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Hands Off
Venezuela: Foreign Minister Arreaza Holds UN Marathon for Peace:
Usurper Guaido Urges Military Intervention and War
Updated on March
1, 2019
In a
herculean effort to prevent war, and protect the integrity of his
country, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza held a
breathtaking schedule of events at the United Nations, including a
meeting with the Secretary-General, consultations with the envoys of 60
member states supporting Venezuela’s sovereignty, a press
conference the evening of February 22, speaking at a Security Council
meeting February 26, and presenting an address at the UN Human
Rights Council in Geneva on February 27.
Arreaza’s
encyclopedic knowledge of history is one of his powerful assets,
as he patiently clarified to reporters, at last Friday’s press
conference, the reality of US instigated economic warfare underlying
Venezuela’s current crisis. At one bizarre moment, a European
reporter, asked, Mussolini-style, about a report that Venezuelan armed
forces shot an unarmed indigenous person, and compared the incident to
“what happened in China.” Arreaza asked whether the reporter had
seen the incident, and, evading Arreaza’s question the reporter
continued: “Is your government giving specific orders to shoot
unarmed people, and what will happen to those who refuse to comply with
these orders?” The stupefying question, less a query, and more
unsubstantiated innuendo, was asked with such arrogance and grandiosity
that Arriaza, fully aware of the insinuation intended,
replied:
“Your
question is full of venom and very poisonous. The army of Bolivar
has never had orders to fire on the civilian population, and you should
be the first to assess the reliability of false ‘reports,’ and false
flag operations. It is your responsibility as a reporter to be smart,
astute, and delve into the truth, and recognize propaganda.”
What
was unmistakable, throughout last week, and
again at Tuesday’s Security Council meeting, is Arreaza’s
passionate effort to prevent the bloodbath of military
confrontation, reiterating the historic context of the Venezuelan
crisis to reporters and diplomats who may have a stunted recognition
of the barbarous – but often ingenious – methods used by
Washington to impose domination and de facto slavery on nations in
Latin America. Theirs is virtually a scientific formula –
economic destabilization, a relentless media disinformation campaign,
and if the current target – in this case Venezuela – does not submit to
domination, ultimately military force will be decisive in inflicting
regime change, installing a docile, subservient puppet. The
horrific example of the overthrow of Allende in Chile is merely one
example.
In
view of the usual perception of indigenous people as vulnerable and
marginalized, it was therefore extremely interesting to see a New York
Times report, February 23, confirming that “Indigenous leaders seized
General Jose Miguel Montoya Ramirez, the head of Bolivar state’s
National Guard force, and some of his subordinates, two opposition
lawmakers from the area said in interviews….the lawmakers said it was
unclear how long the indigenous leaders intended to hold the
captives.” It is obvious that it would not be possible for
“vulnerable” people to seize a Venezuelan General and the head of
Bolivar state’s National Guard unless the “vulnerable” people were
powerfully armed. And where the indigenous people got the arms
from is an even more interesting question. It is not a minor
accomplishment to kidnap the General of a National Guard force.
The
Wall Street Journal on February 25, 2019 headlined: “Maduro’s
Opposition Urges Military Force in Venezuela,” making inescapable that
the Venezuelan opposition is either lobotomized, or heedless of the
bloodbath military action will culminate in. The New York Times
on February 25, page 4, has a large photograph of “innocent, unarmed”
protesters preparing Molotov cocktails on Sunday along the
Venezuela-Colombia border.
The
Security Council meeting Tuesday, February 26, was preceded by an
asinine lineup of eight members of the European Union, demanding that
Venezuela immediately call elections. Evidently ignorant of the
fact that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter characterized
the Venezuelan electoral process as “one of the best in the world,” and
the US electoral process as “one of the worst,” these European
proxies were better suited to comic parody in a Mozart opera than to
intervention in matters of war and peace. And, of course, who is
to determine that, even if new elections are called, they will be
either free or fair. Obviously, the result will be as Washington
directs its European colonies to approve.
It
would not be possible to avoid reference to
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s gruesome tweet, threatening
Maduro, and not incidentally Kim Jong Un, with hideous death by
torture, including sodomization with bayonets before his murder.
These horrific actions were committed by those “vulnerable, peaceful
Libyans” for whom the UN Security Council, enacting Resolution 1973 and
“Responsibity to Protect,” in the unforgettable words of Indian
Ambassador Puri, were authorized to “bomb the hell out of Libya.”
It is very likely that the Venezuelan opposition, especially those
thugs, photographed by The New York Times on February 23
preparing Molotov cocktails, are the same breed as those Libyan
monsters who, among other tortures, sodomized President Khadaffi with a
bayonet before murdering him. No doubt Kim Jong Un will
duly note this threat, and perhaps Maduro will ponder Khadaffi’s
mistake in surrendering his nuclear program.
Today’s
Security Council meeting, with the failure of both the US and Russian
drafts, included Elliott Abrams regurgitating the same
dangerous and deadly platitudes as always. The double veto of the
US draft, by both China and Russia, saved the Security Council from endorsing
another catastrophic military intervention.
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Carla
Stea is Global
Research’s correspondent at United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y.
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