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The Trump administration is preparing to add Venezuela to the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism in what would be a dramatic escalation against the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro, according to U.S. officials and internal government emails.
The list is reserved for governments accused of repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism and includes only Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.
Republican lawmakers led by Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) have pushed for the designation, citing Venezuelas alleged ties to Lebanese Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and other groups.
Republicans have long accused Venezuela of having ties to terrorist organizations. But experts have played down the threat and strength of those connections. They warn that a designation that does not offer concrete evidence could weaken the legitimacy of the U.S. list, which critics say already is applied inconsistently.
I suspect this will be based on hearsay and sources of questionable integrity, said David Smilde, a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-prepares-to-add-venezuela-to-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism/2018/11/19/1ba65b74-ec01-11e8-baac-2a674e91502b_story.html?utm_term=.6deced2393b1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-world--alert-national&wpmk=1
John Fante
(3,479 posts)JonLP24
(29,346 posts)But terrorism is a stretch.
malaise
(275,500 posts)Tillerson and co. Ah well.
Meanwhile the perpetrators of 9/11 are the Con's friends.
COLGATE4
(14,791 posts)Colombian guerrillas who are committing terror in Colombia.
JonLP24
(29,346 posts)Ever since this happened.
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (January 23, 1903 April 9, 1948) was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (19431944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party. He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo[2] and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as La Violencia (approx. 1948 to 1958).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eliécer_Gaitán
I'd have to research more but I think there were a lot of privitazed armies. US taking sides. Venezuela taking sides.
COLGATE4
(14,791 posts)a couple of years ago and agreed to disarm. Other groups have refused to do so and are presently given refuge and support by the Venezuelan government. The U.S. has supported the Colombian government in its fight against armed guerrilla movements. Chavez began supporting the Colombian guerrilla movement, a support which Maduro has continued (to the point now that the Venezuelan Army is under orders not to interfere with Colombian guerrillas living and fighting in Venezuela!