With
Juan Guaidó’s parallel government attempting to take power with
the backing of the U.S., it is telling that the top political donors
of those in the U.S. most fervently pushing regime change in
Venezuela have close ties to Monsanto and major financial stakes in
Bayer.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
1
As the
political crisis in Venezuela has unfolded, much has been said about
the Trump administration’s clear interest in the privatization and
exploitation of Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world,
by American oil giants like Chevron and ExxonMobil.
Yet the
influence of another notorious American company, Monsanto — now a
subsidiary of Bayer — has gone largely unmentioned.
While
numerous other Latin American nations have become a “free for all”
for the biotech company and its affiliates, Venezuela has been one of
the few countries to fight Monsanto and other international
agrochemical giants and win. However, since that victory — which
was won under Chavista rule — the U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition
has been working to undo it.
Now,
with Juan Guaidó’s parallel government attempting to take power
with the backing of the U.S., it is telling that the top political
donors of those in the U.S. most fervently pushing regime change in
Venezuela have close ties to Monsanto and major financial stakes in
Bayer.
In
recent months, Monsanto’s most controversial and notorious product
— the pesticide glyphosate, branded as Roundup, and linked to
cancer in recent U.S. court rulings — has threatened Bayer’s
financial future as never before, with a litany of new court cases
barking at Bayer’s door. It appears that many of the forces in the
U.S. now seeking to overthrow the Venezuelan government are hoping
that a new Guaidó-led government will provide Bayer with a fresh,
much-needed market for its agrochemicals and transgenic seeds,
particularly those products that now face bans in countries all over
the world, including once-defoliated and still-poisoned Vietnam.
Source,
links:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-gmo-seeds-and-monsanto-bayers-roundup-are-driving-us-policy-in-venezuela/258232/
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