Trump threatens Venezuela with American troops on the ground

[Shepherd]

Trump is threatening Venezuela with American troops on the ground, as noted in the link to an article below. Having lived in Chile when the U.S. initiated a coup there against the democratically-elected government-- which lead to hundreds of thousands of death and wounds around South America--this latest threat concerns me, as well as others around the world. Speak up now, or you will not have much peace in the near future.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019, Common Dreams
A Progressive Alternative to Trump’s Dangerous Venezuela Policy
The Trump administration's loose talk of military options is extremely dangerous and should be met with vocal and sustained opposition.

By Jon Rainwater

[Mayacaman]

Can Venezuela and its neighbours survive the coming war?

by Thierry Meyssan

The crisis which is destabilizing Venezuela, like those which are beginning in Nicaragua and Haïti, needs to be analyzed in order to enable us to address it. Thierry Meyssan reminds us of three interpretative hypotheses and argues in favour of one of them. He evokes the US strategy and the ways in which it may be countered.

Today, Venezuela is divided between two legitimacies – that of Constitutional President Nicolas Maduro and that of the President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó.

Guaido nominated himself as interim President, allegedly by virtue of articles 223 and 233 of the Constitution. We only need to read these articles to see that they in no way apply to his case, and that he can not claim from them any legitimacy for the post he seeks to usurp. Despite that, he has been accredited by the United States, the Lima Group and part of the European Union.

Some of Nicolas Maduro’s supporters claim that Washington is reproducing the overthrow of a leftist government, just as it did against Salvadore Allende in 1973, during the mandate of President Richard Nixon.

Others, reacting to the revelations of Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen about the career path of Juan Guaidó, believe on the contrary that this is a colour revolution similar to those we saw under the presidency of George W. Bush.

Three dominant hypotheses

It is perfectly logical for Latin-Americans to compare what they are presently experiencing to what they have already known, like the Chilean coup d’etat of 1973. But it would be risky for Washington to reproduce the same scenario 46 years later – it would be an error, because today, everyone is familiar with the details of this deception.


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Here is the link to the whole article:
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205147.html

[Mayacaman]

Here are a few very poignant Questions, framed by a fellow, Florida Maquis, who is posting serious videos just about every other day concerning Venezuela, on his youtube channel. Well worth subscribing to if you want to keep abreast of the developing situation, this manufactured "Crisis" in Venezuela...

"If 90% of the people support him,.....THEN...
Why does Random Guy Named Juan need diplomatic protection?
Why does DC feel the need to issue threats about his well being?
If 90% of the people are starving/unemployed,...
Please Explain the pictures of all the ' healthy ' people at the rally today...
Please explain all the video of normal every day life around the country....
If 90% of the military doesn't support President Nicolas Maduro,....
Why is *HE the one in Miraflores Palace?
Why aren't they flocking to support Random Guy Named Juan?
Why did the coup fail last weekend?? If 90% of the people of ** ANY ** Country believes/supports anything,...It shall be so....!
~DC is cooking up a story, controlling the media to promote it, and manufacturing consent for a military event~"

Here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsZlq7ggRbg