Washington Claims a "Human Right" to Buy Venezuela Elections
July 11, 2005
Gary Webb - Presente
As court proceedings begin this month against four Venezuelans from an election campaign group that accepted donations
from a foreign government – something that is indisputably a federal crime under both U.S. and Venezuelan law – it’s no
surprise that members of the Bush administration in Washington cry that the sky is falling.
After all, it’s their money (well, on second thought, it is U.S. taxpayers’ money) that is at the root of the alleged
criminal enterprise. And the upcoming trial of accused Venezuelan electoral delinquents, held in the public light of
day, will shine yet more sunlight upon Washington’s secret recipes for meddling in the elections of other nations.
On Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey and Jose Vivanco of Human Rights Watch – thirteen blocks from the
White House and on the same day - chirped in harmony to spin this story as a case of “persecution” against “legitimate
electoral activities.”
But as last year’s presidential campaign in the United States revealed, Yankee political parties and candidates are
prohibited from accepting foreign contributions from any source, especially from other governments. As John Kerry found
out the hard way, the corrupting practices that Bush and Vivanco condone in Venezuela are strictly verboten in the
United States…
That the Bush administration has a foreign policy based on double standards is hardly a shock to anyone. But when it
comes to Venezuela, Bush counts with a reliable ally for his simulation campaigns to paint an imprimatur of “human
rights” upon what are, in fact, violations of the human rights of a people to have clean elections uncorrupted by
foreign funds...
Read it share the mounting public outrage at the hypocrisy and double-standards of the group called "Human Rights
Watch," via The Narcosphere...
From somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Correspondent
The Narco News Bulletin