In Support of Revolutionary
Cuba
CBC Used to
Justify U.S. War Aims
Against Cuba to Canadians
- Margaret Villamizar -
In a spurious article published on March 3 titled
"Canada
at odds with Cuba 'ally' over Maduro's fate," CBC's Evan
Dyer appears to be trying to prime Canadians to accept a new
round of illegitimate activity by the Trudeau government --
this time appeasing the U.S. imperialists aiming their guns at
Cuba as well as Venezuela.
With the failure of the U.S. and its asset Juan
Guaidó to give rise to a split in Venezuela's Bolivarian
Armed
Forces using their forced "aid" scam or to come up with a
convincing
pretext for an invasion, the U.S. has now started to train its
sights
on Cuba, allegedly because it is Cuba that is "keeping Maduro in
power"
and something needs to be done about it.
The article opens by stating that tensions are on
the
rise between Canada and Cuba, information shared with him by the
Americas Director of Global Affairs and Minister Chrystia
Freeland. The
reason for the tension, he says, is Canada's concern over
Nicolás Maduro "increasingly leaning on the Cubans to keep
him
in power as Venezuelans turn against him." Dyer would have us
believe
that the organized Venezuelan people who have been turning out in
their
tens of thousands at rallies all over the country to demand an
end to
U.S. threats and aggression and in support of their government
and
Bolivarian revolution, count for nothing.
Dyer's "analysis" as it is called is in fact just
a
collection of scurrilous allegations and untruths spread by
counterrevolutionary sources he sought out and calls "democracy"
and
"human rights" activists, and a few military defectors. One of
the
sources who we are told has been a frequent guest at
parliamentary
committee hearings on Venezuela and was consulted by the
government
prior to last month's Lima Group meeting in Bogotá is an
operative in Canada for a dubious U.S. and European Union-funded
"human
rights observatory" whose sole purpose appears to be pushing
regime
change and the need for international intervention against
Venezuela.[1] Referring to
a
government that
is up
to its neck interfering in Venezuela's affairs, the person in
question
said she found it frustrating that Canada did not have more to
say
about Cuba's interference in Venezuela!
Chrystia Freeland informed Dyer that "the issue
of
Cuba's role" in Venezuela was discussed at the last Lima Group
meeting.
This is hardly a surprise since the meeting was basically a
platform
for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to push the Trump
administration's
positions and blame others for the coup attempt having failed.
Freeland
let it be known that she was not above using Cuba as a scapegoat
either. She said Canada was calling on Cuba to "allow" the
Venezuelan
people to have their constitution respected and to have a
"peaceful
transition to democracy."
 CBC's attempt to
disinform
Canadians was not limited to just
reporting what those in the regime change camp had to say.
Subtitles such as "Two dictatorships in one," "Cubans in
control," "Surrounded by Cubans," were used for this purpose, as
was a hateful Nazi-style meme said to be circulating on social
media called a "Declaration of war on Cubans." "Identify them!"
its headline screams, calling on all who receive the message to
"make life impossible" for "all the Cubans who are occupying our
beloved Venezuela," saying where they can allegedly be found
working and calling them "invaders" who must be treated as
such.
Cuba's profoundly humanitarian internationalism,
the
basis on which it sends medical and other social missions to work
in 83
countries, is well known. Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno
Rodríguez as well as its Ambassador to Canada Josefina
Vidal
both recently addressed lies being spread about Venezuela being
"controlled" by Cubans. Both confirmed that Cuba's assistance to
Venezuela is delivered by just over 20,000 civilians, 94 per cent
of
them working in health care and others mainly in education.
So what are Dyer and the CBC up to? Simply
repeating
Trumpian
lies told by their sources about relations between Cuba and
Venezuela. Would that they had as much interest in the relations
between Canada and the U.S. where they could find hard facts as
opposed to baseless allegations about a country being controlled
by and dependent on a foreign power. Instead it seems that the
more the Liberals today, like the Conservatives before them, are
exposed for their illegitimate activity, flouting the rule of law
both at home and abroad, the more they need to find scribblers
who will make it all seem legitimate and proper. But Canadians
have long experience with and respect for what Cuba does and
represents to the world. They also know a lot about the aims of
U.S. imperialism and how it operates. They are not going to be
convinced by a piece of yellow journalism to accept the many
years of good relations between Canada and Cuba being betrayed by
governments led by those who see no future for themselves that
does not involve appeasing the U.S. imperialists and their
project for world domination.
Note
1. Alessandra (Alessa)
Polga is
the Director of the Canadian
Chapter of the Latin American Studies Centre (CASLA) Institute
for
Human Rights in Latin
America.
The CASLA Institute is based in Prague, Czech
Republic
and is one of 16 member organizations of the Association for
Democracy
Assistance and Human Rights (DEMAS), also based in Prague. DEMAS
and
its members receive funding from the U.S. National Endowment for
Democracy as well as the European Union, European Commission,
private
donors, and other governmental grants and funds. Its mission is
said to
be to link up and support the work of likeminded "NGOs" in
different
countries, making use of "the Czech experience and know-how of
the
transition to democracy." CASLA is said to serve as its arm into
Latin
America. In addition to Venezuela, CASLA is active in Nicaragua
and
Bolivia, according to an interview given to Radio Cabildeo in
Bolivia
by one of its directors.
The Executive Director of CASLA's Human Rights
Observatory is
a Venezuelan living in the Czech Republic who previously worked
with the Venezuelan organization Foro Penal, in which capacity
she collaborated closely with the Organization of American States
(OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro and former Canadian MP Irwin
Cotler, holding hearings at the OAS headquarters in Washington,
DC and preparing reports aimed at getting an indictment against
Nicolás Maduro at the International Criminal Court for
crimes
against humanity.
Alessa Polga's Linkedin profile indicates she is
also a
director of the Canadian Venezuelan Engagement Foundation, whose
president is Orlando Viera-Blanco, recently named by Juan
Gauidó
as his respresentative in Canada. Her profile also indicates that
in 2013 she was the volunteer coordinator of Voluntad Popular
Canada. Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) is the U.S.-linked
political party that Juan Guaidó and his mentor Leopoldo
López belong to, that led violent street actions in an
attempt to force the "exit" of President Nicolás Maduro in
2014
and in 2017.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 8 - March 9, 2019
Article Link:
In Support of Revolutionary
Cuba: CBC Used to
Justify U.S. War Aims
Against Cuba to Canadians - Margaret Villamizar
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