President Maduro of Venezuela urges US diplomats to leave country within next 72hrs

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In new audio leaked from Venezuela’s National Assembly, @jguaido’s impostor “Attorney General” @ignandez reveals he “directed a strategy directly” w the @WorldBank President regarding Venezuela’s cases at the bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes https://twitter.com/cancilleriave

 

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23 June 2020
Mexican Government Punishes Companies and Citizens that Supplied Food to Venezuela

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

Mexico and US are two countries that have a curious political history, alternating in long periods of rivalry and Mexican subordination. In fact, Mexico was the first country to suffer the consequences of American expansionist ideology, both for its policy of expanding westward and for the old “Monroe doctrine”, which aimed to consolidate a supremacy of Washington on the American continent. However, what few people realize is that these expansionist policies on the continent are still active in many areas, such as the economic one.

The economic war that Trump is waging against Venezuela is well known. The American government has tried in every way to overthrow Nicolás Maduro in recent years, financing an attempt of colorful revolution, appointing Maduro as an international criminal for drug trafficking (without any evidence), sending Colombian mercenaries to invade the country by the coast and now imposing a severe economic blockade, aiming to overthrow the regime by a suffocation tactic. Washington has entered a global economic and tariff war where any company, individual or state that maintains economic relations with Venezuela is subject to sanctions.

Recently, some Mexican companies adopted an unusual method to maintain their economic ties with the South American country: to abolish the money of the negotiations and to adopt an exchange system. Under this method, these companies received millions of barrels of oil from Venezuela and delivered tons of food in exchange. The measure was positive to alleviate the economic and supply crisis imposed by the blockade, which severely undermines the country’s food security. This was the case of the prominent Mexican companies Libre Abordo S.A and Schlager Business Group, which signed agreements with the Venezuelan government establishing an exchange of millions of barrels of oil daily for tons of food – mainly corn and derivatives – and water. In theory, these negotiations would be excluded from sanctions because they do not involve real money, but this was not the American interpretation.

The US accuses Mexican companies of reselling Venezuelan oil to other companies, mainly Asian ones.


The question, however, remains: in this resale, what would be the economic advantage for Venezuela, which would be receiving only food? This does not seem to matter to Washington, which has not hesitated to impose severe sanctions on Mexican companies. The pressure, finally, fell on the Mexican State itself, who was left with the decision to adhere or not to the American measures. Just two days after Washington announced the sanctions, Mexican financial authorities chose to adhere to American policy. Santiago Nieto, head of the Mexican Financial Intelligence Unit, announced the freezing of bank accounts for all Mexican companies and citizens sanctioned by the United States.

The Mexican decision directly affects Mexican citizens and companies, who are already suffering international sanctions outside their country and will now have to deal with the blockade by their own State. In addition to the aforementioned companies, Mexican citizens Verónica Esparza Garcia, Olga María Zepeda Esparza and Joaquín Leal Jiménez, who maintained individual economic relations with the South American country, are included in the sanctioned list. All those cited in the list provided by the US Treasury Department have maintained relations with Venezuela since the end of last year, however, the international devaluation of Venezuelan oil affected severely the supply of food, creating instability in the negotiations. Mexican companies alleged that only 500 tankers with drinking water have been sent to Venezuela, but the Mexican State still supports the US in punishing its own citizens.

However, we should analyze the measures taken by the Mexican State taking into account the history of the country’s current government. Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador came to power in 2018 amid great popular pressure against neoliberal policies that were destroying the country. The president took the position of rebuilding Mexico and started a crusade against neoliberalism, saying repeatedly that he would start a new age of Mexican politics, in which the neoliberal model would be completely rejected. In fact, the president has managed to impose successful economic policies that have brought improvements to the people of his country, however, he is still a long way from something like “a new political era for Mexico” – as he had promised.

The government has been extremely ineffective in dealing with the growth of the new coronavirus pandemic in Mexico. The speed of the spread of the infection is truly impressive, with the country currently occupying the seventh position in the ranking of countries with the highest number of deaths. The country already counts more than 21 thousand deaths and more than 180 thousand cases, having registered impressive records of daily cases, having already passed 5,300 new cases in 24 hours. Even so, President Obrador maintains a minimalist stance, having for a long time denied the gravity of the situation, adhering to the speech promoted by the American government.

In fact, there is no point in announcing a crusade against a flawed economic model and maintaining an international policy of subordination to another country and failing to protect the population against a deadly virus. The attitude of adhering to any measure imposed by the American State departments while the population dies infected is extremely inadequate and reveals a serious error regarding the Mexican government’s priorities. The next step to be taken by Obrador is precisely to realize that no economic measure is sufficient in itself and depends substantially on the guarantee of national sovereignty.

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Isn't Venezuela getting supplies because of all the sh!t going on in America

 

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I've just recently started diving into the Venezuelan crisis. My question is what do people in the streets feel about Maduro? Do they like him? If there are actually people starving to death (I say if because that may be propaganda spun by the Western world) why doesn't Maduro just resign for the benefit of his people. Its obvious Venezuela won't be able to go against the big dogs and actually needs the US and the rest of the western world to lift sanctions against them. They can't isolate themselves like North Korea because they don't have any weapons technology to keep Western powers at bay. So what is the current government looking to accomplish? Are they hoping to rely on Russia, China, Iran and other sanctioned nations? Will this strategy even work?

 

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I've just recently started diving into the Venezuelan crisis. My question is what do people in the streets feel about Maduro? Do they like him? If there are actually people starving to death (I say if because that may be propaganda spun by the Western world) why doesn't Maduro just resign for the benefit of his people. Its obvious Venezuela won't be able to go against the big dogs and actually needs the US and the rest of the western world to lift sanctions against them. They can't isolate themselves like North Korea because they don't have any weapons technology to keep Western powers at bay. So what is the current government looking to accomplish? Are they hoping to rely on Russia, China, Iran and other sanctioned nations? Will this strategy even work?

Why would the leaders in Venezuela want to lay down and have they nation turn to modern Haiti or Brazil. Not everybody going to lay down to US imperialism


Maduro was voted in by 60% of the people

 

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Why would the leaders in Venezuela want to lay down and have they nation turn to modern Haiti or Brazil. Not everybody going to lay down to US imperialism


Maduro was voted in by 60% of the people

I get that and I am not for America interfering anywhere but one has to question how far can Maduro carry this and what are the human costs, basically can it get worse than it already is? I don't think Venezuela is comparable to Haiti, maybe you can compare them to Brazil better but Brazil basically has a far right fascist ruler. Can't the government compromise by putting in the West's puppet? Election results don't really mean anything if there is no foresight into voting fraud. You think the 3 million+ that left the country and the people currently suffering really care for Maduro? I don't think so. Maybe if Maduro could hang on until Trump is out of the office and hope the US democrats are any better.

 

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I get that and I am not for America interfering anywhere but one has to question how far can Maduro carry this and what are the human costs, basically can it get worse than it already is? I don't think Venezuela is comparable to Haiti, maybe you can compare them to Brazil better but Brazil basically has a far right fascist ruler. Can't the government compromise by putting in the West's puppet? Election results don't really mean anything if there is no foresight into voting fraud. You think the 3 million+ that left the country and the people currently suffering really care for Maduro? I don't think so. Maybe if Maduro could hang on until Trump is out of the office and hope the US democrats are any better.

Chavismo is strong and fierce amongst the populace. Maduro ain't going nowhere. He has the army and
support of the people. What do you think Juan IMF Guaido is going to do once he gets into power ?

What makes you think he's any better than Bolsonaro ?

Brazil has an oligarch class that has had their grip on the country since the prince declared himself king.

It's the same thing in all these countries ...

 

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America really is a piece of shyt nation
Venezuelan hunger used as a weapon now? Evil demonic shyt. Maduro is still going to be eating well regardless. This is just killing poor innocents.
Mexico fell back but you just know they sent some trucks on that long journey on the low low tip.

 

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US Sanctions Iranian Ship Captains as Russia Hosts Venezuelan FM


Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reiterated his opposition to US aggression in Venezuela.


Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza meets his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow. (Twitter/CancilleriaVE)
By Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz
Jun 24th 2020 at 5.14pm


Santiago de Chile, June 24, 2020 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The US State Department has announced fresh sanctions against five Iranian ship captains involved in transporting fuel to Venezuela.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that any US-based assets belonging to the individuals would be blocked, causing their “careers and prospects…[to] suffer.”

“Mariners who are considering work with Iran and Venezuela should understand that aiding these oppressive regimes is simply not worth the risk,” he added.

Last month, Iran dispatched five tankers carrying an estimated 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and diluents to Venezuela in defiance of US threats. On Monday, another Iranian cargo ship docked in Venezuela, this time carrying food to supply the first Iranian supermarket in the country.

Washington has targeted both Caracas and Tehran with crushing economic sanctions aimed at ousting their respective governments.

A sweeping embargo imposed last year not only prevents Venezuela from importing gasoline to meet national demand, but also blocks its oil industry from acquiring spare parts and diluents needed to repair refineries and kickstart domestic fuel production.

The latest sanctions came as Russia hosted Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza for bilateral talks in Moscow on Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Arreaza in the Kremlin, voicing support for Venezuela in the face of US aggression.

"We strongly support your commitment to combating foreign diktat and any attempts at blatant interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state, opposing any attempts at a forced regime change," he stated.

For his part, Arreaza thanked his Russian counterpart for aiding Venezuela in circumventing US sanctions and defending international law. The top Venezuelan diplomat is also due to meet Russia’s vice president to review both countries’ cooperation agenda.

Venezuela and Russia have strengthened ties in recent years, with Moscow providing the Caribbean country with loans, diplomatic support, and military technicians. Russian energy giant Rosneft was likewise carrying 60 percent of Venezuela’s oil exports as well as importing gasoline, but the firm was forced to shutter its operations in March due to sanctions.

Russia’s message of support came on the heels of a US Navy ship approaching Venezuelan shores in what the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) described as a “freedom of navigation” operation.

On Tuesday, SOUTHCOM disclosed that the guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze had sailed in a 12-nautical mile area the Venezuelan government “falsely claims to have control over.”

Venezuelan Defense Minister Padrino Lopez blasted the move as an “arrogant provocation,” vowing that the Venezuelan armed forces would “face any and all aggressions from the [US] empire.”

In April, The Trump administration announced an “anti-drug” military deployment to the Caribbean described as one of the largest operations since the 1989 invasion of Panama, with the stated goal of intercepting drug shipments out of Venezuela.

Venezuelan authorities have denounced repeated violations of its maritime borders and airspace in recent months.

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