If you need more proof that RussiaGate was never about getting to the bottom of the question about collusion, just watch Fareed Zakaria help John Bolton, Eliot Abrams and Donald Trump build a consensus of the willing in support of using "freedom cell" terrorists to destabilize Venezuela in hopes of forcing a regime change on behalf of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Showing posts with label Elliot Abrams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elliot Abrams. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Why Fareed Zakaria is Helping Trump Build Support for Terrorizing Venezuela
If you need more proof that RussiaGate was never about getting to the bottom of the question about collusion, just watch Fareed Zakaria help John Bolton, Eliot Abrams and Donald Trump build a consensus of the willing in support of using "freedom cell" terrorists to destabilize Venezuela in hopes of forcing a regime change on behalf of the US Chamber of Commerce.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Trump-bashing Iraq war architect Elliott Abrams to lead US regime change in Venezuela
from RT
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Friday the appointment of Elliott Abrams to “help the Venezuelan people fully restore democracy and prosperity to their country.”
Abrams is expected to coordinate all diplomatic efforts to replace
President Nicolas Maduro with the self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido,
recognized by the US, OAS and several EU members.
“I left this building 30 years ago this week – last time I worked here – so it’s very nice to be back,” Abrams told reporters at the State Department on Friday. “This crisis in Venezuela is deep and difficult and dangerous and I can’t wait to get to work on it.”
The appointment is an attempt by the US to introduce a direct control of Venezuela as a “future regional vassal,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said...
As the Reagan administration’s assistant secretary of state for human rights in the 1980s, Abrams supported the US-backed dictators in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in their campaigns of repression, including death squads. He was also involved in working with Iran to arming the US-backed rebels in Nicaragua, the infamous Iran-Contra scandal.
Abrams was eventually convicted of lying to Congress about Iran-Contra, but was pardoned right away by President George H.W. Bush. In the 1990s, Abrams became a founding member of the Project for a New American Century, a hawkish neoconservative think-tank...
[read more here]
Washington seems so dead-set on regime change in Venezuela, the
State Department has just appointed a former diplomat with a sordid
track record in Latin America and Middle East to spearhead “restoring
democracy” in Caracas.
“I left this building 30 years ago this week – last time I worked here – so it’s very nice to be back,” Abrams told reporters at the State Department on Friday. “This crisis in Venezuela is deep and difficult and dangerous and I can’t wait to get to work on it.”
The appointment is an attempt by the US to introduce a direct control of Venezuela as a “future regional vassal,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said...
As the Reagan administration’s assistant secretary of state for human rights in the 1980s, Abrams supported the US-backed dictators in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in their campaigns of repression, including death squads. He was also involved in working with Iran to arming the US-backed rebels in Nicaragua, the infamous Iran-Contra scandal.
Abrams was eventually convicted of lying to Congress about Iran-Contra, but was pardoned right away by President George H.W. Bush. In the 1990s, Abrams became a founding member of the Project for a New American Century, a hawkish neoconservative think-tank...
[read more here]
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