Alex Saab: Three Years as a Kidnapped Diplomat

EPISODE: Alex Saab, Three Years as a
Kidnapped Diplomat


GUEST:  Fiorella Isabel of The Convo Couch


BACKGROUND:


The case is a terrifying example of the US’s continuing
commitment to illegal, unilateral intervention and ‘regime
change,’ where no country is truly safe, writes FRANCISCO
DOMINGUEZ (link to full article below)


From his article: “June 12, 2023 was the third anniversary
of the illegal kidnapping and imprisonment by the US of Alex
Saab.


Because the brutality and cruelty of the US blockade was wreaking
havoc on the economy and millions of the most vulnerable in
Venezuela were being deliberately denied their human rights to
the most basic necessities of daily life, President Nicolas
Maduro tasked Saab with traveling around the world procuring
food, medicines and fuel for his country.


Breaking every treaty, protocol, law and norm of international
diplomacy, the US plotted to have Saab arrested while in transit
to Iran to fulfill his diplomatic mission, by pressing the Cape
Verde government to illegally arrest him on June 12 2020.”


The plane Saab was traveling on was denied refueling in Morocco
and Senegal thus being forced to land in Cape Verde. In his book,
Never Give An Inch (2023), Donald Trump’s secretary of state Mike
Pompeo admits as much: “No other nation has the global reach to
interrupt an Iran-Venezuela plot in real time and convince a
small island nation to hold a wanted man.”


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ADDITIONAL LINKS:


Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Alex
Saab, Sanctions & the Extra-Judicial Reach of the U.S.
(September 16, 2021)


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Film
Screening + Discussion, Alex Saab A Kidnapped Diplomat (October
20, 2022)


WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean: Saab
Oral Argument Focuses on Legitimacy of Maduro Government
(December 31, 2022)


Free Alex Saab Campaign


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