"Hands off Venezuela" March in Washington: Background and RepercussionsIs Trump Trumping the Monroe
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"Hands off Venezuela" March in Washington: Background and Repercussions~Is Trump Trumping the Monroe Doctrine?
By Stephen Fox
Yesterday, Saturday, March 16, 2019, there were huge marches and demonstrations in Washington against Trump's economic sanctions and pressure for a regime change in Venezuela.
When you have a U.S. foreign policy and strategic planning directed by the likes of Elliott Abrams, mastermind of horrors in El Salvador in 1981, you truly have great cause for serious alarm. For background on this, please read:
What Did Elliott Abrams Have to Do With the El Mozote Massacre?
What is the prize in this instance? What could be more obvious? We are not talking about growing bananas in Nicaragua. Closer access to Venezuela's vast oil reserves because of the potential of installing our own puppet head of state, Juan Guaido. This is really nothing new for Central America or South America: the US has been manipulating entire nations' governments really going back to the Monroe Doctrine in 1823.
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