John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY DAN COHEN AND MAX BLUMENTHAL IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
“The Making of Juan Guaidó: US Regime-Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader
“The Washington favorite has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization”
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Response to a comment from a Canadian reader:
It is astonishing what has been done here by Liberals, Trudeau and Freeland.
I don't think our subservience to Washington has ever been so openly and embarrassingly declared, and in a very bad cause.
Trudeau’s father gave Washington the finger over doing business in Cuba and over its massive slaughter in Vietnam.
Pearson was literally grabbed by the lapels and slammed into a wall by LBJ when he refused to send some troops to Vietnam.
Chretien told Washington he was not sending troops to Iraq without a United Nations’ mandate, something the United States failed to get.
Current Venezuelan developments are clearly a coup-in-slow-motion.
Of course, the good old boys who gave you Pinochet and the horrors of Nicaragua and Honduras and Guatemala are hard at work.
I just never thought I'd see the government of Canada assisting them. Openly.
"Canada pledges $53M to help Venezuelan refugee crisis," is a headline from this morning's CBC.
Whenever we hear the word "refugee" we are softened and accepting, as we very much should be.
But this act of Trudeau’s is an exploitation of those instinctive reactions by Canadians.
That money, or much of it, will wind up supporting the efforts of a self-proclaimed president and fighting the efforts of an elected president, effectively assisting an American dark project.
Please remember who is the world's great creator of refugees. American bombing in the Middle East has created millions of them.
And American interference in Central America has created tens of thousands more.
Then America turns around and virtually refuses to help the desperate people whom it made desperate.
The people from Central America are turned away by armed forces at the border with Mexico. The people from Syria and Libya and other places are called names by the American President and banned from applying in the US. as refugees.
Meanwhile, a recent poll in Venezuela indicates 65% support for Maduro with about 20% support for America's usurper candidate, and that comes in the midst of the effects of an intense American economic war against the country, causing widespread hardships.
Of course, these hardships are blamed on Maduro by the United States, with, I’m sorry to say, Canada parroting them.
Compare Maduro’s poll to single-digit support for France's Macron, a man demanding Maduro give way. And note Mexico's new president has reiterated his lack of support for this American effort. Oh, that our Prime Minister had that kind of courage and conviction.
Italy, for example, is openly against this.
The majority of Organization of American States is against this, which is precisely why the Lima Group, with about a third of OAS members, was created in the first place. It represents custom-tailored consent for American demands.
They are the most American-compliant countries. It is effectively a CIA-front organization for toppling Latin American elected governments, an organization with no history and no official status. It just is intended to sound impressive. And it has several more Latin American states it is going to target in future.
France's Macron keeps interfering in this matter. Here is a man, Macron, with literally single-digit public support in polls and with something close to a national revolt on his hands, telling a man thousands of miles away, who enjoys the support of 65% of his country, what to do.
Britain's Prime Minister is quite unpopular and has had a badly-handled, ongoing crisis over the European Union. She would likely lose were an election held, but she, too, feels justified interfering.
Not one leader in Europe enjoys Maduro’s level of support. And Trump is not popular either. Any decent opponent could likely defeat him in 2020, if he is not first indicted or impeached.
Here's how open and transparent Canada has been on this matter of the Lima Group - as reported today, without editorial comment, by Sputnik:
'Canada’s foreign ministry has denied accreditation to Sputnik and RIA Novosti for a meeting of the Lima Group foreign ministers on Venezuela in Ottawa.
'"Thank you for your interest in the 10th ministerial meeting of Lima Group in Ottawa. This email is to let you know you have NOT been accredited as media," the Canadian Foreign Ministry said in its original letter, notifying journalists about the refusal.
'"The ministry did not cite any reasons behind its decision in the letter."'
