuelan rightwing intends to place a complete stranger at the helm of the state.

This time around, the starting signal was neither a terrorist attack nor an assassination attempt directed against Maduro. Trump has chosen a group of conspiracy experts (Abrams, Pence, Bolton, Rubio) to pursue escalation and has opted to seize the Venezuelan oil enterprise operating in the United States (CITGO). He has brushed aside all principles of legal guarantee in his quest to appropriate the world’s largest concentration of crude oil reserves.

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Venezuela: The U.S.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 U.S. regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994).  Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/06/venezuela-the-u-s-s-68th-regime-change-disaster/

Holy Cow!

Since Killing Hope was published in 1995, the U.S. has conducted at least 13 more regime change operations, several of which are still active: Yugoslavia; Afghanistan; Iraq; the 3rd U.S. invasion of Haiti since WWII; Somalia; Honduras; Libya; Syria; Ukraine; Yemen; Iran; Nicaragua; and now Venezuela.