Over a year after the Trump Administration seized Venezuela’s funding as part of its effort for regime change, officials now say they are going to tap into that money to try to fund the regime change, which so far have failed to make progress.
The US has been trying to enforce a regime change in Venezuela for over year. Initially this amounted just to the US recognizing a change had happened, and pushing the rest of the world to do the same. Between that and a failed coup, there were reports the administration was getting tired of not making progress.
About $300 million in funds are frozen by the US and will be made available to the regime change efforts. This includes $20 million that will be used to send pandemic relief to Venezuela. What the rest will be spent on remains to be seen.
The administration has previously refused to rule out direct military intervention, though the most recent bid, a mercenary group from Florida, ended in abject failure, and they’ll probably want a better idea before taking another shot at it.
Simply taking those funds; I believe that amounts to stealing?
I wonder how much will end up offshored in a Trump bank account.
Stealing is nothing new to Pompeo.
I’m sure Maduro could use some to be a member at Mar a Lago
“American Exceptionalism” means never having to obey the laws that apply to EVERYONE ELSE. And nothing is “stealing” if done by government. You should know that by now….taxpayer.
Taxes are different, the mandate comes through voting.
Stealing resources from others is an international war crime though.
Well, we are above international law and we don’t acknowledge the IOC or the United Nations. But we have earned that distinction many times over. Maduro is responsible for the sanctions and they would be lifted tomorrow if the citizens wised up and helped remove him. In addition to that we will pay for the oil that you think we are trying to steal. Our state of the art thinning process which we would implement meaning jobs and prosperity for everyone in Venezuela. I have seen the blueprints for the refineries that we are planning there with only one overweight ex bus driver standing in the way.
“Maduro is responsible for the sanctions and they would be lifted tomorrow if the citizens wised up and helped remove him.”
So again, why was there a coup effort in 2002? Maduro was not even in place.
“In addition to that we will pay for the oil that you think we are trying to steal”
Think? We know, sources have been provided.
“Our state of the art thinning process which we would implement meaning jobs and prosperity for everyone in Venezuela.”
What is this fiction? USA doesn’t even take care of its own citizens now during the corona and healthcare is not even a right. Somehow there is care for the Venezualan people? They are largely in such a bad state because of OUR sanctions.
“only one overweight ex bus driver standing in the way.”
More fiction. As if the people would welcome a bunch of supposed “liberators”. That’s what the propaganda in Iraq said too, despite that we knew from two different studies that it would turn into a mess.
It was that despot Hugo Chavez we wanted to depose in 2002. But reinstating caused all this trouble that they are in now. Once again we know what is best for the people of Venezuela.
Yes, we know that the oil doesn’t belong to them.
And we sanction the crap out of them to prove that we are in it for them just like we were for the the people of Iraq when we supported Saddam, or just like we now are for for the people of Saudiarabia when he support that dictatorship too.
Get your propaganda elsewhere, it won’t do there.
Perhaps Trump intends to run Venezuela himself. That sounds crazy. Or does it?
The nation which really needs regime change is not Venezuela or Iran.It is the is the so called United States Of America.Regime change not from Republicans to Democrats or otherwise.Both are compromised and beholden to lobbies and foreign powers.America should be redeemed from these evil forces and restored to Americans. Liberate America should be the rallying cry. Imagine Trump, Biden, Pompeo and such cretins running the most powerful nation as proxies of another power. liberate America. Restore America to Americans
“Imagine Trump, Biden, Pompeo and such cretins running the most powerful nation as proxies of another power.”
Say it. America is Israel’s bitch.
We can only say it. America will remain one
Not really, USA has its own goals. Global hegemony.
Gangsters at work, you make the attacked, sanctioned, occupied and invaded country pay for your act.
Because “regime change” (aka, assassinations followed by national chaos, death, and untold misery) has worked out SO WELL in the past. You would think that Trump, who has been the target of “regime change” since he got elected, would appreciate the unbelievable IRONY.
Tell it to the people of Venezuela who can’t buy a turnip with this socialist scum bag Maduro stealing everything he can get his ex bus driver hands on. He’s going and soon.
No denying just how horrible Venezuela has become. That does NOT mean that the US should steal their money and install their own puppet…or worse.
We are just holding their money until we get Nicky out of there. We just want to make sure he doesn’t get his greedy hands on it. He already pocketed 5 million from China to let them come in and look around., Then he ran off to Europe and was dining it up and hobnobbing with Ahed Tamimi while his countrymen were starving. Real peach of a fellow Nicky Pockets is.Two worthless overweight louses singing, dancing and mostly stuffing their fat faces on the western European banquet circuit Those two Tamimi and Maduro yukking it up with that China bribe money were causing eyes to roll in the finest banquet halls in practically every fine dining establishment there. That 5 million should have gone into the Venezuelan food bank system and Guiado as much as intimated he would have added 1m from the U.S. to help feed the good citizens there.
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We just want to make sure he doesn’t get his greedy hands on it.”
Yes, they are greedy, not us stealing other people’s resources. You cold easily work for big brother in 1984 feeding the people mindless propaganda to follow.
Part of military warfare is to starve the people, in hopes for an uprising, this warfare 101 but in general it only makes sure that the leaders of any country accumulate more power to themselves to protect themselves from imperialist scumbags. The result is worse for the population as well, who we then pretend to care for.
The oil there is thick and expensive to refine. We can do it better than anyone else and we have no intentions of stealing it. We have to make sure China and Russia don’t steal it as they are as ruthless and dishonest as the day is long.
“We can do it better than anyone else and we have no intentions of stealing it.”
How come you are even here and so ignorant?
The Yankee Plot to Overthrow Nicolás Maduro and Steal Venezuela’s Oil
Neocon John Bolton Comes Clean: It’s About The Oil
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He is the man who at one point got a note from the defense secretary with the subject line “Oil” and the text: “We ought to have on our radar screen the subject of oil—Venezuela, the Caucauses [sic], Indonesia—anywhere we think it may exist and how it fits into our strategies.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/01/feith-rumsfeld-snowflakes/551573/?utm_source=atlfb
A good part of the reason Venezuela has become “horrible” is because of crippling US sanctions. The US is the world’s biggest bully and is responsible for the deaths of many thousands of Venezuelans who can’t get the food and medicines and money they need because of the sanctions. The US government should be on trial for murder.
Maybe Venezuela is none of our goddamn business.. ever think about that ???
Just look at a map and you can see why China and or Russia are interested in setting up shop there. That has to be prevented at all costs. We didn’t go to the trouble of grooming, preparing and installing the president that we want running things down there just for kicks and giggles. We have given Nicky the option of leaving on his own accord but he is one stubborn dictator. Now we have to go in and remove him forcibly. Our regime change people never sleep until the job is completed.
It’s not at all that Venezuela looks into those as allies as the west is looking to put puppets in place.
The only reason USA cares is because of the oil, it has nothing to do with the form of government, as USA supports almost all dictators in the world.
The U.S. only supports right-wing dictatorships. Left-wing ones have to go.
I can never tell whether your posts are sarcasm or whether you actually believe the stuff you write. If it’s the latter I really feel sorry for you, you are so brainwashed.
That’s got nothing to do with it.
Even during Bush II there was a coup effort.
It is time the good people of Venezuela listen to us and accept Guiado as their leader which we will instruct on how to run things down there.
Before the fateful date of Jan. 22, fewer than 1-in-5 Venezuelans had heard of Juan Guaidó. Only a few months ago, the 35-year-old was an obscure character in a politically marginal far-right group closely associated with gruesome acts of street violence. Even in his own party, Guaidó had been a mid-level figure in the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which is now held under contempt according to Venezuela’s constitution.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuelas-coup-leader/
“sure”
Sometimes I think you are just yanking our chains, your posts are so preposterous you can’t really believe the stuff you write.
Frozen = Stolen
They will get it back on a pallet if they accept the great Guaido as president.
Trump needs to be concerned about regime change in our country come November.
Goddamn thief.
Americans wonder why, when they travel to other countries people hate them.
Pirates, thieves and gangsters. I eagerly await seeing the US get its well-deserved comeuppance.
It should be a fundamental Golden Rule on Planet Earth by now:
“Do unto other nations that which you would want them to do unto you.”