General Discussion

which is a paper that used to be more to the right but was bought out and has drifted toward an accommodation with the government. It is very heavy on facts without hyperbole or rabble rousing language. It points out the international condemnation as extrajudicial executions, quotes Maduro saying that the US wants to steal the immense oil wealth of the country and start a new eternal war. The article states that the US justifications are questionable and mentions UN reports which show that Venezuela is not a center of cultivation, processing, or trafficking of narcotics, and that the route by which most narcotics are trafficked to the US is the Pacific. It mentions that the UN High Commission on Human Rights has condemned the killings.



https://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/219355/escalada-de-tension-en-el-caribe-ee-uu-asume-buevo-bombardeo-letal-y-desafia-el-derecho