---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Thomas Greco <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:34 AM Subject: The truth about U.S. government objectives in Venezuela To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> In 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Commission (HRC) sent its former Secretary, Alfred de Zayas to Venezuela to investigate the situation there. De Zayas is an American lawyer, writer, historian, and leading expert in the field of human rights and international law. In August of 2018, de Zayas presented his Venezuela report <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=b6f0fb4490&e=686d597d8c> to the HRC but it was greeted with a shocking silence. The only mainstream media outlet that I am aware of that has covered the UN report is the Independent <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=0aa42b98a7&e=686d597d8c> (UK), in an article titled, Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=c339d831a9&e=686d597d8c>, published on January 26, 2019. I have not seen any similar coverage it in the United States, and I myself learned about the report almost by accident. Amidst the deafening drumbeat for regime change, one must wonder why such an official investigation has been ignored. Despite this neglect by the mainstream media, several recorded interviews of De Zayas have made their way onto the Worldwide Web. In this video interview <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=e74df6170b&e=686d597d8c>, the UN Investigator and human rights rapporteur gives a summary of his findings. De Zayas says that *there is no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, *but “The government … through an external economic war is being asphyxiated.” He asserts that “the financial blockade has had extremely adverse human rights impact” and it has been the intention of the United States “to create a situation whereby the people or the military would topple the government...and then the one percent could again come in and again control the wealth of Venezuela.” Among the facts that he presents are these: - *The Venezuelan oil company Citgo has not been allowed to take it revenues, amounting to 9 or 10 billion dollars, out of the United States. * - *In July 2017 Citibank decided, without prior notice, to close the accounts of the Central Bank of Venezuela,* - *And again, in November 2017, Citibank blocked the transfer[of funds] for a shipment of more than 300,000 doses of insulin. * - *Also, in November 2017, “the company Euroclear, retained $1.65 billion that the government of Venezuela had paid for the purchase of food and medicine.* These and numerous other blocks of payment for essential medicines, he argues, are responsible for increased rates of child and maternal mortality, and increased deaths due to lack of insulin and anti-retroviral drugs. National security advisor, John Bolton has arrogantly admitted on air to Fox Business host Trish Regan that the [Trump] administration has the goal of putting U.S. companies in charge of Venezuela's oil production. See it on former Congressman Ron Paul’s Liberty Report <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=4014dcea05&e=686d597d8c> . The most recent developments in this matter have included new financial sanctions, the attempt to declare the Maduro presidency illegitimate and to impose a hand-picked puppet who has no legitimate claim to the presidency, and an attempt to provoke an incident by sending so-called “aid” to the border with Columbia. As Mr. De Zayas, puts it, “Juan Guaido is riding on the Trojan horse of the United States.” We should be grateful to Mr. De Zayas for courageously reporting the truth of the matter in Venezuela. It is distressing to me to see such broad support by Western and Latin American governments for regime change in Venezuela based on trumped-up charges. Such blatant imperial overreach should have the US populace up in arms, especially after the obvious falsehoods that have been put forth to overthrow governments in places like Iraq, Libya, and others countries across the middle-east and North Africa, and the attempted overthrow of the Assad government in Syria. Truly, the world order today has all the hallmarks of a fascist super-state. You can find Mr. de Zayas’ official report at https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/239/29/PDF/G1823929.pdf?Op... <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=ffe6f526f7&e=686d597d8c>. I have excerpted the *Conclusions *and *Recommendations *from the report and you can find them here <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=dfd6e2b26b&e=686d597d8c>. 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