As if we needed any more reasons to love and admire Ambassador Nikki Haley…
Last week, the U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley set her sights on Venezuela’s dictatorship and took them to task for targeting Catholic bishops that criticized the regime. The puppet dictatorship in Caracas, which is controlled by its puppet masters in Havana, are attempting to do the same thing to religious freedom in Venezuela the Castro dictatorship did in Cuba: total annihilation.
Nikki Haley blasts Venezuela for targeting Catholic bishops
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s denunciation of a pair of Roman Catholic bishops is the latest example of a government turning to tyranny, according to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
“Maduro’s reign of violence, repression, corruption, and bankruptcy continues to punish the Venezuelan people,” Haley said Friday.
A food crisis and the ensuing protests against the regime prompted Maduro to vitiate the power of his political opponents, including those in the national legislature. President Trump imposed economic sanctions in response. Maduro didn’t change course, and now has taken aim at Roman Catholic bishops who were critical of government corruption and food shortages.
“A devil comes in a cassock to call for violent confrontations, to call for civil war,” Maduro said Monday, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Archbishop Lopez Castillo and Bishop Victory Hugo Basabe, the two targeted by Maduro, denied calling for any violence.
“Mr. Maduro has put in my mouth words I never said,” Basabe said. “What’s worse is he accuses me committing a crime while he commits one himself.”
Maduro wants the bishops charged under a hate crime law drafted by the replacement legislature his political allies established by referendum in the face of protests and boycotts.
“By targeting religious leaders – who promote peace and provide hope for believers – the regime continues to show that it cares only for preserving its own power and cares nothing about the basic human rights and welfare of its citizens,” Haley said. “We continue to stand strongly with the Venezuelan people in their battle to restore their democracy in the face of a brutal dictator.”
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Susan Powers is now Nikki Haley.
Do I have to add anything?