[P2P-F] Fwd: The truth about U.S. government objectives in Venezuela

Tue Mar 5 18:06:05 CET 2019

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From: Thomas Greco <thgreco at mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:34 AM
Subject: The truth about U.S. government objectives in Venezuela
To: Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>

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?OpenElement
<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>.
You might also want to visit Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner
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