Reality Check: Will US Use “Humanitarian Aid” As Justification for Regime Change in Venezuela?

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By Ben Swann -
Feb 28, 2019


Is the U.S. military under the Trump administration about to forcibly create regime change in Venezuela?

For months I have been saying that would not happen but now, all signs seem to be pointing to this reality. Will the U.S. claim, just like we did in Libya, that a humanitarian crisis is underway and that a military intervention is the only way to protect the people of Venezuela?



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http://truthinmedia.com/reality-check-will-u-s-use-humanitarian-aid-as-justification-for-regime-change-in-venezuela/

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Washington’s Aid Gambit Fails (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/02/venezuela-us-aid-gambit-fails-war-plans-lack-support.html#more)

The U.S. is using the pretext of 'delivering humanitarian aid' from Columbia to Venezuela to undermine the government and to establish a supply line for further operations. …

The U.S. government, which actively helps to starve the people of Yemen into submission, is concerned about Venezuela where so far no one has died of starvation? The lady ain't gonna believe that.

The Venezuelan military has shown no sign of interest to change its loyalty. The fake aid will be rejected.

The government of Venezuela does not reject aid that comes without political interference. Last year it accepted modest UN aid (https://www.dw.com/en/un-releases-emergency-aid-to-venezuela/a-46463279) …

The International Red Cross, the Catholic church's aid organization Caritas and the United Nations (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/warns-politicising-venezuela-humanitarian-aid-190207091300862.html) rejected U.S. requests to help deliver the currently planned 'aid' because it is so obviously politicized …

Rejecting aid out of political reasons is not unusual. When the hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused huge damage along the U.S. gulf coast, a number of countries offered humanitarian and technical aid. U.S. President Bush accepted help from some countries, but rejected aid from other ones (https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/07/venezuela.hurricanekatrina): An offer of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile hospital units, … 50 tonnes of food, … 10 water purification plants, 18 power generation plants and 20 tonnes of bottled water.

The U.S. intent to establish a 'humanitarian aid' supply line into Venezuela has a secondary purpose. Such aid is the ideal cover for weapon supplies. In the 1980s designated 'humanitarian aid' flights for Nicaragua were filled with weapons (https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1091848921771638785). The orders for

[AZJoe]

Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt (https://fair.org/home/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-cheap-trump-rubio-venezuela-aid-pr-stunt/?fbclid=IwAR1grwdiW68I3l9-L70FZtzSyX7pSJU8-_tIlgsVufK37uEcSYkNu_M2ygo)

The Trump administration’s now completely overt effort to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had a very successful public relations effort … major Western media outlets uniformly echoed its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid: …

All … repeated the same script: Maduro was blocking aid from the US “out of refusal to relinquish power,” preferring to starve “his own people” …

Except three pieces of key context are missing. …


Both the Red Cross and UN warned the US not to engage in this aid PR stunt.
The bridge in question is a visual metaphor contrived by the Trump administration of little practical relevance.
The person in charge of US operations in Venezuela has a history of using aid as a cover to deliver weapons to right-wing mercenaries. …


both the International Red Cross and United Nations warned the US to explicitly not engage in these types of PR stunts. …

Indeed, as Bevins also noted (https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1093836995770699777), the Red Cross has long been working with local authorities inside Venezuela to deliver relief, and just last week doubled its budget (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-venezuela-politics-redcross/international-red-cross-steps-up-aid-operations-in-venezuela-idUKKCN1PV1WC) to do so. … the Maduro government is more than willing to work with international aid when it’s offered in good faith, not when it’s a thinly veiled mechanism to spur civil war and contrive PR victories for those seeking to overthrow the government. It’s not just Maduro … who opposes the US aid convoy; it’s the UN and Red Cross. Why do none of the above reports note this rather key piece of information …

Despite dozens of media outlets giving the impression (and sometimes explicitly saying (https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/06/americas/venezuela-aid-blocked-bridge-intl/index.html)) that the Venezuelan government shut down an otherwise functioning pathway into the country, the bridge in question hasn’t been open for years. … the bridge has never been open to traffic. … BBC and other Western media were just going along with the narrative pushed by Sen. Marco Rubio and Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not bothering to check …

The Venezuelan government has an entirely rational reason to suspect the US would use humanitarian aid as a cover to smuggle in weapons to foment armed conflict: The person running quarterback (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/26/elliott-abrams-venezuela-us-special-envoy) for Trump on the current Venezuela operation, Elliot Abrams (https://fair.org/home/scandal-what-scandal/), literally did just that … “Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams has defended his role in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid flight to Nicaraguan rebels” … Mr. Abrams … “ordered planes to shuttle weapons for the Contras on aid planes at Mr. Abrams’ direction in early 1986.”

It’s literally the exact same person in charge of the operation who we know—with 100 percent certainty, because he admitted to it—has a history of using aid convoys as a cover to smuggle in arms … It’s all playing out right now, in real time. The same actors, the same tricks, the same patently disingenuous concern for the starving poor. And the US media is stripping it of all this essential context …

The same US media outlets that have expressly fundraised and run ad campaigns on their image as anti-Trump truth-tellers have mysteriously taken at face value everything the Trump White House and its neoconservative allies have said in their campaign to overthrow the government of Venezuela. The self-aggrandizing “factchecking (https://fair.org/home/corporate-press-stoops-to-absurdity-to-balance-trumps-border-wall-lies/)” brigade that emerged to confront the Trump administration is suddenly nonexistent …

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I miss Hugo's rants calling Bush the devil. He was like the socialist version of Trump.

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