America Ramps Up On A Chinese Citizen’s Playbook, Descends On Maduro’s Presidential Plane And Seize It
The Oasis Reporters
September 3, 2024
Two of the things that can make individuals feel powerless are the lack of money and the loss or erosion of political power.
Take the case of the president of oil rich Venezuela that has fallen into deep poverty with consumer price inflation averaging 9,032.8% in the ten years to 2022,well above the Latin American regional average of 8.4%, whereas the 2022 average figure was 186.7%.
When the country was experiencing an Oil boom, the leadership went to town on a spending binge and they simply lacked the foresight to save and invest. Currently, Nigerian born billionaire investor, Arthur Eze is in Venezuela trying to help them sort their oil investment economy to look up.
The bad political decisions taken has throttled the economy on a downward spiral, and the president, Nicolas Maduro decided to continue in office after rigging the elections. A country made desperately poor owing to bad decisions by it’s leaders has refused to quit office, rather, Maduro rigged himself back to power in a brazen fashion.
He has no money to pay his accumulated debts and with the loss of self esteem, the United States of America has gone in for the kill, by first studying the playbook of a Chinese company,
Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment that recently seized Nigeria’s presidential Jet in France.
The Americans decided to play the same number on Venezuela.
Here’s how CNN’s Meanwhile In America wrote a beautiful piece:
Imagine if an American adversary sent agents to fly away with Air Force One.
That outlandish comparison was being spoken of in Washington Monday, after the US seized Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane on the grounds that Caracas never should have acquired it due to US sanctions, among other criminal issues.
The US flew the aircraft from the Dominican Republic, where it was seized, to Florida on Monday, according to two US officials.
The stunning sweep was the latest twist in a bitter showdown between the US and Venezuela, and the seizure of the Dassault Falcon 900EX has been described by officials as akin to sequestering Biden’s signature blue-and-white jet.
“This sends a message all the way up to the top,” one of the US officials told CNN. “Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions.”
In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that “the Justice Department seized an aircraft we allege was illegally purchased for $13 million through a shell company and smuggled out of the United States for use by Nicolás Maduro and his cronies.”
The plane was purchased from a company in Florida, the Justice Department said, and was illegally exported in April 2023 from the United States to Venezuela through the Caribbean. It was used for Maduro’s international travels and flew “almost exclusively to and from a military base in Venezuela,” the Justice Department said.
Caracas has described the seizure as “piracy,” accusing the US escalating “aggression” toward Maduro’s government following a contested presidential election in July.
“The United States has already demonstrated that it uses its economic and military power to intimidate and pressure states such as the Dominican Republic to serve as accomplices in its criminal acts. This is an example of the supposed ‘rules-based order’, which, disregarding international law, seeks to establish the law of the strongest,” it said in a statement Monday.
The US has been ramping up pressure on the Venezuelan government to “immediately” release specific data regarding its presidential election, citing widespread concerns about the credibility of Maduro’s claimed victory.
Greg Abolo.
CNN’s Meanwhile In America
