Why Venezuela

47 has ordered 4,500 Marines and sailors on a naval and air task force into the Caribbean as a military threat against the leader of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and his socialist regime. Millions of Venzuelans have fled their homeland and traveled by any means possible to the USA. THere is a colony of over two thousand refugees in my neighborhood of Clinton Hell. Most of them are families with large numbers of undernourished children. NOt one of the adults are over 5-6 due to malnutrition resulting from the American embargo to prevent the sale of oil fro the World's second largest reserve of oil. The millions are also seeking escape from the terror of the narco-traffickers, since Venezuela exports 15% of the cocaine from the Andes to feed the USA.

Over the last months the Pentagon under Captain Hesgeth, who has admitted announced to the press, "According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Venezuela is not a cocaine-producing country. No matter. The USA has conducted several attacks against fast boats on the open sea. No investigation. No intl. Strictly eyeballed from a drone and greenlighted by (SOUTHCOM) located in Doral, Florida. According to CNN the latest overnight strike against killed six bringing the total number known of targeted boats to 10 and the number of people killed to 43 since the US began its campaign last month.

The Pentagon has yet to win a war in this century, despite waging an eternal war against everything and everywhere. The DEA lost of the War of Drugs but like the Japanese soldiers stranded on Pacific islands post WWII, the DEA refuses to accept defeat. The Sackler family's promotion of oxycontin killed over a million Americans with millions more physically destroyed by OD. For their role in this ongoing epidemic the Sacklers will pay approximately $6.5 billion in installments over the next 15 years, with a $1.5 billion payment upon the plan's effective date. Aux le guillotine!!!

Meanwhile the USA imports approximately 1500 tons of blow for domestic consumption. OR about four billion grams. Valued at $200 billion. Deaths 20,000 plus. But the Sacklers remain free.

Why Venezuela? East answer. To create the Fog of War to allow more importation by the CIA of course and nothing better to create fog than a Category 5 hurricane. Melissa. We are # 1.

Tears For Venezuela

Since Columbus Americas north and south has always been a land of newcomers. The Spanish, Portugese, English and French displaced fhe native people through disease and extermination. The humanity of Africa was plundered by empires and the American Republuc. The First People disappeared through wars to free the sea to sea for the industrial exploitation of the masses from Europe. Ptge upper classes thrived off the misety of the others, but still people risked all to escape the hopelessness of their home to reach the Land of the Free.

And still they came.

By the millions to the USA, BUT ALSO Columbia, Peru, other other Latin American countries.

Most recently from Senegal and Venezuela. There was no stopping them and Trump won the 2024 election by appealing to the fears of 31% of the electorate. GOP governors shipped the illegals from the border states to the North. Plenty of them.

New York City housed thousands.

In Clinton Hill several warehouses were transformed into shelters. Senegalese men and large Venezuelan families. Their voyages were long and dangerous often financed by debts to the human traffickers, but I was surprised by the size of Venezuelan families. As many as fivr children parented by short Indios. All fundamentalist Christian and I asked myself how were they able to finance this trip.

Only one answer came to mind.

Their churches. Catholics throughout the Americas have abandoned the Old Religion to worship the fundamentalist faith. And the churches are financed by the rabid rightwing Bible thumpers.

Venezuela sits on the greatest oil reserves in the world, but reaped about $4 billion in 2023, while Saudi Arabia earned a hundred times that amount thanks to the longstanding US embargo, which has impoverished the nation. There would be no refugees, if we believed in a free market.