Trump tells little Cuba what to do even after the world sees he has no authority over US military except to command them to baby sit and change diapers for illegals. They do let Trump do one other thing: in countries US bankers want to overthrow, Trump is allowed to cause millions to starve

Trump gives US military $7.4 million taxpayer dollars to babysit and make life easier for thousands of illegals endlessly flooding the US border….When bombing other countries doesn’t work, US uses mass starvation…IMF supported 2002 US backed coup of Venezuela: “On April 12, 2002, just hours after Venezuela’s democratically elected government was overthrown in a military coup, the IMF stated publicly that it was “ready to assist the new administration [of Pedro Carmona] in whatever manner they find suitable.“ This instantaneous show of financial support for a newly installed dictatorship – one which immediately dissolved the country’s constitution, general assembly, and Supreme Court – was unprecedented in the IMF’s history. Typically the IMF does not react so quickly, even to an elected government. It is no wonder that this move was seen in Venezuela and elsewhere as an attempt by the IMF to support the coup itself.“...May 10, 2007, “IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal,” McClatchy, Mark Weisbrot…In Feb. 2015 US attempted to assassinate Venezuela Pres. Maduro
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4/30/19, “Trump threatens Cuba with ‘full and complete’ embargo, ‘highest-level sanctions,’ citing Venezuela role,“ Fox News, Gre Re 

“As Venezuela plunged [pushed by US genocide machine] into a dramatic televised scene of chaos and violence on Tuesday, President Trump warned he would impose a “full and complete embargo” and sanctions on Cuba if its troops do not cease operations in the ravaged South American nation. 

National Security Adviser John Bolton alleged earlier Tuesday that Cuban troops were keeping Maduro in power in Caracas. 

“It’s a very delicate moment,” Bolton said, adding that “all options” remained on the table — including, potentially, a U.S. military intervention. “The president wants to see a peaceful transfer of power.” [Who cares? It's none of his business.] 

Trump’s dramatic threat came hours after his administration resoundingly endorsed an ongoing Venezuelan opposition effort, headed by [hand picked US stooge] Juan Guaido and Leopoldo Lopez, to spark a military uprising against embattled President Nicolas Maduro. The Trump administration also has worked to roll back Obama-era easing of Cold War sanctions on Cuba. 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters Tuesday that Maduro had been on his way out of the country bound for Cuba, but that Russia told him to remain. Bolton, meanwhile, warned Russia against interfering. [Who is John Bolton to “warn” Russia or anyone?] 

The U.S. government said about 20,000 Cuban troops and agents have been working in Venezuela to prop up Maduro’s government, a figure disputed by Cuba. 

In February, Navy Adm. Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Maduro, fearing for his own safety, has “completely surround[ed]” himself with Cuban security. 

“I think it’s a good sense of where the loyalty of the Venezuelan people are, that his immediate security force is made up of Cubans,” Faller told the committee. 

In January, the White House announced billions of dollars in crippling new sanctions against Maduro and the country’s state-owned oil monopoly PDVSA, less than a week after Trump first acknowledged Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate leader. [Actually, it's legitimate US-installed dictator] 

The White House has long linked Venezuela’s fortunes to Cuba. At a major foreign policy address earlier this year, Trump declared: “When Venezuela is free, and Cuba is free, and Nicaragua is free, this will become the first free hemisphere in all of human history.” [No, it will become the first hemisphere under US dictatorship.] 

Trump continued, as the crowd roared: “The days of socialism and communism are numbered not only in Venezuela, but in Nicaragua and Cuba as well. [But the days under dictatorship of US bankers are just getting started.] Do we love Cuba? Do we love Nicaragua? Great countries. Great potential.” 

The U.S. and about 50 other nations have taken the position that Maduro’s re-election last year was marred by fraud and he is not the legitimate president of Venezuela, a once prosperous nation that has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. [US bankers have desperately been trying to overthrow and/or starve Venezuelans to death for almost 20 years]. 

In January, the administration took the unusual step of recognizing Guaido, the opposition leader of the National Assembly, as interim president. It also imposed punishing sanctions on the country’s oil sector, deepening the country’s economic crisis. 

Despite these and other measures, Maduro, the hand-picked successor to Chavez, has retained his hold on the country and the support of the security services. 

That support had seemed to crack Tuesday with the launch of what the opposition was calling “Operation Freedom,” which began with the early-morning release of a short video of Guaido and Lopez alongside a few dozen national guardsmen urging people to “take to the streets.” 

In a video broadcast live on telecasts across the world, an armored vehicle could be seen driving over the center of a road, hitting a crowd of demonstrators loyal to Guaido who were purportedly throwing rocks at security forces. Dozens of injuries have been reported. 

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL.,[cheerleader for US attempted assassination of Venezuela Pres. Maduro in Feb. 2015, is back “in the hemisphere” selling US dictatorship’s crimes against humanity] denounced the actions by Venezuelan security forces, saying that “military and security leaders must realize they are and will be held responsible for this,” he said on Twitter. 

“What we are seeing today in Venezuela is the will of the people to peacefully change the course of their country from one of despair to one of freedom and democracy,” Pompeo tweeted in an early reaction. “The U.S. stands with them.“ [Pompeo doesn’t even “stand with” Americans who voted to “change the course of their country” in 2016. We voted to end US foreign aggression, but of course we’ve been ignored.] 

Still, the Trump administration was caught slightly off-guard by Guaido’s decision to launch the campaign on Tuesday. Elliott Abrams, the special representative for Venezuela, said the administration had expected major marches and protests to take place on Wednesday for the May Day holiday.”





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