Re: Venezuela
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 12:02 pm
VIA BLOCKING PAYMENTS TO COVAX
HOW THE US TRIES TO PREVENT THE ACCESS OF VACCINES TO VENEZUELA
13 Jun 2021 , 9:39 am .
COVAX seeks to ensure the equitable delivery of vaccines for 20% of the population of the participating countries around the world (Photo: EFE
The second phase of mass vaccination against covid-19 in Venezuela began a couple of weeks ago, being a milestone in health in the country amid the multidimensional siege imposed by the United States.
Within the mass immunization planning, the Venezuelan government hopes to vaccinate the majority of the Venezuelan population by the end of this year, according to the words of the Minister of Health Dr. Carlos Alvarado : "We have planned to vaccinate 70% of the population here to December, as the vaccines arrive, we hope to create herd immunity. "
The plan of the government of Nicolás Maduro to obtain medical supplies and vaccines has been drawn up since last year in sync with Russia, China, Cuba and some multilateral organizations, specifically, with the World Health Organization (WHO), which In April 2020, it launched the famous vaccine access mechanism: Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX).
Letter from the COVAX mechanism where it refers to the blocking of payments from Venezuela through UBS (Photo: COVAX)
However, Venezuela's efforts to pay and fulfill its commitments have been hampered by the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States. On June 10, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez informed the country about the arbitrary blockade of the last payments made by the Venezuelan State to COVAX, calculated for about 10 million dollars.
ROADMAP FOR IMMUNIZATION IN VENEZUELA
Russia and China took the lead in the development of anticovid vaccines, becoming decisive instruments for the times to come at the geopolitical level. This move has been crucial to contain the common maneuver of Western corporatism in these circumstances: hoarding.
The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, reported that 75% of the vaccines applied until February 2021 had been concentrated in just ten countries , leading the list to Israel, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
The United States was not far behind: in July 2020 it agreed with large pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech to reserve 100 million doses of vaccines and the right to buy another 500 million doses if the White House deemed it necessary.
This marks the inequality gap in the distribution of vaccines, since countries with higher incomes accumulate doses of vaccines in order to bring countries that require them to their knees in the future, creating dire consequences for humanity.
Anticipating these scenarios, by October 2020 , Venezuela was the first country in Latin America to receive the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for the third phase of clinical trials. At that time, President Nicolás Maduro estimated that after carrying out the trials and proceeding with the cooperation efforts for the purchase of vaccines, the massive vaccination days would take place for the second quarter of 2021 , even earlier. That's how it went.
Based on this, it is considered pertinent to list the relevant global maneuvers made by the Venezuelan government to obtain vaccines with the great allies, despite the siege of any financial transfer made by the Venezuelan State.
President Maduro, in June 2020, raised the proposal to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) to coordinate efforts in the development of their own vaccine and treatment against covid-19.
From now on, at the close of 2020, the Venezuelan president continued the line of cooperation to face the pandemic, expressing again in ALBA-TCP that, through the ALBA Bank, the financing of the entire process of mass vaccination of the entire population of the member countries.
After carrying out the clinical trials for Sputnik V, in early 2021, it granted an authorization for the emergency use of the Russian vaccine in Venezuela.
In February 2021, Peter Grohmann, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Venezuela, agreed with the Venezuelan government to create a 300 million dollar fund for Venezuelan vaccines with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the WHO. That same month, the mass vaccination of health personnel in Venezuela with Sputnik V.
The Petroleum for Vaccines Plan is also announced as an alternative method for obtaining vaccines.
Following the arrival of a batch of vaccines from China in March, the purchase of the Sputnik Light vaccines and the Janssen vaccine are announced.
In April, the Venezuelan State made a deposit of 59.2 million Swiss francs , which represents more than 50% to participate in the COVAX mechanism. Gradually, the country was informed about the following payments made in recent months to receive 11 million covid-19 vaccines, a fact that was reconfirmed by PAHO's Director of Health Emergencies, Ciro Ugarte , estimating that the Johnson & Johnson's anticovid vaccine, as Venezuela made new payments to the COVAX mechanism.
THE CRIME
The Venezuelan State is informed on June 7 about " four payments blocked and under investigation ", payments destined to acquire vaccines through COVAX. This was indicated in a letter by Santiago Cornejo, director of the international mechanism in question. Namely:
April 21, 2021: more than 2 million dollars.
May 6, 2021: two payments totaling more than $ 800,000.
May 18, 2021: more than 1 million dollars.
The blocked money was courtesy of the Swiss investment bank UBS, a neutral and necessary body in the very dynamics of world trade for transactions between countries. This bank is renowned for the supposed principles that characterize it: the high levels of security and protection of the assets that it offers to companies, individuals and especially to the States.
As with the Venezuelan gold seized by the Bank of England, which refuses the alternative of facilitating Venezuelan reserve assets for the purchase of vaccines due to pressure from the United States, the UBS bank applies the same modus operandi : block the transactions made by Venezuela to a highly recognized international mechanism to gain access to vaccines against covid-19.
But it is not the first time that the UBS bank has been involved in these unilateral attacks against Venezuela:
In October 2017, the United States stopped deposits from the Venezuelan State to the UBS for the purchase of vaccines and medicines through PAHO's Revolving and Strategic Fund.
In 2020, UBS broke contracts with Venezuelan clients linked to PDVSA.
Despite the fact that UBS has several recent precedents in allowing the interference of US interference policies against Venezuela, the Venezuelan State relies on the security and neutrality standards of that bank, especially when it comes to food or medicine, trusting mainly in compliance with international law. There is no additional information that could confirm that the COVAX mechanism required payments through UBS, taking into account the anti-Venezuelan record of the Swiss bank.
Apart from delaying efforts to acquire vaccines, international law and monetary sovereignty are once again violated, including disrespect for UN General Assembly resolution 74/274, which calls for strengthening supply chains to guarantee universal and fair access to medicines and vaccines to face the current pandemic.
Likewise, within the framework of the "sanctions", the Swiss bank Hyposwiss Private Bank in 2019 arbitrarily closed the bank account of a major soybean food company, for the payment of 15.9 million euros for more than 90 thousand tons of soybeans transported by boat that came from Venezuela.
Neither Swiss banks, nor food and medicine, are spared from the outsourcing of attacks made by the United States against Venezuela.
The Russian think tank Valdai Discussion Club, in an event with several international experts , states that "'sanctions' inevitably affect the population. Restrictions on business operations lead to higher prices and inflation, while target states lose control. ability to trade with the outside world. " This occurs because the purpose of this type of financial coercion creates an atmosphere of insecurity and uncertainty in the business world, due to multi-million dollar fines or account blocking.
Faced with the imposition of US sanctioning bullets against any country that is not in sync with its interests, it creates an imbalance in the current dynamics of international relations and will lead to the implementation of other large payment mechanisms to balance the financial task between countries in international trade.
The initiatives of the digital yuan and the massive purchase of gold by Russia are some examples of the plans to shed the financial management of the United States. For this reason, an extensive list of countries considers it safer to abide by the agreements of these two great powers. The tests refer to this fact: Venezuela until a few days ago had 11% of the population vaccinated thanks to commercial and financial relations with Russia and China.
This other ominous experience of blocking assets to obtain vaccines should be added to the final report of the UN special rapporteur, Alena Douhan (participant of the Valdai event) that will be presented in September 2021.
https://misionverdad.com/venezuela/como ... -venezuela
Google Translator
What a shameful, hateful country the US is. Goddamn Amerika. And fuck the Swiss too, their sham neutrality in no way preventing them from participating in the class war.
HOW THE US TRIES TO PREVENT THE ACCESS OF VACCINES TO VENEZUELA
13 Jun 2021 , 9:39 am .
COVAX seeks to ensure the equitable delivery of vaccines for 20% of the population of the participating countries around the world (Photo: EFE
The second phase of mass vaccination against covid-19 in Venezuela began a couple of weeks ago, being a milestone in health in the country amid the multidimensional siege imposed by the United States.
Within the mass immunization planning, the Venezuelan government hopes to vaccinate the majority of the Venezuelan population by the end of this year, according to the words of the Minister of Health Dr. Carlos Alvarado : "We have planned to vaccinate 70% of the population here to December, as the vaccines arrive, we hope to create herd immunity. "
The plan of the government of Nicolás Maduro to obtain medical supplies and vaccines has been drawn up since last year in sync with Russia, China, Cuba and some multilateral organizations, specifically, with the World Health Organization (WHO), which In April 2020, it launched the famous vaccine access mechanism: Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX).
Letter from the COVAX mechanism where it refers to the blocking of payments from Venezuela through UBS (Photo: COVAX)
However, Venezuela's efforts to pay and fulfill its commitments have been hampered by the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States. On June 10, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez informed the country about the arbitrary blockade of the last payments made by the Venezuelan State to COVAX, calculated for about 10 million dollars.
ROADMAP FOR IMMUNIZATION IN VENEZUELA
Russia and China took the lead in the development of anticovid vaccines, becoming decisive instruments for the times to come at the geopolitical level. This move has been crucial to contain the common maneuver of Western corporatism in these circumstances: hoarding.
The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, reported that 75% of the vaccines applied until February 2021 had been concentrated in just ten countries , leading the list to Israel, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
The United States was not far behind: in July 2020 it agreed with large pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech to reserve 100 million doses of vaccines and the right to buy another 500 million doses if the White House deemed it necessary.
This marks the inequality gap in the distribution of vaccines, since countries with higher incomes accumulate doses of vaccines in order to bring countries that require them to their knees in the future, creating dire consequences for humanity.
Anticipating these scenarios, by October 2020 , Venezuela was the first country in Latin America to receive the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for the third phase of clinical trials. At that time, President Nicolás Maduro estimated that after carrying out the trials and proceeding with the cooperation efforts for the purchase of vaccines, the massive vaccination days would take place for the second quarter of 2021 , even earlier. That's how it went.
Based on this, it is considered pertinent to list the relevant global maneuvers made by the Venezuelan government to obtain vaccines with the great allies, despite the siege of any financial transfer made by the Venezuelan State.
President Maduro, in June 2020, raised the proposal to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) to coordinate efforts in the development of their own vaccine and treatment against covid-19.
From now on, at the close of 2020, the Venezuelan president continued the line of cooperation to face the pandemic, expressing again in ALBA-TCP that, through the ALBA Bank, the financing of the entire process of mass vaccination of the entire population of the member countries.
After carrying out the clinical trials for Sputnik V, in early 2021, it granted an authorization for the emergency use of the Russian vaccine in Venezuela.
In February 2021, Peter Grohmann, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Venezuela, agreed with the Venezuelan government to create a 300 million dollar fund for Venezuelan vaccines with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the WHO. That same month, the mass vaccination of health personnel in Venezuela with Sputnik V.
The Petroleum for Vaccines Plan is also announced as an alternative method for obtaining vaccines.
Following the arrival of a batch of vaccines from China in March, the purchase of the Sputnik Light vaccines and the Janssen vaccine are announced.
In April, the Venezuelan State made a deposit of 59.2 million Swiss francs , which represents more than 50% to participate in the COVAX mechanism. Gradually, the country was informed about the following payments made in recent months to receive 11 million covid-19 vaccines, a fact that was reconfirmed by PAHO's Director of Health Emergencies, Ciro Ugarte , estimating that the Johnson & Johnson's anticovid vaccine, as Venezuela made new payments to the COVAX mechanism.
THE CRIME
The Venezuelan State is informed on June 7 about " four payments blocked and under investigation ", payments destined to acquire vaccines through COVAX. This was indicated in a letter by Santiago Cornejo, director of the international mechanism in question. Namely:
April 21, 2021: more than 2 million dollars.
May 6, 2021: two payments totaling more than $ 800,000.
May 18, 2021: more than 1 million dollars.
The blocked money was courtesy of the Swiss investment bank UBS, a neutral and necessary body in the very dynamics of world trade for transactions between countries. This bank is renowned for the supposed principles that characterize it: the high levels of security and protection of the assets that it offers to companies, individuals and especially to the States.
As with the Venezuelan gold seized by the Bank of England, which refuses the alternative of facilitating Venezuelan reserve assets for the purchase of vaccines due to pressure from the United States, the UBS bank applies the same modus operandi : block the transactions made by Venezuela to a highly recognized international mechanism to gain access to vaccines against covid-19.
But it is not the first time that the UBS bank has been involved in these unilateral attacks against Venezuela:
In October 2017, the United States stopped deposits from the Venezuelan State to the UBS for the purchase of vaccines and medicines through PAHO's Revolving and Strategic Fund.
In 2020, UBS broke contracts with Venezuelan clients linked to PDVSA.
Despite the fact that UBS has several recent precedents in allowing the interference of US interference policies against Venezuela, the Venezuelan State relies on the security and neutrality standards of that bank, especially when it comes to food or medicine, trusting mainly in compliance with international law. There is no additional information that could confirm that the COVAX mechanism required payments through UBS, taking into account the anti-Venezuelan record of the Swiss bank.
Apart from delaying efforts to acquire vaccines, international law and monetary sovereignty are once again violated, including disrespect for UN General Assembly resolution 74/274, which calls for strengthening supply chains to guarantee universal and fair access to medicines and vaccines to face the current pandemic.
Likewise, within the framework of the "sanctions", the Swiss bank Hyposwiss Private Bank in 2019 arbitrarily closed the bank account of a major soybean food company, for the payment of 15.9 million euros for more than 90 thousand tons of soybeans transported by boat that came from Venezuela.
Neither Swiss banks, nor food and medicine, are spared from the outsourcing of attacks made by the United States against Venezuela.
The Russian think tank Valdai Discussion Club, in an event with several international experts , states that "'sanctions' inevitably affect the population. Restrictions on business operations lead to higher prices and inflation, while target states lose control. ability to trade with the outside world. " This occurs because the purpose of this type of financial coercion creates an atmosphere of insecurity and uncertainty in the business world, due to multi-million dollar fines or account blocking.
Faced with the imposition of US sanctioning bullets against any country that is not in sync with its interests, it creates an imbalance in the current dynamics of international relations and will lead to the implementation of other large payment mechanisms to balance the financial task between countries in international trade.
The initiatives of the digital yuan and the massive purchase of gold by Russia are some examples of the plans to shed the financial management of the United States. For this reason, an extensive list of countries considers it safer to abide by the agreements of these two great powers. The tests refer to this fact: Venezuela until a few days ago had 11% of the population vaccinated thanks to commercial and financial relations with Russia and China.
This other ominous experience of blocking assets to obtain vaccines should be added to the final report of the UN special rapporteur, Alena Douhan (participant of the Valdai event) that will be presented in September 2021.
https://misionverdad.com/venezuela/como ... -venezuela
Google Translator
What a shameful, hateful country the US is. Goddamn Amerika. And fuck the Swiss too, their sham neutrality in no way preventing them from participating in the class war.