How socialism turned oil-rich Venezuela into a basket case
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You swallowed a lie along with whatever else that has left you with an addled mind. That could be an improvement over what it was before.
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-...ons/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html
CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974
Supporting the "Secret War"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...f4c-91fd-1ce94c743d69/?utm_term=.af1f1a6c7965
Mention the CIA around Mena, Ark., and the response is likely to be an exasperated sigh and a pep talk about the local economy.
It's not that the 5,475 residents of this mountain village have anything against spying per se. But after a decade of being placed at the center of a purported CIA-backed gun, drug and money-laundering conspiracy, they'd like to forget the 1980s and get back to the important things. Like last month's Lum 'n' Abner festival honoring two hometown radio stars.
Conspiracies, says Mayor Jerry Montgomery, are bad for business, and the residents of Mena are weary of hearing their home talked about like the root of all evil. They've seen their town on "Geraldo." It has been featured on Pat Robertson's "700 Club." And now it finds itself at the center of a new book that's become something of an underground classic. If all the stories are true, it's as if the town were founded by the CIA, funded by BCCI and maintained for the amusement of investigators and journalists.
"It's absurd," Montgomery said of the publicity Mena has received over the last 10 years as an alleged center of covert operations. "It's all going on strictly because of politics."
Though he is not sure whose politics.
"First it was the Reagan administration. Then the Bush administration. And now we're into the Clinton administration. I don't know whether it's Democrats versus Republicans or Republicans versus Democrats. ... It is utterly absurd."
Most recently, alleged dark deeds at Mena have helped foster the cult of conspiracy that has taken root among some of Clinton's more virulent opponents. From ugly speculation about the "real story" behind White House aide Vincent Foster's death to menacing videotapes being marketed by the Rev. Jerry Falwell linking Clinton to a series of deaths in Arkansas, the result has been a steady undercurrent of gossip in talk show, televangelist and other circles about supposed Faustian deals Clinton cut on his way to the top.
Is the president a murderer? A dope fiend? A stooge of the CIA? Were his campaigns enriched by money funneled through some secret BCCI pipeline to Arkansas?
It's all out there, and more, and in most cases the goings-on at the Mena airport figure at least peripherally into the equation.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/07/2012721152715628181.html
Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade
Spokesman for Chihuahua state says US agencies don't want to end drug trade, a claim denied by other Mexican officials.
Juarez, Mexico - The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces "don't fight drug traffickers", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead "they try to manage the drug trade".
Allegations about official complicity in the drug business are nothing new when they come from activists, professors, campaigners or even former officials. However, an official spokesman for the authorities in one of Mexico's most violent states - one which directly borders Texas - going on the record with such accusations is unique.
"It's like pest control companies, they only control," Guillermo Terrazas Villanueva, the Chihuahua spokesman, told Al Jazeera last month at his office in Juarez. "If you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs."
None of that is news to you, you version is there because you and the rest of the trolls are chronic liars, nothing more, nothing less.
You enjoy causing/seeing the suffering of others, you are a social reject at best.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sadist
sadist
A sadist is a person who gain pleasure from seeing others undergo pain and discomfort.
A sadist is a person expressing callous, vicious, manipulative, and degrading behaviour towards other people.None of that is news to you, you version is there because you and the rest of the trolls are chronic liars, nothing more, nothing less.
You enjoy causing/seeing the suffering of others, you are a social reject at best.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sadist
sadist
A sadist is a person who gain pleasure from seeing others undergo pain and discomfort.
#sadism#callous#humiliate#manipulate#vicious.
Nope, I want your input about why Lima is so important that you bring it up without any specifics. If the SOA involvement in the whole area is not what you are referencing then what are you referencing. The replying to a question is a two-way street here rather that you question and I reply, . . . . . pal.
Brazil's far-right presidential candidate survives life-saving surgery after being stabbed by 'socialist' attacker who said he was acting on 'a mission from God' during rally
What does Lima, Peru have to page 6? Peru isn't even mentioned. Be happy to look into the assassination attempt. Start with acting like a rock star instead of a friend to the country in the area that is the most hated in the area. The latest I read about Brazil was they announced they were moving their embassy to Jerusalem or some similar headline that showed they were an Israeli Allie. The 'spin' is the attacker having close ties to the rebel leaders in the country most hated by Israel and the US. Should Boomer answer how long it would take to set that up??
How is the trial going??
Oliveira was said to be a member of the left-leaning PSOL party from 2007 to 2014. On his Facebook page, the attacker recently posted messages criticizing Bolsonaro and supporting the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
- The far right-wing candidate was attacked in Juiz de Fora, in Minas Gerais state
- He was knifed in the stomach while being carried shoulder high in a crowd
- The 63-year-old had surgery and is stable and out of 'acute, immediate danger'
- Suspect Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, 40, said he was acting on 'mission from God'
What does Lima, Peru have to page 6? Peru isn't even mentioned. Be happy to look into the assassination attempt. Start with acting like a rock star instead of a friend to the country in the area that is the most hated in the area. The latest I read about Brazil was they announced they were moving their embassy to Jerusalem or some similar headline that showed they were an Israeli Allie. The 'spin' is the attacker having close ties to the rebel leaders in the country most hated by Israel and the US. Should Boomer answer how long it would take to set that up??
How is the trial going??
Oliveira was said to be a member of the left-leaning PSOL party from 2007 to 2014. On his Facebook page, the attacker recently posted messages criticizing Bolsonaro and supporting the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.
Seriously, you cannot even get the correct post # .
Take them to court, by the time 'they' finish asking Canada about the living conditions of the Indians when Canada is under zero sanctions it will JT's balls that are going to the crusher.
Take them to court, by the time 'they' finish asking Canada about the living conditions of the Indians when Canada is under zero sanctions it will JT's balls that are going to the crusher.
The Court Canada is going to take them to, over human rights abuses. (apparently, headlines are used as actual facts around here)
The same one mentioned a few words before 'they'.
The same one mentioned a few words before 'they'.
How can Canada take a Government to any Court when they don't recognize them as being the Government. Everybody get a 'special bag of happy powder'? Should I highlight the lies first or wait till you do your troll routine. (notice how I decided how it will go)
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canada-brings-venezuela-to-international-criminal-court
Canada brings Venezuela to International Criminal Court
Yves Engler Canadian Politics, Latin America and the Caribbean October 21, 2018
Requesting the International Criminal Court to investigate Venezuela’s government is a significant escalation in Ottawa’s campaign of interference in the domestic affairs of another country.
Supported by five like-minded South American nations, it’s the first time a member state has been brought before the ICC’s chief prosecutor by other members.
In Canada the campaign to have the ICC investigate the Nicolás Maduro government began in May. “I would like to see the states from the G7 agreeing to refer the matter of crimes against humanity to the International Criminal Court for a prospective investigation and prosecution,” said Irwin Cotler at an Ottawa press conference to release a report on purported Venezuelan human rights violations. The former Liberal justice minister added, “this is the arch-typical example of why a reference is needed, as to why the ICC was created.”
Cotler was one of three “international experts” responsible for a 400-page Canadian-backed Organization of American States (OAS) report on rights violations in Venezuela. The panel recommended OAS secretary general Luis Almagro submit the report to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC and that other states refer Venezuela to the ICC. In a Real News Network interview Max Blumenthal described “the hyperbolic and propagandistic nature” of the press conference where the report was released at the OAS in Washington. Cotler said Venezuela’s “government itself was responsible for the worst ever humanitarian crisis in the region.”
Worse than the extermination of the Taíno and Arawak by the Spanish? Or the enslavement of five million Africans in Brazil? Or the 200,000 Mayans killed in Guatemala? Or the thousands of state-murdered “subversives” in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, etc.? Worse than the tens of thousands killed in Colombia, Honduras and Mexico in recent years? Worse than the countless US (and Canadian) backed military coups in the region?
Or perhaps Almagro, who appointed Cotler and the two other panelists, approves of the use of military might to enforce the will of the rich and powerful. He stated last month: “As for military intervention to overthrow the Nicolas Maduro regime, I think we should not rule out any option … diplomacy remains the first option but we can’t exclude any action.” Even before he mused about a foreign invasion, the former Uruguayan foreign minister’s campaign against Maduro prompted Almagro’s past boss, former president José Mujica, to condemn his bias against the Venezuelan government.
For his part, Cotler has been attacking Venezuela’s Bolivarian government for a decade. In a 2015 Miami Herald op-ed Cotler wrote that “sanctions” and “travel-visa bans … isn’t enough.” The US government “must increase the pressure on Maduro to respect the fundamental human rights of all Venezuela’s people.” The next year Venezuela’s obstructionist, opposition-controlled National Assembly gave Cotler an award for his efforts, notably as a lawyer for right-wing coup leader Leopoldo Lopez. When he joined Lopez’ legal team in early 2015 the Venezuelan and international media described Cotler as Nelson Mandela’s former lawyer (a Reuters headline noted, “Former Mandela lawyer to join defense of Venezuela’s jailed activist”). In response, South Africa’s Ambassador to Venezuela, Pandit Thaninga Shope-Linney, said, “Irwin Cotler was not Nelson Mandela’s lawyer and does not represent the Government or the people of South Africa in any manner.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-lima-group-not-recognize-maduro-venezuela-1.4966487
Canada, Latin American countries won't recognize Maduro's new government
13 countries urge Venezuelan president to hand over power until fairer elections are held
The Associated Press · Posted: Jan 04, 2019 3:07 PM ET | Last Updated: January 4
A group of 13 countries, including Canada, pledged Friday not to recognize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's new term, which he won in elections widely condemned as illegitimate. (Marco Bello/Reuters)Canada and a dozen Latin American governments delivered a blistering rebuke to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday, questioning the legitimacy of his soon-to-begin second term and urging him to hand over power as the only path to restoring democracy in his crisis-wracked South American country.
The sharp criticism came at a meeting in Peru's capital of foreign ministers from countries including Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, all of which have been weighing how to confront the increasingly authoritarian Maduro while absorbing a growing exodus of Venezuelans fleeing economic chaos.
In a statement, the Lima Group urged Maduro to refrain from taking the presidential oath next Thursday and instead cede power to the opposition-controlled congress until new, fairer elections can be held.
"Only through the full restoration, as soon as possible, of democracy and a respect for human rights is it possible to resolve the country's political, economic, social and humanitarian crisis," the diplomats said.
Venezuela says countries following Trump's orders
Even before announcing the resolution, the group's meeting with the participation of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo drew a sharp response from Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza.
He accused the coalition of taking orders directly from U.S. President Donald Trump, who Caracas frequently accuses of spearheading an economic war against the country.
"What a display of humiliating subordination!" Arreaza said on Twitter.
A once-wealthy oil nation, Venezuela is in crisis after two decades of socialist rule, marked by hyperinflation making it difficult for people to afford scarce food and medicine. An estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans have migrated from their country since 2015, according to the United Nations.
The Lima Group formed more than a year ago to advocate for a solution to Venezuela's crisis that threatens regional instability. Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are among the group's members. The group joined the U.S. and others in condemning Maduro's re-election in May as a sham after popular opponents were banned from running and the largest anti-government parties boycotted the race.
Immediately following Maduro's May 20 re-election, the coalition announced that it refused to recognize the results, decrying the vote as failing to meet "international standards of a democratic, free, just and transparent process."
On Friday, the group vowed to block top Venezuelan officials from entering their countries and freeze assets they hold abroad. The resolution also expressed support for an effort to prosecute Maduro at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
But beyond the heated rhetoric, the anti-Maduro coalition showed signs of fraying along ideological lines.
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland addresses reporters during a meeting of the Lima Group in Mexico City last May. The group formed last year to advocate for a solution to Venezuela's deepening political and economic crisis, which threatens regional instability. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)
Regional powerbroker Mexico was one of the early and biggest promoters of the Lima Group. But it sent a lower-level representative to Friday's meeting who refused to sign the resolution, reflecting the policy of non-intervention favoured by that nation's new leftist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Maduro travelled to Mexico for Lopez Obrador's inauguration and met privately with the leftist leader during the visit.
So nobody else looks like a criminal nation. Fire up the canoes and go get em. Nothing like an invasion to unite the country so don't waste any time with the invasion. In reality it will take longer, and cost mire, than brexit has so far. Those SA nations are like the Kurds in Syria, if you want to live you tah up with the ones with the most guns until the opportunity comes up to tag up with your preferred people. Is Canada include so there are some white people telling the brown people which other brown people need to be killed for the good of the Bankers. Perhaps some Judges from Vietnam should be on the Bench eh?? Might as well have Judges with 1st hand knowledge on how the main players operate.
You should visit this thread. That solve your cross dressing issue?? Posing, my bad, 'posting;
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?p=2691755#post2691755
You should visit this thread. That solve your cross dressing issue?? Posing, my bad, 'posting;
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/showthread.php?p=2691755#post2691755
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