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Bolton And Mr. Rubio Say The Same. Look At This

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first: 2019-02-26
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“In 1786, Jefferson said the following: "Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. We should take care to not to think it for the interest of that great continent to press too soon on the Spaniards. Those countries cannot be in better hands. My fear is that they are too feeble to hold them till our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them, piece by piece." That was in 1786 - before the Monroe Doctrine, before Manifest Destiny, before the Roosevelt Corollary and before the current imperialist doctrine of President Trump. That is the history of Latin America. With our people, with our dignity, with our peasants, with our indigenous peoples, with our communes and communal councils, we - with the Venezuelan people and with our Government - will always triumph.”
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“I call on the Council to reflect on behalf of my people, on behalf of President Nicolas Maduro. At one of our meetings, I gave Mr. Elliott Abrams a book: Free Peoples Defeat Powerful Empires. It is possible - we have done it - but we do not want war in our country. We do not want a war in Venezuela; we must prevent war in Venezuela. Read it. There is even a quotation from Mr. Thomas Jefferson. I swear that I will close with this, because I know that I have spoken for a while, but the history of Latin America and the United States must be understood. This is from one of the founding fathers - incidentally, President Duque thanked the founding fathers the other day for having helped win the independence of our republic. That is false.”
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“Fortunately, this Government is a fiction. It is like the Government of Narnia - it does not exist. But it poses a risk, for it opens the doors to this international intervention. If it were not so dangerous, it would be funny, but we cannot laugh. It is a total risk. I call on the Council to reflect on this. Please excuse my tone, but I speak as someone who is outraged because he loves his country and its people and its peace. I have heard so many groundless statements here that are so biased it hurts to listen to them, because one would hope that the United Nations and multilateralism are what would halt the unilateralism that the United States and the dictatorship that the United States intends to impose upon the world. I am sure that will be the case.”
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“We have a gentleman from the National Assembly who illegally approved something called a transition statute, claiming that those 30 days can be renewed as many times as they want. Where is that in the Constitution? President Maduro was in charge of the presidency when Comandante Chavez died. Elections were held in 35 days, not 30, because the National Electoral Council requested five more days and the Constitutional Chamber, the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, granted five extra days for the organization and holding of elections. Therefore, this transition statute means that Mr. Guaido has now assumed executive powers, legislative powers, citizen's powers, electoral powers and legal powers. But it turns out that Europe and the United States have recognized an absolute dictator.”
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“Guaido made an interpretation of Article 233 of the Constitution supposedly to determine that President Maduro was nowhere to be seen - President Maduro disappeared. The ground swallowed him up; he vanished into thin air. He does not exist. The 10 million Venezuelans who voted for him do not exist. The other branches of Government do not exist either. Then, faced with this total absence, the utterly unconstitutional illegal interpretation here is that Mr. Guaido could become President of the National Assembly to undertake the presidency of the Republic for 30 days, during which elections would have had to be organized and held. Those 30 days were to be just for that. But what do we have 30 days on?”
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“The report continues: "Such recognition must not be premature, that is, it must not take place before the new Government has been definitively inaugurated". That is something that will never happen. It goes on: "Premature recognition of itself does not turn a Government into a legitimate Government". It therefore has not effect on international law. In addition, such recognition constitutes a violation of the legitimate Government whereby those who recognize, "... bear criminal responsibility under international law. It also raises serious questions about the maintenance of peace". Did it not matter to the German Government that the Bundestag's legal unit issued such information? Ask the Bundestag now, because it turns out that Mr.”
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“Who will it be tomorrow?" (spoke in English) Who is going to be next? (spoke in Spanish) It could be anyone, if we do not put a stop to the madness of the United States and its pretensions. To our friends in Europe - I would show the German Ambassador that I have here a report from the Bundestag research services division. Regarding recognition of the supposed Government of Mr. Guaido', the report states: "There are therefore important reasons to hold the view that the recognition of an ad interim Head of State in the present case involves interference in the internal affairs of other States. Thus the question of whether interference in internal affairs in the present case should be defined as unlawful interference continues to be appropriate".”
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“I should like to conclude by thanking the Ambassadors who are here from many countries across the five continents, because a group has been created at the United Nations which saw 60 delegations present at its most recent meeting. The spirit of that group is to defend the principles of the Charter of the United Nations - peace and security. It is not to defend Venezuela - although in this case it is to defend Venezuela, but if Nicaragua were in need tomorrow, it would be Nicaragua; and if the day after that, for some reason, it were Indonesia, it would be Indonesia. To recover the principles of the Charter; to recover the principles of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, we have agreed on the need to put a stop to this. As the Ambassador of South Africa said at a meeting of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries: "Today it is Venezuela.”
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“How can you here say we want our people to die, when the Bolivarian revolution saw social investment on a scale unparalleled in Latin America. The Venezuelan people did not know what investment from oil meant until Hugo Chavez came to power. In spite of the blockade, difficulties, aggression and attempts to isolate us, President Nicolas Maduro has not sacrificed a cent of that investment. We continue to deliver housing. No schools or universities have been closed. We continue to promote the social services for Venezuelans free of charge, as far as we can. We continue to provide subsidized food. We have deployed 1,000 different tools to redistribute the profits generated by oil and our national wealth and to be able to contain international aggression. But nobody sees any of that.”
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“The President appointed me Foreign Minister on one day, and the following Saturday I was in the Dominican Republic speaking with President Danilo Medina Senchez and Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, from where we called on former Spanish Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero and Mr. Julio Borges to sit down at the negotiation table. We negotiated throughout November, December, January and February. When everything was ready and agreed, the Venezuelan opposition received an order not to sign what was agreed upon and made us waste our time, the time of the international community lose time and, worst of all, the time of the Venezuelan people. And yet it is said that Maduro is wasting time in the dialogue. We cannot countenance so many lies. I am deeply indignant at this. I love my country. We love our people.”
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“And we can indeed call it that in our case; I would even go so far as to say that one of the five branches of Government in Venezuela is in conflict with the other four. We are prepared to sit down and craft solutions with Mr. Guaido, Mr. Henry Ramos Allup and anyone else who wants to sit down with us. However, they do not want to sit down with us. They say, "the time is up for dialogue", "Maduro has to go", "the regime has to change", "Venezuela has to be invaded". Why is there not a call to the Venezuelan opposition from the Security Council and the various spokespersons of the United Nations? They are the ones who do not want to sit down; we already have. They say we are wasting time. We were in negotiations called by President Maduro from 2017 to 2018.”
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“We have information that in that debate many countries - and they should be acknowledged - opposed the use of force and military intervention proposed by those gentlemen to attack Venezuela militarily. The Secretary-General must pronounce himself in that regard. Ms. Michelle Bachelet, whom I hope to see in a few hours, must do the same. Or are we going to leave unaddressed the fact that there is an intention to invade a country militarily and nothing is being done preventively using international law - not bombs, but international law? We think it is high time to do so. We therefore underscore the need for a draft resolution in that regard. How are institutional crises resolved?”
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“Pence go to meet with the Venezuelan community and others to make some important announcements? To Miami. Where did Mr. Trump go last week to announce sanctions against Venezuela? To Miami. And the former Governor of Florida and its senators were there, already preparing the ground for the elections. They use Venezuela. They use Cuba. They use Nicaragua. That cannot be allowed. Where does the Charter of the United Nations say that can be allowed? That is not possible. The coup d'etat failed. Yesterday Mr. Pence, Mr. Duque and Mr. Guaido called on the cartel group of countries against Venezuela - which is called the Lima Group, even though Lima is a very beautiful Bolivian country; it should instead be called the Washington Group.”
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“Did anyone here denounce that here? No one. They were received as heroes by Mr. Duque, Mr. Guaido, Mr. Pifiera and others, and the President of Paraguay, whose name I cannot remember at the moment. Also on the subject of false-flag operations, they face two challenges in Colombia, regrettably, as the Council will know - and this is the truth, it cannot be denied - cocaine production and "false-positives" operations. That is what is being endorsed here. I want Venezuela to be left out the domestic debate and electoral campaign in the United States. It cannot be that they have to attack Venezuela to win the state of Florida. Is it not just shameless? But it is clear; they say it. Where did Mr. Bolton go to make a few important announcements? To Miami. Where did Mr.”
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“Injured civil servants. A Third Sergeant. A civilian chief, Jennifer Yulente, with a fracture to the wrist. Indeed, our people were injured. And who talked about that. Where was it in the media? Who here mentioned it in their statements today? It is as if we did not exist, just like the almost 10 million Venezuelans who voted to elect Nicolas Maduro last year do not exist. Just as Chavism does not exist, which in fact accounts for more than half the country. It is easy to try to erase history, but attempts to do so will be unsuccessful. There was a false-flag operation in which members of the national guard were paid as much as $20,000 to desert. They are also after diplomats to get them to defect. They went after the people, almost killing them, including a Chilean journalist who was covering the events.”
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“Trump declared a humanitarian crisis in the south of the United States so that his contractor friends can build a racist wall. Well, what would happen if there truly were a humanitarian emergency and Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua were to arm a convoy and try to force it through the southern border to get humanitarian assistance to the population in the south of the United States, where according to its Government one in fact exists? What would happen? What would happen to those who tried to do so? Council members should ask themselves that question. There is a lot of hypocrisy, cynicism and arrogance at play here. That is what the Security Council should underscore. Let us take a look at the injuries. Major Ribero Quevedo Ivan Alfredo with a contusion to the temple; and a Second Sergeant with an irregular tibia fracture.”
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“So in the case of Venezuela it is about oil. And Mr. Bolton has already said that United States companies will go and produce oil and take Venezuela's oil. My God. Venezuela was attacked. Some spokespeople, including from the United Nations system, claim that we were the aggressors last weekend. That is painful to hear. Our national Bolivarian police, national guard and armed forces, in a gesture of stoicism, restraint and proportionality, were able to contain the madness. However, it is easier to say, "Maduro massacred", "Maduro burned" and "Maduro killed". Is that not easier? Is that not better for the script justifying war? Mr. Trump has threatened migrants that if they reach the southern border of the United States they will be shot at. Is anyone saying anything about that? Mr.”
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“They need the Cuban-American vote. And how do they pull in those votes? By attacking whom? Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. They ideologize foreign policy so that Mr. Trump can secure Florida, should he succeed in being a candidate, which he intends to be. They have to attack Nicolas Maduro. And ifit goes quite badly in his campaign and there are many scandals that compromise his integrity as President, then perhaps they will decide to launch a military operation against Venezuela. And some countries here are standing behind them. They say so openly. Mr. Bolton has said repeatedly that it is about oil. Mr. Trump himself has said that they will have to get spoils when they intervene - we cannot just kill people and seize political control over the Government; no, we need to hang on to territory and resources, as wars used to be.”
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“But we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, with the exchange rate beginning to stabilize, as well as some prices. But no, every day it is said here "the situation is worsening dramatically" and "we have to intervene in Venezuela". The Council is starting off with lies, and the United Nations cannot stand for that. We resolutely say that what we saw last Saturday was a case of propaganda. Would it be too much to ask all the members of the Security Council to at least agree and adopt a draft resolution rejecting the use of force against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela? Or do we have to help the United States leave "all options on the table"? Or help President Trump eventually win Florida? For we too are a product of domestic politics. They use us in American domestic electoral politics.”
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“There is also the $15 billion lost because of the confiscation of Citgo, which they stole from us through United States imperial pillaging. There is the $1.2 billion in Venezuelan gold held in the Bank of England. There is the $1.4 billion being held by a Belgian intermediary, Euroclear. And that is in addition to the tens of billions of dollars blocked in banks. We have to pay war-risk insurance to be able to bring imports into Venezuela today. Is nothing happening in my country? People are working in Venezuela. People are going to school. People are going to university. They are going to the beach. There are carnivals. Service provision is better than last year and the year before. On prices, yes, we have a problem with inflation.”
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“They were contained through the use of progressive and varied measures and the tools of the police, with a view to maintaining public order. What happened? How did those people die? "We are investigating all the facts." Yet they have already accused and judged. They already have autopsies in hand. That is something really shameful. Allow me to continue. What are we asking for in that draft resolution? We ask that the threat or use of force against Venezuela be rejected. That might even be enough. But, in line with the United Nations Charter, they should reject the blockade and pillaging of Venezuela's funds and resources, which is making the Venezuelan people suffer but which is being ignored here. From August 2017 to date the cost has been $30 billion.”
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“The United States watches as a Head of State, Muammar AI-Qadhafi, is lynched alive, and then its Secretary of State celebrates and laughs about it. Is that not cynicism? How many people have died in Venezuela? They were expecting a tragedy. And it was planned, as happened so many times over the past 20 years, including in 2002 when the United States and the opposition used paid snipers to justify the coup against President Hugo Chavez. It is all planned. It was all a show to produce fatalities and then blame President Maduro. It did not work out. However, they blame Maduro, as Ms. DiCarlo did. "Yes, some people died in Santa Elena de Uairen; we are investigating the facts". In fact, it was a group of armed persons from the opposition who were attempting to overtake a military unit.”
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“He must not have any family or friends in his country, because, when the bombs fall in Venezuela, they will not differentiate between who is a Chavista or not, or between who is rich or poor. We have already seen that in Iraq. We have seen it in Afghanistan. We have seen it in Libya. We have seen it in Syria. And we have seen it in how many other countries? Wherever the United States goes, it leaves a humanitarian crisis behind. Who assumes responsibility in the aftermath? It was said that President Maduro was celebrating on Saturday. That is absolute cynicism. The United States destroys countries. The United States invades them, alleging that there are weapons of mass destruction. Millions of people die in the country, and they celebrate it.”
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“Mr. Bolton and Mr. Rubio say the same. Look at this: here are 40 tweets from Mr. Rubio against President Nicolas Maduro. Could this man be representing the people of Florida? Are these the values of the people of the United States? Calling for the assassination of a President? Given the context, that is clearly what it means. And he does it, and nothing happens. And the famous President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaido, said that last Saturday's events "compel me to take a decision: formally tell the international community that we should remain open to all options to ensure the liberation of this nation, which is fighting to be able to continue to fight". What does he mean by "all options"? He is saying: we want a military intervention. Against my own country.”
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