This past week’s meeting of the U.S.-and-Canada-created anti-Venezuela Lima Group of nations failed to achieve the U.S. regime’s intention of organizing a coalition of its members to participate in a U.S.-led invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s Government and install Trump’s choice, the self-styled ‘interim President’ of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, to rule there. Although 100 nations had been invited, only 60 attended, and the U.S. regime wasn’t able to obtain even one ally for an invasion. John Bolton (U.S. National Security Advisor) and Wilbur Ross (U.S. Secretary of ‘Commerce’ — mainly U.S. oil companies) represented U.S. President Trump at the meeting, which started on August 5th. The meeting ended with no official announcement. It was a humiliating defeat for the U.S. regime. Below is a report about this meeting, by Agence France-Presse, a typical U.S.-allied ‘news’-medium. The additions in brackets in and near the article’s end are essential historical context; it’s taken from Wikipedia’s article “International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_Venezuelan_crisis), and thus also isn’t from me. This way, the reader will be able to see what the ‘news’ report here leaves out, which is essential in order for readers to know the reality that stands behind this particular ‘news’ report. … Meer lezen over Eric Zuesse – Adding Context to ‘News’ about Venezuela