Om de
ellende onder de volkeren van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua nog verder
te verdiepen, heeft de psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton
aangekondigd dat de VS deze landen nog meer sancties zal opleggen. In
zijn smerige praatje stelde Bolton dat de 3 landen de 'stromannen'
zijn van het socialisme, waar hij deze landen ook aanduidt als de
'trojka van tirannie, die volgens hem uit elkaar valt.........'
Waar haalt schoft Bolton het lef vandaan, niet alleen daar de VS de echt tirannieke landen als de reli-fascistische dictaturen van Saoedi-Arabië en de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten steunt, waar de Egyptische-junta van al-Sisi aan toegevoegd moet worden, maar ook daar de VS een tiranniek beleid voert, met uitoefening van grootschalige terreur, tegen landen die haar niet welgevallig zijn, zoals Syrië en Iran....... Vergeet voorts niet dat de VS met haar economische oorlog tegen Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua, in feite terreur uitoefent op de volkeren van die landen.... (hetzelfde geldt uiteraard voor Iran)
Opperploert
Bolton deed zijn uitlatingen in de buurt van Miami bij de
herdenking van het Bay of Pigs fiasco in april 1961, waarbij de
CIA en ultra rechtse Cubanen het soevereine land Cuba aanvielen om
het bewind van Castro omver te werpen.
Om het
volk van Cuba nog harder te straffen, stelde Bolton dat Cubanen in de
VS met familie op Cuba in het vervolg niet meer dan $ 1,000.-- per
persoon en maximaal 1 keer per kwartaal mogen overmaken naar die
familie....... Het is duidelijk: een voortzetting van het programma
van ontmoediging voor bewoners van landen die de VS niet welgevallig
zijn.....
Met deze
tactiek, een economische oorlogsvoering, probeert de VS de bevolking
van landen die haar niet welgevallig zijn, zoals de 3 genoemde
landen, zo te raken dat ze de straat opgaan voor massademonstraties
en daarmee probeert de VS het volk zover te krijgen dat het zittende
bewind wordt afgezet........ Tegelijkertijd durft Bolton te stellen
dat hij de volkeren van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua nooit in de
steek te laten....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Duidelijk geval van
gevaarlijke psychopathische gekte, waarbij elke redelijke en ethische
argumentatie ontbreekt......
Een paar
uur eerder sprak Pompeo over Cuba en hij wil dat Cuba de onteigende
bezittingen van 'Amerikanen' teruggeeft aan 'de rechtmatige eigenaren' en waarbij hij grote
herstelbetalingen, inclusief rente eist van de Cubaanse
regering...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! De bezittingen waar Bolton over
spreekt waren van smerige plantage en fabriekseigenaren die hun
arbeiders vreselijk hebben uitgebuit, voorts gaat het om bezittingen
van maffia organisaties die voor de revolutie van Castro en zijn
makkers in 1959 op Cuba grote casino's en bordelen in hun bezit hadden.......
Gelukkig
verzet de EU zich tegen deze verdere uitbouw van sancties, echter dat
verzet is van nul en generlei waarde, immers het verzet van de EU
tegen de hernieuwde sancties van de VS tegen Iran, was er één in
woorden, daarna deed en doet de EU niets voor Iran en durven EU
bedrijven niet langer te investeren in dat land........ Eigenlijk onnodig te zeggen dat het hier om een heel smerige vorm van chantage door de Trump administratie gaat, genoeg voor een aanklacht bij het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC)!!
Trump
Admin Sanctions ‘Three Stooges of Socialism,’ Cuba, Nicaragua,
Venezuela
The
Trump administration on Wednesday intensified its crackdown on Cuba,
Nicaragua and Venezuela, rolling back Obama administration policy and
announcing new restrictions and sanctions against the three countries
whose leaders national security adviser John Bolton dubbed the “three
stooges of socialism.”
“The
troika of tyranny — Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua — is beginning
to crumble,” Bolton said in a hard-hitting speech near Miami on the
58th anniversary of the United States’ failed Bay of Pigs invasion
of the island, an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.
Bolton
announced a new cap on the amount of money families in the United
States can send their relatives in Cuba. The Obama administration had
lifted limits on remittances, but the new limit will be $1,000 per
person per quarter, Bolton said. Remittances to Cuba from the United
States amounted to $3 billion in 2016, according to the State
Department.
Bolton
also announced that the U.S. was sanctioning the Central Bank of
Venezuela, which the Trump administration says has been instrumental
in propping up the embattled
government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
He also announced sanctions against financial services provider
Bancorp, which he claimed is a “slush fund” for Nicaragua’s
President Daniel Ortega.
“The
United States looks forward to watching each corner of this sordid
triangle of terror fall: in Havana, in Caracas, and in Managua,”
Bolton said in South Florida, which is home to thousands of exiles
and immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
He
said Obama administration policies gave the Cuban
government “political
cover to expand its malign influence” across
the region, including in Venezuela. Cuba has trained Venezuelan
security forces to repress civilians and support Maduro, Bolton said.
“Havana
continues to prop up Maduro and help him sustain the brutal suffering
of the Venezuelan people,” Bolton said. “As President Trump has
said, Maduro is quite simply a ‘Cuban puppet.'”
“Thousands
of Cuban doctors in Venezuela are being used as pawns by Maduro and
his Cuban sponsors to support his brutal and oppressive reign.”
Bolton’s
pledge to “never, ever abandon” the people of Cuba, Venezuela and
Nicaragua in their fight for freedom also might ring hollow in light
of the historical events he sought to highlight at the event hosted
by the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association.
Many
Cuban Americans to this day resent the late President John F. Kennedy
for not deploying American troops at a critical moment in the Bay of
Pigs invasion.
Meanwhile,
with the high stakes of the Cold War a fading memory, some critics of
U.S. policy toward Venezuela worry that the Trump administration’s
stance that all options are on the table, including a military one,
to oust Maduro is an empty threat that will only serve to ignite the
streets and geopolitical tensions with Russia, compounding the misery
of Venezuelan citizens.
“Honoring
one of U.S.’ greatest military fiascos from 60 years back suggests
U.S.
policy to Latin America owes more now to a perverse Cold War
nostalgia than practical benefits for people of the region,” said
Ivan Briscoe, the Latin American director for the International
Crisis Group (ICG), a think tank headquartered in Brussels.
Bolton
spoke just hours after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced in
Washington a new policy that allows lawsuits against foreign firms
operating on properties Cuba seized from Americans after the 1959
revolution. The United States has enforced a trade blockade against
Cuba since the early 1960s.
The
announcement comes at a moment of severe economic weakness for Cuba,
which is struggling to find enough cash to import basic food and
other supplies following a drop in aid from Venezuela and a string of
bad years in other key economic sectors.
Pompeo
said he won’t renew a bar on litigation that has been in place for
two decades, meaning that lawsuits can be filed starting on May 2
when the current suspension expires. The decision could cost dozens
of Canadian and European companies tens of billions of dollars in
compensation and interest.
Pompeo’s
decision gives Americans the right to sue companies that operate out
of hotels, tobacco factories, distilleries and other properties Cuba
nationalized after Fidel Castro took power. It allows Cubans who
became U.S. citizens years after their properties were taken to sue.
The
Justice Department has certified roughly 6,000 claims as having
merit, according to Kimberly Breier, the top U.S. diplomat for the
Americas. Those claims have an estimated value of $8 billion: $2
billion in property and $6 billion in interest, she said. In
addition, another 200,000 uncertified claims could run into the tens
of billions of dollars, she said.
Breier
said there would be no exceptions to the decision, which has already
prompted stern responses from Canada and Europe as they have vowed to
protect their businesses from lawsuits.
“European
companies that are operating in Cuba will have nothing to worry about
if they are not operating on properties taken from Americans,” she
said.
The
decision deals a severe blow to Havana’s efforts to draw foreign
investment to the island and comes as Trump steps up pressure
to Venezuela’s Maduro, who is holding power with help
from other countries, including Cuba, China and Russia.
Spain,
which has large investments in hotels and other tourism-related
industries on the island, was the first to react. A senior government
official told The Associated Press that Madrid would ask the European
Union to challenge the U.S. move in the World Trade Organization.
Businesses
from Canada, France and Great Britain among other countries also
conduct business in properties nationalized after Castro took power.
Johana
Tablada, Cuba’s deputy director of U.S. affairs, said on Twitter:
“Before they try to euphorically ride a wave of wickedness and
lies, they should take a dose of reality. The world has told John
Bolton and the U.S. government to eliminate the criminal blockade
against Cuba and the Helms-Burton Act” of 1996.
Countries
with large investments in Cuba have ferociously protested the law.
“The
extraterritorial application of the U.S. embargo is illegal and
violates international law,” said Alberto Navarro, the European
Union ambassador to Cuba. “I personally consider it immoral. For 60
years the only thing that’s resulted from the embargo is the
suffering of the Cuban people.”
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Zie ook:
'Venezuela: vicepresident van de VS, Mike Pence, belooft militairen extra's als ze overlopen naar kamp Guaidó'
'
Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk'
'Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht....'
'
Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt'
'
Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
'
VS dreigt Rusland, China en Iran met geweld vanwege hulp aan Venezolaanse volk......'
'
Venezuela: in geheime zitting in Washington is gesproken over een militaire inval'
'
Venezuela is nog lang niet verslagen door de VS'
