Washington's Accusation against Maduro for Drug Trafficking is the Big Lie

 The accusation against Maduro that he heads the drug trafficking Cartel de los Soles is the Big Lie. And the proof is that there is so much evidence to that effect, that one doesn’t know where to begin.

The evidence that the U.S. Navy’s buildup in the Caribbean is not about combatting drugs but rather regime change in Venezuela is overwhelming. Perhaps the most obvious is that small boats and their crews are being obliterated – rather than capturing the men and forcing a confession from them. No names are released.

In his first government, Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hoped that tough talk alone would intimidate the Venezuelan military into staging a coup. Now the intimidation is being taken to higher levels and will most likely involve some sort of military action on Venezuelan soil. But if that happens the expression of anger among Latin Americans of all persuasions will be overwhelming.

In addition, Nicolás Maduro has proved to be a combative president who has mobilized the patriotism of the nation’s military and also broad swaths of the population. His call for citizens to enlist in the militia to repel a foreign aggressor has resonated widely even among men and women belonging to the opposition.

Like always President Trump’s actions are unpredictable. But whatever military course he chooses, Washington will pay a price.

https://accuracy.org/release/trumps-big-caribbean-war-lie/

Trump Boasts of Contributing to Javier Milei's Electoral Victory

 The Argentine opposition including the Peronistas accuses Trump of "extorting the Argentine people" by offering the country $50 billion on the condition that Milei's party emerged victorious in last Sunday's congressional election. And that's exactly what happened. Trump reacted by basically saying he assumed that Washington had something to do with the electoral outcome, and hoped that that was the case. And it was. Those Washington policymakers and pundits who accused Russia of violating US sovereignty by influencing the 2016 presidential elections must be cringing at Trump's bluntness. The alleged Facebook ads that Moscow supposedly paid - according to the Russiagate scandal - pales in comparison to the $50 million bribe that US taxpayers paid to ensure Milei's victory.

Javier Milei’s Pyrrhic Victory in Yesterday’s Elections in Argentina

My takeaway from Javier Milei’s victory in Argentine’ s congressional election’s yesterday based on today's NY Times article. Argentinians voted for the right-winger as a "lesser of two evil" type reaction. They have serious doubts about him, but they don’t want to go back to the old way of doing politics. Sounds familiar here in the U.S. Spoiler – I’m talking about people supporting Trump because they are disillusioned with the Democrats. Just like Biden’s candidacy was a fiasco for the Democrats, so was centrist Sergio Massa’s candidacy in 2023 for the Peronistas (previously Massa had even broken with the Peronistas to form his own party further to the right). In both cases the main electoral issue was inflation. And in both cases “tax the rich” would have been the solution.

 

 

Trump Knows Nothing About the 27 Men whose Execution he Ordered

Trump has no idea as to who were the 27 men he blew up in boats in the Caribbean. He ordered the bombing because they happened to be on the same route used by drug runners. It’s like you walk down a street which drug traffickers are also seen on, and you get blown to smithereens. Even if they were drug traffickers and not fishermen, they didn’t deserve that fate. If they were carrying drugs, they certainly weren’t kingpins, but rather little guys. Trump’s actions resemble those of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte who is being held by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, charged with the murder of at least 76 people. Instead of receiving the Noble Peace Prize, Trump should be accompanying Duterte.

 

MARIA CORINA MACHADO DESERVES THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE EVEN LESS THAN TRUMP DOES

                                         ALFRED NOBEL

Trump’s argument for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is based on lies and at best half-truths. His claim that he achieved peace between Iran and Israel is the biggest joke of them all. And if India and Pakistan agree on anything, it’s that Trump is lying when he says that he achieved peace between the two nations. But at least, Trump’s argument for deserving the Nobel Peace Prize is based on alleged achievements in the area of peace, regardless of whether or not he’s distorting the facts. But in the case of María Corina Machado, what claim does she have that in some way she contributed to peace? There is nothing that anyone can point to that justifies her being credit with having furthered the cause of peace.

María Corina Machado awarded the Nobel Peace Prize! What a mockery of the word “Peace.”

 

Why was the prize awarded to a woman who applauded the blowing up of boats in the Caribbean, which obliterated over a dozen men, without any credible justification whatsoever? And a woman who urges the United States to intervene in her country militarily. Is that what peace is all about? Why didn’t the prize go to activists who have called on Israel to withdraw from Gaza in the face of the genocide that is being committed there?