People all over the world see what this country is doing and has been doing.
They've been told that America is a democracy and that the president, vice
president, senators, and representatives have been voted in by the people. They
experience Americans as soldiers occupying their countries, or as tourists
disrespecting their cultures. The fact that I don't approve of the government
actions, the military exploits, or how the tourists behave, is immaterial. I'm
tarred with the ssame brush. Do you think that the average black ghetto dweller
gives me a pass because I don't think or feel like most white people do? I
remember sitting in a meeting of school district residents, listening to white
people who thought they were without prejudice, saying things that made me want
to crawl under my seat and disappear.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2019 11:49 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Trump Administration Tries to Stop the Transport
of Venezuelan Oil to Cuba
Miriam,
Don't be ashamed to be an American. You did not campaign or vote for those in
power. Be ashamed of those who are so easily fooled that they are charmed by
the rantings of an insane man.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/8/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Trump Administration Tries to Stop the Transport of Venezuelan Oil to
Cuba By Alex Daugherty, McClatchy D.C.
07 April 19
The Trump administration is trying to make it harder for Nicolás
Maduro to send oil to Cuba.
The Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions against two
shipping companies and one vessel for transporting oil between
Venezuela and Cuba, as the United States has declared that Venezuela’s
oil resources belong to Juan Guaido’s interim government and not
Maduro.
An additional 34 vessels owned by PDVSA, Venezuela’s state-run oil
company, were also identified as blocked property by the Treasury
Department. The U.S. government and lawmakers have said that Venezuela
sends oil to Cuba in exchange for security and intelligence services,
using a lucrative natural resource to help Maduro maintain power
instead of helping to alleviate Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis.
“Cuba has been an underlying force fueling Venezuela’s descent into crisis.
Treasury is taking action against vessels and entities transporting
oil, providing a lifeline to keep the illegitimate Maduro regime afloat,”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. “Cuba continues
to profit from, and prop up, the illegitimate Maduro regime through
oil-for-repression schemes as they attempt to keep Maduro in power.
The United States remains committed to a transition to democracy in
Venezuela and to holding the Cuban regime accountable for its direct
involvement in Venezuela’s demise.”
The two companies who were sanctioned are the owner and operator of a
crude oil tanker named Despina Andrianna, which the Treasury
Department said delivered oil from Venezuela to Cuba in February and
March. The companies are the Liberia-based owner Ballito Bay Shipping
and Greek operator ProPer In Management. The Treasury Department also
listed the names of the 34 PdVSA-owned vessels that are part of the
ongoing exchange of oil between Venezuela and Cuba.
The sanctions come a day before planned protests by Guaido supporters
in Venezuela.
“POTUS is taking action against a vital source of the Maduro regime’s
wealth,” Vice President Mike Pence tweeted. “Venezuela’s oil belongs
to the Venezuelan people!”
“Today will be a bad day for regime in Cuba for a couple of reasons,”
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted. “Sanctions on the tankers stealing
oil from Venezuela is one.”
Rubio also sent a letter on Friday to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
and Mnuchin urging them to declare armed militia groups in Venezuela
known as colectivos a terrorist organization and designate Maduro’s
regime as a transnational criminal organization.
“The crisis in Venezuela continues to destabilize the region and
threaten U.S. national security,” Rubio wrote. “Given that the United
States and over
50 other nations now recognize Interim President Juan Guaidó—and
therefore no longer recognize the regime of Nicolás Maduro as the
official Government of Venezuela—it is time for the Executive Branch
to take important and necessary steps to further isolate Maduro and
make clear to the world his regime’s illegality, criminality, and depravity.”
Miriam's comment: I'm really ashamed to be an American.
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