New US aggression unites Latin America

New US aggression unites Latin America

Mar Friday 20th 2015

posted by Morning Star

US policies for the region are desperately out of touch and have been roundly condemned by the countries concerned, MATT WILLGRESS reports


On March 9 US President Barack Obama signed an executive order declaring “a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela” and imposed a further round of sanctions on the South American country.

Following the introduction of sanctions earlier in the year and numerous hostile statements from leading figures in the US administration, including John Kerry and Joe Biden, this latest act of aggression has sent out a clear signal that the US has prioritised the overthrow of the elected government.

It is also remarkably similar to an order signed by Ronald Reagan in 1985 against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, which added presidential authority to the destabilisation of a country which at the time — like Venezuela today — was trying to build a different type of society.

Others have drawn parallels to the US invasion of Panama and still more similarities between the situation in Venezuela today and the build up to Pinochet’s US-backed coup against the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973.

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