Elliott Abrams, a major architect of the Iraq War, the Iran Contra Scandal and the crisis in Venezuela, left his own event at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies after CODEPINK disrupted his talk with questions regarding his involvement in Venezuela’s US- manufactured humanitarian crisis.
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Former U.S. diplomat Elliott Abrams, one of the masterminds behind the 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, was appointed to lead the U.S. interference in Venezuela.
A neoconservative who has long advocated an interventionist U.S. role in the world, Abrams last served in government in the George W. Bush White House, first as a Middle East expert on the National Security Council and later as a global democracy strategy adviser. During that time, he “gave a nod to the attempted Venezuelan coup,” according to The Guardian.
Abrams’s record is not limited to Venezuela. His first high profile position started with the Ronald Reagan administration in the 1980s, when he assured military aid to the Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who came to power after a coup in 1982 and was later sentenced for genocide against the Mayan peoples in the Central American country. He was also convicted in 1991 on two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra scandal. However, he was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.
He can't even defend himself because he knows what he has done, so he just gets the hell out of there.
Pathetic! https://t.co/Cm3zBRWfgj
— Ahmed Kaballo (@AhmedKaballo) March 10, 2020
