'Let the Workers of the World…starve'
Peter Janssen
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The phrase Proletarier aller L?nder, vereinigt euch! ?(a false narrative invented by the German Karl Marx , a man who could not even feed his own family), is to be found inscribed on Marx’s grotesquely ostentatious tomb in Highgate, one of the most expensive suburbs in London, England. The phrase originally in German comes from the 23-page revolutionary pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto of 1848 which begins, aptly with the words:
"Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa [A ghost is haunting Europe - the ghost of communism]…and ends with ?Proletarier aller L?nder, vereinigt euch! [ Workers of all nations….unite!] "
Far Left Socialist and Communist regimes cannot feed their people anything but this clap trap dogma and false narratives about capitalism and the so-called patriarchy. North Korea controlled by [ the?Workers' Party of Korea?(WPK) and its General Secretary for life Kim Jong-un] is the most infamous example of failed workers party Utopia’s [ where 3.5M died of famine in the 90’s], but this is also the case in corruption plagued Venezuela run as a dictatorship by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela?(Spanish :?Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela,?PSUV). This lunatic fringe left wing party, strives to impose on the Venezuelan people a socialism in all its pernicious forms including an overthrow of capitalism and its values. Venezuela has oil reserves are larger than Saudi Arabia’s and therefore you’d think that the people would be rich. Instead, this anti west dogma has resulted in this workers’ paradise attaining a poverty rate of 90%.
The plight of Venezuela is not helped by the fact that the President is an uneducated bus driver. After coming to power in 2013 under the Socialist Party of Venezuela and with the backing of Communist Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Venezuela, PCV) that uses a little red rooster as its logo and who together with other leftist parties constitute the junta called the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) have allowed this bus driver to rule as a dictator by decree since 2015 when he illegally dissolved the popularly elected Venezuelan Parliament (The National Assembly).
The?Organization of American States ?(OAS) report determined that?crimes against humanity ?have been committed during his presidency.[26] ?In February 2018, the?International Criminal Court ?(ICC) announced that it would open a preliminary examination into alleged crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela, which is currently ongoing.[
In 2016 President?Nicolás Maduro started an ignominiously named programme CLAP [ (Spanish :?Comité Local de Abastecimiento y Producción, ] ostensibly to attempt to feed Venezuela’s starving masses but in reality was a cynical political tool to use food to manipulate and control the population. The program was run by the ridiculously Orwellian named Ministry of Popular Power for Food.
The socialist regime has been unable to control inflation, which has disintegrated Venezuela’s economy. As a result, many poor Venezuelans are now dependent on CLAP deliveries to put food on the table. These deliveries, which are almost entirely made up of imported goods.
“The link between food and politics is based in the regime’s introduction of a?Carnet de la Patria?(Homeland Identification Card), a federally issued hi-tech card that has become increasingly necessary to access not only CLAP benefits, but also healthcare, university, government jobs, and even government subsidies gifted at Maduro’s personal discretion. This strategy allows the Maduro regime to provide greater assistance to its own supporters, and to target others who are desperate enough to change their vote in order to receive food aid.” https://www.csis.org/analysis/maduro-diet-food-v-freedom-venezuela
Amongst its faceless administration, the Maduro junta empowered people like Alex Saab and his business associate Alvaro Pulido to assist with their socialist policies in the area of food and housing.
In June 2018, the?UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ?published a report in which they considered that the CLAP program did not meet certain standards related to the right to adequate food, in addition the lack of control in the program was documented and its use as a tool for political propaganda and social control.
Here is socialism in all its glory.
“The CLAP program is sustaining the Maduro regime not just through political manipulation, but financially as well. Government, military officials, and a network of operations personnel utilize the CLAP program to personally profit, directing tens of millions of dollars away from Venezuelan citizens and into their own pockets. Those overseeing the program are able to turn nearly a 200 percent profit on the sale of every CLAP box. The price of the goods within each CLAP box is approximately USD $12—yet the program’s facilitators charge the Venezuelan government USD $35 per box, as approved by the National Center for Foreign Commerce (?CENCOEX ). Similarly, corruption runs through the distribution channels, as human rights-abusing military officials and pro-regime-controlled neighbourhoods facilitate CLAP allocation for personal gain. The amount is not trivial; in a recent shipment of CLAP boxes, Venezuela paid USD $29 million, while the cost of the food itself was no more than USD $7 million. For the amount of money paid out for these boxes, Venezuela could have purchased?three times as much food? from abroad as the CLAP boxes provided.”
A lot of the wealth is skimmed off by the corrupt military or middlemen. So the food doesn’t get to the people and they starve.
In 2019 the US Federal attorney brought charges against Saab and his business partner Alvaro Pulido (Vergas) pursuant to in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, saying they allegedly were involved in a money laundering and bribery scheme while working on ?government programmes from as early as 2011 under the Chavista regime.
?Alex Nain Saab Moran aka Alex Saab
Key insiders with anti-west faceless men of influence to the socialist junta in Venezuela are people like Lebanese born, Paris based Columbian (businesses such as Global Construction Fund in Barranquilla and Bogota Columbia) “businessmen” like Alex Saab.
Saab (along with his brothers Amin/Amin Saab Moran and Luis Alberto and Ex-wife, Cintia/Cynthia Eugenia Certain Ospina, and business partner Julio César Ruiz Maestre) controlled various companies including Shatex, a textile and trading company whose accountant Devis José Mendoza and auditor Robinson Ruiz Guerrero, were arrested by the authorities in Colombia, for money laundering in 2019 but which itself went into liquidation in 2016, Venedig Capital SAS; Saab Certain & Company, today liquidated; Jacadi de Colombia SA, in liquidation since April 2016; Saafartex SA, which in 2016 changed its name to Textiles Importados Andinos SAS; Saafartex Internacional SAS; Global Energy Company SAS; Constructora R & V SAS; Comercializadora Nates SAS; and Shatex SAS. “Also, Saab allegedly used the services of Mossack Fonseca, the legal firm at the center of the Panama Papers offshore financing scandal, to create companies abroad. Among these were Seafire Foundation, Lintel Overseas and PI Proment International Sociedad Anónima Kingstone Team Inc.” https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Alex_Saab
Apparently some of Saab’s entities have been moved now to Turkey where he has connections. ?https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Alex_Saab
?Saab entities are alleged to also have been implicated in assisting Muduro help finance terrorism in the Middle East providing financial support to Hezbollah a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization ( by the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assts Control-OFAC ), moving the money through banks in Antigua and Barbuda and then via Asia to the Middle East. https://rijock.blogspot.com/2019/04/venezuelan-payments-to-hezbollah-flowed.html
The US has placed sanctions on Venezuela because of the breaches of human rights by Maduro’s government but the junta uses people like Saab to get around the sanctions.
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In 2019 the US Federal attorney brought charges against Saab and his business partner Alvaro Enrique Pulido saying they allegedly were involved in a money laundering and bribery scheme while working on a government contract to build low-income houses.
Saab was detained in Cape Verde last year after the plane he was on stopped to refuel while on the way to Iran. He spent almost 500 days in jail before Cape Verdean authorities turned him over to U.S. Marshals for extradition to the US from Cape Verde on Saturday,16 October 2021. “If he was to cooperate, he could significantly advance the Department of Justice case against Maduro, who is facing charges for narco-terrorism and drug trafficking in New York.” https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/16/world/citgo-6-caracas-picked-up-intelligence-service/index.html
Colombian journalist Gerardo Reyes, Pulitzer Prize recipient and Univisión's investigation team director, published his book Alex Saab with the Editorial Planeta [es], based on 120 interviews. Reyes described Saab as a "super minister", saying that he had more tasks than any other member of Maduro's cabinet, and has written that the United States calculates that Saab's profits from the Venezuelan government are over a billion dollars. Torrado, Santiago (2021-07-19).?""Alex Saab tenía más funciones que cualquier ministro venezolano"" .?El País ?(in Spanish). Retrieved?2021-09-07.
This former bus driver, now President of Venezeula, Maduro works hand in glove with other tin pot dictators around the world.
Muduro is currently the Secretary General of the deceptively named moribund Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which in reality has always been closely aligned with socialist/communist and anti- west countries like Soviet Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Communist China and Communist Cuba, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
https://www.nuovogiornalenazionale.com/index.php/estero/politica-internazionale/4015-venezuela-alex-saab-estradato-negli-stati-uniti.html ?[ By Marco Crabu https://www.dhirubhai.net/in/marco-crabu-440b92146 ]
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