"Cuba said on Thursday the United States was moving special forces closer to Venezuela as part of a covert plan to intervene in the chaotic South American country using the pretext of a humanitarian" crisis.Scaremongering, fake news, or just the usual US behavior in that part of the world. We should have no illusions about the cause of Venezuela's problems nor should we doubt the motives of the US imperialist Empire. History tells us the story.
This from Freedom Socialist Party:
“We came to work. I know I’m not getting asylum because they don’t give you asylum for hunger,” a young migrant from Honduras told a reporter. “But us on the caravan would rather die fighting than sitting in Honduras waiting to starve or be killed.”Read the full article HERE:
These stark words show the desperation of thousands of people, half of them women and girls, who have recently fled Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. What could force so many people to leave home and everything they know for a future that is uncertain at best? The history of U.S. intervention in Central America largely supplies the answer.
Guatemala: coup, civil war, climate change. In 1954, the CIA engineered a coup against the government of Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. A 36-year civil war ensued, during which the U.S. militarily aided one bloody, right-wing regime after another. Each has conducted a genocidal campaign against the indigenous peoples, who are the majority of the population.
During the war, more than 200,000 people were killed and another 43,000 “disappeared.” More than 80 percent of the victims were indigenous Mayans. Prosecution of the main military and political figures responsible for mass murder is still rare 23 years after peace accords were signed ending the war.
Half of Central America’s people live in poverty. Global warming, caused mainly by carbon emitted by richer countries, is leading to drought and crop failures and making the situation even more dire. With hunger common across the region, Guatemala has one of the world’s highest rates of chronic malnutrition.
The United States Government has used Freedom and Democracy as a vile pretext to invade, colonize and deprive other countries of their resources. Those who resist being "democratized", such as Cuba, Korea, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, they harass them by land, sea and air in an obscene manner. Not so with the bloody Saudi monarchy, nor with the dictatorships it has imposed over the years across the planet. Can anyone name me a single nation that has improved after being invaded by the Yankees?
ReplyDeleteHere is a song by Quintín Cabrera:
(the rhymes are lost when translated)
Criminal account
From the same day
that as a country they were born,
usurped, massacred,
They killed and assaulted.
Appointing Democracy,
they subjugated and they lied,
they executed, they killed,
they bombed, they subdued.
For that and for much more
what the Yankee needs
it is an increased dose
of Vietnamese syrup.
With its terrorist laws
to the red skin they exterminated,
overwhelmed, tamed,
They lynched and they beat.
With all the dictators,
they concocted, they plotted,
they tangled, they cheated,
They betrayed, they conspired.
For that and for much more
what the Yankee needs
it is an increased dose
of Vietnamese syrup.
They only respect the market
and its laws imposed,
they dominated, they liquidated,
they oppressed, they destroyed.
In the name of Christianity
So many murdered!
they ground, they sacrificed,
they managed, they finished.
For that and for much more
what the Yankee needs
it is an increased dose
of Vietnamese syrup.
Focused on freedom,
they plotted and plotted,
They intrigued, they maneuvered,
They spied and conspired.
Following religion
of the dollar, they crucified,
They lowered, they crushed,
hanged, nazified.
For that and for much more
what the Yankee needs
it is an increased dose
of Vietnamese syrup.
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez undressed the US political system with a simple question and answer game during a parliamentary control session.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/t1ZA4K8p3Nw