by
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
Part
1
Under
the guise of protecting human rights, the Trump administration is
illegally meddling in three countries it has dubbed the “troika of
tyranny” — Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. National Security
Adviser John Bolton claimed, “Miami is home to countless
Americans, who fled the prisons and death squads of the Castro regime
in Cuba, the murderous dictatorships of Chavez and Maduro in
Venezuela, and the horrific violence of the 1980s and today under the
brutal reign of the Ortegas in Nicaragua.”
But the
U.S. government’s human rights record doesn’t compare favorably
to Cuba’s. And the Trump administration, which ignores notorious
human rights violators like Saudi Arabia, is acting out of more
cynical motives in its commission of egregious human rights
violations against Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
The U.S.
government has imposed unlawful, coercive sanctions on these nations,
and attempted to mount a coup to illegally change Venezuela’s
regime.
Trump
and the real troika of tyranny — Bolton, Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo and U.S. envoy for Venezuela Elliott Abrams — have failed in
their coup attempt against the democratically elected Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro. Trump’s troika, egged on by Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Florida), are seeking to substitute U.S. puppet Juan Guaidó
for Maduro as president of Venezuela.
On May
1, Pompeo told Fox Business that the U.S. might use military force in
Venezuela “if that’s what is required.” Eric Prince,
founder of the infamous Blackwater mercenary group, presented a plan
to U.S. and European leaders to provide 5,000 mercenaries to Guaidó.
McClatchy
reported that covert U.S. weapons shipments arrived in Venezuela from
Miami in February.
This is
particularly alarming because Russia has a solidarity presence in
Venezuela and a U.S.-backed attack could risk a conflagration with
Russia.
Furthermore,
the United Nations Charter forbids countries from using or
threatening to use force against the territorial integrity or
political independence of another country. The Charter of the
Organization of American States prohibits any country from
intervening in the internal or external affairs of another nation.
And the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
guarantees the right to self-determination.
Source,
links:
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-troika-of-tyranny-meddles-in-venezuela-cuba-nicaragua/
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