U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat
by Bill White
In a flagrant violation of the norms of international
diplomacy, the Department of Justice kidnapped the Venezuelan consul-general to
Aruba and brought him to the United States
on charges of cocaine trafficking, actions alleged taken retaliation for Venezuela’s
support for FARC, a Marxist guerrilla group.
Hugo Caraval, former chief of military intelligence for Venezuela, was kidnapped July 24
and taken to a federal prison in Manhattan
to await trial. Venezuela
responded by threatening action against Aruba,
a tin island 17 miles off the Venezuelan coast. Whether economic sanctions or
military action is contemplated is unclear.
The arrest and allegations are ironic, in that the United States
itself spent much of the 1980s and early 1990s providing weapons and logistics
to central and South American militant groups, as well as assisting them in selling
cocaine. One such agent was Joe Adams, one of the first indictees in
Iran-Contra. Who was recruited from the Marine Corps by the CIA and sent to
infiltrate the Cuban mafia as a hit man. Adams was later convicted of waging
war in Nicaragua without the
permission of Congress; in that operation, Adams helped Nicaraguan contra
rebels smuggle cocaine into the United
States to finance their revolution. Soldiers
of the 82nd Airborne Division provided weapons and logistic support
to these operations from Honduras.
Aruba is technically a possession of the Netherlands and
under Dutch law. The abduction violated a 1961 treaty protecting diplomats from
arrest.
American arrogance is the reason Venezuela
has recently agree to accept Russian military bases, in part to protect the
country from similar acts of aggression on the part of the United States.
Venezuela’s
president, Nicolas Maduro, and his predecessort Hugo Chavez have been targets
of world Zionism ever since Venezuela
nationalized its oil industry and began to seek independence from the
international financial system. A Jewish man, Henrique Capriles-Radansky, leads
the Zionist-backed opposition to Maduro.
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