Sinister motives behind Tillerson visit

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, February 10, 2018 - 01:00

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has completed a visit to six Latin American Countries – Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru in January. The objective of the visit was to ease tensions and improve relations among Latin America and the United States.

Currently, the United States is not very popular in the Continent. There are differences over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the construction of a wall in the US - Mexican border, the inclusion of Latin American countries also in President Trump‘s derogatory remark about “s....... countries”, US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord et al.

However, it soon became apparent that its real objectives were sinister. Just before the visit Tillerson, in an address given at the University of Texas indicated the desire of the United States to coordinate an Energy Union extending from Canada to Chile. Nothing could be more familiar to the former CEO, Exxon Mobile Corporation whose association with oil business is four decades long.

When Chávez re-nationalized the oil industry in 2007, his company rejected the conditions of compensation for its contracts in Cerro Negro, in the Orinoco basin. The draconian demand for 1.4 billion dollars in payments for the alleged losses is still maintained. Now, from the State Department, he seems determined to collect revenge.

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