What could go wrong when Trump gets to manage the proceeds of the Venezuelan oil sale in an offshore Qatar account? That money will be gone like a fart in the wind.
From the article:
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the party’s top Banking Committee member, told Semafor last week. “That is precisely a move that a corrupt politician would be attracted to.”
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Which brings up the question of who has standing to sue?
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Any Venezuelan living in Venezuela.
The US just did to Venezuela what Chavez/Maduro did to Oil companies back in the day (and these companies sued in international courts and have won)
So I suspect once Trump is gone the lawsuits will come.
I didn’t have this on my Trump 2.0 bingo card, but in retrospect it seems obvious. Honestly it seems less likely to work than selling pardons, bitcoins, domestic policy, and foreign policy.
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I don’t think anyone is questioning the fact that some cocaine flows through Venezuela. I have seen an estimate that less than 10% if the cocaine entering the US has passed through Venezuela.
Foreign military complicity in the cocaine trade began un 1986 when the CIA was involved in setting up funding of the Contras through allowing Honduras to become a transshipment point.
Columbian cartels provided arms and funding to the Contras, bribes to top Honduran military and government officials in return for use of remote locations for refueling and processing, CIA served as the intermediary.
Hey, in the Trump economy you need to have multiple side hustles. Can’t just rely on your traditional forms of graft.
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I’d be surprised if this was the earliest this happened. But I don’t know a whole lot about the volume of cocaine exports over time.
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A buddy of mine who’s more internationally aware than I am, and a frequent visitor to Cuba, three weeks ago said that Cuba had about 3 weeks before they collapsed. Looks like he was off by a few weeks.
He was actually visiting there a few weeks ago and said he was already seeing food shortages.
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What has Cuba done to us recently? The missile thing happened more than half a century ago and the CCCP no longer exists.
I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again, I think Cuba should agree to become a Canadian province. We get a sunny tourist destination. They get stable government, social benefits and free healthcare.
Bonus would be the US administration absolutely having a cow over Canada owning real estate 75 miles off their coast lol. Can you imagine the tweets?
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I wonder how the Canadian legal system would handle all the litigation coming from the US over the property Castro’s regime expropriated 67 years ago.
That has been one of the stumbling blocks over normalizing US-Cuban relations over the years – politically-connected corporations and affluent Cuban-Americans want to be compensated for having lost their stuff.
Same way both the US and Canada handle claims with First nations and Indian’s over land expropriation. Mostly just ignore it?
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If you guys gain a province before Trump gains a state that’s really going to wind him up
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An added National Language, too.
Or perhaps more like France and how they continued to collect reparations from the Slave revolt well into the 20th Century. It Kept Haiti poor as dirt for like, forever.
“Retooling? I’ll retool you!”
