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Updated Sitrep Caracas - Tuesday - 6 Jan
https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/updated-sitrep-caracas-tuesday-6?
This Sitrep should be read in conjunction with our previous Sitreps on this topic.
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez visited the Chavez mausoleum, paying tribute to the founding leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution”, and reaffirming her commitment to its socialist values. After laying flowers in memory of Chavez, Rodriquez and her delegation visited monuments honoring Professor Aristobulo Isturiz and Eliecer Otaiza Castillo.
Isturiz was one of the founders of the Chavista “revolution” and served in senior posts in Maduro’s government. Otaiza was another of the founding members of the Chavista movement and was at one point head of Venezuelan intelligence.
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The United States was interested in buying the small Danish West Indies island archipelago in the Caribbean right after the Civil War.
The US feared that imperial powers would use the islands to attack our country and the Panama Canal. Denmark & the US signed a treaty for the purchase, but the Senate wouldn't ratify by 1867, following the US purchase of Alaska from Russia.
After our 1898 war with Spain, in which we took possession of Puerto Rico and briefly governed Cuba, we worked again with Denmark to buy the islands.
The US Senate and Denmark's lower house ratified the treaty in 1902, but Denmark's upper house would not.
Then came World War I. Germany was poised to pressure neutral Denmark to allow stationing of U-boats there to attack our shipping from the Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexico.
US and Denmark signed a new treaty in 1916 for the US to purchase the islands for $25 million in American gold coin. The islands had become unprofitable for Denmark, and impossible for Denmark to defend.
The Danish people approved the treaty by referendum and both Houses of Parliament ratified it in December 1916. Ironically, Denmark did not permit residents of Greenland to vote.
The US Senate ratified the treaty in January 1917 and took possession.
A separate unilateral "declaration" associated with the treaty, signed by Secretary of State Robert Lansing, stated: "The Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland."
That declaration did not have the force of a treaty.
At the time, Denmark controlled only part of Greenland, mainly on the west coast where Nuuk is situated. Norway and earlier American explorers had made rival claims.
In that declaration, we didn't proactively recognize Danish control of all of Greenland. We just didn't object to it.
Ironically, Denmark did not permit residents of Greenland to vote on the treaty.
Denmark did not assert full control of Greenland until 1921, but full dominion was not resolved, due to a dispute over Norway's territorial claims, until 1933.
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