26, January 2019 Regime change in Venezuela
The United
States never seems to learn from its past mistakes. We have attempted regime
changes in Iran (to steal their oil), sold weapons to Iraq in their civil war
with Iran, invaded Iraq with bogus claims of WMD’s, sold weapons to Saudi
Arabia resulting in the devastating famine in Yemen, overthrew Kaddafi in Libya
resulting in complete chaos . . .John Bolton, National Security Advisor,
admitted that a regime change would benefit US oil. In our latest effort to
maintain our impeccable record of regime change failures, the Trump
administration is beating the war drums to replace President Maduro
of Venezuela with his unelected contender, Juan Guaidó.
Secretary of State Pompeo’s appointment of Elliot Abrams
to lead the US imposed changes is an exceeding bad choice. He is a right-wing
hawk whose resume is full of dark deeds. In 1991 he was convicted for lying to
congress during the Iran-Contra scandal and narrowly escaped the “orange suit
and shackles” by a pardon from President H.W. Bush. He defended mass murderer
and torturer, Guatemalan dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt, who was later
convicted of genocide of indigenous people in Guatemala in the 1980s. Abrams
was also deeply involved in the attempted coup of Hugo Chávez and supporting
the right-wing government
in El Salvador.
The Democrats
should speak up against this administration’s effort to draw us into another
civil war. The crippling sanctions should be lifted and Venezuela must accept
the offer of Uruguay, Mexico, and the Vatican to mediate in the crisis and
request the IMF’s help in bringing down hyperinflation.
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