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Caribbean-Latin America
Bolton's Miami Speech Will Ratchet Up Pressure on Cuba, Venezuela
2018-11-01
[Free Beacon] National Security Adviser John Bolton will deliver a speech in Miami Thursday‐just days away from high-stake elections across Florida‐that is expected to lay out a tougher Trump administration stance toward Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

The speech will take place against the backdrop of Freedom Tower, a building where Cuban refugees were welcomed in the 1960s after fleeing the communist-run island nation. Miami is home to many immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela and other, Latin American countries who fled repressive regimes.

"Tomorrow I will give remarks on President Trump's policy in Latin America at this historic Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida‐I can think of no more fitting setting," Bolton tweeted Wednesday.

A Cuban-run media website is already bracing for the address, which it characterized as an attempt to "reinforce the unjust White House policy against Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba."

The Trump administration has slapped increasingly harsh sanctions on Venezuela and Nicaragua over government corruption and human-rights violations. The sanctions against Managua came after the Ortega government's violent responses to protests across the country. The administration also pulled nearly all of its embassy staff out of Cuba over mysterious and still unresolved health attacks on U.S. personnel in Havana.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Well, Moe, Larry and Curley are beloved comedians. Communists, not so much. It's still a great jab.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-11-01 19:06  

#3  Hat tip to Breitbart...

“This Troika of Tyranny, this triangle of terror stretching from Havana to Caracas to Managua, is the cause of immense human suffering, the impetus of enormous regional instability, and the genesis of a sordid cradle of communism in the Western Hemisphere,” he declared, calling the extreme poverty and violence against pro-democracy voices in all three countries “the true results of socialism and communism.”

Echoing President Donald Trump, Bolton asserted that the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela – currently lacking nearly all necessary medical supplies for a functional healthcare system and home to a growing hunger problem – is happening because “socialism was implemented successfully.”

“Under this administration, we will no longer appease dictators and despots near our shores in this Hemisphere. We will not reward firing squads, torturers, and murderers. We will champion the independence and liberty of our neighbors,” he continued.

Bolton went on to give the countries another nickname: “the Three Stooges of Socialism.”

“They are pathetic clowns that resemble Larry, Curly, and Moe, three absurd comedians,” he told the Miami audience to cheers.

Bolton also promised “concrete measures” against the regimes, starting with a ban on U.S. transactions with Cuban military corporations and sanctions on Venezuela’s gold industry. Bolton added the administration promised further sanctions down the line and would work to freeze access of the elites of the three countries to stolen assets hidden in the United States.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-11-01 14:49  

#2  John Bolton Debuts Sanctions Against ‘Three Stooges of Socialism’: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-11-01 14:47  

#1  Bolton's Miami Speech Will Ratchet Up Pressure on Cuba, Venezuela

Because Bolton knows where all of this 'Migrant Caravan' bullshi* is coming from.

Posted by: Besoeker   2018-11-01 08:02  

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