It’s time Sinn Féin ended its backing for the Maduro regime and listened to the people of Venezuela. They want democracy, freedom and prosperity. pic.twitter.com/d7NREh8fZE
— Fianna Fáil (@fiannafailparty) February 5, 2019
It’s time Fianna Fáil ended its backing for the Varadkar regime, amirite.
Previously: Bryan Wall: Oily Business
Meanwhile…
Tánaiste @simoncoveney announces Ireland's support for Mr. Juan Guaidó. Full statement available at https://t.co/8Tx5ckfHcQ pic.twitter.com/kGISqkTncr
— Irish Foreign Ministry (@dfatirl) February 6, 2019
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Go on, lick the US’s ar5e a little harder, FF.
jesus, you are immature
your ma
Jesus, Us = bad so therefore everything the US thinks is bad = good?
That is a very nuanced way to view the world
no, but US imperialism is not known for its altruism, especially when it comes to resource-rich South American countries. they have much precedent there.
Curiously our Shinner shyster friends echoed the worst of the US bullshit when their bomb makers oops sorry bird watchers got caught. And suddenly poor Paddy could not expect a free n fair trial in this third world kip etc. Needless to say they were guilty up the wazoo – problematic for Noraid who were still peddling bible in one hand armalite in the other followed by tea n poetry.
And here Pearse’s wee boys were teaching godless commies with AKs in one hand Marx in the other n possible nasal cavities full of Charlie. Sell that at a Wolfe Tone gig. You think the three wld take their punishment like honourable Oglaigh. But no. It was all quasi colonial racist squealing. Proving once again the the near impossible: Sinn Fein are as bad if not worse than the other clowns. And that’s before we discuss the debt. The one to the psychos. Choccy etc
Maduro is a violent thug that rigged his election so he could cling to power. No self respecting democrat should give him an ounce of support…….. but then again, it’s Sinn Féin and the notion of democracy we’re talking about I suppose!
Over 100 international observers were there. They’ve penned a letter to the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
: “.. the claims in your press release are fabrications of the most disgraceful kind, based on hearsay and not on evidence and unworthy of the EU. It has not escaped notice that the EU was invited to send observers to the election and declined to do so. NONE of the criticism in your EU press release is, therefore, based on direct EU observation in the field…
..We were unanimous in concluding that the elections were conducted fairly, that the election conditions were not biased, that genuine irregularities were exceptionally few and of a very minor nature. There was no vote buying because there is no way that a vote CAN be bought. The procedure itself precludes any possibility of anyone knowing how a voter cast her or his vote; and it is impossible – as we verified – for an individual to vote more than once or for anyone to vote on behalf of someone else.”
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/international-observers-to-venezuelas-election-pen-letter-to-the-eu
This delegation stands alone among the many, many civil society organisations who have roundly condemned the elections.
Were they present to observe the elections taking place? Which are they exactly? I mean, you must be aware of how the so called “international community” operates by now – you either almost always align with, or kowtow to, US interests
Do you know the makeup of the delegates that were invited to do the overseeing? I remember hearing one of these jokers interviewed on the radio. He was a SIPTU official.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/7272
Former US President Carter: Venezuelan Electoral System “Best in the World”
I think its a little more complicated that we realize , probably best of we stay out of it
er, that’s from 2012.
Here is a more recent prognosis:
“The Atlanta-based Carter Center whose founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, once said Venezuela had one of the best election processes in the world, also came out against the process.
“On top of the fact the election was illegal, the (electoral council) broke every rule in the book of electoral integrity,” said Jennie K. Lincoln, the Carter Center’s director for Latin America and Caribbean. “This election destroyed any vestiges of democracy that might have yet existed in Venezuela.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-turnout/opposition-leaders-election-experts-decry-venezuela-vote-idUSKBN1AG2FN
The opposition won the Assembly elections and the US is OK with that result.
Maduro won the Presidential election and that is not OK with the US.
Seems the US, and FF, pick and choose which election they support.
Sometimes I agree with SF, sometimes I don’t.
This is definitely one of the times I don’t.
you’re a western-backed regime change kinda guy?
you’re a ‘useful idiot’
So, similar to yourself then.
what’s my idiocy useful for millie? I don’t proselytise for murderous corrupt regimes.
What a worthwhile contribution to the debate from millie…
I know right? You know where to find me if you need some advice.
Maduro’s Venezuela is a wonderful lesson in how to bankrupt a wealthy country with populist socialist economic voodoo. It the kind of stuff Ms Mc Donnell spouts at every opportunity (subject to approval from West Belfast).
I know a Sky News report on Venezuela on their youtube live channel. They showed the state of their hospitals, no medicine, no working equipment, broken machines, just some dying patients in bed surrounded by mosquito nets. That’s all they can afford. What a reckless, deluded regime. Another Socialist country failure. It seems to always fail because it goes against human nature of ambition, ingenuity and improving life for your loved ones and friends.
Some socialism in a Capitalist society works well, but full blown socialism. Disaster
Sky news on YouTube…
oh dear, and you believed them…
What, you think the whole thing was faked? Come on, they were interviewing the patients family members, some of the sick patients, some of the doctors, it was real. Its not like they are Fox news, even though they are also owned by Murdoch. Euronews had a similar report, but from a different hospital in Caracas.
I’m just surprised that people are still prepared to lap up these narratives; not realising the role that corporate media plays in manufacturing consent among the public for Western imperialist campaigns. It’s happening time and time again – Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine – the list goes on, and yet some people refuse to see reality.
Did Sky attempt to set the proper context of the situation? Was there any mention economic sanctions imposed by the US on Venezuela or of the Venezuelan oligarchs who control much of the food production? Did they interview any supporters of the Bolivarian revolution (still the majority of the public) as to why they support the government?
Is it true that Hugo Chavez’s daughter is worth $4.2billion?
f_lawless have you ever spent time in a fully socialist / communist country? I have, and it is shocking. People lose all motivation for work, standards of food production drop, people become malnourished. Teenagers become desperate for anything from abroad that gives them hope or the optimism of escape. They regard all tourists as millionaires, and girls turn to prostitution for the price of a drink in a nice bar with a tourist because they feel glamorous for one evening. Its awful and would make you despair for humanity.
+1 Junkface. I’ve witnessed exactly this in Eastern Europe in the late eighties and even in to the mid nineties. It’s dreadful. The vestiges are still there, it takes generations to recover.
you’re showing just out of touch you are. Venezuela is not a fully socialist county. It still operates within a capitalist system – capital accumulation drives ecomonic activity; most industries are privately owned and profit seeking; Venezuela still operates within the global capitalist market.
That’s the problem when you buy too much into any ideology. You start to selectively observe only what fits into your one dimensional view of the world. “look you see, just like I always said. Socialism is bad!”
No, when you let Socialist ideals dictate or dominate your economics then you will destroy your economy. Some socialism in western societies around Europe have worked out well, never perfect but nothing is.
junkface agrees with Trump and John Bolton.
nuff said
did any of those European countries endure sustained campaigns, of several years, by foreign forces to overthrow the government – orchestrated coup attempts; the funding of opposition right wing groups to the tune of tens of millions; crippling sanctions, blocked from making any international transactions, Venezuean oligarchs restricting food supply,etc?
” when you let Socialist ideals dictate or dominate your economics..”
Sounds like you’re succumbing succumbing to selective ideological thinking again
What does any of the above have to do with regime change and why it’s being pushed?
Before a coup takes place, economic sanctions are imposed to turn the people against the government and promote a populist uprising, enter stooge guida, if that fails the violence is unleashed.
See Chile, Panama, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Haiti, Ecuador, Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, Grenada, Cuba, and previously Venezuela.
Typical FF
Supporting American regime change operations in yet another oil rich country. Naming an right wing opposition leader President without any election victory (because they know he wouldn’t win). Standard FF.
We have all seen this playbook before. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, all part of US attempts at toppling foreign governments. Venezuela is just the next one up.
Until Europe deals with the source of the problem which is a warmongering USA it will continue going from country to country. EU should be on the side of No more Wars. But we have American lackeys like Fianna Fail in this country that have more loyalty to the yanks than they do to Europe.
Last time they tried this shit in Syria Europe ended up having to clean up the mess of the immigration crisis from over 2.5 million refugees fleeing the war.
USA picks a fight with a country with huge oil reserves. Deploys military personnel to neighbouring country .They tell other countries they need to pick a side. Feel familiar at all? All we need now is for Colin Powell to turn up at the UN with a little phial of
sugarWMDs.If the USA wanted to invade an oil rich country which actually did do harm to the USA, they could start with Saudi Arabia which killed the US resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. But Trump and his golden circle have big business interests dependent on the Saudis.
Fupp off USA and fight your own oil war.
Not only the USA but the EU which includes us now
So basically if civil war results from this we cannot stand there saying how neutral we are
http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2019/02/04/poll-whats-your-favourite-us-backed-coup/
that’s amazing. I voted for Chile, as it’s a classic.
Very good! This is another really good piece of satire http://www.brasilwire.com/if-uk-media-wrote-about-the-uk-like-it-does-latin-america/
Here we have the mentality of those who believe everything they read in the media
Though I cannot bear Sinn Fein and their past pre GFA their policies and mentality
I actually commend them for their stance on Venezuela
If you study the sad history of Venezuela you might just understand why Hugo Chávez came to power
If you actually examined the history of Cuba and other Latin and south American countries you would also understand
This government was democratically elected and due to decades of undermining these governments by foreign powers Venezuela is where it is
Yes bernard, because nobody has bothered to ‘study’ the history like you have.
Is this Fianna Fail’s local elections manifesto? When the party has sorted out Venezuela, what are its local election candidates going to do about street lamps, waste disposal, rural buses, draining the Shannon and supporting small businesses by making boarded up town shops available to entrepreneurs??
https://youtu.be/8av-cPP1uPE?t=337
They are actually laughing about imposing sanctions and the resultant dangerous poverty and easily exploitable unrest – it was always about the Oil. nothing more.
Maduro was observably elected.
I think the 3 million who have left Venezuela since 2015 speak volumes. There are enough of them around Ireland for you to talk to if you want a personal, front-line view of what is happening in that country.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/01/1031412
Those 3 million people are surely just an invention of Sky News… Have you not seen on RT that everything is hunky-dory, and that Venezuelan comrades don’t mind eating their family pets?
idiot
ok so that’s one section of the Venezuelan population. What then, about the opinions of those too poor to fly abroad – the opinions of poorest class, the largest section of the population, who still support the Bolivarian programs that are underway, the ones never given a much of a voice if any on corporate media?
grow up fintan
grow up Suzann Lynch
One mans ‘socialist failure’ is another mans ‘devastating results of inhumane sanctions’.
Maduro is no saint but it’s all about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTE0SQA2jU8
Things were going to hell in a handcart long before the sanctions.
Evo Morales has lead a socialist government for years, and he is not facing sanctions, and his people are not starving.
he doesn’t have the gold and oil reserves Venezuela has you numpty
+24k
– https://theconversation.com/is-authoritarianism-bad-for-the-economy-ask-venezuela-or-hungary-or-turkey-106749
reading that article was like stepping into a reality bubble where aggressive economic warfare isn’t being waged by a group of nation states, led by the US, over the state and citizens of another
you’re a fully signed up member aren’t you! It’s funny reading your posts.
pot kettle
yours too. No substance, just ad hominem
Well Mel, reading your posts feels a bit like stepping into the uncanny valley. Can’t quite put my finger on what’s so off about them…
Look at what Simon Coveney, who is in Washington today, has just done on our behalf
“I join other EU Member States in acknowledging and supporting Mr. Juan Guaidó, President of the democratically elected National Assembly, as President ad interim of Venezuela, in order for him to call for free, fair and democratic presidential elections”
Just so you’re clear, Guaido did not contest the presidential elections last May, he’s the “President of the democratically elected National Assembly” which sounds grand but is in fact just the Ceann Comhairle of the Venezuelan parliament, just like Sean O’Fearghail or John Bercow.
https://www.dfa.ie/news-and-media/press-releases/press-release-archive/2019/february/tanaiste-simon-coveney-announces-irelands-support-for-mr-juan-guaido.php
what happens when you can only think in terms of what’s good for ‘Ireland Inc.’ Truth or moral values don’t come into it!
In two US elections the popular vote did not elect the rightful winner, infact Trump is
not directly elected, its the electoral college that elects him, remember the chits in
Florida, and what is Trump and the European Union doing about democracy in
Saudi Arabia and look at the British in their First Past the Post, how democratic
is it…..?…..Mother of Parliaments how are you, examine all the Legislation enacted
by this outfit, where up to 1880’s very few had the right to vote and it took to 1919
for a woman to exercise her right, its time we had a review of the Legislation that
was enacted by those who were elected from the rotten borough’s.
…welcome to Broadsheet…this is a ‘pick your own’ borough…democratic deficits a speciality…evryone is a qualified majority – of one…
+1 bisted
Lads we should embrace Sinn Fein’s engagement with Venezuela, with any luck they’ll send some experts in conflict resolution like they did in Colombia
Tis a coup in progress.