Nightslantern Suppressed News // #Venezuela

5.4.19

Nightslantern Suppressed News 2019 // [http://www.nightslantern.ca/2019bulletin.htm#feb18ha]
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Venezuela: North American media has continued a heavy propaganda campaign against the government of Nicholas Maduro and socialism in general. Euro-American countries with the exception of Switzerland, Norway, Italy, the Vatican and Greece, followed the U.S. lead in recognizing as the country's president, a self-proclaimed president, unelected legislator, Juan Guaidó. U.S. sanctions and economic policies have driven Venezuela into great hardship - the Trump administration line is that Venezuela's economic failures are the fault of Chavez, Maduro and the majority of the Venezuelan people's choice of socialism. The U.S. sent emergency food and medical supplies as 'humanitarian aid' in an attempt to buy the country's military and people into supporting the overthrow of their government. The aid shipment was refused. The total effect of impounding funds and gold held by Venezuela in international banks is theft and presents a threat against trust in the international banking system, which is working as a servant to U.S. policy. Citibank has impounded 1.1 billion dollars of Venezuelan gold; there are of course complex explanations why the U.S. and British banks have stepped outside international law in taking over Venezuelan accounts held outside the country. Thefts from a country without adequate medical and food supplies for its people may be disastrous, and the crime extends to an action against the people of Venezuela as a national group. U.S. application of economic pressure on Maduro's government, and use of badly needed 'humanitarian aid' as a propaganda tool contribute to a crime of aggression. If you begin to formulate a legal case against those edging Venezuela's people toward their destruction, you might begin with the banks who have blockaded / stolen Venezuela's money, and consider applying charges of genocide against their financial advisers, CEO's, staff, and complicit government personnel. In its own defense Venezuela has turned to Russia and China for support. Bloomberg reports Russia is committed to avoiding U.S. military interference in Venezuela. Despite the fact of a U.S.-Canada alliance aligned with the U.S. controlled 'democracies' of Central and South America, a U.S. armed intervention in Venezuela would challenge for its own profit the global rule of law. Background.     Partial sources online: "Russia Pledges to Help Venezuela Avoid Military Intervention," Yuliya Fedorinova and Ilya Khrennikov, March 3, 2019, Bloomberg; "An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela: Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup," [access:< https://youtu.be/ii5MlQgGXyk >]; "U.S. imposes new sanctions on Venezuela to squeeze out leader amid humanitarian crisis," Thomson Reuters, March 1, 2019, Thomson Reuters. 

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by j. b. gerald