Obama orders Venezuela is a threat to national security

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U.S. Sanctions Venezuela Officials, Calls Country a Threat


President Barack Obama signed an executive order declaring a national emergency with respect to Venezuela and imposing sanctions on seven officials there in response to the country's deteriorating human rights climate, the White House said Monday.
The White House said the decision to impose the executive order was a response to "the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by" the South American country.



It accused the Venezuelan government of "trying to distract from its own actions" by blaming the U.S. for events within its border, saying that approach reflects "a lack of seriousness on the part of the Venezuelan government to deal with the grave situation it faces."
The executive order imposes sanctions on seven Venezuelan officials — including the director general of the country's national intelligence service, a national prosecutor in the public ministry, the director of the national police and the inspector general of the Venezuelan national armed forces.



"Venezuelan officials past and present who violate the human rights of Venezuelan citizens and engage in acts of public corruption will not be welcome here, and we now have the tools to block their assets and their use of U.S. financial systems," the White House said in a statement.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a statement that the executive order and its sanctions also were intended to protect the U.S. financial system from "the illicit financial flows from public corruption in Venezuela."



(NBC News)

[Ethics Gradient, Traitor For All Ages]

And to prove that this is entirely an internal matter, we've decided to impose sanctions.

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Anti-war leader opposes U.S. threats against Venezuela

By staff

Chicago, IL – In response to new U.S. government moves against Venezuela, anti-war activists are speaking out against Washington’s actions and threats.

Joe Iosbaker, of the Anti-War Committee of Chicago states, “Venezuela has never threatened the U.S. people. But the Bolivarian revolution is a threat to U.S. imperialist interests, in Venezuela and in Latin America as a whole. That’s because imperialism sucks the wealth out of other countries. The national democratic revolution, which continues under the leadership of President Maduro, intends to use Venezuela's resources to benefit the workers and farmers of their country. The U.S. government only wants to see profits going to U.S. banks and corporations. The U.S. should keep its hands off Venezuela.”

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[The Intransigent Faction]

A Penn State Professor was recently arrested for speaking out against the sanctions during a flight to Miami (she also lit a cigarette on the plane, but that sounds more like a convenient excuse).

[RebelDog]

unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security

If, like the south park episode says, planet earth is really a reality show watched by aliens, then 10million little green men somewhere in the andromida galaxy just died laughing.

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President Barack Obama signed an executive order declaring a national emergency with respect to Venezuela

Somebody there is an idiot or just pretends to be an idiot?