Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk

Toch altijd weer leuk als de VS op haar eigen duivelse gevorkte staart gaat staan en daarmee ten overvloede nog eens aantoont dat we hier met een terreurentiteit te maken hebben van gigantische proporties, die niets maar dan ook helemaal niets uit de weg gaat om haar smerige doelen te bereiken.....

Zo dook er enige tijd geleden een folder van de CIA op waarin staat te lezen hoe je als oppositie je land naar de knoppen kan helpen om zo het volk tot opstand te dwingen tegen het land van keuze, in dit geval was dat land Nicaragua.......*

The Grayzone wist de hand te leggen op een lijst met gevolgen van ingrijpen in Venezuela, door het VS ministerie van BuZa op de site gezet en daarna weer verwijderd, niet voor niets verwijderd, immers het gaat hier om dezelfde soort informatie die je op WikiLeaks kan vinden en waarvoor Julian Assange wordt vervolgd......

Duidelijk is dat de VS zich ziet als organisator van de niet eindigende couppoging in Venezuela, waar de VS de voor de Venezolanen tot dan onbekende fascist Guaidó als interim-president heeft geparachuteerd, waarbij men de leugen lanceerde dat Guaidó de oppositieleider is van Venezuela..... (terwijl hij de voorzitter is van een kleine, onbeduidende partij...)

Voorts wordt er opgeschept over de zaken die Guaidó, de totaal lamme en illegale 'interim-president' van Venezuela, al voor elkaar heeft gekregen...... Onzinnige zaken, waar in werkelijkheid het Venezolaanse volk onder regie van de VS wordt bestolen van haar tegoeden in het buitenland en waar men trots vertelt dat de oliewinning met een enorm aantal vaten is gedaald, daar Venezuela van terreurentiteit VS geen olie mag verkopen....... Met deze zaken begaat de VS een zware overtreding van artikel 33 van het Verdrag van Genève......

De olievoorraad van Venezuela zou de op één na grootste ter aarde zijn, deze olievoorraad is dan ook de belangrijkste reden voor de VS om haar marionet Guaidó op de plaats van Maduro te willen zetten..... (voorts heeft Venezuela grote voorraden Coltan, een belangrijke grondstof voor smartphones....) Guaidó heeft al beloofd dat wanneer hij president zal zijn, de Venezolaanse olie voor de VS oliemaffia zal worden gereserveerd.....** (waarin hij het woord 'maffia' uiteraard niet noemde)

De VS is er zelfs trots op dat het de economie van Venezuela naar de kloten heeft geholpen, waarmee deze vereniging van terreurstaten nog eens fijntjes aangeeft waarom het economisch zo slecht gaat in Venezuela >> de terreursancties van de VS...... Weet je wat de reguliere media ons al jaren laten geloven? Maduro heeft de economie om zeep geholpen, je weet wel van die media die keer op keer de bek open hebben over fake news (nepnieuws) en manipulatie..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Beste bezoeker, weet niet of je al meerdere berichten van mij over Venezuela hebt gelezen, die je wellicht ziet als overdreven, lees het volgende artikel van Anya Parampil, eerder gepubliceerd op The Grayzone en laat je ogen openen (en zegt het voort, er moet een eind komen aan het lijden van het Venezolaanse volk door de grootschalige terreur van de VS, met hulp van o.a. de EU en dus zogenaamd namens ons allen......):

US State Department publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin

The Grayzone has obtained a list of “key outcomes” on Venezuela deleted out of apparent embarrassment by the State Department. It boasts of wrecking the nation’s economy, destabilizing its military, and puppeteering its political opposition.

By Anya Parampil

On April 24, six days before self-proclaimed Venezuelan “interim president” Juan Guaido’s attempt to violently overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected government alongside a handful of military defectors, the U.S. State Department published a fact sheet that boasted of Washington’s central role in the ongoing coup attempt. After realizing the incriminating nature of its error, the State Department quickly acted to remove the page.

The Grayzone has obtained a full copy of the expunged report. The deleted page puts to bed any claims of Guaido’s independence from Washington, as the State Department emphasizes the fact that he “announced his interim presidency… in January” at the the top of a section dedicated to breaking down “key outcomes” of U.S. efforts with regard to Venezuela.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Kimberly Breier recently took to Twitter to claim that “since he became acting president, Juan Guaido has given tangible results to the people of Venezuela.” Her tweet was accompanied with an infographic detailing alleged accomplishments of the powerless coup administration based on data compiled by the legally defunct National Assembly, the only governing body actually controlled by Guaido.

But the Venezuela fact sheet posted and then deleted days earlier by the State Department told a dramatically different story.

Read the entire expunged fact sheet here [PDF] and at the end of this article.

The State Department’s economic hit list

Entitled “U.S. Actions on Venezuela,” the document boasted that U.S. policy had effectively prevented the Venezuelan government from participating in the international market and has led to the freezing of its overseas assets. It read like a sadistic celebration of Washington’s retribution against the Venezuelan population as a whole, the kind of collective punishment which is illegal according to Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions.

The State Department gloated in the deleted fact sheet that its policy had ensured that the Maduro government “cannot rely on the U.S. financial system” to conduct business, noting “key outcomes” of U.S. actions include the fact that “roughly $3.2 billion of Venezuela’s overseas are frozen.” It went on to boast that “Venezuela’s oil production fell to 736,000 barrels per day in March… substantially reducing” government revenue.

“If I were the State Department I wouldn’t brag about causing a cut in oil production to 763,000 barrels per day — which is a 36 percent drop, in just the two months of February and March this year,” Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at the Center For Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), told The Grayzone. “This means even more premature deaths than the tens of thousands that resulted from sanctions last year.”  

Weisbrot recently co-authored a bracing report which found that 40,000 Venezuelans died between 2017 and 2018 as a direct result of U.S. sanctions. The State Department patted itself on the back for announcing its preparedness “to provide an additional $20 million in initial humanitarian assistance” to Venezuela, however, the CEPR report concluded that Trump Administration sanctions implemented in August 2017 resulted in “a loss of $6 billion in oil revenue over the ensuing year” alone.

While the State Department praised the opposition for “providing medical and hygiene attention to over 6,000” Venezuelans, those numbers dwarf in comparison to the 300,000 people CEPR “estimated to be at risk because of lack of access to medicines or treatment… [including] 80,000 people with HIV who have not had antiretroviral treatment since 2017, 16,000 people who need dialysis, 16,000 people with cancer, and 4 million with diabetes and hypertension.”

In other words, the supposed “Venezuela Crisis Response Assistance” touted by the State Department is not even a band-aid over the gaping wound that US unilateral coercive measures have inflicted on the country.

In Weisbrot’s view, the “policy” and “outcomes” promoted by the State Department in the disappeared document will merely lead to “more cuts in imports of medicine, food, medical equipment, and inputs necessary to maintain water, health, and sanitation infrastructure.”

Having denied the Venezuelan government the ability to provide for its own population, the U.S. has essentially promised that thousands more deaths will occur.

The State Department did not respond to The Grayzone’s request for a comment on the fact sheet it deleted.

“A list of confessions”

In a recent interview with The Grayzone, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada characterized the deleted State Department fact sheet as “a list of confessions.”

“Imagine if any other country says… it’s proud of saying that we are destroying the economy of our neighbor; we are proud that we destroyed the political system of our neighbor; we are proud that they are suffering. They are saying we are waging war against Venezuela,” Moncada emphasized.

The ambassador went on to accuse the U.S. of engaging in “bullying” rather than international diplomacy.

The State Department’s own fact sheet appears to support this accusation, as it asserts “diplomatic pressure resulted in fewer markets for Venezuelan gold.” The document further highlighted U.S. actions that have supposedly led “more than 1,000 members of the military [to recognize] Juan Guaido as interim President” and defect to Colombia, as well as stranding “an estimated 25 crude oil tankers with 12 million barrels” off Venezuela’s coast.

“They [say] it’s our ‘key’ achievements,” Moncada commented. “They are saying that they are causing trouble in our military and inducing a military coup, [which] so far they haven’t achieved, but they are working towards.”

“If any other person says that themselves,” the ambassador concluded, “and you take that confession to court, they would be in prison.”

The State Department’s fact sheet even frames recent decisions by the Organization of American States, Lima Group, Inter-American Development Bank, and European Union to either recognize or support Guaido’s shadow administration as a U.S. achievement, highlighting Washington’s outsized influence within each of these supposedly international governing bodies. The decision to mention the E.U. and Lima Group is particularly noteworthy considering the United States is not a member of either organization.

“They are so far out of any normal parameters of decency, morality, legality, reason, that really they are dangerous,” Moncada said of the Trump administration. “They are a real threat to international peace, and they are a real threat to my people.” 

US Department of State Deleted Venezuela Hit List by Max Blumenthal on Scribd

(Om  de documenten te kunnen lezen, zie het origineel) 

Anya Parampil

Anya Parampil is a Washington, DC based journalist. She previously hosted a daily progressive afternoon news program called In Question on RT America. She has produced and reported several documentaries, including on the ground reports from the Korean peninsula and Palestine.

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*  Hier de link naar een PDF met een CIA sabotage handleiding.

** Zie: 'VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen'

Zie ook:
'Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt'

'Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties'


'Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence'

'Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen'

'Venezolaanse ambassade Washington gewelddadig ontruimd'

'Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. 'deskundige' van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda'

'Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland'

'Venezuela: vicepresident van de VS, Mike Pence, belooft militairen extra's als ze overlopen naar kamp Guaidó'

'Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht....'

'Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

'Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt' (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht, anders dan de al hier weergegeven links)

'Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers'

'VS dreigt Rusland, China en Iran met geweld vanwege hulp aan Venezolaanse volk.......'

'The Monroe Doctrine is Back, and as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose is to Serve the Neoliberal Order' (een artikel van CounterPunch)

'Venezuela: in geheime zitting in Washington is gesproken over een militaire inval'

'VS legt nog meer sancties op aan de bevolking van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua'

'Venezuela is nog lang niet verslagen door de VS'

'Venezolaanse regering treft nieuwe regeling voor hulpgoederen van het Rode Kruis, 'onafhankelijk NOS' brengt alweer fake news'

'Venezuela: onafhankelijke journalisten ontmaskeren leugens over dit land bij presentatie voor de VN'

'Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet'

'Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?'

'Venezuela: het VS volk wordt weer een oorlog in gelogen, zoals eerder in Irak, Libië en Syrië'

'Venezuela Aid Live >> Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) terecht tegen benefietconcert'

'Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven'

'Jill Stein (US Green Party): de VS maakt zich druk over armoede in Venezuela terwijl de armen thuis kunnen doodvallen....'

'Venezuela: Abrams vindt een meerderheid in de VN Veiligheidsraad genoeg voor een gedwongen regeringswisseling'

'Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten'

'Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er 'iets anders' uit' (180 graden anders, wel te verstaan)

'Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA 'Black Site' centra'

'Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela'

'BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela' (bericht van dit blog)

'Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de 'Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis' op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok'

'Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia'

'Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie'

'Venezuela >> regime change: 'de 12 stappen methode' die de VS gebruikt'

'Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank'

Journalistiek steeds minder onafhankelijk, of wat de media u liever niet voorschotelen.........

Hier een belangrijk bericht , dat ik van de site van Stan van Houcke heb gehaald. Het artikel bericht over de media in de VS, die via zelfcensuur, geen artikelen plaatst, waaruit blijkt hoe zwaar misdadig, om niet te zeggen terroristisch en staatsondermijnend, het handelen van de VS in hun (en ons) buitenland is.
Het artikel is in het Engels (helaas voor diegenen, die het Engels niet beheersen), maar goed te volgen en te lezen. Ook van belang voor Nederland, daar meer en meer 'journalisten' hardop durven te zeggen, dat je sommige zaken niet met het publiek moet delen, of 'journalisten' die met grote graagte de mening van de regering, of die van de VS overheid*, ventileren als onafhankelijke journalistiek.....

*Zoals Max van Weezel nog niet zo lang geleden deed.

Hier het artikel, (overigens onderaan deze pagina, vindt u een link naar Stan van Houcke's site):

WOENSDAG 7 AUGUSTUS 2013
Western Mass Media

MASS MEDIA HELPS KEEP AMERICANS IN THE DARK ABOUT US FOREIGN POLICY
Tuesday, 06 August 2013 13:24
By Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian | Op-Ed




Juana Brito prays over the bodies of her father and an unidentified youth, both killed by Guatemalan soldiers in the civil war 30 years ago, as a team from the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes their remains in the El Quiche Department of Guatemala, Feb. 13, 2013. (Photo: Victor J. Blue / The New York Times)

The United States still has military spending that is higher in real, inflation-adjusted terms than it was during the peak of the Reagan Cold War build-up, the Vietnam War, and the Korean War.  We seem to be in a state of permanent warfare, and – we have recently learned --  massive government spying and surveillance of our own citizens.  This is despite an ever-receding threat to the actual physical security of Americans.  Only 19 people have been killed acts of terrorism in the United States since September 11, 2001; and none or almost none of these were connected to foreign terrorists.  And there are no “enemy states” that pose a significant military threat to the United States – if any governments can be called “enemy states” at all.

One of the reasons for this disconnect is that most of the mass media provide a grossly distorted view of U.S. foreign policy. It presents an American foreign policy that is far more benign and justifiable than the reality of empire that most of the world knows.  In a well-researched and thoroughly documented article published by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Keane Bhatt provides an excellent case study of how this happens.

Bhatt focuses on a very popular and interesting National Public Radio (NPR) show, “This American Life,” and most importantly an episode that won the Peabody Award.  The Peabody Award , for distinguished achievement in electronic journalism, is a prestigious prize; so this makes the example even more relevant.

The episode was about the 1982 massacre in Guatemala. The story gives compelling eyewitness accounts of a horrendous slaughter of almost the entire village of Dos Erres, more than 200 people. The women and girls are raped and then killed, the men are shot or bludgeoned with sledgehammers, and many, including children, are dumped into a dry well – some while still alive – that would become their mass grave.  The broadcast walks the listener through a heroic investigation of the crime – the first ever to win punishment for such murders.  And finally, it provides a moving account of one survivor who was three years old at the time.  Three decades later, while living in Massachusetts, he discovers his roots and his biological father as a result of the investigation. The father lost his wife and his eight other children but survived because he happened to be out of town on the day of the massacre.
The story makes it clear that this bloodbath was one of many:

“This happened in over 600 villages, tens of thousands of people. A truth commission found that the number of Guatemalans killed or disappeared by their own government was over 180,000.”
But there is one striking omission – the U.S. role in what the UN Truth commission in 1999 later determined to be genocide.  The UN specifically noted Washington’s role and President Clinton publicly apologized for it – the first and to my knowledge the only apology from an American president for U.S. involvement in genocide.  The U.S. role in providing arms, training, ammunition, diplomatic cover, political and other support to the mass murderers is well-documented and has gotten some more documentation and attention as a result of the recent trial of former military dictator General Efraín Ríos Montt, who ruled from 1982-83.  (As Bhatt notes, the program states that the U.S. embassy had heard reports of massacres during this time but “dismissed” them; but this is very misleading at best -- there are cables showing that the embassy clearly knew what was going on).

In fact, one of the soldiers who participated in the Dos Erres massacre, Pedro Pimentel, who later was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison, was airlifted the day after the mass murder to the School of the Americas, the U.S. military facility known for training some of the region’s worst dictators and human rights violators.

It is astonishing that one of the worst genocides of the post-World War II era was allowed to reach its peak, just a couple of hours of flying time from the U.S. mainland, with almost no media reporting on it. Here you can find investigative journalist Allan Nairn interviewing a Guatemalan soldier in 1982, who describes how he and his comrades murdered whole villages, as in Dos Erres. And yet the major media ignored it, allowing Ronald Reagan to promote Rios Montt as "a man of great personal integrity and commitment."  So the omissions of This American Life are ironic in this historical context as well.
It is clear from the piece that Ira Glass, the show’s host, was well aware of the U.S. role in the Guatemalan genocide.  In the 1980s, it appears, he travelled to Central America and was active against the U.S. –funded wars and war crimes in the region.  In an email correspondence with Bhatt, he acknowledges that “maybe we made the wrong call” in leaving out the U.S. role.
That is an understatement, but a vitally important one.  For a program broadcast in English throughout the United States, this is arguably the most important thing that Americans need to know about the genocide.

I’m not faulting Glass. He may well have guessed that if he had made a point out of the U.S. role, and maybe questioned some of the U.S. officials who were responsible for it, the story would have run into trouble at NPR. It certainly wouldn’t have gotten a Peabody award.

That’s what makes this such a compelling illustration of how censorship and self-censorship operate in the U.S. media.  It demonstrates, at the micro level, something that I have seen countless times in the past 15 years of talking with journalists about these issues.  They have a good idea what the boundaries are and how much truth they can get away with.  I have met many good journalists who try to cross these boundaries, and some succeed -- but they often don’t last very long.

Scott Wilson, who was a foreign editor at the Washington Post and covered Venezuela during the short-lived coup against the democratically elected government of Venezuela in 2002, stated in an interview that “there was U.S. involvement” in the coup.  Yet this important fact never appeared anywhere in the Post, nor was it reported by any of the major U.S. media, despite considerable evidence from U.S. government documents that it was true.  Again, this is arguably the most important part of the story for a U.S. audience – especially since it played a major role in poisoning relations between Washington and Caracas over the past decade, and probably had a significant impact on relations with the whole continent of South America.  But, as in the Dos Erres story, the U.S. role in the crime is considered unmentionable.

The same is true for the U.S. role in the coup that destroyed Honduran democracy in 2009. The Obama administration’s considerable efforts to support and legitimize the coup government were not considered to be newsworthy by U.S. journalists.  (A program on Honduras was Bhatt’s other shot at “This American Life,” where they left the U.S.-supported coup out of a picture in which it should have had a prominent place). But this too, is off limits for the U.S. media.

What would U.S. foreign, military, and so-called “national security” policy look like if the media reported the most important facts about it?  There would be a lot fewer corpses abroad and returning home.  And we wouldn’t be cutting “meals on wheels” or other nutrition programs for the poor or elderly in order to sustain the world’s most fantastically bloated military budget.
This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.

MARK WEISBROT
Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, DC. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.

Zie ook: 'VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela.........'