[Fdu] Profs. Chomsky et al Call for US to Stop Interfering in Venezuela
Cynthia Wright
cynthia.wright at utoronto.ca
Sun Jan 27 16:36:46 EST 2019
> Opinion & AnalysisInternational
>
>
> Over 70 Experts Call for US to Stop Interfering in Venezuela
>
> By Collective
>
> Noam Chomsky, Alfred de Zayas, Sujatha Fernandes, Boots Riley, John
> Pilger, Vijay Prashad and many others oppose US interventionism in
> Venezuela. The statement is worth the read.
>
>
> Rally against US President Donald Trump in Caracas
>
> Rally against Donald Trump in Caracas, Venezuela. (Ueslei
> Marcelino/Reuters)
> Jan 24th 2019 at 5.26pm
>
> The United States government must cease interfering in Venezuela’s
> internal politics, especially for the purpose of overthrowing the
> country’s government. Actions by the Trump administration and its
> allies in the hemisphere are almost certain to make the situation in
> Venezuela worse, leading to unnecessary human suffering, violence, and
> instability.
>
> Venezuela’s political polarization is not new; the country has long
> been divided along racial and socioeconomic lines. But the
> polarization has deepened in recent years. This is partly due to US
> support for an opposition strategy aimed at removing the government of
> Nicolás Maduro through extra-electoral means. While the opposition has
> been divided on this strategy, US support has backed hardline
> opposition sectors in their goal of ousting the Maduro government
> through often violent protests, a military coup d’etat, or other
> avenues that sidestep the ballot box.
>
> Under the Trump administration, aggressive rhetoric against the
> Venezuelan government has ratcheted up to a more extreme and
> threatening level, with Trump administration officials talking
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22166&Action=Follow+Link> of
> “military action” and condemning Venezuela, along with Cuba and
> Nicaragua, as part of a “troika of tyranny
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22165&Action=Follow+Link>.”
> Problems resulting from Venezuelan government policy have been
> worsened
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22164&Action=Follow+Link> by
> US economic sanctions, illegal
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22163&Action=Follow+Link> under
> the Organization of American States and the United Nations ― as well
> as US law and other international treaties and conventions. These
> sanctions have cut off the means by which the Venezuelan government
> could escape from its economic recession, while causing a dramatic
> falloff
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22162&Action=Follow+Link> in
> oil production and worsening the economic crisis, and causing many
> people to die because they can’t get access to life-saving medicines.
> Meanwhile, the US and other governments continue to blame the
> Venezuelan government ― solely ― for the economic damage, even that
> caused by the US sanctions.
>
> Now the US and its allies, including OAS Secretary General Luis
> Almagro and Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have pushed
> Venezuela to the precipice. By recognizing National Assembly President
> Juan Guaido as the new president of Venezuela ― something illegal
> under the OAS Charter
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22161&Action=Follow+Link> ―
> the Trump administration has sharply accelerated Venezuela’s political
> crisis in the hopes of dividing the Venezuelan military and further
> polarizing the populace, forcing them to choose sides. The obvious,
> and sometimes stated
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22160&Action=Follow+Link> goal,
> is to force Maduro out via a coup d’etat.
>
> The reality is that despite hyperinflation, shortages, and a deep
> depression, Venezuela remains a politically polarized country. The US
> and its allies must cease encouraging violence by pushing for violent,
> extralegal regime change. If the Trump administration and its allies
> continue to pursue their reckless course in Venezuela, the most likely
> result will be bloodshed, chaos, and instability. The US should have
> learned something from its regime change ventures in Iraq, Syria,
> Libya, and its long, violent history of sponsoring regime change in
> Latin America.
>
> Neither side in Venezuela can simply vanquish the other. The military,
> for example, has at least 235,000 frontline members, and there are at
> least 1.6 million in militias. Many of these people will fight, not
> only on the basis of a belief in national sovereignty that is widely
> held in Latin America ― in the face of what increasingly appears to be
> a US-led intervention ― but also to protect themselves from likely
> repression if the opposition topples the government by force.
>
> In such situations, the only solution is a negotiated settlement, as
> has happened in the past in Latin American countries when politically
> polarized societies were unable to resolve their differences through
> elections. There have been efforts, such as those led by the Vatican
> <http://thecenterforeconomicandpolicyres.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d9%2c83%3c%26JDG%3c%3b59%2b9%2f9%26SDG%3c90%3a.&RE=MC&RI=4718981&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=22159&Action=Follow+Link> in
> the fall of 2016, that had potential, but they received no support
> from Washington and its allies who favored regime change. This
> strategy must change if there is to be any viable solution to the
> ongoing crisis in Venezuela.
>
> For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the
> principle of national sovereignty, these international actors should
> instead support negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its
> opponents that will allow the country to finally emerge from its
> political and economic crisis.
>
> Signed:
>
> Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus, MIT and Laureate Professor,
> University of Arizona
>
> Laura Carlsen, Director, Americas Program, Center for International Policy
>
> Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University
>
> Miguel Tinker Salas, Professor of Latin American History and Chicano/a
> Latino/a Studies at Pomona College
>
> Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology,
> University of Sydney
>
> Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives
>
> Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a
> Democratic and Equitable International Order and only UN rapporteur to
> have visited Venezuela in 21 years
>
> Boots Riley, Writer/Director of /Sorry to Bother You/, Musician
>
> John Pilger, Journalist & Film-Maker
>
> Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
>
> Jared Abbott, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
>
> Dr. Tim Anderson, Director, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
>
> Elisabeth Armstrong, Professor of the Study of Women and Gender, Smith
> College
>
> Alexander Aviña, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State
> University
>
> Marc Becker, Professor of History, Truman State University
>
> Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, CODEPINK
>
> Phyllis Bennis, Program Director, New Internationalism, Institute for
> Policy Studies
>
> Dr. Robert E. Birt, Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University
>
> Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History, Salem State University
>
> James Cohen, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
>
> Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Associate Professor, George Mason University
>
> Benjamin Dangl, PhD, Editor of Toward Freedom
>
> Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Faculty of Professional and Social Sciences,
> Middlesex University, UK
>
> Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Wesleyan
> University
>
> Jodie Evans, Cofounder, CODEPINK
>
> Vanessa Freije, Assistant Professor of International Studies,
> University of Washington
>
> Gavin Fridell, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in
> International Development Studies, St. Mary’s University
>
> Evelyn Gonzalez, Counselor, Montgomery College
>
> Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History, Indiana University
>
> Bret Gustafson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington
> University in St. Louis
>
> Peter Hallward, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University
>
> John L. Hammond, Professor of Sociology, CUNY
>
> Mark Healey, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
>
> Gabriel Hetland, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and
> U.S. Latino Studies, University of Albany
>
> Forrest Hylton, Associate Professor of History, Universidad Nacional
> de Colombia-Medellín
>
> Daniel James, Bernardo Mendel Chair of Latin American History
>
> Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice
>
> Daniel Kovalik, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
>
> Winnie Lem, Professor, International Development Studies, Trent University
>
> Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, Professor-Researcher, National University
> of Anthropology and History, Morelos, Mexico
>
> Mary Ann Mahony, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State
> University
>
> Jorge Mancini, Vice President, Foundation for Latin American
> Integration (FILA)
>
> Luís Martin-Cabrera, Associate Professor of Literature and Latin
> American Studies, University of California San Diego
>
> Teresa A. Meade, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and
> Culture, Union College
>
> Frederick Mills, Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University
>
> Stephen Morris, Professor of Political Science and International
> Relations, Middle Tennessee State University
>
> Liisa L. North, Professor Emeritus, York University
>
> Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
>
> Christian Parenti, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, John
> Jay College CUNY
>
> Nicole Phillips, Law Professor at the Université de la Foundation Dr.
> Aristide Faculté des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques and Adjunct
> Law Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law
>
> Beatrice Pita, Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of
> California San Diego
>
> Margaret Power, Professor of History, Illinois Institute of Technology
>
> Vijay Prashad, Editor, The TriContinental
>
> Eleanora Quijada Cervoni FHEA, Staff Education Facilitator & EFS
> Mentor, Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching at The
> Australian National University
>
> Walter Riley, Attorney and Activist
>
> William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, University of California,
> Santa Barbara
>
> Mary Roldan, Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History,
> Hunter College/ CUNY Graduate Center
>
> Karin Rosemblatt, Professor of History, University of Maryland
>
> Emir Sader, Professor of Sociology, University of the State of Rio de
> Janeiro
>
> Rosaura Sanchez, Professor of Latin American Literature and Chicano
> Literature, University of California, San Diego
>
> T.M. Scruggs Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa
>
> Victor Silverman, Professor of History, Pomona College
>
> Brad Simpson, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
>
> Jeb Sprague, Lecturer, University of Virginia
>
> Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
>
> Sinclair S. Thomson, Associate Professor of History, New York University
>
> Steven Topik, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
>
> Stephen Volk, Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College
>
> Kirsten Weld, John. L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social
> Sciences, Department of History, Harvard University
>
> Kevin Young, Assistant Professor of History, University of
> Massachusetts Amherst
>
> Patricio Zamorano, Academic of Latin American Studies; Executive
> Director, InfoAmericas
>
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> Opinion &
> AnalysisInternational
>
> Over 70 Experts Call for US to Stop Interfering in Venezuela
>
> By Collective
>
> Noam Chomsky, Alfred de
> Zayas, Sujatha Fernandes, Boots Riley, John Pilger, Vijay Prashad and many
> others oppose US interventionism in Venezuela. The statement is worth the
> read.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rally against US President Donald
> Trump
> in Caracas
>
>
>
>
> Rally against Donald Trump in
> Caracas, Venezuela. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jan 24th
> 2019 at 5.26pm
> The
> United States government must cease interfering in Venezuela’s internal
> politics, especially for the purpose of overthrowing the country’s
> government. Actions by the Trump administration and its allies in the
> hemisphere are almost certain to make the situation in Venezuela worse,
> leading to unnecessary human suffering, violence, and instability.
> Venezuela’s political polarization is not new; the country has long been
> divided along racial and socioeconomic lines. But the polarization has
> deepened in recent years. This is partly due to US support for an
> opposition
> strategy aimed at removing the government of Nicolás Maduro through
> extra-electoral means. While the opposition has been divided on this
> strategy, US support has backed hardline opposition sectors in their
> goal of
> ousting the Maduro government through often violent protests, a
> military coup
> d’etat, or other avenues that sidestep the ballot box.
> Under the Trump administration, aggressive rhetoric against the Venezuelan
> government has ratcheted up to a more extreme and threatening level, with
> Trump administration officials talking of “military action” and condemning
> Venezuela, along with Cuba and Nicaragua, as part of a “troika of
> tyranny.” Problems resulting from Venezuelan
> government policy have been worsened by US economic
> sanctions, illegal under the Organization of American States and
> the United Nations ― as well as US law and other international
> treaties and
> conventions. These sanctions have cut off the means by which the
> Venezuelan
> government could escape from its economic recession, while causing a
> dramatic falloff in oil production and worsening the economic
> crisis, and causing many people to die because they can’t get access to
> life-saving medicines. Meanwhile, the US and other governments continue to
> blame the Venezuelan government ― solely ― for the economic damage, even
> that caused by the US sanctions.
> Now the US and its allies, including OAS Secretary General Luis Almagro
> and Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have pushed Venezuela to
> the precipice. By recognizing National Assembly President Juan Guaido
> as the
> new president of Venezuela ― something illegal under the OAS Charter ―
> the Trump administration has sharply
> accelerated Venezuela’s political crisis in the hopes of dividing the
> Venezuelan military and further polarizing the populace, forcing them to
> choose sides. The obvious, and sometimes stated goal, is to force
> Maduro out via a coup
> d’etat.
> The reality is that despite hyperinflation, shortages, and a deep
> depression, Venezuela remains a politically polarized country. The US
> and its
> allies must cease encouraging violence by pushing for violent, extralegal
> regime change. If the Trump administration and its allies continue to
> pursue
> their reckless course in Venezuela, the most likely result will be
> bloodshed,
> chaos, and instability. The US should have learned something from its
> regime
> change ventures in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and its long, violent history of
> sponsoring regime change in Latin America.
> Neither side in Venezuela can simply vanquish the other. The military, for
> example, has at least 235,000 frontline members, and there are at
> least 1.6
> million in militias. Many of these people will fight, not only on the
> basis
> of a belief in national sovereignty that is widely held in Latin America ―
> in the face of what increasingly appears to be a US-led intervention ― but
> also to protect themselves from likely repression if the opposition
> topples
> the government by force.
> In such situations, the only solution is a negotiated settlement, as has
> happened in the past in Latin American countries when politically
> polarized
> societies were unable to resolve their differences through elections.
> There
> have been efforts, such as those led by the Vatican in the fall of
> 2016, that had
> potential, but they received no support from Washington and its allies who
> favored regime change. This strategy must change if there is to be any
> viable
> solution to the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.
> For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the principle
> of national sovereignty, these international actors should instead support
> negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents that will
> allow the country to finally emerge from its political and economic
> crisis.
> Signed:
> Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus, MIT and Laureate Professor, University
> of Arizona
> Laura Carlsen, Director, Americas Program, Center for International
> Policy
> Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University
> Miguel Tinker Salas, Professor of Latin American History and Chicano/a
> Latino/a Studies at Pomona College
> Sujatha Fernandes, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology,
> University of Sydney
> Steve Ellner, Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives
> Alfred de Zayas, former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a
> Democratic and Equitable International Order and only UN rapporteur to
> have
> visited Venezuela in 21 years
> Boots Riley, Writer/Director of Sorry to Bother You,
> Musician
> John Pilger, Journalist & Film-Maker
> Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
> Jared Abbott, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard
> University
> Dr. Tim Anderson, Director, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
> Elisabeth Armstrong, Professor of the Study of Women and Gender, Smith
> College
> Alexander Aviña, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State
> University
> Marc Becker, Professor of History, Truman State University
> Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, CODEPINK
> Phyllis Bennis, Program Director, New Internationalism, Institute for
> Policy Studies
> Dr. Robert E. Birt, Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University
> Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History, Salem State University
> James Cohen, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
> Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Associate Professor, George Mason University
> Benjamin Dangl, PhD, Editor of Toward Freedom
> Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Faculty of Professional and Social Sciences,
> Middlesex University, UK
> Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Wesleyan
> University
> Jodie Evans, Cofounder, CODEPINK
> Vanessa Freije, Assistant Professor of International Studies, University
> of Washington
> Gavin Fridell, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in
> International Development Studies, St. Mary’s University
> Evelyn Gonzalez, Counselor, Montgomery College
> Jeffrey L. Gould, Rudy Professor of History, Indiana University
> Bret Gustafson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Washington University
> in St. Louis
> Peter Hallward, Professor of Philosophy, Kingston University
> John L. Hammond, Professor of Sociology, CUNY
> Mark Healey, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
> Gabriel Hetland, Assistant Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S.
> Latino Studies, University of Albany
> Forrest Hylton, Associate Professor of History, Universidad Nacional de
> Colombia-Medellín
> Daniel James, Bernardo Mendel Chair of Latin American History
> Chuck Kaufman, National Co-Coordinator, Alliance for Global Justice
> Daniel Kovalik, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
> Winnie Lem, Professor, International Development Studies, Trent
> University
> Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, Professor-Researcher, National University of
> Anthropology and History, Morelos, Mexico
> Mary Ann Mahony, Professor of History, Central Connecticut State
> University
> Jorge Mancini, Vice President, Foundation for Latin American Integration
> (FILA)
> Luís Martin-Cabrera, Associate Professor of Literature and Latin American
> Studies, University of California San Diego
> Teresa A. Meade, Florence B. Sherwood Professor of History and Culture,
> Union College
> Frederick Mills, Professor of Philosophy, Bowie State University
> Stephen Morris, Professor of Political Science and International
> Relations, Middle Tennessee State University
> Liisa L. North, Professor Emeritus, York University
> Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History, University of Florida
> Christian Parenti, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, John Jay
> College CUNY
> Nicole Phillips, Law Professor at the Université de la Foundation Dr.
> Aristide Faculté des Sciences Juridiques et Politiques and Adjunct Law
> Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law
> Beatrice Pita, Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of
> California San Diego
> Margaret Power, Professor of History, Illinois Institute of Technology
> Vijay Prashad, Editor, The TriContinental
> Eleanora Quijada Cervoni FHEA, Staff Education Facilitator & EFS
> Mentor, Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching at The
> Australian National University
> Walter Riley, Attorney and Activist
> William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, University of California,
> Santa Barbara
> Mary Roldan, Dorothy Epstein Professor of Latin American History, Hunter
> College/ CUNY Graduate Center
> Karin Rosemblatt, Professor of History, University of Maryland
> Emir Sader, Professor of Sociology, University of the State of Rio de
> Janeiro
> Rosaura Sanchez, Professor of Latin American Literature and Chicano
> Literature, University of California, San Diego
> T.M. Scruggs Jr., Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa
> Victor Silverman, Professor of History, Pomona College
> Brad Simpson, Associate Professor of History, University of
> Connecticut
> Jeb Sprague, Lecturer, University of Virginia
> Christy Thornton, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins
> University
> Sinclair S. Thomson, Associate Professor of History, New York
> University
> Steven Topik, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
> Stephen Volk, Professor of History Emeritus, Oberlin College
> Kirsten Weld, John. L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences,
> Department of History, Harvard University
> Kevin Young, Assistant Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
> Amherst
> Patricio Zamorano, Academic of Latin American Studies; Executive Director,
> InfoAmericas
>
>
>
> Topics:
> International
>
>
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