Why Is U.S. Media Taking Trump's Word that There Is Only a "Humanitarian" Convoy in Venezuela?

[Judi Lynn]

Especially since it's being overseen by a man convicted of using aid as a cover for war
By Jacob Weindling | February 22, 2019 | 2:20pm
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty

[Venezuela]’s the country we should be going to war with. They have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” — President Donald Trump according to former FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s new book, The Threat.

Let’s just start here, with an excerpt from the Los Angeles Times on May 19, 1987:

Oliver L. North and other Reagan Administration aides deliberately used a 1986 program of “humanitarian aid” for Nicaraguan rebels to help support the secret effort to deliver military aid to the contras, U.S. officials said Monday.

Under the congressionally approved humanitarian program, which spent $27 million on non-military aid for the rebels, the State Department hired a consultant who was secretly working for North, then a National Security Council official, and paid for airplanes that later delivered secret military aid.

“The humanitarian aid program saved (North’s network) hundreds of thousands of dollars,” said an official who has reviewed records of the State Department effort. “It was a piggyback operation…North and the CIA used the program wherever they could get away with it.”

More:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/02/why-is-us-media-taking-trumps-word-that-there-is-o.html

Editorials and other articles:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016227309

[denverbill]

1. Yep, and the aid isn't sanctioned by the International Red Cross.

I would be willing to bet that if the Red Cross supervised the aid, the Venezuelans would allow it.

But, of course, the aid is conditional on the coup leader receiving it and distributing it.

Also, see this:

Ukraine crisis: Russia aid convoy 'invades Ukraine'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28892525


Seems Russia learned well from the US over the years.