Pence, Honduras, Venezuela

Vice President Mike Pence said that Honduras President, Juan Orlando Hernández, told him that the illegal migrant caravan is the work of Venezuela, with that country's oil cash being employed to destabilize both countries.

This is on American Thinker by Monica Showalter.

The one clue we have starts with the two governments of Guatemala and Honduras, both of which have conservative, anti-Chavista governments.  They also have disgustingly rabid left-wing oppositions, the kind of people who openly admire Hugo Chávez and his utterly failed socialist revolution.  They like Cuba's government, too.  They are rabid left-wingers, and they seek above all to destabilize and topple the countries of their origin in order to see those countries join their heroes.  They can't get elected anymore, so this is what they do.

There is more analysis, supportive evidence, and history at the link.

Whereas Monica Showalter accepts Hernández's explanation that Venezuela's oil money is paying for it, Sundance at the Last Refuge states flatly Venezuela has no oil money to finance such a thing. Venezuela cannot finance their own government. With U.S. sanctions they are entirely reliant upon massive investment by China and Russia. Sundance's analysis gets into China's ownership of 49% of Venezuela state run energy production in which China takes payment in oil for prior loans that Maduro cannot pay back.

Trump has punched Maduro and X--Jinping hard. Suddenly it all makes sense to Sundance. He, she, they, whatever, tell their readers the invasion objective suddenly all makes sense. Sundance reviews the the geopolitical/economic squeeze that Trump put on both China and Russia.

There are 11 serious squeezes listed here.  Worth reading because you'll get this nowhere else. He's published it before, it's not new to his readers.

It makes sense from the perspective of China, Russia and Venezuela to use their alliance to create a border crisis between the United States and Mexico, especially since the interests of President-elect Lopez Obrador and President Trump are now aligned within the U.S-MCA trade agreement; which is structured to the detriment of pre-existing Chinese investment in Mexico under their prior -and corrupt- Mexican leadership. 

Remember, President Trump out manuevered Chairman Xi Jinping in North Korea.  Xi lost most of his control position over DPRK Chairman Kim Jong-un; and while President Trump stood guard on the watchtower North Korea (Kim) and South Korea (Moon) are now happily joined in mutual fellowship.  In the grand trade-conflict between the Red Dragon and the United States, Xi needed a new form of leverage.

Meanwhile, Michael Moore tells his readers Trump is a genius outsmarting Democrats and media with the migrant caravan. His take is quite shallow. He dismisses the caravans as things that have been occurring the last twenty years, that there is nothing special in this one. No mention of its organization, the principals involved, the financing, the legality of the efforts, the international cooperation, the political objectives, the timing coinciding with American midterms. All that dismissed. Through a series of tweets Moore states simply Trump makes a mountain from a molehill and uses it to win midterm election.

His tweets are listed on Daily Wire.

It just occurred to me.

I'm going to take a dive from the thick and serious to the airily artistic.

Some of these pictures I'm seeing would make fine paintings along the lines of The Raft of Medusa  except not as dire. Photograph at the link with "oil painting" filter applied.