Venezuela's president sits in a US jail, having been abducted by a military invasion. There is no doubt that what the US has done violates the UN Charter as well as any number of international laws. How did Trump pull it off?
Maybe he was just being an imperialist like his predecessors. According to research at Boston College, the US has attempted regime change 72 times since World War II. A little less than half were successful. Most notable overthrows include: Iran, Guatemala, Congo, South Vietnam, Brazil, Ghana, Chile, Panama. Haiti, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Honduras, Libya, and Venezuela. Thousands have perished in these assassinations and coups. And millions more have been slaughtered in the decades of human rights abuses that have inevitably followed.
How is it that the citizens of our democracy have let these war crimes go on for 80 years? Is it just ignorance, which our schools, political parties and mass media are only too willing to perpetuate? Our nation's billionaires have bought up most sources of actual information, so we can't expect too much help there.
What may finally shame the US public into action is the blatant genocide our government is waging in Palestine. There is no attempt to hide the 20,000 children who have been murdered. We can see the rest in their makeshift tents, without food, water, or electricity. The US is the driving force behind the worst bloodbath of the 21st century. Maybe that will finally touch the humanity of the American public.
Fred Nagel
