Venezuela’s Maduro Rebukes US SOUTHCOM Chief for Interfering in Internal Affairs

[polly7]

by Lucas Koerner

November 1st, 2015

CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro firmly rejected recent statements by US Southern Command Chief John Kelly on Tuesday, which he dismissed as unacceptable interference in the South American nation’s internal affairs.

Speaking on CNN Español, the head of US military operations in Central and South America and the Caribbean described Venezuela as on the brink of “implosion” due to “inflation” and “drug trafficking” and expressed willingness to provide assistance in the event of a “humanitarian crisis”.

President Maduro hit back at the US general during his weekly television program, challenging the Pentagon’s double standards in expressing humanitarian “concern” for Venezuela while actively waging wars in other parts of the world.

“What right does he [Kelly] have to comment on Venezuela?”, Maduro exclaimed, advising the general to “dedicate the time you spend thinking about Venezuela to the people you have ordered to be killed in Libya, Syria, Pakistan.”

Referring to the US general’s allegations of Venezuelan impunity towards cross-border drug trafficking, the Bolivarian leader lashed out at Washington’s “war on drugs”, which he termed a “great failure”.

“Who is the king of drug trafficking in the world, general Kelly? The DEA. Who is the worldwide promoter of drug culture? Who is the great failure in the fight against drug trafficking in the world? The United States.”

Earlier this year, the Obama administration enacted a series of sanctions against Bolivarian officials, culminating in an executive order branding Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat”, which in turn precipitated a global backlash.

Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/11/venezuelas-maduro-rebukes-us-southcom-chief-for-interfering-in-internal-affairs/

[Judi Lynn]

1. So the same people who originated "Operation Northwoods" have shown their hand,

having Gen. Kelly indicate they just might be sending in troops to assist Venezuela due to the "humanitarian crisis." Uh, huh. How truly kind of them. So like them according to the history we already have seen over the ages.

Here's the way Presidents in the Western Hemisphere are SUPPOSED to behave regarding representatives of the U.S. Government:

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Dominican Today - Santo Domingo- President Danilo Medina received
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[polly7]

6. Lol. Yep! nt.

[EX500rider]

28. "So the same people who originated "Operation Northwoods" have shown their hand"

Actually the "same people" who proposed Op Northwoods are all mostly dead as that was 53 years ago.

[Zorro]

2. Quite a touchy asshole that Manuro is

[polly7]

3. Nah ........ he's just getting his sea-legs when it comes to speaking back against the hypocrisy.

Sometimes truth does burn a bit though, so I can imagine why you're a bit upset.

[Zorro]

4. Hardee har har

Not me who's upset.

Looks like your prickly dreamboat is, though.

[polly7]

5. As he should be.

I wish more were and had the guts to speak out. Did you see Judi-Lynn's post?

[Zorro]

7. How's your prickly dreamboat's lawsuit against Obama going?

[polly7]

8. My prickly dreamboat?

You're pathetic. I was called a Hussein lover when that farce was going down, a Gaddafi lover when that humanitarian catastrophe was started, a Chavez lover (probably by you) for defending the Venezuelan people's right for true democracy - now it's 'prickly dreamboat'!

What are you ............... ten??

[Zorro]

9. You sure know how to pick 'em

[polly7]

10. You're right.

I've been on the right side of millions of people all along.

Can't say the same for you I bet, eh??

[Zorro]

11. Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were the good guys?

Huh. I did not know that.

[polly7]

12. 8??

Millions of people have been either killed in horrible ways, maimed physically and mentally, are being brutalized by IS who moved in to fill the vacuum left, have been made refugees in countries now under similar attack by IS and other radicalized jihadists who Hussein and Gaddafi had kept in check. These millions of people are suffering horrible, hopeless lives. Women previously doctors, lawyers, teachers ..... are now raped and murdered daily by those who've filled that vacuum. Children are starving, being born deformed because of the chemicals used and left behind, are having limbs blown off by those little cluster-bomb toys left behind, have chronic PTSD with absolutely no medical help. Whole infrastructures destroyed, hospitals, schools, priceless artifacts. People trying to leave and dying by the thousands drowning at sea, and on and on and on.

Doesn't take a fucking rocket scientist to see what the result of those horrors were.

[Zorro]

13. So talking about providing humanitarian assistance to Venezuela is offensive to you

Got it.

[polly7]

14. 'Humanitarian assistance' as in the form of trying for yet another attempted coup,

or outside sponsored 'activism'/terrorism, trying through lying media to demonize what the Venezuelan people have fought so hard for, an embargo for their terrible threat to the U.S.??? Yeah, that's offensive to me.

I doubt you know the meaning of 'humanitarian assistance'.

[Zorro]

15. Sounds like you have a lot in common with your prickly dreamboat

He's always seeing the US boogeyman under his bed, too.

[polly7]

16. Ok ................ 6. nt.

[GGJohn]

17. So, if the Venezuelan people choose to elect the opposition,

will you and Judy support the people's choice?

[Marksman_91]

18. Probably not. They've shown to support democracy only when the ruling govrnmnt says it's leftist n/t

[GGJohn]

20. Yeah, I notice, with interest, the sound of crickets from my question.

Guess it was an uncomfortable question.

[Marksman_91]

19. Hey, Polly. Just sayin'. Even Noam Chomsky thinks the "Revolution" is going down the shitter

And newsflash, he ain't blaming the US or CIA or whatever for it. He himself said it, the "Chavista model has been a disaster." So just wondering, are you and the other useful idiots (to any jury-duty users reading this, "useful idiot" in this case is a completely legitimate term for me to use inoffensively at the moment; look up its wiki. Polly and Judi fit the bill perfectly) gonna throw him under the bus like you did Chávez's own mentor, Heinz Dietrich, after he started speaking critically about the Chavista regime? Lemme guess, Chomsky himself now is part of the CIA payroll too?

[Bacchus4.0]

25. Polly, here is your chance to defend the Venezuelan people's right to true democracy

here is their president pointing to the logo of a chavista party and saying it is the opposition when that party, MIN unidad, was created specifically to confuse voters into not voting for the real opposition. Please, start defending true democracy.

[Judi Lynn]

21. It's sad when it happens, isn't it?

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[polly7]

22. LOL!! We're going to have to get a special folder for these!

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Now, boys ............. we wouldn't want actual truthiness to interrupt you - carry on.

[Zorro]

23. Pssst. Here's a clue for the clueless

Those who express support for Gaddafi, Hussein, and Assad -- who "kept in check" their own citizens through fear, mass murder, and torture -- aren't humanitarians.

They're authoritarian lackeys.

[Judi Lynn]

24. Fear, mass murder, torture? Commonplace throughout the Americas under US-supported tyrants.

How does anyone explain what the #### happened to all the people who were already here when the greedy pigs started waddling out of their soggy boats to steal their land?

Terrorized, tortured, murdered, over and over again, millions of times, relentlessly, eternally, until the wealthy can't find any more poor young men to do their killing for them.

[GGJohn]

26. So if the Venezuelan people elect the opposition,

will you and polly7 support their choice?