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EIR will hold an Emergency Roundtable Dialogue on
Thursday, Nov. 20 from 11 a.m.—1 p.m. ET on the increasingly dangerous
situation in the Caribbean. There will be simultaneous interpretation
into Spanish, French and German on Zoom, and it will also be streamed
live on YouTube (above). Here is the Zoom link for all languages.
As a powerful American military strike force gathers in the
Caribbean—including the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier
strike group, as well as joint military maneuvers with Trinidad &
Tobago from Nov. 16-21—U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced in
a Nov. 13 post on social media that the Trump administration is
seeking not only regime-change against the Nicolás Maduro government
in Venezuela, but that all of “the Western Hemisphere is America’s
neighborhood—and we will protect it.” The spurious justification of
this dangerous breach of international law is to allegedly “stop the
drug trade.”
President Donald Trump has received sharp warnings from friends of
the United States that, should he authorize military action against
Venezuela, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others loudly
propose, he will be dragged into yet another “forever” war, just like
Afghanistan, but on a larger scale. The Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) issued a statement on Nov. 5 which
warned:
“We are deeply concerned about where the United States seems to be
headed in its Venezuela policy and urge you to demand that the
Intelligence Community give you clear, unfiltered, `truth-to-power’
analysis.…
“Flying blind into an unprovoked war against a Latin American
government, even one weakened by years of U.S. `maximum-pressure’
sanctions, risks a conflagration that could draw Russia into the
conflict and offers zero probability of establishing a legitimate,
pro-U.S. successor government….
“We have seen this before—during numerous intelligence and foreign
policy debacles, including the fake allegations about weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq. And we remember the disastrous consequences for
the country and its leaders.”
On Oct. 25 ten former heads of state and government from the
Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Barbados, Dominica,
Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago issued a
joint statement titled “Our Caribbean Space: A Zone of Peace on Land, Sea
& Airspace Where the Rule of Law Prevails.” In it they “are
impelled to urge a pull back from military build up to avoid any
diminution of peace, stability and development within our regional
space that has the potential to pull the region into conflicts which
are not of our making.” They added that “CARICOM Governments, over the
long sweep of time, have sought, and responded positively, to
collaborative agreements to combat these nefarious activities [e.g.
narco-trafficking], but consistent with our sovereignty, international
law and intrinsic rights.”
There are also broader global implications of this crisis that go
well beyond the Caribbean. We are descending internationally into the
law of the jungle. Washington has stated that it opposes China’s Belt
and Road Initiative (BRI) and the BRICS, which the nations of the
Global South find attractive because China actually helps them build
infrastructure—which Wall Street, the City of London and the IMF do
not. But the U.S. has no reason to fear the BRI and the BRICS, and
should instead cooperate with them in building those great projects.
This approach could rapidly develop the entire Caribbean Basin region,
and stop the real narco-trafficking and related migrant problems that
will only be worsened by an attack on Venezuela.
Distinguished international experts include:
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Helga
Zepp-LaRouche (Germany), EIR Editor-in-Chief
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Diego Sequera (Venezuela), researcher
and columnist for misionverdad.com
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Donald Ramotar (Guyana), former
President of Guyana
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Ray McGovern (U.S.), former CIA analyst,
co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professions for Sanity (VIPS)
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Beto Almeida (Brazil), Director of
Telesur; Advisory Board, Brazilian Press Association
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Dennis
Small (U.S.), EIR Ibero-American
Editor
Commentators:
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Morella Barreto López (Venezuela),
historian and Venezuelan diplomat;
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Diane Sare (U.S.) former candidate for
U.S. Senate from New York
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