{"id":15245,"date":"2019-03-01T01:48:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T06:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15245"},"modified":"2020-05-16T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T16:28:07","slug":"english-bulletin-march-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15245","title":{"rendered":"English bulletin March 1, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN VENEZUELA ?
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\nThe commercial media almost without exception continues to support the United States and dozens of its allies in its attacks on Venezuela. Hardly a culture of peace!<\/p>\n

\nIn order to present an alternative to this “war propaganda,” we review here a series of articles that give the other side.<\/p>\n

\nWe begin with critiques of the commercial media coverage.<\/p>\n

\nCBS News claims that 82% of the people of Venezuela want President Maduro to quit, but they do not provide a source. Instead, when we seek reliable polling data<\/a>, we find that 57% of poll respondents consider that the government of president Maduro, is legitimate and 86 percent would disagree with international military intervention. A majority are disatisfied with both the government and the opposition, but this is common in many countries now, including the United States.<\/p>\n

\nCommercial media in the US, including the New York Times and the Washington Post continue to support a US overthrow of the Venezuelan government<\/a>. They point to the country\u2019s economic crisis as a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US has strangled the Venezuelan economy.<\/p>\n

\nHere are some of the stories that are not covered by the commercial media, presumably because they do not support the American economic warfare and threat of military intervention<\/p>\n

\nOn 3 August 2018, the UN General Assembly received a report from their Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, concerning his mission to Venezuela and Ecuador. The report criticized the US economic warfare against Venezuela<\/a>, suggesting that it could be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n

\nWhile the US, its allies and media claim to be delivering humanitarian aid to Venezuela, the Red Cross and the United Nations have refused to join in<\/a>. They express concern that the aid is being offered for political rather than humanitarian reasons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nWhile the US and its allies attacked Venezuala at the UN Security Council<\/a>, a number of countries objected, including China, Russia, South Africa, Equatorial Guinea, Nicaragua, Cuba and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The delegate from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines said, “The history of Latin America and the Caribbean is indelibly scarred by military interventions and imposition of dictator Governments.\u00a0 The need to triumph over its lingering remnants drives the countries in the hemisphere \u201cto be viscerally abhorrent to any semblance of its re-emergence\u201d.\u00a0 Constitutionally, Venezuela has an elected President in Mr.\u00a0Maduro, but an unconscionable crusade against the legally elected President, orchestrated by OAS, aims to erect a parallel unelected Government.\u00a0”<\/p>\n

\nBolivian president Evo Morales <\/a> wrote that \u201cthe US threats against Venezuela are threats to peaceful coexistence in Latin America, they want to provoke confrontation between brothers with war and violence.\u201d He accused the US government of seeking that Venezuela \u201cbe devastated and impoverished as Iraq and Libya\u201d, <\/p>\n

\nThe Jamaican Peace Council <\/a> condemned the threat of military intervention by the US and wrote that “the US has no history of promoting democratic governance in the Caribbean. Cuba in 1961, Grenada in 1983, and Honduras in 2009 are examples of their imperialist intervention and paramilitary violence. We say: \u201cNo more interference and no more coups!\u201d”<\/p>\n

\nClose to 700 conferees from 65 countries came to a conference in Havana, Cuba, <\/a> from January 28-31, for peace and \u201cworld balance. An overarching theme of the conference was the urgency for international solidarity with the democratically elected Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n

\nFinally, President Maduro wrote a letter to the American people<\/a>, concluding that “We appeal to the good soul of American society, victim of its own leaders, to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against warmongering and war.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/tr>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tr>\n\n
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FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
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\nWhat do the people of Venezuela want?
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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\nStudents are striking around the world to protest\u00a0against the lack of action to stop global warming
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WOMEN’S EQUALITY
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\nBonita, a young change-maker inspires girls and women in Nepal through education
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EDUCATION FOR PEACE
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\nDominican Republic: Reflections on the search for a culture of peace in schools
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DISARMAMENT AND SECURITY
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\nGuatemala: Two key elements to overcome the crisis
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HUMAN RIGHTS
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\nMexico: Cuitl\u00e1huac Garc\u00eda issues decree for Culture of Peace and Human Rights Directorate
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TOLERANCE AND SOLIDARITY
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\nPope hopes his Arabian trip will help Islam-Christian relations
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DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION
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\nMexico: National Forum for a Culture of Peace
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WHAT IS HAPPENING IN VENEZUELA ? The commercial media almost without exception continues to support the United States and dozens of its allies in its attacks on Venezuela. Hardly a culture of peace! In order to present an alternative to this “war propaganda,” we review here a series of articles that give the other side. … Continue reading English bulletin March 1, 2019<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-15245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-english-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}