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Venezuela's foreign minister says Canada causing his country's collapse to 'take control' of its wealth
National Post ^ | August 21, 2020 | Ryan Tumilty

Posted on 08/22/2020 5:06:15 PM PDT by rickmichaels

Venezuela is staggering in the face of a years-long power struggle, food shortages, hyper-inflation and an exodus of its citizens.

The country’s foreign minister says, Blame Canada.

Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza is part of Nicolas Maduro’s government, which most Western countries no longer recognize, but it does still control most of the country’s institutions. He was speaking through Zoom to a Canadian audience on Thursday, in an event organized by the left-leaning Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.

Canada and most other Western nations have backed Juan Guaidó, a former member of the country’s national assembly who declared himself the interim president in 2019 after Maduro’s re-election in what many say was a fraudulent vote.

In 2017, Canada helped to form the Lima Group, a group of countries, including most of the major countries in North and South America, to call for Maduro to step down and for free elections to be held in the country.

In a lengthy speech Thursday, Arreaza said the Canadian government was attempting to undermine Venezuela to take the nation’s wealth.

“Canada has been in the centre of these events and this means that they want to create the conditions in order to attack Venezuela, to invade Venezuela, because they want to take control of our country and its wealth.”

The Lima Group specifically rules out any type of violence of force as a means to change in Venezuela. The U.S. is not a member of the group, but has said it supports its aims.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canada; cuba; energy; hydrocarbons; jorgearreaza; juanguaido; limagroup; maga; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; opec; russia; venezuela
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1 posted on 08/22/2020 5:06:15 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

I always thought it would be The Bahamas that would try this takeover scheme.


2 posted on 08/22/2020 5:08:00 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: rickmichaels

Well Trudeau is a Crook but I think he would rather have DRUGS


3 posted on 08/22/2020 5:08:21 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: rickmichaels

In before Blame Canada.

L


4 posted on 08/22/2020 5:09:33 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: rickmichaels

Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

With all their beady little eyes
And flapping heads so full of lies.

Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!

They’re not even a real country anyway.


5 posted on 08/22/2020 5:11:29 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: rickmichaels

Welcome to the US reality in later November.


6 posted on 08/22/2020 5:12:08 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rickmichaels

I know Trueshit is part of the globalist cabal trying to divide the world amongst themselves.

It would not surprise me if there was truth to this.


7 posted on 08/22/2020 5:15:05 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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To: butlerweave

Some have traced about $500 million have gone into accounts that are connected to Trueshit.


8 posted on 08/22/2020 5:15:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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To: rickmichaels

When the ‘Rat political minions gain total power, will they let the democracy vote them out of power?

I didn’t think so.


9 posted on 08/22/2020 5:16:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rickmichaels

Why isn’t Venezuela blaming the good ol’USA? I thought every country did ... feel left out ....


10 posted on 08/22/2020 5:17:44 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: rickmichaels
That's like Lori Lightfoot blaming Trump for the chaos and anarchy that she created in Chicago.
11 posted on 08/22/2020 5:23:28 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: butlerweave

An almost unknown story: Trudeau‘s father is probably Castro. The timeline and the photo comparison of both at age twenty is pretty much an exact match. Many stories about Margaret and Fidel.


12 posted on 08/22/2020 5:24:48 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rickmichaels

lol they’re doing that quite well on their own without any help.


13 posted on 08/22/2020 5:25:12 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: gibsonguy

I didn’t know Canada was doing such a good job.


14 posted on 08/22/2020 6:16:32 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Trump may have funky hair, but at least his eye brows don’t crawl off his face


15 posted on 08/22/2020 6:30:47 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: gibsonguy

Blackface trudeau’s mom was like barry soetoro’s mom.....a mattress back.


16 posted on 08/22/2020 7:04:22 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: rickmichaels

what happened to blaming the United States for Venezuela’s collapse?


17 posted on 08/22/2020 8:22:59 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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