The U.S. government, the most violent rogue nation on Earth, continues its illegal and unconstitutional war against the people of Venezuela with military attacks and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. We have been told that it is because he is a narco-terrorist peddling drugs to the U.S. — an absolute lie. The true story is about Venezuela’s hold on the world’s largest oil reserves.
This war has been going on since 1999, when the United States began its effort to overthrow the democratically elected president, Hugo Chavez, who nationalized the oil industry. The war has included more than 20 years of illegal sanctions against the Venezuelan government that have brought death and misery to the people of that nation. The sanctions deepened in 2015 when President Barack Obama declared that Venezuela was “an extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States.”
His action was illegal and unconstitutional and his claim was untrue.
Historians for Peace and Democracy has condemned the U.S. government’s military strikes on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro.
The administration of President Donald Trump has described these attacks as a “police action.” However, they are illegal actions and part of a long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America. They are a violation of Venezuela’s national sovereignty, international law and the U.N. charter.
We must keep in mind that the Trump administration wants to gain control of Venezuela’s oil reserves. That is what this is about.
John Marciano
Talent
