USA's Regime-Changers

Where Is The Next One????
{Wednesday, May 15th, 2019}
{Updated from May 14th}

     Author Jeb Sprague has a reputation as an expert on Caribbean and Latin American REGIME CHANGES. He has also been a notable professor/lecturer at the University of Virginia and the University of California. A recent article by Mr. Sprague in Monthly Review, a magazine published since 1949, is entitled: "Washington's Hybrid War on Venezuela -- A Very 21st Century Attempt At Regime Change."

 Books by Jeb Sprague include "GLOBALIZING THE CARIBBEAN" and prove he knows the Caribbean, including Marco Rubio's clearance from President Trump to use the dire situation in Venezuela as the pretext to recapture Cuba for Miami's Little Havana Counter Revolutionaries.

    The photo above was used to illustrate Jeb Sprague's Monthly Review article, which you can readily dial up online. It points out that once Rubio was allowed to flank Trump with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton it almost assured that Rubio, on behalf of Little Havana in Miami, had the key men in place to execute the regime-change in Cuba right after the regime-change in Venezuela and right before the regime-change in Nicaragua. Sprague made these pertinent and visceral points:

              "At the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee on 7 March, Senator Marco Rubio pledged that Venezuelans 'were about to experience the most dramatic shortages they have ever faced.' Within hours, a mysterious black-out hit Venezuela, oil refinery storage tanks combusted, and an oil pipeline exploded."

      With 3.6 followers on Twitter, Marco Rubio used the above gruesome Tweet to supposedly warn Venezuelan President Maduro, Cuban President Diaz-Canel, and Nicaraguan President Ortega  that the "Gaddafi model" awaited them. One of Rubio's mouthpieces, Bolton, had earlier called Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua the "Troika of Tyranny" in obvious preparations for regime-change and Bolton also stupidly used the term "Gaddafi model" while, as you can see above, Rubio used this photo montage to coarsely and stupidly convey the world-message. Earlier, one of Rubio's Tweets was directly aimed at Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel with the  three-word warning "See you soon."

    Every journalist in Washington knew that when Rubio anointed the famed anti-Cuban war-monger Bolton as Trump's National Security Adviser that Rubio's war against Cuba was inevitable. Rubio this past week ridiculed the New York Times for making that point, and said any criticism of Bolton was "ridiculous." Of course, that's typical Rubio propaganda but he's used to getting away with it. As Ken Silverstein, the best investigative journalist in Washington, said: "Marco Rubio is head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." {And, yes, I urge you to Google Ken Silverstein's credentials and his extensive Rubio article that began with and then documented that quote}.

    And every journalist in Washington knew that when Rubio anointed Elliott Abrams as Trump's Special Envoy to Venezuela that Rubio's war against Cuban ally Venezuela was inevitable. Here is what the knowledgeable Jeb Sprague wrote in his aforementioned article:

           "The appointment of Elliott Abrams on 25 January 2019 as Washington's point man on Venezuela was glaring. Under Reagan-Bush in the 1980s Abrams was tied to countless gruesome events in Latin America. Under Abrams' watch it was common for U. S. intelligence operations to use front companies to illegally ship weapons into Latin America to arm death squads. On 3 February Venezuela discovered a secret cache of weapons and equipment on board a Boeing 767. The flight had flown from Miami to Valencia. Venezuela assumed U. S. authorities and far-right groups in Miami were responsible. The McClatchy newspapers reported the same plane had made 40 trips to Colombia and Venezuela, sometimes multiple times a day. The plane according to Amnesty International is owned by 21 Air LLD whose Chairman is Adolfo Moreno." With Abrams directing Rubio's anti-Cuban operations in Venezuela, it is no wonder that 3 sources -- Jeb Sprague, McClatchy newspapers, and Amnesty International -- report that arms shipments to expedite the regime-change in Venezuela were coming from "far-right groups in Miami" where far-right Cuban groups since 1959 have had what can be considered free-reins because of their ties to right-wing Republican federal officials.

     To say there are "Skeletons in the closet" of Elliott Abrams is a gross understatement. The tactics depicted above now being deployed and employed in Venezuela are classic tactics Abrams is famed for using in Latin America back in the 1980s during the Reagan-Bush years. Of course, later President George H. W. Bush granted Abrams a much-needed pardon. America's top Latin American experts, including Jeb Sprague in the aforementioned article, tie Abrams to the infamous Mozote Massacre in which all 800 Latin Americans in one village were murdered by U.S.-armed killers -- famously executing the men first, then the women after rapes, and then the children. While Americans are not supposed to know about such things, every detail of that massacre has been minutely studied by America's best historians and journalists, so Googling the Mozote Massacre is easy. It occurred on Dec. 11, 1981, in El Salvador.  On Jan. 27-1982 the great NY Times journalist-author Raymond Bonner told the world about what happened at El Mozote. But it was not until 1994 that explicit details and the truth about the U. S. involvement began coming out in Mark Danner's book "The Massacre at El Mozote." And then in this year of 2019 when Raymond Bonner was astonished that Elliott Abrams had been named Trump's Envoy to Venezuela the great Mr. Bonner penned a remarkable article in The Atlantic entitled: "What Did Elliott Abrams Have To Do With The El Mozote Massacre?" And now...in May of 2019...for unpatriotic Americans to sit back on their comfortable asses and ignore such things insults all democracy-lovers, I sincerely believe.

     Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is the Trump administration's choice as the next President of Venezuela. Americans and much of the world are programmed to believe that if the USA executes a regime-change it is to replace a bad leader with a GOOD leader...but Latin Americans believe otherwise because of the USA's past love of really bad dictators like Batista in Cuba, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoso in Nicaragua, Pinochet in Chile, etc., etc. etc. What Latin Americans fear is that the U. S. citizens will not hold right-wingers in the U. S. responsible for such things, with Chile being a prime example. In 1973 President Nixon and his prime adviser Henry Kissinger believed the popular Democratically elected President of Chile, Salvador Allende, would not allow rich Americans to raid his country's natural resources. So, a bloody coup ended up killing Allende and for the next 17 years the "U.S.-FRIENDLY" General Pinochet was one of history's most murderous dictators. Will the GOOD U.S.-friendly Guaido replace the BAD Maduro in Venezuela with then the BAD Diaz-Canel in Cuba and the BAD Ortega next on the Rubio-Bolton-Abrams agenda?

    With the dire situation in oil-rich but now dirt-poor Venezuela, many experts believed Maduro would have been replaced by Guaido as long ago as January. But it is still a "STANDOFF" because of Trump's utter stupidity in allowing Rubio to install people like Bolton, Abrams, Pompeo, Mauricio Claver-Carone, etc, in the most powerful positions to execute Latin American regime-changes. In other words, with Miami's Little Havana "right-wing groups" calling the shots, as pointed out by Caribbean-Latin American expert Ted Sprague, only die-hard right-wingers believe the USA should be defining the outcome in Venezuela...or Cuba and Nicaragua. The past USA FOOTPRINTS in those three nations and throughout the Caribbean and Latin America are historic reminders that such decisions in Washington should be be made by moderates, NOT right-wing or left-wing extremists.

     Appearing on one of the U. S.'s three major television networks, ABC News, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was asked if his days are numbered. He replied: "John Bolton and Elliott Abrams can believe that. But you should not believe that because you are a young man and knows that history will continue." In other words, both the good guys and the bad guys in the current Venezuelan conundrum realize that Trump and Rubio were stupid to assign Bolton and Abrams as the prime arbitrators when EVERYONE with the possible exception of propagandized Americans know their TRACK RECORDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    With Trump and Abrams calling the shots in Venezuela, Maduro has a chance to hang on as long as his top Generals and either Russia or China support him. In other words, Washington needs an intelligent and decent moderate to make such regime-change decisions. The utter stupidity of thrusting the likes of Abrams between Trump and Maduro highlights both the audacity and the ignorance of the seven Republican administrations since the 1950s.

     When Trump stupidly says he "loves" dictators like Kim in North Korea, it makes it harder to explain why Trump hates, for example, Cuba's former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel that most Cuban people know and love. Diaz-Canel in his own Tweets and Cubans on the island on their social media pages use the above photo to explain that Rubio and Little Havana "would never let a Republican president talk to President Diaz-Canel, but Kim is fine."

    For sure, President Trump assumes the American people are stupid when he puts "BAD CHOICES" like Elliott Abrams into positions to exact U.S.-friendly regime-changes in either the Caribbean or Latin America or elsewhere.

    Such stupidly Bad Choices regarding people like Elliott Abrams create insults to the USA and to Democracy resulting in images like this that shows Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resurrecting Elliott Abrams from the grave...meaning the Bush dynasty...to overthrow what Pompeo is calling "the Brutal dictatorships of Latin America." This Editorial Cartoon accurately reflects how Latin Americans feel about such things as the Mozote Massacre or replacing the decent democratically elected Allende with the murderous Pinochet in Chile, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,.....and so forth.

     When a popular Editorial Cartoon like this mocks Trump, it is really mocking both the United States of America and Democracy...and it is time that Americans understand that. Even people who dislike Maduro and love Guaido should know that Maduro has cause to ask his top General the question depicted above.

      But, I believe, the bottom line is this: When this generation of Americans in October-2016 was not embarrassed when the nations of the world voted 191-to-ZERO in the United Nations to condemn the U. S. for its Cuban policy, it apparently reflected the fact that Americans now have very little respect for their Democracy. That's the point the great Brazilian Editorial Cartoonist Carlos Latuff was making with the definitive image depicted above. Thus, I believe Trump-Rubio-Pompeo-Bolton-Abrams are totally wrong and Carlos Latuff is totally right.

     U. S. President Barack Obama in 2016 approved that 191-to-0 condemnation of the USA in the UN because of America's Batistiano/Little Havana-directed Cuban policy. Obama also had the guts to try his best to give decent Americans and Cuban-Americans control of the USA's Cuban policy...and Obama, as shown above, actually went to Cuba and on state-wide television and radio assured the people that they had "no reason to fear the United States." That promise, through no fault of Obama's after he served the maximum two terms as President, turned out...to be...a lie.

President Obama's sacred promise to Cuba.

   But then THIS {see above} HAPPENED TO AMERICA and it seems the U. S. Democracy is no longer strong enough to correct it. And that's where we are in mid-May of 2019 with the USA TRYING TO STARVE INNOCENT CUBANS ON THE ISLAND WHILE ALSO TRYING TO EXECUTE THREE MORE RIGHT-WING REGIME-CHANGES IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA. Of course, the quartet above -- Trump, Rubio, Pompeo, and Bolton - - want the American people to not remember the USA's favorite past Caribbean and Latin American dictators -- Batista, Trujillo, Somoso, Pinochet, etc., etc., and so forth.

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