{"id":133017,"date":"2019-05-06T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=133017"},"modified":"2019-05-05T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T10:04:44","slug":"psychopath-capitalism-us-economic-terrorism-and-genocide-against-the-people-of-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/05\/psychopath-capitalism-us-economic-terrorism-and-genocide-against-the-people-of-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPsychopath Capitalism\u201d: US Economic Terrorism and Genocide against the People of Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venezuela-aid-us.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-133018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/venezuela-aid-us.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 25:<em> Foreign Minister Arreaza Describes Excruciating Suffering of the Venezuelan People Resulting from US Sanctions<\/em><\/li>\n<li>April 26:<em> US\u00a0Violates its Obligation as UN Host Country and Sanctions the Foreign Minister for Speaking Truth to Power<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cWe are not only on the wrong side, we are the wrong side.\u201d &#8212;\u00a0<\/em>Pentagon Papers Expert Daniel Ellsberg<\/li>\n<li><em>\u201cAmerican sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela\u2019s economy and thereby lead to regime change.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.\u201d\u00a0 &#8212; <\/em> Jeffrey Sachs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>US Maneuvers at the United Nations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>3 May 201 &#8211; <\/em>The entire official schedule of meetings of the United Nations Commission on Disarmament \u2013 April 8 through April 29 \u2013 was forced to cancel because the United States, in violation of its obligations as host country, refused a visa to important Russian delegates.<\/p>\n<p>On April 25, Venezuela\u2019s brilliant, charismatic Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza\u00a0detailed, in a United Nations press briefing, the horrific suffering the Venezuelan people are enduring as a result of the dictatorship of US sanctions against his country, and US terrorization of each and every global institution and nation which the US is demanding sever all economic and diplomatic ties with Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>In a stealthy, deadly march to global dictatorship, and consistent with its attempt to subjugate the United Nations to the interests of US oligarchic power, the United States is abusing its membership in the United Nations, attempting to force regime change on Venezuela, using criminal methods in violation of the Hague Convention, the Geneva Convention, the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of the Organization of American States, the Venezuelan Constitution, and in violation of U.S. law itself.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. maneuvers to destroy the Maduro government\u2019s UN accreditation, and replace it with their puppet Guaido are horrifying and Machiavellian, and, quite realistically, since the US has absolutely no scruples, nor any respect for international law, there is an ominous possibility that they may succeed.\u00a0 Numerous diplomats of many countries, with whom I have spoken, are terrified by the sanctions the US just placed on the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, recognizing the threat to their own sovereignty, and sophisticated Iranian specialists delineated the dangerous possibilities the US has to use this method to force out the Venezuelan delegation to the UN, and de facto denude the Maduro government\u2019s access to the UN.\u00a0 If the US succeeds in this criminal scheme, the credibility of the UN will be entirely and irreparably destroyed, as the many diplomats with whom I have spoken have confirmed.\u00a0 Many delegates are now saying that the UN would be better based in another more reliable and respectful country.\u00a0 Venezuela is Chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, an organization of 120 member states.\u00a0For the US to sanction her Foreign Minister is an unconscionable and intolerable abuse of the host country status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pinochet-kissinger-chile-usa-coup.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pinochet-kissinger-chile-usa-coup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pinochet-kissinger-chile-usa-coup.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pinochet-kissinger-chile-usa-coup-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US has, furthermore, forged another mafia-style organization of flunkey Latin American \u201cgovernments\u201d which give every indication of becoming \u00a0a new Operation Condor, that systematically organized engine of murder arranged by<strong> Augusto Pinochet<\/strong> and <strong>Henry Kissinger<\/strong>, (image left) an international organized criminal plan to exterminate all progressive and humanitarian efforts throughout Latin America and beyond.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>More: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-orchestrating-coup-venezuela\/5667501\" >The US Is Orchestrating a Coup in Venezuela<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Operation Condor orchestrated the slaughter of Chilean former<strong> Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier<\/strong> in Sheridan Circle, Washington, DC in 1976. Letelier bled to death after a car bomb arranged by Anti-Castro Cuban terrorists tore off his legs. An American girl working for the Institute of Policy Studies,<strong> Ronni Moffett<\/strong> was also killed in that terrorist action.\u00a0 In Argentina, Chilean <strong>General Carlos Prats<\/strong> was murdered when his Buenos Aires home was bombed;\u00a0 in Rome, Chilean<strong> Senator Bernardo Leighton<\/strong>\u2019s wife was crippled by an assassin\u2019s bullet intended for him;\u00a0 Operation Condor arranged the murder of former progressive Bolivian President Torres in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diabolic Methods Used by the US to Wreck Venezuela<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a colossal report entitled:\u00a0 \u201cEconomic Sanctions as Collective Punishment:\u00a0 The Case of Venezuela,\u201d and corroborating everything stated by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, economist Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot describe the diabolic methods used by the United States to wreck Venezuela and discredit socialism, resulting in the deliberate murder of at least 40,000 Venezuelan people, including children, the elderly, the infirm and other of the most vulnerable civilians.\u00a0This is a systematic and deliberate policy of the US government, a heinous plan to exterminate socialism and massacre the Venezuelan people in order to steal their oil, a spectacular act of piracy brazenly conducted with the collusion of obedient puppets in Western Europe and Canada, and craven, obsequious Latin American states whose shameful obedience to Washington is breathtaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/guaido-lopez-venezuela-400x267.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/guaido-lopez-venezuela-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/guaido-lopez-venezuela-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/guaido-lopez-venezuela-400x267-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Complete Blockade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington is now threatening to completely blockade and sanction Cuba to force that country to sever relations with Venezuela.\u00a0Nicaragua is, of course, also in the crosshairs.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday there was a failed coup, provoked by the Quisling Juan Guaido, (image right with Lopez) who incited a military revolt to violently overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicholas Maduro.\u00a0 If Joseph Biden or Bernie Sanders, or any American citizen advocated the violent overthrow of the US government, they would be imprisoned and\/or executed.\u00a0 It is astounding that the Manchurian candidate Juan Guaido, advocating the violent overthrow of the Venezuelan government, is allowed to roam free, throughout Venezuela.\u00a0 This is incontestable proof of the impeccably democratic character of the Maduro government.\u00a0And perhaps it is proof of Maduro\u2019s strength and trust in the Venezuelan people.\u00a0 But Maduro\u2019s life is at risk for his country. During yesterday\u2019s emergency, Venezuelan Ambassador Samuel Moncada convened a UN press conference, and skillfully replied to often slanted and biased questions\u00a0 for which Moncada was well prepared, and had no doubt anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is disintegrating, and has been for many years, with the current administration rife with internecine warfare.\u00a0 The French government is confronting an incipient popular revolution of the Yellow Jackets, the British government stymied by Brexit and separatist movements threatening the survival of the \u201cUnited Kingdom.\u201d\u00a0 It is only with the most flagrant arrogance that they criticize Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>It is agonizing to witness the mass murder of a heroic and progressive Venezuelan people, by a <strong>psychopathic capitalism<\/strong> which has not one iota of human decency, and wallowing in its cannibalistic behavior, desecrates the very concept of human rights.\u00a0 But that is the essence of monopoly capitalism, whose \u201chighest\u201d stage is fascism.\u00a0One can only hope that Russia and China will recognize the future menace to their own survival, and will not indulge in the wishful thinking of a \u201cwin-win\u201d arrangement with Washington.\u00a0One can only hope that the crucible of Venezuela will prove to be the Stalingrad of this de facto World War III, and it will be on the battlefield of Venezuela, with its transgenerational legacy of Simon Bolivar, that fascism is defeated, and the future progressive destiny of humanity will be forged.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Carla Stea<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>is <\/em>Global Research<em>\u2019s correspondent at United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/carla-stea\" >Carla Stea<\/a>, Global Research, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/us-economic-terrorism-genocide-people-venezuela\/5676366\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022\t\u201cWe are not only on the wrong side, we are the wrong side.\u201d &#8212; Pentagon Papers Expert Daniel Ellsberg<br \/>\n\u2022\t\u201cAmerican sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela\u2019s economy and thereby lead to regime change.  It\u2019s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.\u201d  &#8212; Prof. Jeffrey Sachs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":133019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[393,541,70],"class_list":["post-133017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-coup","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}