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US militarizing intl. ties, punishing millions: Venezuela
[PRESSTV] Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeds places like Honduras and El Salvador, and a significant proportion of the populace as refugeed to Colombia and points south...
's vice president says the US is imposing a new type of "state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
" on millions of people around the world.

Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez denounced the recognition of opposition figure Juan Guaidó
...Venezuelan politician, a member of the social-democratic Popular Will party, and serves as a federal deputy to the National Assembly representing the state of Vargas. In 2019 he was appointed by the Popular Will party to become the president of the National Assembly, after which he declared he was acting president of the country, challenging Nicolás Maduro's presidency and starting the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis....
 by Washington and its allies as the "worst mistake in the diplomatic history of these countries."

Addressing the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
 General Assembly, Rodriguez condemned Washington for punishing millions of people across the world by imposing sanctions on them.

"The [US] Treasury Department, the economic Pentagon, is militarizing international relations and punishing millions of people," she said.

Rodriguez explained that sanctions "focused on strangling the Venezuelan economy" had cost the oil-rich country $130 billion between 2015 and 2018.

She told the assembly that she came on "behalf of the only Venezuela," referring to a delegation sent by Guaido to the annual gathering of world leaders.

Rodriguez called Guaido an "artifice" of the United States.

The United States has imposed several rounds of sanctions against Venezuela in order to oust President Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground...
 and have him replaced with Guaido, who declared himself "interim president" earlier this year.


Posted by: Fred 2019-09-29
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