The United States no longer requires the thin veneer of a pretext to terrorize other nations. At least the G.W. Bush administration bothered to make up lies about Saddam Hussein having nuclear weapons to justify their illegal and murderous invasion of Iraq, which killed at least one million people during the long war that followed.
Now, as the U.S. empire has started to decline, the Trump administration considers it necessary to terrorize the sovereign nation of Venezuela by murdering dozens, if not hundreds, of Venezuelans and kidnapping its legally elected president, Nicholas Maduro.
The U.S. is claiming that Maduro is involved in drug trafficking, and one of the phony charges levied against him is being the head of a drug cartel. There is absolutely no evidence to support this claim. Even when lying in front of the international community about Saddam’s WMDs, the Bush administration at least had the decency to concoct fake intelligence reports about the supposed nukes.
It seems as if President Donald Trump himself barely seems to care about this drug trafficking accusation, as in a deranged speech he gave on January 3rd, he outright admitted that the reason for the U.S. intervening in Venezuela was because of oil, saying “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so.”
This terrorist act by the United States is merely one in a long line of atrocities America has committed in this century alone. According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, over four million people have been murdered by the U.S. since the Global War on Terror began. The leaders of this country do not care about democracy, freedom, or justice. Their hands are soaked with the blood of millions they have murdered in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Palestine, and in countless more countries.
Do not listen to the propagandists that say American-led regime change is what the Venezuelan people want. Right now, there are thousands of Venezuelans in the streets demanding Maduro be released and reinstated as president. Maduro has millions of supporters in his country. It was reported in November that over 8 million people joined volunteer militias to protect their country from U.S. aggression. That’s nearly 30% of the population. Even if Maduro was unpopular, what business is it of the United States to kill dozens of civilians and kidnap the head of a sovereign state? Who designated America as the world’s police, to act with no oversight or consequences whatsoever?
At People Between Worlds, we condemn this barbaric attack on the people of Venezuela. I will be attending a protest at the U.S. Capitol building tomorrow, January 6th at 4pm to support the Venezuelan people, to demand an immediate end to the terrorism the U.S. is inflicting on Venezuela, and to demand the immediate release of Nicholas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Details about this protest are below.
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Protest tomorrow in front of Capitol, hosted by the DC Against Trump Coalition
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