Under the guise of protecting human rights, the Trump administration is illegally meddling in three countries it has dáilte the “troika of tyranny” — Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. National Security Adviser John Bolton claimed, “Miami is home to countless Americans, who fled the prisons and death squads of the Castro regime in Cuba, the murderous dictatorships of Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, and the horrific violence of the 1980s and today under the brutal reign of the Ortegas in Nicaragua.”
But the U.S. government’s taifead chearta an duine doesn’t compare favorably to Cuba’s. And the Trump administration, which ignores notorious human rights violators like Saudi Arabia, is acting out of more cynical motives in its commission of egregious human rights violations against Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
Tá rialtas na SA a fhorchuirtear unlawful, coercive sanctions on these nations, and attempted to mount a coup to illegally change Venezuela’s regime.
Trump and the real troika of tyranny — Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams - agat Theip ar ina iarracht coup i gcoinne an tofa go daonlathach Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Trump’s troika, ubh ar by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), are seeking to substitute U.S. puppet Juan Guaidó for Maduro as president of Venezuela.
On May 1, Pompeo D'inis Fox Gnó that the U.S. might use military force in Venezuela “if that’s what is required.” Eric Prince, founder of the infamous Blackwater mercenary group, presented a plan to U.S. and European leaders to provide 5,000 mercenaries to Guaidó.
McClatchy Thuairiscigh that covert U.S. weapons shipments arrived in Venezuela from Miami in February.
Is cúis mhór imní é seo toisc go bhfuil dlúthpháirtíocht ag an Rúis i Veiniséala agus d’fhéadfadh ionsaí a fhaigheann tacaíocht ó na Stáit Aontaithe a bheith i mbaol comhraic leis an Rúis.
Ina theannta sin, cuireann Cairt na Náisiún Aontaithe cosc ar thíortha forneart a úsáid i gcoinne sláine críche nó neamhspleáchais pholaitiúil tíre eile, nó bagairt orthu forneart a úsáid. Cuireann Cairt Eagraíocht na Stát Meiriceánach cosc ar aon tír idirghabháil a dhéanamh i ngnóthaí inmheánacha nó seachtracha náisiún eile. Agus ráthaíonn an Cúnant Idirnáisiúnta ar Chearta Sibhialta agus Polaitiúla an ceart chun féinchinnidh.
Smachtbhannaí Comhphionós Neamhdhleathach
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has increased punishing sanctions on Venezuela as a step toward forcible regime change. “Statements from the [Trump] administration indicated that the purpose of the sanctions was to provoke a military rebellion to topple the government,” according to a tuarascáil nua by the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Those sanctions are exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela. They have ba chúis le more than 40,000 deaths from 2017-2018 and oil production has fallen more than 36 percent since January 2019.
Deir an tuarascáil gur laghdaigh na smachtbhannaí eacnamaíocha a chuir Trump i mí Lúnasa 2017 “iontógáil calórach an phobail, méadú ar ghalair agus mortlaíocht (do dhaoine fásta agus naíonáin araon), agus díláithríodh na milliúin Venezuelans a theith ón tír mar thoradh ar an dúlagar eacnamaíoch a bhí ag dul in olcas agus an hipirbhoilsciú. ” Ina theannta sin, “Thosaigh siad géarchéim eacnamaíoch Veiniséala agus rinne siad beagnach dodhéanta an geilleagar a chobhsú, rud a chuir le breis básanna. Rinne na tionchair seo go léir dochar díréireach do na Venezuelans is boichte agus is leochailí.”
De réir na tuarascála, “Níos déine agus níos millteach fós ná na smachtbhannaí eacnamaíocha leathana i Lúnasa 2017 bhí na smachtbhannaí a forchuireadh le hordú feidhmiúcháin an 28 Eanáir, 2019, agus orduithe feidhmiúcháin ina dhiaidh sin i mbliana; agus aitheantas do rialtas comhthreomhar.”
Seeking to pressure Cuba to cease its solidarity with Venezuela, Trump has slammed Cuba with tuilleadh smachtbhannaí, stiffening the economic and travel blockade and activating Teideal III d'Acht Helms Burton to allow thousands of lawsuits that will discourage tourism and investment in Cuba.
Tá threatened Cuba with “a full and complete” embargo if it does not “immediately” stop supporting the Maduro government. Cuba called Bolton a “pathological liar” for alleging that Cuban troops are stationed in Venezuela. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez stated at a news conference, “This is vulgar calumny. Cuba does not have troops nor military forces nor does it participate in military or security operations of the sister Republic of Venezuela.” Indeed, the CIA has determined that Cuba is much less involved and its solidarity is much less crucial to Venezuela than U.S. officials think, de réir a former official.
In December 2018, Trump signed a bill levying sanctions to block Nicaragua from obtaining loans from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The U.S. government is targeting Nicaragua’s Bancorp, which has ties go Veiniséala.
All of these sanctions constitute pionós comhchoiteann of the civilian population, which is prohibited by the Geneva and Hague Conventions. They also violate the Charter of the Organization of American States, which prohibits intervention in the internal or external affairs of another country and the use of economic or political coercive measures “to force the sovereign will of another State.”
This is not the first time the U.S. government has interfered and intervened in these three sovereign socialist countries. In 1960, responding to a secret Meamram Roinn Stáit, the Eisenhower administration imposed an economic embargo on Cuba. The memo proposed “a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” The cruel U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, which continues to this day, has never led to the overthrow of the Cuban Revolution.
In the 1980s, the Regan administration illegally assisted the Contras, who sought unsuccessfully to overthrow Daniel Ortega’s socialist government in Nicaragua.
And in 2002, the CIA during the George W. Bush administration mounted a failed coup attempt against socialist president Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Úsáideann na Stáit Aontaithe caighdeán dúbailte dá imní faoi chearta an duine agus dá ionsaithe ar thíortha sóisialach.
Cosnaíonn Comhpháirteach um Chosaint na hAmbasáide Ambasáid Veiniséala
Idir an dá linn, an Comhchoiste Cosanta na hAmbasáide remains in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C. Members of CODEPINK and Popular Resistance have lived in the embassy for more than two weeks to protect it from a coup attempt and possible invasion by U.S.-backed opposition forces. On May 1, members of the collective fended as an attempted takeover of the embassy by forces loyal to Guaidó.
If the Trump administration were to enter the embassy to expel these people, who are present with consent of the Venezuelan government, it would violate the Coinbhinsiún Vín ar Chaidreamh Taidhleoireachta. Article 22 of that treaty states, “The premises of the mission shall be inviolable.” U.S. agents are prohibited from entering the embassy without the consent of the Maduro government. The United States is also “under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.” And the premises, furniture and other property “shall be immune from search, requisition, attachment or execution.”
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, members of the Embassy Protective Collective, Scríobh,
Má ghlacann an freasúra ambasáid Veiniséala i Washington, beidh torthaí tubaisteach air. Dhearbhaigh rialtas Veiniséala má tharlaíonn sé seo, go nglacfaidh siad ambasáid na SA i Caracas. Breathnóidh SAM air seo mar ghníomh ionsaitheach, agus toisc go bhfuil leithscéal á lorg aige cheana féin chun é sin a dhéanamh, d'fhéadfadh sé ionsaí a dhéanamh ar Veiniséala. Toisc go bhfuil an Rúis agus an tSín ina gcomhghuaillithe dlúth le Veiniséala, d'fhéadfadh sé seo coinbhleacht dhomhanda a spreagadh.
Cén Fáth a Bhfuil Intinn Foireann Trump Smachtbhannaí agus Athrú ar an gCóras?
Cén fáth a bhfuil an oiread sin rún daingean ag troika Trump athrú réime i Veiniséala agus smachtbhannaí i gCúba, Veiniséala agus Nicearagua?
Last month, Bolton addressed the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association on the 58th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, in which the U.S. aided and abetted a failed attempt to overthrow Cuba’s Fidel Castro. “Together, we can finish what began on those beaches,” a dúirt Bolton, adding, “We must reject the forces of communism and socialism in this hemisphere.”
It’s not simply anti-communism that animates the Trump administration’s fixation on sanctions and regime change in these Latin American countries. “With at least a half-million voters who were born in Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia or Nicaragua — and more with ancestral roots in those countries — it’s a constituency that could prove pivotal in November 2020 in a state that’s essential to Trump’s reelection fortunes,” Marc Caputo Scríobh at Politico.
U.S. strategies on Cuba and Venezuela intertwine in an insidious way, and Senator Rubio is pivotal in both. “Venezuela is really an extension of the position on Cuba,” according to Ricardo Herrera, director of the Cuba Study Group. The Wall Street Journal tuarascálacha that both countries are part of a plan to reassert U.S. dominance in Latin America and finally destroy the Cuban Revolution.
Moreover, corporate America wants to get its hands on Venezuela’s oil. Bolton Dúirt an in January, “We’re in conversation with major American companies now…. It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.”
D’eisigh Veterans for Peace ráiteas ag iarraidh ar thrúpaí na Stát Aontaithe seasamh in aghaidh orduithe mídhleathacha ionradh a dhéanamh ar Veiniséala, ag tabhairt faoi deara, “Cé go labhraíonn an tUachtarán Trump ar thacú leis an daonlathas i Veiniséala agus i Meiriceá Laidineach, is é fíorchuspóir ionsaí na SA ar rialtas Veiniséala an cúlchistí ollmhóra ola Veiniséala chuig SAM agus corparáidí ola eile san Iarthar chomh maith le rialtais forásacha i Meiriceá Laidineach a scrios a chuir riachtanais a bpobail féin os cionn bhrabúis corparáidí eachtracha.”
Although there is opposition to Maduro’s policies in Venezuela, people don’t want the United States to impose its will on them. Eva Golinger, former adviser to Hugo Chavez, D'inis Daonlathas Anois! “Cinnte, tá go leor i Veiniséala a bheadh ag súil le hathrú ina dtír, ach níl siad ag iarraidh réimeas a fhaigheann tacaíocht ó SAM a bheith i bhfeidhm. Níl siad ag iarraidh réimeas i bhfad ar dheis a fhreagraíonn do leasanna eachtracha, agus sin an rud atá á fheiceáil againn sa tír.”
Ar 1 Bealtaine, bhí an tIonadaí Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), le feiceáil ar Daonlathas Anois!, Dúirt an, “A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela,” adding, “this particularly bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change really does not help the people of countries like Venezuela, and it certainly does not help and is not in the interest of the United States.”
Many in Congress and the corporate media walk in lockstep with the administration on its Venezuela strategy. On April 3, a bipartisan group of senators introduced le bille to recognize Guaidó as the president of Venezuela.
Instead, Congress should pass HR1004, the Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela Act, which would forbid the use of U.S. military force in Venezuela without explicit congressional authorization. This bill is now pending in the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. People can contact their representatives and urge them to co-sponsor and support H.R.1004.
Tá Marjorie Cohn ina ollamh emerita ag Scoil Dlí Thomas Jefferson, ina iar-uachtarán ar Chumann Náisiúnta na nDlíodóirí, ina Leas-Ardrúnaí ar Chumann Idirnáisiúnta na nDlíodóirí Daonlathacha agus ina ball de bhord comhairleach Veterans for Peace. Tá an leabhar is déanaí aici Drones agus Marú Spriocdhírithe: Saincheisteanna Dlíthiúla, Morálta agus Geopolitical.
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