Adam
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Donald Trump recently stated that he is considering a military option in Venezuela in respect of overthrowing the popularly elected socialist government of the oil rich state. Recent months have seen increasing hostile protests against the government by US backed right wing agitators.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has said of Trump’s remarks,
“Venezuela rejects in the most categorical and convincing manner the unfriendly and hostile statements by US President Donald Trump… in which he threatens a military invasion against our homeland.
…”The reckless threats of President Donald Trump are designed to draw Latin America and the Caribbean into a conflict that will irrevocably violate stability, peace and security in our region”.
Yesterday, the South American trading bloc Mercosur condemned Donald Trump’s threat of force against Venezuela and stated that dialogue and diplomacy are the only viable options. Mercosur is a South America customs union and trading bloc whose members include Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Additionally, Child, Peru, Columbia and Ecuador. Venezuela’s membership is currently suspended due to the bloc’s opposition to the Bolivarian government, but even so, Mercosur is totally opposed to any military action against Venezuela.
The United States has a history of overthrowing legitimately elected leaders in Latin America, including in the largest members of Mercosur including Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Overthrowing the Venezuelan government would be a return to a precedent that virtually no modern Latin American leaders want to revisit.
The message from the region is clear: No US war for Venezuela’s oil.
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So what? The supremacist and expansionist US will do what it pleases. Who will oppose them?
Ahem… That is the point!!
THEY ARE ALREADY BEING OPPOSED all over the world increasingly so, so…. who is going to oppose them? Again so that you understand….. they are already being opposed.
I think they meant “who will militarily oppose them” . Words are nice and all. But that never prevents the US from doing what they want to do.Like the schoolyard bully,pleas don’t stop punches. Fear of “return punches” stop punches.
You are absolutely correct. The free nations of the world (those not undermined and controlled by the CIA), MUST taken a joint military stand against the USSA. It is way past time that this be done. Putin…Xi…. please organize this.
“SANCTIONS” friend!!!!!! Their own medicine??
Russia…China…The US cowardly keeps attacking smaller nations.
At some point in time maybe the whole world, it’s drawing nearer every day!!!!
All these countries all over the world starting to stand up and give America the middle finger – isn’t it a beautiful sight!
Yes, absolutely!!!
WHOEVER wants another US-made war on their continent?
Venezuela is a small country with no major defence, so yanks feel so brave, another little country to invade… cowards all of them.. try China, or Russia?
The US can get in all right. It´s what happens after they get in. Chavez bought 100,000 sniper rifles from Russia while he was still alive. Maduro distributed those rifles. The US at the time asked who those rifles would used against. Well Trump just answered that question. So Venezuela will just be another quagmire like Iraq and Afghanistan. Just imagine what the American public is going to think when the body bags from that operation begin to arrive home.
They would not get away with it anymore .The world is indeed watching now.The 70s is now past and we have found out what the US/CIA did in Central and South America,through covert and overt means.See “The War on Democracy ”
by John Pilger http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029172/
The US has been creating problems all over Latin America for decades and decades. The countries must unite and stand up to this gringo bully.