Thursday 29 August 2019

Guess who laid the groundwork for the sociopathic sanctions against Venezuela?

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  1. Venezuela wasn't a "national security threat" to the USA? It wasn't sending suitcases full of money to other South/Central American capitals (especially Nicaragua?)? It was trans-shipping Columbian cocaine to Europe and America for the FARC? What planet is Sid's son Max living on?

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    1. ...and doesn't the burning of a black man by angry starving crowds have more to do with inept and corrupt Venezuelan domestic policy than American foreign policy?

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    2. As for the insulin, why did Venezuela block humanitarian aid shipments into the country?

      A- To ensure that only loyal "chavistas" get the benefits of socialism.

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    3. Listening to Max whine about the banks preventing Venezuela from refinancing their debt is hillarious.

      Banks don't GIVE their money to corrupt idiots without any prospect of repayment in non-inflated moneys or commodities.

      Max is such a pathetic tool...

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    4. Chavez's daughter is a billionaire. Maybe should should "finance" Venezuela's debts. lol!

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    5. The "opposition" partys in Venezuela aren't even right-wing. They're Socialists, too... which is why shifting power to them will do little to solve Venezuela's exceedingly worsening economic problems.

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    6. Muchacho isn't even right-wing. Blumenthal keeps calling him that, but the "Justice First" Party... ideology "progressivism humanism"

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    7. Pa-lease. The US is probably the safest place in the world, from a National Security PoV. Just look at the size and budget of its armed forces. But seeing ‘security threats’ everywhere is a bit of a national obsession and we know the reasons.

      About 14,000 coke overdoses p.a. [in the US] can be called a national emergency but that doesn’t mean it’s a NST.

      Yes, lots of Colombian coke flows through Venezuela into Honduras/Guatemala/Mexico and ultimately into the US. And yes there is some collusion involving state actors. Just how much depends on how strongly anti-Chavez/Maduro you want your sauce to be.

      Question is whether trying to strangulate the Maduro regime will choke off the coke supply or will it actually make things worse? The Latter sounds more logical to me.

      Also, that coke isn’t just ‘pushed’ into the US/Europe, it’s also being ‘pulled’ by the insatiable appetite for the white powder in these countries.

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    8. Our big problem is synthetic opioids and fentanyl from China. But we don't need Venezuela destabalizing the region w/20 million refugees. And THAT is what Maduro in power means. Columbians used to emigrate to Venezuela, now it's the reverse. Most of those poor ranchitos on the hillsides of Caracas in the 60's were opportunity seeking Columbians, not Venezuelans.

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  2. He calls Juan Guaido "right-wing" Who knew that a representative of a party member of the Socialist International could be right wing?

    On Juan Guaido's party...

    Popular Will (Spanish: Voluntad Popular, abbreviated VP) describes itself as a progressive social-democratic[2][3] political party in Venezuela admitted into the Socialist International in December 2014,[4] founded by former Mayor of Chacao, Leopoldo López, who is its national co-ordinator. The party currently holds 14 out of 167 seats in the Venezuelan National Assembly, the country's parliament, and is a member of the Democratic Unity Roundtable, the electoral coalition that currently holds a plurality in the National Assembly.

    The party was formed in reaction to alleged infringements of individual freedom and human rights on the part of the government of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro. The party attempts to bring together Venezuelans of various backgrounds who consider Chavismo oppressive and authoritarian. Popular Will self-identifies itself as "a pluralist and democratic movement" that is committed to "progress," which it defines as the realization of "the social, economic, political, and human rights of every Venezuelan."[5]

    The party says its "fundamental pillars" are progress, democracy, and social action

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    1. ...and at the very end, ..."and from an exterminationist Right who would in fact kill them in the street if left defenseless."

      Who knew that the "right wing Socialist International party" was so blood thirsty?

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