Re: Bloody Canada: Cheerleading the Lima Group’s Plot to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela Archived Message
Posted by brooks on February 7, 2019, 4:48 pm, in reply to "Bloody Canada: Cheerleading the Lima Group’s Plot to Overthrow the Government of Venezuela"
Good article. It's certainly a disgusting display of Canada's role as US imperial poodle, and CBC as its spin-machine but unfortunately pretty normal and I think she misdiagnoses the motives, i.e. that it was "in exchange for a trade deal". Canada has almost always backed US international crimes and been a junior partner in them, as the corporate elite here and in the US are largely indistinguishable and share the same interests. For instance Canada was poodle-in-chief in the US coup against Aristide and the aggression against Libya and CBC played the role of dutifully spinning both atrocities. There are often specific as well as general motives in major foreign policy operations like this, but in this case I suspect it's less to do with the trade deal or oil, as with a shared goal of uprooting socialism in Latin America where Canada's mining giants have been raping the land for decades, and possibly with those same corporations gaining access to Venezuela's mineral wealth. What is unusual is the incompetence and brazenness with which Trudeau and Freeland and the CBC have adopted these roles in this case. To give you a flavour of their childish PR, here's a recent email from my own MP: Thank you for including me on your e-mail to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. With regards to the political crisis in Venezuela, the government has said that Canada was one of the first countries to step up for democracy in Venezuela by recognizing Juan Guaidó as the interim President of Venezuela, and, it stands with the people of Venezuela. Canada's government has also said it rejects the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro and has imposed targeted sanctions against 70 regime officials. Next week, Canada will be hosting the Lima Group in Canada, bringing together its South American partners in an attempt to address this crisis.
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