President Trump recently appointed Elliott Abrams as his Special Envoy to Venezuela.
Abrams is an old hand in the machinations and bloody, dark-arts of
overthrowing South and Central American governments, installing brutal, right-wing dictatorships and training death squads in mass murder, otherwise known as genocide.
I fear this does not bode well for the Venezuelan people.
If you don’t know or can’t recall the history of Abram’s involvement in war crimes, Consortium News has reposted an older article by the eminent journalist Robert Parry documenting the massive bloodshed for which Abrams shares responsibility. It is entitled “With the US Meddling Again in Latin America, a Look Back at How Washington Promoted Genocide in Guatemala.”
Below is a clip of Robert Parry sparring with Abrams on Charlie Rose about his responsibility for genocide:
Abram’s U.S. trained death squads killed some 80,000 people in El Salvador, 200 – 250,000 in Guatemala and untold thousands in Nicaragua, most of them innocent civilians.
Journalist Robert Lovato tells about his own first-hand experiences with the
U.S.-led Salvadoran coup and Abrams himself. Find his autobiographical article, “Elliott Abrams: An Unequivocal Sign Trump Is Preparing a Baptism in Venezuelan Blood,” here.
Here is my question:
The U.S. Secretary of State recently returned from Egypt where he proudly wore his Christianity on his sleeve, assuring his listeners that American foreign policy was safely cradled in the ever-lovin’ hands of a born-again Christian whose decisions were directed by his daily Bible reading and prayer.
How in the blazes can those same Bible-clutching fingers embrace a butcher like Elliott Abrams?
Where are all the supposed Christian advisers the Religious Right boasts about, giving Trump their wisdom and righteous advice?
Are we to understand that Jesus approves of mass murder, as long as it’s America leading the way in slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent, unarmed Central American peasants?
I guess the righteous brother Pompeo says, Yes.
