OMNI
VENEZUELA NEWSLETTER #4,
February 14, 2021
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
(#3, 9-9-20)
CONTENTS
UN
to Assess US Sanctions (2-10-21)
U.S. GAO: U.S. sanctions on Venezuela have
killed tens of thousands
Former UN Rapporteur for Human Rights Evaluates Destructive
US Sanctions.
Realizing the Dream of Communal Cities.
How a lawbreaking international
coalition failed to overthrow Venezuela’s government.
U.S. Embassy caught scrubbing Tweets urging Venezuelans not to vote.
[Venezuelan] Embassy Protection Collective Members.
Why imperialism is obsolete in Latin America.
Standing by a radical Chávez.
Why Venezuela’s Dec. 6 election is legitimate.
Center-Left convergence in Venezuela: A blow to U.S. interventionism.
Chavismo and the Left (Part II).
Revolutionary organization in Venezuela.
Hate: A key strategy of the Venezuelan opposition.
850 thousand Insulin kits from Russia arrived in Venezuela (9-9-20)
UN To Assess the Impact of US Sanctions on Venezuela ...
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Representative-Visits-Venezuela-to-Assess-Sanctions-Impact-20210210-0009.html
10 February 2021
Telesur
Alena Douhan will determine what rights have
been violated by the U.S. sanctions [Obama and Trump admin.]
implemented against the Bolivarian nation.
United Nations representative Alena Douhan
visits Venezuela to assess the impact of U.S. economic sanctions imposed on the
Bolivarian nation since 2015.
The visit announcement came shortly after the
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) acknowledged that its country's
sanctions on Venezuela have killed tens of thousands of people.
The results of the analysis of the U.S.
unilateral coercive measures imposed on this South American country will be
released in September, according to the UN.
Douhan will remain in Venezuela until Friday.
During her stay, she will determine what rights have been violated by
the U.S. sanctions and what the Bolivarian government has done to
ease this situation.
The UN will also inquire into how President
Nicolas Maduro's government has complied with the recommendations of international
organizations to address the crisis.
In 2014, Washington [Obama administration] signed an executive
order deeming Venezuela a security threat. Since then, the Latin American
country has faced limitations to trade its crude oil and other sanctions aimed
at overthrowing Maduro from office.
The economic blockade intensified after former
President Donald Trump took office in 2017. His measures targeted mainly
government officials and key industries such as gas, gold, and finance.
Win Without War, Feb. 10,
2021
U.S.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) acknowledged that U.S. sanctions on
Venezuela have killed tens of thousands of people and harmed the country's
economy, especially by depressing its oil production. US
Sanctions Caused Thousands of Deaths in Venezuela, GAO Says. Venezuelan economy's performance has
declined steadily for almost a decade since the imposition of U.S. sanctions in
2015. telesurenglish.net
teleSUR English@telesurenglish
Win Without War, Feb. 10,
2021
UN Independent expert Alfred de Zayas: ‘This is how the human rights
industry works’.
mronline.org (1-30-21).
Italian
journalist Geraldina Colotti asks de Zayas about corporate media manipulation
of Venezuela’s human rights situation. | more…
Posted Jan
29, 2021 by Geraldina Colotti
Human Rights , Imperialism , Inequality , Strategy Venezuela Interview Sanctions , United Nations
Originally published: Venezuelanalysis (January 26, 2021) |
The
following is an extract from an interview conducted by Italian journalist
Geraldina Colotti with former UN Rapporteur for Human Rights and international
law expert Alfred de Zayas.
. . .
Geraldina
Colotti (GC) – Recently, a report of yours on
human rights in Venezuela caused a sensation. In it, you highlighted the
responsibility of the so-called “sanctions” imposed by the United States and
its allied countries, coercive and unilateral measures that the UN considers
crimes against humanity. How did you get to that report and what consequences
did it have on your work?
Alfred
de Zayas (AdZ) – Twelve of my
fellow rapporteurs had previously requested to be invited to visit Venezuela on
an official mission without success. That intrigued me. In addition, Venezuela
has always interested me, since it is a country close to Cuba [where de Zayas
was born before his family migrated to the U.S.] with a similar culture and
music.
Of course, I had read
a lot about the so-called “humanitarian crisis,” and I wanted to investigate.
Much to my surprise, my request was approved [in 2017] by Venezuelan Foreign
Minister Jorge Arreaza. Of course, I was indoctrinated like everyone else, since
before my trip to Venezuela I had read the information available–the studies of
the Office of the High Commissioner (in 2017 the office was held by Mr. Zeid
Raad el Hussein), of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty
International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) (1).
My visit opened my
eyes, and I realized that the media narrative does not correspond to reality. I
spoke to a dozen ministers, but also with the opposition, with the Chamber of
Commerce (Fedecámaras), with the Churches, with the Jesuit Priest Numa Molina,
with about 40 non-governmental organisations, Amnesty, HRW, Provea, Fundalatin,
the Sures Group, the National Network of Human Rights, with teachers and
students. My two meetings with [Economics] Professor Pasqualina Curcio of the
University of Caracas were also important. Her four books on the crisis
impressed me, especially The Visible Hand of the Market.
My main concern was to
listen to all parties–audiatur et altera pars [listen to the other side]– and
to quickly evaluate all the documents provided to me and which I myself got my
hands on. I concluded that the “crisis”
has two main causes: dependence on the oil sales and the [2014] dizzying fall
in prices on the one hand, and Washington’s economic war since 1999, the
financial blockade, economic sanctions and all efforts to overthrow Nicolas
Maduro through chaos and sabotage on the other. MORE
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/15103
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U.S. Embassy caught scrubbing Tweets urging Venezuelans not to vote. Mronline.org (12-17-20).
It is not clear
why the embassy decided to go back and delete its posting history, especially
as undermining Venezuela’s elections continues to be the official line of the
U.S. government. | more…
Embassy Protection Collective
Members Mark End Of Federal Probation.
PopularResistance.org (12-3-20).
By Embassy Protectors Defense Committee.
Washington, DC – Today, three of the four members of the Embassy Protection Collective,
Adrienne Pine, David Paul, and Margaret Flowers, who stayed in the Venezuelan
Embassy last year to stop its illegal handover to coup leaders, are finished
with their six-month probation and 30-day suspended sentence. The fourth member
of the collective, Kevin Zeese, died unexpectedly in September. The three
collective members are traveling to Venezuela to serve as official election
observers for the National Assembly election to be held on December 6,
2020. -more-
Why imperialism is obsolete in Latin America. mronline.org (11-26-20).
An interview with
Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela. | more…
following 2 from mronline.org (11-22-20)
Standing by a radical Chávez: A conversation with Rafael Uzcátegui
A key figure from
the newly-formed Popular Revolutionary Alternative talks about his expectations
for the upcoming parliamentary elections. | more…
Why Venezuela’s Dec. 6 election is legitimate
With
heightened U.S. attacks in Venezuela, including a tightening economic blockade,
the elections are of great consequence to the future of the country.
| more…
Center-Left convergence in Venezuela: A blow to U.S. interventionism. Mronline.org (11-6-20).
Steve Ellner
argues that average Venezuelans understand that U.S. sanctions hurt them—and
should be resisted. | more…
Chavismo and the Left: A conversation with Reinaldo Iturriza (Part II). Mronline.org (10-20-20)
A
Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolution’s
innovations and internal tensions. | more…
Revolutionary organization in Venezuela. Mronline.org (10-7-20).
Venezuelan
grassroots organizations continue fighting for the socialist project despite
very tough conditions. Here is a look at five examples. | more…
Hate: A key strategy of the Venezuelan opposition. Mronline.org (9-27-20).
Psychologist
Fernando Giuliani analyses the retaliatory feelings of those who wish to
annihilate the Bolivarian Revolution, which have been overheating during the
pandemic. | more… 
850 thousand Insulin kits from Russia arrived in Venezuela (bypassing U.S.
sanctions). Mronline.org
(9-9-20)
This
Friday, a shipment of 850 thousand vials of 4 types of insulin from Russia
arrived in Venezuela, being the 8th and 9th delivery within the framework of
the Strategic Trade Alliance signed in 2019 between Russia and Venezuela in the
International Economic Forum of St. Petersburg. | more…
END OF VENEZUELA NEWSLETTER #4 2-14-21
(#3, 9-9-20 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/09/omni-venezuela-newsletter-3-compiled-by.html; #3
reaches back to 2018)
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