U.S. Sanctions Against Venezuela Denounced by Latin American Leaders

[Cliffy]

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay. President Obama has issued an executive order placing sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials for alleged human rights violations and political prosecution of opposition protesters since February 2014. The statement, which opens by describing, quote, "the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela." Obama will order the freezing of the officials' assets and block their entry to the U.S. It has been denounced by several Latin American leaders. Bolivian President Evo Morales said, "We condemn, we repudiate, in the 21st century we won't accept this kind of intervention by the United States". Well, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said, "It must be a bad joke, which reminds us of the darkest hours of our America, when we received invasions and dictatorships imposed by imperialism."

U.S. Sanctions Against Venezuela Denounced by Latin American Leaders

 

[BaalsTears]

I wonder why Obama is taking this action at this juncture in time?

 

[taxslave]

I wonder why Obama is taking this action at this juncture in time?

To deflect from one of his more glaring fukups.

 

[Spade]

The US of a is acting like a pubescent girl making mean to cover insecurities.

 

[EagleSmack]

The U.S picking on poor old Venezuela again.............Oh the U.S liberals will be so............................... silent.

 

[Cliffy]

The U.S picking on poor old Venezuela again.............Oh the U.S liberals will be so............................... silent.

Meanwhile, the US right wing is diddling their own junk.

 

[petros]

What is bad about punishing Orinoco heavy oil (tarsands) production when it impacts the second largest watershed on the planet?

These are Green sanctions.

 

[BaalsTears]

The US of a is acting like a pubescent girl making mean to cover insecurities.

That's the bastard Obama, not the US.

 

[EagleSmack]

Meanwhile, the US right wing is diddling their own junk.

Meanwhile Cliffy is posting gibberish.

That's the bastard Obama, not the US.

He gives Cuba a bail out and now he gives Maduro the one thing he needed... a reason to blame the U.S. for Venezuela's economic woes.

He's smart.

 

[Cliffy]

That's the bastard Obama, not the US.

Was Shrub a bastard too when he put sanctions against Venezuela?

 

[Spade]

That's the bastard Obama, not the US.

"L'État, c'est lui"
-In reference to the US Presidency. Credited to Louis Quatorze.

 

[BaalsTears]

Was Shrub a bastard too when he put sanctions against Venezuela?

No. Bush was foolish. Obama is evil. The Obama sanctions actually assist Maduro by giving him the US as a foil.

 

[petros]

En garde!

 

[Cliffy]

"L'État, c'est lui"
-In reference to the US Presidency. Credited to Louis Quatorze.

Hew har de true Canadienne hey. Hew spoke de bilang. Dat gives hew pointz in de Quebecois, mon dew.

 

[BaalsTears]

"L'État, c'est lui"
-In reference to the US Presidency. Credited to Louis Quatorze.

Cardinal Richelieu said that didn't he?

 

[petros]

SAVE THE ORINOCO!!!​

 

[Cliffy]

No. Bush was foolish. Obama is evil. The Obama sanctions actually assist Maduro by giving him the US as a foil.

Bush was foolish? Now you are being foolish. The man and his puppet master, Cheney, were evil incarnate.

 

[BaalsTears]

SAVE THE ORINOCO!!!​

The Orinoco is a river in Minnesota.

Bush was foolish? Now you are being foolish. The man and his puppet master, Cheney, were evil incarnate.

Perhaps unwittingly, you have confirmed my statement that Bush was foolish.

 

[Spade]

The Orinoco is a river in Minnesota.



Perhaps unwittingly, you have confirmed my statement that Bush was foolish.

Geezus, Orinoco is a coffee company!

"Foolish" is a euphemism; remember, the web has big feet.

 

[petros]

Webbed feet?