The US continues to escalate its anti-Venezuela measures this week, having announced Monday night that sanctions have grown to an economic embargo, and now that appears to include a naval blockade.
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced on Wednesday that the United States had seized a cargo ship bound for Venezuela in the Panama Canal. The ship was carrying soy cakes for the production of food.
US officials as yet have not commented, but it’s not clear under what
pretext they consider themselves allowed to seize a ship carrying food.
The Panama Canal is no longer US territory in the first place, and
seizing a food ship bound for Venezuela after spending most of 2019
claiming Venezuelans are starving and in need of food aid seems
particularly spiteful.
Vice President Rodriguez condemned the move as “serious aggression,” and
accused the Trump Administration of trying to impede Venezuela’s right
to food.
Venezuela’s Ambassador to the UN also raised the issue, saying the
Security Council needs to prevent US violations. Since the US has veto
power at the Security Council, that’s clearly not going to happen,
though it will hopefully bring more attention to the matter.
And we call the Iranians pirates.
Terrorism.
Who is the owner of that ship?
countries need to move away from the US dollar, the faster the better
That is a flat out act of war. Congress? Congress?
This is an outrage, but standard practice for the Anglo-Zionist Empire. The US puts sanctions on Iran to starve the populace.
Now they out and out stop food shipment on the way to Venezuela. Barbaric. And of course the Israelis sneeringly talk of putting the Palestinians “on a diet,” causing malnutrition and stunted body and brain development in infants and children.
But blatantly stopping food shipments leaves no room for doubt about what is going on. Starvation tactics.
It is time to end the Empire.
Cratylus, I wholeheartedly agree. This is, indeed, an outrage and must be stopped .. But as you rightly said, it’s standard practice for the Anglo-Zionist Empire; the US puts sanctions on Iran to starve the population.
Now they out and out stop food shipments on the way to Venezuela .. Absolutely barbaric. The Israelis sneeringly talk about putting the Palestinians “on a diet”, causing malnutrition and stunted body and brain development in infants and children.
I agree .. Blatantly stopping food shipments leaves no room whatsoever for doubt about what’s going on. Starvation tactics, the same tactics the Bolshevik USSR did to the Ukrainian population,
Yes, Catylus, it’s well time to end the Empire.
I am not familiar with the details of the tactics used in the Ukraine. But of course such tactics are reprehensible no matter who does them. Stephen Cohen writes of a memorial now going up (perhaps built already in Moscow) to the victims of Stalin’s crimes against humanity. That is a step forward in healing the wounds of the past.
But the things I mention are ongoing – they must be stopped.
International piracy.
Russia and China navies should escort ships to Venezuela (and Iran of course ) bringing humanitarian relief in the way of food and medical necessities. US has become the number ONE roque state in this world. Hope this wil cause a big backlash.
Tom,,that is what I would like to see,,,but there must be a very good reason they have not done that already…….?
This story simply isnt true. Panama government said the entire thing was made up by VZ officials. You guys should consider fact checking before posting nonsense like this
https://twitter.com/canaldepanama/status/1159171401737297923?s=19
No, Panama only said the canal is operating normally and no ships are “detained”, but the shipment was indeed stopped because the company could not proceed without losing its insurance.
Nope. In fact the boat in question was tracked moving along its merry way. This report is simply wrong
” an owner of the detained ship was told by an insurance company that he
had been banned from bringing goods to Venezuela due to the sanctions.”
And yet the only source for this “fact” is Venezuelan gov. Its a made up story. There is no missing ship, Panama denies it happened and not a single media source outside of TeleSur, who regularly lies for VZ, is carrying the story.
Reuters and PanAm Post literally have stories that its not true
There is ZERO proof. Its fake news. I dont know what to tell you. If you also want to believe the earth is flat, go ahead. Both theories have the same amount of evidence
Hey Jason Ditz: I read Joshua Collins post. Is it true that Panama has said the seizure isn’t true. Please follow up. I have come to trust Antiwar.Com as a credible source of news and info.
More details have been published elsewhere:
“the owner of the vessel carrying the merchandise of food was informed by the insurance company that it was prevented from moving that cargo to Venezuela.
“The shipment seizure comes just days after Trump signed an executive order Monday that imposes a near-total blockade on government assets in that country, which includes an embargo against food suppliers”
Thus it is a disrupted transaction, rather than a government seizure. It is much like what the US does to Iran with banking disruptions.
Trump starves children. He thinks the price is worth it.
“The price is worth it” is what Madelein Albright (but not so bright) said when 500,000 children were starved to death during the years prior to the Iraq war. They now do the same to Iran. This is a new kind of warfare, trying to make people rise against their own governments. It did not work in Cuba…..
long,,Remember MADelyn Notbright and her famous concerning children and war?? D.C. Ghouls,,and where is that Epstein file dump??????????
Notbright indeed. Good one. Her middle name is “is”.
this is a war crime against humanity
I’d put the entire trump administration on trial just for what they’ve done to far to Iran and Venezuela…..
and then I’d hang them all
72A, No you cannot,,until you start with the LBJ Administration and every Administration following, with the exception of Carter. Prez. Trump is a piker compared to the other Ghouls, who really are just pure evil.
Carter included. People mistake ex-President Carter with President Carter.
That is an unauthorized act of seige warfare qualifying as an international war crime under the Geneva Conventions. It brings us shame
Nothing about this in our MSM. You have to wonder if it actually did happen, at least the way the Venezuelans say it did. It’s also something that Trump probably wouldn’t brag about in a twitter storm, like he would if they had stopped a Chinese oil tanker. He can’t deny, though, that he signed an executive order Monday that imposes a near-total blockade on government assets in that country, which includes an embargo against food suppliers.
For the Outlaw Usrael Empire, killing people is always worth it.
F the usa and the sooner the rest of the dumbass world wakes up and confronts,occupies then dissolves this rogue psycho the better.
degan,,So you think the rest of the world is so much better?????LOL!!! Wake up,,Bro’!
enjoy your cruise on the uss titanic…Yes, much of the world is better, and you’d know that if you’d ever leave your mom’s basement. Personally i leave for Costa Rica next year. i should’ve left this rat trap fascistic mental institution of an empire https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/20bcc0366964fa568d2a844e54544272c2047b6783ca007881fdea15bb34a793.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c1556a111daa2360cf6cd4723010b2d8a8c5db4fa6aa1781fc781589d6933671.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/12df359696f7cd628f94de2a4641042f0e1054a1cc9e6cb3f6b7fc5831bd33e1.jpg years ago…
All criminals. They were so happy ripping off Haiti.
US military spending:
$870 billion for 2018
$750 billion for 2019 (so far)
So much for those nice US talking-points about “freedom of navigation.” Perhaps it would now be appropriate for all actual freedom-loving nations to respond in kind by blocking all shipment of food to the US. What a renaissance of local agriculture and farmers markets we would have!
I, like many Americans here in this form, is ashamed to be an American, it is an outrage to seize food, shit is purely humanitarian based and is nothing but hatred and spite
So now the U.S. is treating Venezuelans like Israel treats Palestinians? WTF!
The U.S. and Israel, what a pair, who’s running this show? Certainly the American people don’t support this action, at least the sane ones.
One other point,. if Venezuela didn’t have oil, the US gvt criminal syndicate wouldn’t even know venezuela existed and wouldn’t be bothering them now!
And it is “sweet crude” oil. Some of the best in the world.
if the russians were wise they would allow VZ to allow them to set up a massive naval base there.
but that would be game over so of course it will never happen.
Bet you 5 cents Russia will either set up an air base, naval or both. Within 3 months.
We’ve become the war mongers! No other country on earth is doing what we are doing, taking over countries and fighting corporate wars that benefit the 1% greatly, we lose our sons and daughters, and everything remains the same! Senseless wars! If we won tomorrow, our lives would go unchanged!!!! Sanity, PLEEZE!!!!!!
Indirectly murdering people is what the US government does best….when it is not murdering them DIRECTLY that is.
blockades are an act of war, crime against humanity which is all in violation of the the laws of nations, international law, and no authority in the constitution for such an action, and is therefore TREASON for the officials backing these crimes!
without rule of law, we have nothing but self-centered gangs on this planet using means to acquire more while trying to decrease their rivals basket. Without equality we have the mighty ruling with might and it is not lawful. Solution is a real UN that is based on one nation, one vote, and all are subject to law equally…What we have now is the usual law of the jungle algorithm, its been going on since the one cave met the next cave. The stronger exploits the weaker…
This story has been categorically debunked. It never happened.
https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/the-curious-case-of-the-ship-not-lost-at-sea-7e331ce8b0d9?source=friends_link&sk=9f18b860fc80c688c3127669a49e81a0