Ivanka Trump just exposed her cynical hypocrisy with visit to Colombia refugee camp
BY COLIN TAYLOR
PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
Over the past week, the First Daughter and White House “special advisor” Ivanka Trump has been quietly traveling around South America with a delegation from the State Department, acting as her father’s representative and dutifully starring in the Trump administration’s cynical and monstrously insincere propaganda efforts.
Her Wednesday visit to a Venezuelan refugee camp in Colombia has put the Trump administration’s appalling hypocrisy in sharp focus.
Four million people have fled Venezuela since 2013 due to violence and economic instability, but curiously enough there was no mention from Ivanka about how her father’s sanctions on Venezuela has made an unhealthy economy much worse while diminishing shipments of food and medicine to the beleaguered nation or how his attempted coup earlier this year further fanned the flames of chaos.
It appears that when they can be exploited for imperialist propaganda in service of an undemocratic and illegal agenda of regime change against the government of an oil-rich nation, the Trump team suddenly cares deeply about refugees.
But when refugees from South America are at our own border, many of them fleeing violence and instability produced by decades of America’s rapacious foreign policy, the Trump administration has them herded into concentration camps and forced to endure deliberately appalling conditions.
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