[News] Venezuela’s Maduro Warns of Trump 'Fascism,' 'White Supremacy'

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  Venezuela’s Maduro Warns of Trump 'Fascism,' 'White Supremacy'

2 March 2017

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro spoke out against a resolution 
calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to heighten sanctions on 
Venezuela for alleged “human rights abuses,” warning against rising 
"fascism" in the White House and Europe.

The resolution, which calls on the Organization of American States, OAS, 
to suspend Venezuela, was unanimously passed by the U.S. Senate on 
Wednesday. The House of Representatives is expected to review the bill 
in the coming weeks.

“In spite of U.S. aggressions, our people are united in saying ‘you must 
respect Venezuela,’” Maduro said Wednesday during a government summit in 
Cumana.

“We will never be anyone’s colony ever again.”

The resolution also calls on Trump to instruct federal agencies to hold 
Venezuelan officials accountable for alleged “violations of U.S. law.”

Moreover, it demands that the Bolivarian government decentralize its 
separation of powers while allowing the opposition-controlled National 
Assembly to pass legislation that opposes the ruling United Socialist 
Party of Venezuela.

Senators who drafted the controversial bill claim it’s intended to 
“strengthen the rule of law” while combating so-called “impunity and 
public corruption.” But for Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution, the 
proposed legislation is yet another example of U.S. hegemony in Latin 
America.

Speaking out against the bill and U.S. aggression against Venezuela, 
Maduro said he thinks things will get worse under Trump, whom he 
compared to German fascist leader Adolf Hitler. The Venezuelan head of 
state said Trump’s “racist and xenophobic” policies are “similar to 
those of Hitler and the fascists.”

Maduro also said Trump’s “dangerous” political tendency is spreading 
across North America and Europe.

“I warn the whole world about the emergence of this dangerous 
segregationist, racist and xenophobic political current that threatens 
to attack the peoples of the world, to divide humanity more, and to 
create more wars around the world,” Maduro said, HispanTV reports.

“It’s a band of extremists who are taking over power in the most 
important countries of the so-called developed world ... which, like 
Hitler, creates the supremacy of the white European race over the rest 
of the peoples of the world. It's worrying.”

Earlier this month, the U.S. government added Venezuelan Vice President 
Tareck El Aissami to its list of “sanctioned” Venezuelan officials 
<http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/The-Context-of-Trumps-Vile-Aggression-Against-Venezuela-20170215-0001.html> 
based on unsubstantiated drug trafficking allegations.

The targeting of El Aissami is part of the U.S. “regime change” policy 
toward Venezuela that goes back nearly two decades. It began shortly 
after the late President Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1998.

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