It isn't a pretty sight with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in Venezuela (and Cuba).
Posted on 12/06/2015 12:01:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
June 29, 2015: North Korea to open embassy in Venezuela
Nov 23, 2015: Venezuelan president meets Iran supreme leader ahead of GECF summit
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has met Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran. Iranian Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Aliakbar Velayati an advisor to the Supreme Leader attended the meeting, IRNA news agency reported Nov. 23.
At the meeting Khamenei said that the independent countries' sole way to progress is to resist against global arrogance, by relying on fellow peoples in independent countries.
Iran's supreme leader also praised the Venezuelan nation for their opposition against the US policies in the Latin American countries.
Nicolás Maduro in turn said that "imperialism" is after undermining the independence of nations by creating chaos and anarchy in the world.
Maduro arrived in Tehran in the evening of 22 November to participate in third summit of the leaders the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)............."
There is a lot of concern that the political instability in both Venezuela and Nigeria could result in a huge fraction of the world’s crude oil supply being cut off—the two countries I mentioned are the biggest-producing OPEC members outside of the Middle East. Mind you, that could really spur oil production in the USA, though.
It isn't a pretty sight with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in Venezuela (and Cuba).
Excellent points...there is also the issue of Iranian missiles ..that can easily reach the southern US..the newer ones have even better range...also its been reported that Bolivia is stock piling for the Iranians/Venezuelans.
This definitely our biz...no matter what the clueless one hear say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/15/letter-venezuela-sanction_n_7290838.html
Democrats Ask Obama To Stop Sanctioning Venezuela
...”It’s absolutely unbelievable that any marginally informed person would think that Venezuela, or any other South American or Latin American country, could constitute a threat to the national security of the United States,” the Argentine Foreign Ministry said in a public statement following the sanctions.
Obama administration officials have tried to play down the importance of the “national security” language, urging critics and reporters to focus on the substance of the sanctions themselves. IEEPA requires the president to declare that a country constitutes a national security threat before imposing sanctions under the act. Under the sanctions, the seven Venezuelan officials may not visit the U.S. and all their assets located in the U.S. have been frozen. The sanctions target only those individuals, rather than the Venezuelan economy more broadly.
Ahead of the Summit of the Americas last month, a meeting of the region’s heads of state, the White House backed away entirely from the national security language required by U.S. law to justify the sanctions.
“The United States does not believe that Venezuela poses some threat to our national security,” Benjamin Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, told reporters last month. “We, frankly, just have a framework for how we formalize executive orders.”
Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the sanctions have isolated the Obama administration. In adopting the policy, Weisbrot said, Obama went along with more conservative elements of his administration’s foreign policy team who aren’t interested in maintaining normal relations with the left-wing government of Venezuela.
“Obama has never paid much attention to Latin America because it has no electoral consequence,” Weisbrot told The Huffington Post. “This was just a big mistake.”........
Obama and Kerry, what could possibly go wrong?
From their point of view, everything is going just the way they want it to go; their goal is to contain and diminish the United States.
The Next Foreign Policy Problem isn’t in another country. It resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Has been for the last 7 years at least.
(Sigh) United Fruit and JP Morgan used to handle these things so much better
why should I give a damn? they like New York, have what they wanted
I did not realize that the Democerat party had taken over Venzuela.
you are 100% correcto!
Venezuela needs oil priced at $117.50 to breakeven on their original planned government spending for 2015. With so much socialism already in place, to not spend near that is a major upset in their economy.
http://graphics.wsj.com/lists/opec-meeting
They have run out of other peoples money. The Opec meeting a few days ago decided not to cut production to raise oil prices. Venezuela has been begging for Saudi and others to help them at this time with no results.
Add Angola and Algeria to that list, likely others as well to crater long before Saudi has to make a change.
Maduro. King of the ashes, lord of the rubble.
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