Maduro
weigerde VS hulpgoederen daar men ervan uitgaat dat zich tussen die
hulpgoederen wapens bevinden, dit feit wordt ontkend door de
reguliere media als zijnde een leugen (ofwel ‘fake news’), terwijl de bewijzen er niet om
liegen……
Zo heeft een
vliegtuig uit de VS wel degelijk wapens gesmokkeld naar
Venezuela, althans dat was de bedoeling, tot de autoriteiten wapens,
munitie en ander oorlogstuig in de lading vonden. Hetzelfde vliegtuig
van de maatschappij ‘Air 21’, een maatschappij die toentertijd alleen
in de VS vloog, vliegt al een paar maanden op en neer tussen Miami
(VS), Venezuela en Colombia, gegarandeerd dat Air 21 al veel meer wapens heeft gesmokkeld naar Venezuela……
Overigens is Air 21 gelinkt aan de ontvoeringen van terreurverdachten door de CIA naar geheime gevangenissen, waar deze ontvoerde verdachten werden gemarteld, ‘lekker bedrijf’ dat Air 21……..’ (tja en deze misdaden tegen de menselijkheid zijn al veel langer een specialiteit van de VS, dus dat is geen nieuws, laat staan dat dit nog verwondering oproept….)
Overigens geeft dit nog eens aan hoe hard men in de VS en de rest van het westen liegt over de humanitaire hulp voor Venezuela, immers het bewuste vliegtuig vloog zoals gezegd al eerder met humanitaire hulpgoederen op Venezuela…..* Buiten dat: het Rode Kruis en de VN zijn tevreden over de verspreiding van humanitaire hulpgoederen in Venezuela, waarbij het leger en vrijwilligers uitstekende hulp verlenen, aldus deze 2 organisaties. Zij waarschuwden afgelopen week dan ook niet in de pr stunt (ofwel het haatzaaien) van de VS te trappen……
Gisteren werd bekend gemaakt dat de VS met militaire vliegtuigen ‘humanitaire hulpgoederen’ zal zenden naar Colombia en dan naar de grensstreek met Venezuela….. Uiteraard zijn het Witte Huis en het Pentagon op de hoogte van de al aanwezige hulp in Venezuela van het Rode Kruis en de VN, vandaar ook dat het wel zeker is dat men militaire ‘hulpgoederen’ stuurt naar Colombia….. Om deze stap te verdedigen blijft men in de reguliere westerse massamedia blazen over de weigering van Maduro humanitaire hulpgoederen toe te laten in Venezuela……
Lees het
volgende verhaal in de serie over de voortdurende agressie van de VS
tegen Venezuela en zie de gelijkenis met de Iran-Contra affaire……
Een affaire waarin VS oorlogsmisdadiger Abrams een heel smerige rol speelde, waar deze ploert nu is aangesteld door de Trump
administratie als speciaal VS gezant, om de acties tegen Venezuela te coördineren….. (want daar komt het op neer)
US
Company That Smuggled Weapons Into Venezuela Linked to CIA “Black
Site” Renditions
February
13, 2019 at 3:48 pm
Written
by Whitney
Webb
(MPN) — The
parallels between aspects of the Contra scandal and the current
situation in Venezuela are striking, particularly given the recent
“outrage” voiced by mainstream media and prominent U.S.
politicians over Maduro’s refusal to allow U.S. “humanitarian
aid” into the country.
Two
executives at the company that chartered the U.S. plane that was
caught smuggling weapons into Venezuela last week have been tied to
an air cargo company that aided the CIA in the rendition of alleged
terrorists to “black site” centers for interrogation. The
troubling revelation comes as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
has rejected a U.S. “humanitarian aid” convoy over concerns that
it could contain weapons meant to arm the country’s U.S.-backed
opposition.
Last
Tuesday, Venezuelan authorities announced that
19 rifles, 118 ammo magazines, 90 radios and six iPhones had been
smuggled into the country via a U.S. plane that had originated in
Miami. The authorities blamed the United States government for the
illicit cargo, accusing it of seeking to arm U.S.-funded opposition
groups in the country in order to topple the current Maduro-led
government.
A subsequent
investigation into
the plane responsible for the weapons caché conducted
by McClatchyDC received
very little media attention despite the fact that it uncovered
information clearly showing that the plane responsible for the
shipment had been making an unusually high number of trips to
Venezuela and neighboring Colombia over the past few weeks.
Steffan
Watkins, an Ottawa-based analyst, told McClatchy in
a telephone interview that the plane, which is operated by U.S. air
cargo company 21
Air,
had been “flying between Philadelphia and Miami and all over the
place, but all continental U.S.” during all of last year. However,
Watkins noted that “all of a sudden in January, things changed”
when the plane began making trips to Colombia and Venezuela on a
daily basis, sometimes multiple times a day.
According
to Watkins’ analysis, this single plane had conducted 40 round-trip
flights from Miami International Airport to Caracas and Valencia —
where the smuggled weapons had been discovered — in Venezuela, as
well as to Bogota and Medellin in Colombia in just the past month.
Publicly
available flight radar information shows
that the plane, although it has not returned to Venezuela since the
discovery of its illicit cargo, has continued to travel to Medellin,
Colombia, as recently as this past Monday.
Multiple
CIA ties
In
addition to the dramatic and abrupt change in flight patterns that
occurred just weeks before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence prompted
Venezuelan opposition member Juan Guaidó to declare himself “interim
president,” a subsequent McClatchy follow-up
investigation also
uncovered the fact that two top executives at the company that owns
the plane in question had previously worked with a company connected
to controversial CIA “black sites.”
Indeed,
the chairman and majority owner of 21 Air, Adolfo Moreno, and 21
Air’s director of quality control, Michael Steinke, both have
“either coincidental or direct ties” to Gemini Air Cargo, a
company previously named
by Amnesty
International as one of the air charter services involved in a CIA
rendition program. In this CIA program, individuals suspected of
terrorism were abducted by the intelligence agency and then taken
abroad to third-country secret “black sites” where torture,
officially termed “enhanced interrogation,” was regularly
performed.
Steinke
worked for Gemini Air Cargo from 1996 to 1997, according to a 2016
Department of Transportation document cited by McClatchy.
Moreno, although he did not work for Gemini, registered two separate
business at a Miami address that was later registered to Gemini Air
Cargo while the CIA rendition program was active. McClatchy noted
that the first business Moreno registered at the location was
incorporated in 1987 while the second was created in 2001. Gemini
Cargo Logistics, a subsidiary of Gemini Air Cargo, was subsequently
registered at that same location in 2005.
21
Air has denied any responsibility for the weapons shipment discovered
onboard the plane it operates, instead blaming a contractor known as
GPS-Air for the illicit cargo. A GPS-Air manager, Cesar Meneses,
told McClatchy that the weapons shipment had been
“fabricated” by the Maduro-led government to paint his government
as the victim. Meneses also stated that “the cargo doesn’t belong
to 21 Air and it doesn’t belong to GPS-Air” and that it had been
provided by third parties, whose identities Meneses declined to
disclose.
Contras
redux?
The
revelation that the company that operates the plane caught smuggling
weapons into Venezuela has connections to past controversial CIA
programs is unlikely to surprise many observers, given the CIA’s
decades-long history of funneling weapons to U.S.-backed opposition
fighters in Latin
America, Southeast
Asia and other
conflict areas around
the globe.
One
of the best-known examples of the CIA using airliners to smuggle
weapons to a U.S.-backed paramilitary group occurred during the 1980s
in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the Reagan
administration delivered weapons to the Contra rebels in order to
topple the left-leaning Sandinista movement. Many of those
weapons had
been hidden on
flights claiming to be carrying “humanitarian aid” into
Nicaragua.
The
parallels between aspects of the Contra scandal and the current
situation in Venezuela are striking, particularly given the
recent “outrage” voiced
by mainstream media and prominent U.S. politicians over Maduro’s
refusal to allow U.S. “humanitarian aid” into the country. Maduro
had explained his rejection of the aid as partially stemming from the
concern that it could contain weapons or other supplies aimed at
creating an armed opposition force, like the “rebel” force that
was armed
by the CIA in
Syria in 2011.
Though
the media has written off Maduro’s concern as unfounded, that
is hardly
the case in
light of the fact that the Trump administration’s recently named
special envoy in charge of the administration’s Venezuela policy,
Elliott Abrams, had been instrumental in delivering weapons to the
Nicaraguan Contras, including hiding those weapons in “humanitarian
aid” shipments. In subsequent testimony after the scandal broke in
the 1980s, Abrams himself
admitted to
funneling weapons to the Contras in exactly this way.
With
the recently uncovered illicit weapons shipment from the U.S. to
Venezuela now linked to companies that have previously worked with
the CIA in covert operations, Maduro’s response to the
“humanitarian aid” controversy is even more justified.
Unfortunately for him, the U.S.-backed “interim president,” Juan
Guaidó, announced
on Monday that
his parallel government had received the first “external” source
of “humanitarian aid” into the country, but would not disclose
its source, its specific contents, nor how it had entered the
country.
Esta entrega representa 20 raciones para cada beneficiario, y corresponde a la primera fase de atención a las poblaciones más vulnerables como consecuencia de la crisis humanitaria que estamos enfrentando.
By Whitney
Webb / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
a typo
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* Zie wat betreft die humanitaire hulpgoederen ook: ‘Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit‘ (180 graden anders, wel te verstaan)
Zie verder:
‘Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda‘
‘Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland‘
‘Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges‘
‘Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….‘
‘Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’
‘Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten‘
‘Trump en Bolton bedreigen openlijk de familie van Venezolaanse militairen‘
‘VS huurlingen bezig met wapentransport gearresteerd in Haïti‘
‘Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela‘
‘Venezuela >> de media willen het socialisme definitief de nek omdraaien‘
‘BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (bericht van dit blog)
‘Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia‘
‘Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt‘
‘Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank‘
‘VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen‘
Pompeo: US Military Obligated to “Take Down” the Iranians in Venezuela
(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)
‘Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela‘
‘VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..‘
‘Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Pompeo Speech on Venezuela‘
‘Venezuela’s Military Chief, Foreign Allies Back Maduro‘
‘VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….‘
‘Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie‘
Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela
‘Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare‘
‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘
‘Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)
‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………‘
‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..‘
‘VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………‘
‘Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote‘
‘10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela‘
‘Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly‘
‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)
‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)
‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………‘
‘Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………‘
‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!‘
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Beste bezoeker dat was het voor deze dag, morgen meer berichten, maak er zo mogelijk een mooie dag van.
