Washington Has Appointed A President For
Venezuela
By Paul
Craig Roberts
January
24, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
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After
listening since 2016 to the American
presstitutes complain, without providing a mere
scrap of evidence, of Russia meddling in US
elections, a person would think that the last
thing Washington would do would be to meddle in
other countries’ elections.
Unfortunately, that is not the case. Washington
routinely meddles but now has gone far beyond
mere meddling. Washington has this day (January
23, 2019) declared that the elected president of
Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is no longer the
Venezuelan president. Washington, not the
Venezulan people, has decided who is Venezuela’s
president. Declaring the elected government to
be “illegitimate,” President Trump elected by
diktat the Venezuelan president: “Today, I am
officially recognizing the President of the
Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as
the Interim President of Venezuela.”
https://www.rt.com/news/449533-trump-recognizes-venezuela-opposition/
Clearly, Gaido is in Washington’s pocket or
Washington would not have chosen him.
Maduro,
like Chavez before him, has committed the
unpardonable crime of representing the
Venezuelan people instead of American corporate
and financial interests. Washington simply does
not tolerate Latin American governments that
represent Latin American people. As US Marine
General Smedley Buttler said, he and his Marines
made Latin America safe for the United Fruit
Company and investments by US banks.
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So, now
Venezuela has two presidents. One elected by the
people, and one appointed by Washington. How
long before Washington does this to Russia,
China, Iran, Syria, Turkey, India?
Washington managed to frame and remove from
power the female reformist president of
Argentina and to replace her with a right-wing
Washington puppet.
Washington managed to frame, remove from power,
and imprison the leaders of the reformist party
in Brazil and to install a right-wing Washington
puppet.
Washington managed to dispose of the reformist
government in Ecuador, install a Washington
puppet, and use him against Julian Assange.
Washington interferred in the French election by
framing the likely socialist candidate,
Dominique Strauss-Kahn on a bogus rape charge
that fell apart after removing Strauss-Kahn from
contention.
The
American leftwing blames Washington for the
overthrow of the Allende government in Chile,
although my views on this are different.
Nevertheless, the claim fits the pattern.
The
reformist government in Bolivia is also under
Washington pressure.
Somehow, the rest of the world does not become
outraged by Washington’s massive interference in
the political affairs of other countries. Even
Russia’s Vladimir Putin accepts Washington’s
interferrence in Russian elections and Ukraine’s
elections. Washington’s bullying, like Israel’s
bullying, is somehow acceptable to countries
that are far too powerful to have to accept it.
Russia
was in line for an airbase in Venezuela. Under
the guise of guarding the air base, Russia could
station a regiment of crack troops to guard
Maduro while he arrests the obviously treasonous
Juan Guaido and his entire political party that
serves Washington, not Venezuela. How can Maduro
govern when he is surrounded by traitors loyal
to Washington?
China
also has ties to Venezuela and could send crack
troops to protect its investments.
But
nothing happens.
When
Chavez was elected president, Washington used
the old Washington-allied Spanish Venezuelan
elite, who still control the Venezuelan media,
to overthrow Chavez. But before Washington could
kill Chavez, the Venezuelan military and people
intervened and forced Chavez’s release and
reinstatement as President. Instead of arresting
the traitors, Chavez left them be, and now they
have poisoned the situation for Chavez’s
successor.
As long
as Latin American or any reformers fail to
understand that Karl Marx was correct that there
can be no reforms, no revolution, no improvement
for ordinary people as long as the old order is
left in place, Washington, not Latin Americans,
will control Latin America.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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