Venezuelan Showdown Sunday?

Photo credit: Rodrigo Buenelia/AFP/Getty Images.

    The photo above shows Venezuela's self-proclaimed and U.S.-backed President Juan Guaido in Salinas, Ecuador, on Saturday, March 2nd, 2019. He had a very supportive meeting with Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno on his tour that has also taken him to Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. Tomorrow, Sunday-March 3rd, Guaido plans to return to Venezuela for a showdown with President Nicolas Maduro.

    Supported by the U. S. and about 50 other nations, it is surprising that Guaido hasn't supplanted Maduro ALREADY. That is so because it is impossible for Maduro to justify blocking tons of food, medicine, and other supplies that Venezuelans badly need. As of this weekend, it is reported that 567 Venezuelan soldiers have defected to Guaido's side but that leaves some 200,000 soldiers and the key Generals still loyal to Maduro although all of them are targeted by new USA sanctions and threats. Yet, because of the USA's past imperialist and violent history in creating U.S.-friendly Latin American governments, some neutral nations resent the leadership roles U.S.-famed war-mongers such as John Bolton and Elliott Abrams are taking in the Venezuelan crisis. Also, Maduro is not entirely off-base when he insists that the U. S. agency, USAID, that is primarily delivering the Venezuela aid is a U. S. entity  many believe is now directed by anti-Cuban forces determined to use the Venezuelan crisis as a pretext to regaining control of Cuba...a fact documented by respected journalist Tracey Eaton this week when he reported on a myriad of fresh U. S. government and USAID programs offering huge monetary sums to people, groups, or organizations that promise to promote new anti-Cuban/"pro-Democracy" unrest on the island. All the while, Guaido and Maduro this first weekend in March of 2019 continue to call each other "illegitimate usurpers" and, incredibly, much of the sane and more peaceful world believes both men have aptly defined each other.

    None-other than Elliott Abrams, shown above denouncing Venezuela at the United Nations, has been ubiquitous this weekend presenting the USA's case against Maduro, especially on conservative and right-wing media such as Fox News. That is a stupid ploy by President Trump and his anointed Latin American puppet Marco Rubio.

     The day {above} when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Elliott Abrams was the new "U. S. envoy to Venezuela" was a day that sent shivers down the spine of many people who do not want a Latin American War in America's backyard. Pompeo himself is a long-time anti-Cuban zealot but, like Trump, he takes his Latin American orders from Marco Rubio. Thus, Rubio has maneuvered no less than ten vicious anti-Cuban zealots into powerful positions in the Trump presidency, none more feared than Elliott Abrams.

     It is no secret why Elliott Abrams was still around and eligible to be named Trump's ENVOY TO VENEZUELA...and that's because of the pardon Abrams badly needed and very conveniently received from President George H. W. Bush.

      All Republican administrations since 1959 have been tightly tied to the most extreme elements of the Batista exiles who still, after all these decades, are trying fervently to wrest control of Cuba from the still viable Cuban Revolution. That particularly was true of the four Republican Presidents depicted above -- Nixon, Reagan, Bush #1, and Bush #2...and particularly applies to George H. W. Bush dating all the way back to his first involvements with the CIA that preceded his one controversial year, 1976, as the CIA director. Any perusal of the prime names from these past Republican presidencies now prime zealots in the Trump presidency will reveal that Trump is surrounded in powerfully strategic positions today by the most vicious anti-Cuban extremists such as Otto Reich, Jose Cardenas, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and John Bolton. Yet, the most outrageous appointment by Trump-Rubio has to be...Elliott Abrams. {P.S.: This weekend CNN is debuting a major documentary about the "Bush Dynasty" but I will assure you it will not hold the Bush Dynasty responsible or accountable for its decades of supporting and benefiting from its unholy alliances with the most extremist elements from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Havana and in Little Havana}.

   Allowing the Nicolas Maduro-Venezuelan crisis to be brokered by Elliott Abrams reflects the audacious stupidity of Rubio being allowed to direct Trump's Latin American and Cuban policies. But beyond that, it points out that the U. S. citizens and the mainstream {non-right wing} U. S. media are grossly derelict in their duties when they permit this to happen...and what is happening is extreme war-mongering/anti-Cuban elements from past Republican administrations grossly infesting the current TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

     The biggest single problem within the bowels of the U. S. democracy in March-2019 is depicted above -- Senator Rubio being able to tell President Trump how he wants to recapture Cuba, using...at the moment...the Venezuelan crisis as the prime pretext. A Rubio problem, I believe, is more dangerous to America and to Latin America than a Trump problem. And the biggest problem of all right now is the pure fact that neither most American citizens nor the mainstream American media have the guts to admit that the photo above depicts A GIGANTIC AMERICAN PROBLEM. 

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