The
Triumph of Evil
By Paul
Craig Roberts
April
18, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Today (April 17) I heard a NPR “news” report
that described the democratically elected
president of Venezuela as “the Venezuelan
dictator Maduro.” By repeating over and over
that a democratically elected president is a
dictator, the presstitutes create that image of
Maduro in the minds of vast numbers of peoples
who know nothing about Venezuela and had never
heard of Maduro until he is dropped on them as
“dictator.”
Nicolas
Maduro Moros was elected president of Venezuela
in 2013 and again in 2018. Previously he served
as vice president and foreign minister, and he
was elected to the National Assembly in 2000.
Despite Washington’s propaganda campaign against
him and Washington’s attempt to instigate
violent street protests and Maduro’s overthrow
by the Venezuelan military, whose leaders have
been offered large sums of money, Maduro has the
overwhelming support of the people, and the
military has not moved against him.
What is
going on is that American oil companies want to
recover their control over the revenue streams
from Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Under the
Bolivarian Revolution of Chavez, continued by
Maduro, the oil revenues instead of departing
the country have been used to reduce poverty and
raise literacy inside Venezuela.
The
opposition to Maduro inside Venezuela comes from
the elites who have been traditionally allied
with Washington in the looting of the country.
These corrupt elites, with the CIA’s help,
temporarily overthrew Chavez, but the people and
the Venezuelan military secured his release and
return to the presidency.
Washington has a long record of refusing to
accept any reformist governments in Latin
America. Reformers get in the way of North
America’s exploitation of Latin American
countries and are overthrown.
With
the exceptions of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, and
Nicaragua, Latin America consists of
Washington’s vassal states. In recent years
Washington destroyed reform governments in
Honduras, Argentina and Brazil and put gangsters
in charge.
According to US national security adviser John
Bolton, a neoconservative war monger, the
governments in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua
will soon be overthrown. New sanctions have now
been placed on the three countries. Washington
in the typical display of its pettiness targeted
sanctions against the son of the Nicaraguan
president Daniel Ortega.
https://www.rt.com/news/456841-bolton-russia-venezuela-threat/
Ortega
has been the leader of Nicaragua since for 40
years. He was president 1985-1990 and has been
elected and reelected as president since 2006.
Ortega
was the opponent of Somoza, Washington’s
dictator in Nicaragua. Consequently he and his
movement were attacked by the neoconservative
operation known as Iran-Contra during the Reagan
years. Ortega was a reformer. His government
focused on literacy, land reform, and
nationalization, which was at the expense of the
wealthy ruling class. He was labeled a
“Marxist-Leninist,” and Washington attempted to
discredit his reforms as controversial leftist
policies.
Somehow
Castro and Ortega survived Washington’s plots
against them. By the skin of his teeth so did
Chavez unless you believe it was the CIA that
gave him cancer. Castro and Chavez are dead.
Ortega is 74. Maduro is in trouble, because
Washington has stolen Venezuela’s bank deposits
and cut Venezuela off the international
financial system, and the British have stolen
Venezuela’s gold. This makes it hard for
Venezuela to pay its debts.
The
Trump regime has branded the democratically
twice-elected Maduro an “illegitimate”
president. Washington has found a willing
puppet, Juan Guaido, to take Maduro’s place and
has announced that the puppet is now the
president of Venezuela. No one among the Western
presstitutes or among the vassals of
Washington’s empire finds it strange that an
elected president is illegitimate but one picked
by Washington is not.
Russia
and China have given Maduro diplomatic support.
Both have substantial investments in Venezuela
that would be lost if Washington seizes the
country. Russia’s support for Maduro was
declared by Bolton today to be a provocation
that is a threat to international peace and
security. Bolton said his sanctions should be
seen by Russia as a warning against providing
any help for the Venezuelan government.
Secretary of state Mike Pompeo and vice
president Pence have added their big mouths to
the propaganda against the few independent
governments in Latin America. Where is the shame
when the highest American government officials
stand up in front of the world and openly
proclaim that it is official US government
policy to overthrow democratically elected
governments simply because those governments
don’t let Americans plunder their countries?
How is
it possible that Pompeo can announce that the
“days are numbered” of the elected president of
Nicaragua, who has been elected president 3 or 4
times, and the world not see the US as a rogue
state that must be isolated and shunned? How can
Pompeo describe Washington’s overthrow of an
elected government as “setting the Nicaraguan
people free?”
The top
officials of the US government have announced
that they intend to overthrow the governments of
3 countries and this is not seen as “a threat to
international peace and security?”
How
much peace and security did Washington’s
overthrow of governments in Iraq, Libya,
Ukraine, and the attempted overthrow of Syria
bring?
Washington is once again openly violating
international law and the rest of the world has
nothing to say?
There
is only one way to describe this: The Triumph of
Evil.
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best
lack all conviction, while the worst are full of
passionate intensity.” — William Butler Yeats
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.
==See Also==
Trump Administration
Announces Measures Against Cuba, Venezuela And
Nicaragua
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