“What’s happening in Venezuela is a struggle between democracy and human rights and dictatorship, and that’s why Canada has made it such a priority to stand for the people of Venezuela and support them."
That's our Minister of Foreign Affairs reiterating Canada's "commitment" to the people of Venezuela. We care so much about the human rights of the Venezuelan people that we're fully aboard with American plans to completely destroy their society so that we can restore their human rights.
But we're not America's flunkies in this noble pursuit. Forsooth!
No, we are instead part of a completely independent group of American satellite states, robust and independent democracies all, the "Lima Group." We're meeting in Lima, Peru this week! And although we in the Lima group are completely independent of the US, John Bolton took time out of his busy schedule to get the party started. Here's a link to Human Rights Watch's latest report on the state of human rights in Peru.
Honduras is another human rights champion all aboard for restoring human rights in Venezuela. Please excuse the deadly anti-government riots happening at the moment... in Honduras!
Columbia is another one of our "democratic allies" working hard to bring democracy to Venezuela by overthrowing its elected government. According to Human Rights Watch, Colombia has plenty of human rights challenges itself.
As do our Lima Group besties in Guatemala, according to this piece in the New York Times. And let's not even start with that cesspool of corruption, Brazil.
These are the kind of inspirational democracies and human rights champions that our Foreign Minister has aligned us with. She is even proud of Canada's (meaning her own) leadership in this laughable excuse for an "international coalition fighting to restore democracy and human rights" in Venezuela.
This is nonsense. The Lima Group is largely a collection of far-right US client states with little or no legitimacy either as democracies or human rights champions. Being associated with the Lima Group in any way, let alone in a leadership role, brings shame on Canada.
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