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Jimmy Carter has always had a soft spot in his heart for leftwing dictatorships. He's been helping to prop them up ever since he became president. His latest adventures in Venezuela are beneath despicable.
A Carter Intervention in Venezuela | FrontPage Magazine
A Carter Intervention in Venezuela | FrontPage Magazine
Last week Jimmy Carter fired off letters to Venezuelas fraudulent President Nicolas Maduro and to Venezuelas defrauded Presidential candidate Enrique Capriles expressing grave concern regarding the political turmoil and bloodshed convulsing their nation. From his pulpit at Emory Universitys Carter Center, the former U.S. president calls for dialogue among the embattled Venezuelan parties and offers to visit the troubled nation but not as a formal mediator.
The news of Carters proposed Venezuela visit was only hours old when alarmed Venezuelan anti-socialists sent out an SOS: Please, desist from your trip, reads an open letter from Venezuelan blogger/journalist Daniel Duquenal. You have absolutely no credibility in Venezuela You have cursed us enough as it is. I can assure you that half of the country has no respect nor credibility for you and the other half (the Castroites) thinks you are a mere fool that they can use and discard as needed.
Venezuelan continues as a veritable battleground between hundreds of thousands of protestors and thousands of Cuban-trained government police and national guardsmen. Fifteen protestors have been shot dead, hundreds arrested and thousands injured. I feel as if this were a war zone, said one resident of the far-western city of San Cristobal, long known for its anti-Chavista activism.
Desperate to cow that areas rebellious residents Maduro even sent some of his regimes Russian-built Sukhoi warplanes to buzz (but not yet bomb) the area. It doesnt matter if it takes a month, two months, three months. We have to get rid of this government, said one desperate protestor.
This is a very unequal battle. The protestors have overwhelming numbers on their side, but the Cuba-puppet regime has the guns, the planes, the tanks, the truncheons and the tear gas. Better still (for the Venezuelan regime) the hands-on tutelage of their repressive apparatus comes courtesy of a regime (Castros) that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalins during the Great Terror, and murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitlers murdered Germans during his first six. No security specialists in the Western Hemisphere can boast anything close to these credentials on their CV.
So like anyone else with stellar credentials Castros military and police advisors demand top price for their services. Last year Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba totaled $10 billion. Thats more than double what the Soviets used to send. No, Castros KGB-trained murderers and torturers will not work for peanuts.
Alas, Castros security assistance to Maduros regime has lately been revealed as more than strictly advisory. Venezuelan social media (the only type still functioning freely in this Cuban satrapy) is leaking out some tragi-comedies: Youre not Venezuelan! yelled a demonstrator to a heavily armed national Guardsman. Then sing the Venezuelan national anthem! and of course the man in the Venezuelan Guardsmans uniform could not.
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The news of Carters proposed Venezuela visit was only hours old when alarmed Venezuelan anti-socialists sent out an SOS: Please, desist from your trip, reads an open letter from Venezuelan blogger/journalist Daniel Duquenal. You have absolutely no credibility in Venezuela You have cursed us enough as it is. I can assure you that half of the country has no respect nor credibility for you and the other half (the Castroites) thinks you are a mere fool that they can use and discard as needed.
Venezuelan continues as a veritable battleground between hundreds of thousands of protestors and thousands of Cuban-trained government police and national guardsmen. Fifteen protestors have been shot dead, hundreds arrested and thousands injured. I feel as if this were a war zone, said one resident of the far-western city of San Cristobal, long known for its anti-Chavista activism.
Desperate to cow that areas rebellious residents Maduro even sent some of his regimes Russian-built Sukhoi warplanes to buzz (but not yet bomb) the area. It doesnt matter if it takes a month, two months, three months. We have to get rid of this government, said one desperate protestor.
This is a very unequal battle. The protestors have overwhelming numbers on their side, but the Cuba-puppet regime has the guns, the planes, the tanks, the truncheons and the tear gas. Better still (for the Venezuelan regime) the hands-on tutelage of their repressive apparatus comes courtesy of a regime (Castros) that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalins during the Great Terror, and murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitlers murdered Germans during his first six. No security specialists in the Western Hemisphere can boast anything close to these credentials on their CV.
So like anyone else with stellar credentials Castros military and police advisors demand top price for their services. Last year Venezuelan subsidies to Cuba totaled $10 billion. Thats more than double what the Soviets used to send. No, Castros KGB-trained murderers and torturers will not work for peanuts.
Alas, Castros security assistance to Maduros regime has lately been revealed as more than strictly advisory. Venezuelan social media (the only type still functioning freely in this Cuban satrapy) is leaking out some tragi-comedies: Youre not Venezuelan! yelled a demonstrator to a heavily armed national Guardsman. Then sing the Venezuelan national anthem! and of course the man in the Venezuelan Guardsmans uniform could not.
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