Elizabeth Warren endorses Trump’s economic war on Venezuela, then soft-pedals far-right Bolivia coup
In a nauseating interview on Pod Save America, Elizabeth Warren endorsed suffocating US sanctions on Venezuela, backing Trump’s strategy to stop their “ability to have an economy” while parroting neocon regime-change myths. She then whitewashed the far-right military coup in Bolivia.
by Ben Norton
Part 3 - Warren reiterates her neoconservative policies against Venezuela
Elizabeth Warren repeated her support for regime change in Venezuela in an interview in September with the Council on Foreign Relations, a central gear in the machinery of the military-industrial complex.
“Maduro is a dictator and a crook who has wrecked his country’s economy, dismantled its democratic institutions, and profited while his people suffer,” Warren declared.
She referred to Maduro’s elected government as a “regime” and called for “supporting regional efforts to negotiate a political transition.”
“Maduro is a dictator and a crook who has wrecked his country’s economy, dismantled its democratic institutions, and profited while his people suffer,” Warren declared.
She referred to Maduro’s elected government as a “regime” and called for “supporting regional efforts to negotiate a political transition.”
Echoing the rhetoric of neoconservatives in Washington, Warren called for “contain[ing]” the supposedly “damaging and destabilizing actions” of China, Russia, and Cuba.
The only point where Warren diverged with Trump was on her insistence that “there is no U.S. military option in Venezuela.”
The only point where Warren diverged with Trump was on her insistence that “there is no U.S. military option in Venezuela.”
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