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Venezuela on the Edge of Civil War

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Baier then interviewed a glowing Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican Congresswoman from Miami Florida, who just cannot hide her exuberance over the turnout at the polls---the people said "no to Maduro and communism stuffed down their throats, and yes to democracy".

Ros-Lehtinen is a Cuban-American Latino from Miami Florida, who also is a strong supporter of Israel. Her major campaign contributor was Irving Moskowitz, a founder of illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, where the body count of peaceful Palestinian protesters keep mounting up. Hypocrisy never shames them.

As I wrote in a previous article, the Empire and its servants are not motivated by democracy and human rights; that is a ruse.

Even if all of the propaganda about Venezuela was true (which it is not) why is it the job of the U.S. to fix it? The Venezuelan's are capable of solving their own problems. The U.S. Department of State says it is because Venezuela needs to "return to full respect for the rule of law, full respect for freedoms of political expression and participation"---

Surely, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson is not concerned for the people of Venezuela. He knows all about Venezuela, having been the Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil, until President Donald Trump tapped him for his cabinet.

Tillerson was with ExxonMobil for over 40 years. He has no love for Bolivarian Socialism, former president Hugo Chavez, and the current democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro. Tillerson had the unpleasant job of seeing Chavez and Maduro nationalize $10 billion worth of ExxonMobil's operations in Venezuela. Tillerson is sharpening his Department of State ax to get ExxonMobil's operations back.

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