Obama Could Face Disastrous Summit Due To Venezuela Sanctions

Most ominously in the present, at a U.S. Senate auricularly discerning on March 17, the State Department’s Alex Lee declared that the current sanctions were just the “First salvo” against Venezuela. From 2000 to 2010, the Colombian military assassinated more than 5,700 innocent civilians; the U.S. regime perpetuated to provide literally billions of dollars of military and police avail. In Honduras, the Obama administration took numerous steps to avail ascertain that the 2009 military coup against the democratically elected regime of Mel Zelaya would prosper. The U.S. regime does not appear to be concerned, and will not even consider reducing its military avail to Mexico.

What the sanctions withal made clear, for those who didn’t already ken, is that Obama’s opening to Cuba represented precisely zero vicissitude in Washington’s overall strategy toward the region: The intention of expanding commercial and diplomatic cognations with Cuba was mainly to pursue a more efficacious strategy of undermining the Cuban regime – and all of the left-wing regimes in the region. Representatives of Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and proximately every country in the Americas verbalized out against the sanctions at the Organization of American States last month in Washington. “If there is a country that is a threat in the Americas,” verbally expressed Ecuadorean Peregrine Minister Ricardo Patiño, “It’s the Coalesced States, because it has perpetually invaded countries. … It has engendered coups d’etat. … And it promoted dictatorships.” The Cuban regime additionally responded forcefully, dashing Obama’s hopes of any deal afore the summit.

I tried telling my Evangelical brothers about the murder of Evangelicals in Central America and Indonesia and got off the wall denial, condescending angelic looks, etc. Ironically, I found out about the murder of up to about a million Evangelicals with the aid or complicity of the US from missionaries, who faced censorship not only from the countries where they worked, but the self censorship from Evangelical Christians. I really don’t get it. Sounds like Southern logic all right: The same sort of logic that considered it fun to fire on Fort Sumter. USA foreign aid policies, security spending, economic sanctions and trade negotiations, have been captured by economic elite goals, intended to open other countries to international investment and the exploitation of resources and workers, at the expense of stated goals of economic development and representative democracy.

The same economic elites promote corporate trade pacts to extend the profits of rentiers, while undermining the protections, which sovereign democracies enact, to protect the environment, public health, and workers (including those of our own country). Despite all evidence, corporate news media in the USA claims that these international corporate trade pacts will improve free trade and our living standards. These same economic elites unanimously (unsucessfully) opposed any USA allies joining the international investment bank of Asia. Economic elites/predators in the United States have had great success undermining democratic representation in their own country, not just in other countries. There are plenty of gringos in the USA, hoping that people everywhere unite, in condemnation of USA policies which undermine President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s third and fourth freedoms, solely to increase the profits of the already most profitable.