US sanctions President Nicolas Maduro as Washington meddles further in Venezuela’s democracy
Another extreme move to undermine Venezuelan democracy by a United States that claims it opposes foreign interference in democratic votes.Adam Garrie
31
July, 2017
The
United States continues to meddle in Venezuela’s democracy after
yesterday’s nation wide vote for a Constitutional Assembly that
will proceed with constitutional reforms aimed at ending the
political deadlock between President Maduro and the country’s
National Assembly which since 2015 has been controlled by the US
backed right-wing opposition.
Before
the results of the vote were even counted (they have yet to be fully
tallied), the United States made it clear that Washington did not
accept the vote. Washington’s Ambassador to the UN, the overzealous
Nikki Haley Tweeted the following on the day of the vote.
Maduro’s sham election is another step toward dictatorship. We won't accept an illegit govt. The Venezuelan ppl & democracy will prevail.
Today,
US Treasury released the following statement, confirming that
President Maduro is being personally sanctioned by the US government.
Far
from the beginning of US meddling in Venezuela, the United States for
decades has funded right-wing opposition groups in Venezuela, most
notoriously, that led by Henrique Capriles Radonski. For most of
these years, the US has sought to undermine the Bolivarian socialist
government of Hugo Chavez who died in what some call mysterious
circumstances in 2013.
Since
then, Chavez’s socialist successor has been Nicolas Maduro who has
barely had a day in office free of US meddling of one sort or
another.
Supporters
of Maduro argue that the Bolivarian government has helped to
redistribute the wealth of Venezuela’s considerable resources
including its vast oil reserves which for years were run by foreign
hands prior to nationalisation under President Savage. Maduro’s
opponents attest that socialist rule has caused stagnation.
Whatever
one’s views of Venezuela’s internal situation, it is a sovereign
state that no nation, not least the United States has a right to
interfere in.
Good work - the United States stands with the people of #Venezuela
It
is ironic, verging on the surreal that while the United States
political elites tear themselves to pieces over alleged meddling by
Russia in the 2016 US Presidential election, meddling that is not
backed up by a single shred of evidence, that same United States is
openly and brazenly trying to interfere in the political process of
Venezuela by pumping money into the right-wing opposition while
unilaterally sanctioning the President.
While
the United States attempts to isolate Venezuela, the country
continues to maintain good relations with many other countries
including Russia and China. In October of 2016, President Maduro
awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin the Hugo Chavez Peace Prize
which President Putin graciously accepted.
President
Maduro insists he is ready for dialogue, but the US continues to act
in ways which suggests it is ready for something far more dangerous:
illegal regime change, possibly through the use of force.
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