Venezuela : Civil War imminent

Surprised America hasn't invaded yet

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to levy new sanctions on Venezuela, U.S. officials said Monday, in response to a weekend election that gives the South American country’s ruling party virtually unlimited powers.

The officials said the new sanctions could be imposed as early as Monday and will likely target Venezuela’s oil sector, including possibly its state-owned petroleum company. One official said an announcement was imminent. The officials were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The administration imposed sanctions on more than a dozen senior current and former Venezuelan officials last week, warning the socialist government that new penalties would come if President Nicolas Maduro went ahead with Sunday’s election for a constituent assembly.

The assembly will draw up a new constitution that many believe is aimed only at securing Maduro’s increasingly authoritarian rule. On Monday, Venezuela’s government said the election had given it a popular mandate to dramatically recast the political system, despite widespread claims of low voter turnout.

The Trump administration was quick to denounce the vote.

“Maduro’s sham election is another step toward dictatorship,” Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Twitter. “We won’t accept an illegit govt. The Venezuelan ppl & democracy will prevail.”

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the new assembly “is designed to replace the legitimately elected National Assembly and undermine the Venezuelan people’s right to self-determination.”

“The United States stands by the people of Venezuela, and their constitutional representatives, in their quest to restore their country to a full and prosperous democracy,” Nauert said in a statement. “We will continue to take strong and swift actions against the architects of authoritarianism in Venezuela, including those who participate in the National Constituent Assembly as a result of (Sunday’s) flawed election.”

^ Yeah , think the British army's first job under PM Corbyn might be propping up Maduro !

Corbyn on the phone to Maduro here in this other link . Surprised more is not being made of this . Don't speak Spanish so wondering if it might be a spoof!


http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/video-president-nicolas-maduro-pays-tribute-to-tony-benn-in-conversation-with-jeremy-corbyn-mp/

The billionaires want Venezuela back in their portfolio.
They are freezing them out. starve them then move in.
they'll applaud any madman now that can provide food on the plate.
For a country with 'fertile land' it's sad they cannot grow food
to feed the people.

thats the problem, they want elections and democracy, not corruption and violence.

oh dear, i don`t expect the leftists are going to learn anytime soon.

they don't just have the most oil reserves in the world they have it by some distance...300 billion barrels.

What will the world do when oil runs out....in a few hundred years?

They need to hurry up and get a working nuclear fusion unit up and running. Some way to go with that though I suspect. Another 50 years maybe? They've still got a long way to go yet to stabilise a fusion reaction long enough for it to be able to produce any useful power.

i thought the scientists know 95 percent of everything there was to know? I'm told Dawkins said this?

if that was the case, they should have fusion sorted out.

Free power all around us, a battery technology leap is all we need for now.

Venezuela has huge oil reserves but it's been run as a socialist state so is of course a basket case. Once the oil price dropped, it was ruined as it was still giving out free stuff it couldn't afford and as it was totally incompetently run with all eggs in one basket, it has virtually nothing else as an economy to fund itself. To blame america or some mad oil conspiracies is just the tragically low intellectual level we expect of the left. But we're used to that.

Today, after their **** and boycotted referendum, I see that their "security forces" have just disappeared the leaders of the opposition, raiding their homes, as it spirals into being yet another failed state socialist dictatorship. And still they hard left and corbynites will defend it, and blame the US, as they blame the US for everything, and cry that socialism is the solution...

I'm guessing BBC and channel 4 will ignore this of course. If trump tweets something silly about someone, they spend 10 minutes tearing him a new one. If a leftist wannabe dictator (they like lefties, John Snow LOVES the hard left) rounds up his political opponents, that's hardly worth covering is it.

There's a lot to be angry about imo.

what about Britain ? 1000's of food banks electric up 12%

I'd rather live in a country run the way Britain is, able to offer a couple of thousand food banks, than in a country run the way Venezuela is, able to offer zero food banks.

whilst aljazeera covered this in detail  sky were debating breast feeding in public and the new male editor of vogue

Yeah MSM just puppets and the people are stupid and /or out of their heads. Amazing scenes worldwide when interest rates rise.  The UK has had a bad summer so the prisons haven't exploded yet....

Or in your case, delusions.

zorro good posts. You will know the news in the last few days the EU are just putting the finishing touches to measures regarding  limited or zero cash withdrawals for up to several weeks but could be longer ! Europeans not going to be happy finding out they are worth NOTHING  after working for decades.

It won't be smooth. Local "money " will be created. Illegal of course. But that doesn't stop ANYTHING happening.