Venezuela !

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Starving Venezuelans pour across the border to Colombia, as Caracas braces for more protests following deadly clashes

In his passport photo, Carlos Naranjo Moreno is chubby-faced, a healthy twenty-something from a middle class Venezuelan family in the Andean town of Merida. Now, he is gaunt, his clothes hanging off his almost 6 foot 5 frame, ribs painfully visible when he removes his shirt.

The son of a university professor and himself a former chef at a government hotel who cooked for prominent Chavistas, Mr Naranjo seems an unlikely candidate for the growing ranks of Venezuelans forced to flee their country due to hunger.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...aces-protests/

It’s time for Francis and the Vatican to get tough on Venezuela
https://cruxnow.com/global-church/20...ugh-venezuela/

America Should Be Ready, Venezuela Might Become the Next Syria

https://townhall.com/columnists/davi...syria-n2317171

US businesses getting hammered by Venezuela crisis
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...a-crisis_96542

Venezuela’s asset seizures raises concerns for other sectors
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/venez...ectors-gm.html

The Latest: US official expresses concern over Venezuela

Tillerson says the U.S. is watching the situation closely and is working with others, particularly through the Organization of American States, to communicate its concerns to Venezuela.

http://www.startribune.com/the-lates...rch/419847173/

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Russia Warns Against US Interference in Venezuela, Calls for Dialogue

"Seriously alarmed, we are monitoring the situation in our friend Venezuela, where violent clashes between opposition demonstrators and the police continue, even despite the arrival of Easter," Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told media Wednesday.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/new...0413-0018.html

Tillerson Meets Putin: Could Russia Get Venezuela’s U.S. Refineries?

The U.S. Congress is waking up to another way Russia has found a back door to the United States: by lending to Venezuela.

http://blogs.barrons.com/emergingmar...-s-refineries/

Congressmen Warn Venezuela Default Could Lead to Russian Control of U.S. Oil Infrastructure

https://www.wsj.com/articles/congres...ure-1491926882

Russia could soon control a U.S. oil company

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/10/news...company-citgo/

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Side note

Trump: UN Security Council must ready new sanctions on N.Korea

The UN Security Council must be prepared to impose new sanctions on North Korea amid escalating tensions over its missile and nuclear programs, US President Donald Trump said on Monday ahead of a lunch with ambassadors from countries on the UN council.

Trump, speaking to reporters, said the council also failed to act in response to a recent Syrian chemical weapons attack, which he called a "great disappointment."

http://www.jpost.com/American-Politi...-NKorea-488843

North Korea Missile Launch Sparks U.S. and Russia Argument at United Nations

http://www.newsweek.com/un-condemn-n...a-fight-586503

Russia vetoes UN statement on North Korea's missile tests
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/19/asia/r...o-north-korea/

and Russia's position on Syria in the UN

Russia blocks Security Council action on reported use of chemical weapons in Syria’s Khan Shaykhun

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...4#.WP4yjYWcGh0

and on, and on, and on.....

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Venezuela’s plan to arm civilians sparks fear that criminals will acquire missiles



http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nati...146395469.html

[Issachar]

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Oh my .. are rumors of war be becoming not rumors?

Issachar

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Trump: The UN is an 'underperformer' but it has 'huge potential'


http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/trump...potential.html

and we know when you peek behind all those curtains above, you find Putin...

Petraeus: World order under 'unprecedented threat'

Retired Gen. David Petraeus warned lawmakers on Wednesday that the world order created in part by the United States in the 20th century is under “unprecedented threat from multiple directions,” pointing to Russia, China, Islamist extremists and cyber threats.
Those threats are compounded by an America whose “resolve about its defense has become somewhat ambivalent,” he added.
“Americans should not take the current international order for granted,” Petraeus said at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. “It did not will itself into existence. We created it. Likewise, it is not naturally self-sustaining. We have sustained it. If we stop doing so, it will fray and, eventually, collapse."

The Russian ruling elite is hoping it would be able to negotiate a new world order with Trump.

The "new Yalta" would redistribute spheres of responsibility to recognised great powers. The Kremlin, of course, sees Russia as one of them (alongside with the US, China, and perhaps Europe).

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opi...122539696.html

http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/fo...ht=world+order

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Warning warning warning

From a pro Russian site...

"Global Research" which frequently comes up on the first page of news site is Russian prop

Destabilization Plots Against Syria and Venezuela

In other words Trump is massively expanding every dirty war and destabilization campaign the Empire is involved in and doubtless in future months we will learn of countries now peaceful being thrown into chaos as a result of CIA/NED operations now being launched of which we have no idea. We can only hope that Russia and China are working on some plans of their own.

For now, however,  I must focus on the two countries which are among the most important fronts in World War 4:  Syria and Venezuela. Thankfully the initial attack on Syria was far from the all out war I feared. Brave soldiers and civilians were killed but the Syrians were able to get the air base back online the next day. However it sets a dangerous precedent for the US to attack Syria whenever the NATO death squads are loosing some battle.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/destabi...ezuela/5586704

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Trump, Colombia's Santos to meet May 18 at White House: statement

U.S. President Donald Trump will host Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos this month to discuss the implementation of Bogota's peace accord as well as efforts to counter "democratic backsliding in Venezuela," according to the White House.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...+World+News%29

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From a pro Russian site...

yes when communism fails, its always someone elses fault... Cuba was open to the whole world for trade this whole generation, yet Cubas people live in poverty... blaming America .... And now Russia Cuba and Venezuela are blaming >>> Trump...

just look at many inner cities here where communism and race-baiting have had very sad results...
Many Black leaders saying the high numbers of Blacks in prison is genocide....
..... that Poverty is everyone elses fault....

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White House calls some actions in Venezuela 'deplorable'

The Trump administration is monitoring the situation in Venezuela closely and has found some of the acts there "deplorable," the White House said on Friday.
"Some of the acts there have been deplorable and certainly something that we're monitoring very closely," White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, without providing further detail.
"In terms of specific movement or engagement that we have at this point, I can't comment any further on that right now," she said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ve...-idUSKBN18120O

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A "Cuba" side note

Raul Castro's daughter: His successor may surprise Cubans

Mariela Castro's uncle Fidel led Cuba for a half century before he was succeeded as president by her father, Raul Castro, who has said he plans to step down in February.

Mariela Castro is a gay-rights advocate, member of Cuba's National Assembly and head of the country's institute of sex education. She has long been one of Cuba's most outspoken public figures, and her statements are widely perceived to bear her father's imprimatur.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...prise-47189997

Raul Castro's daughter says would not want to be Cuban president

Still, Cuba experts say Diaz-Canel has clearly been groomed for the job and the government would unlikely want to risk political stability by appointing someone with less legitimacy.
"Perhaps she wanted to inject an element of excitement into what otherwise appears to be a pre-determined top-down bureaucratic selection," said Richard Feinberg, author of "Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cu...-idUSKBN17Z23V

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Bolivia's Evo Morales Slams Trump, Almagro for Hostility Toward Latin America's Left

Bolivian President Evo Morales shared strong words on his Twitter account Monday directed at both U.S. President Donald Trump and Organization of American States chief Luis Almagro, slamming attempts at foreign intervention and arguing that instead of dwelling on Venezuela, attention should now turn to the deepening political scandal rocking Brazil.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/new...0522-0025.html

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When it Comes to Venezuela, Trump Follows in Obama Footsteps

The Trump White House is largely following the policies put in place by U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, Mark Feierstein, former senior director of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council said at a Thursday event in Washington, D.C. “I’m not accustomed to saying nice things about the Trump administration,” he said, but “their policy is on the right track. I think in many cases they’re building on what we did in the Obama administration,” he said, pointing in particular to sanctions put on Venezuelan officials by the Obama and Trump administrations.

read:http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/01/...ama-footsteps/

Even Breitbart

By May, President Trump was meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and condemning Maduro’s regime outright, demanding the socialists adhere to international human rights norms. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned all members of the Venezuelan Supreme Court for attempting to usurp the power of the National Assembly, installing themselves as the nation’s legislature. The United States also worked to galvanize anti-socialist sentiment at the Organization of American States (OAS) to invoke the regional organization’s democratic charter against Venezuela.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-se...ights-council/

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Remarks by President Trump on the Policy of the United States Towards Cuba

And now that I am your President, America will expose the crimes of the Castro regime and stand with the Cuban people in their struggle for freedom.  Because we know it is best for America to have freedom in our hemisphere, whether in Cuba or Venezuela, and to have a future where the people of each country can live out their own dreams.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press...s-towards-cuba

The message hasn't changed even to change the outcome, just the messenger.

See post 13