[Elliott] Abrams was the key man in Reagan administration policy toward Central America, when that administration was abetting what a court recently ruled was a genocide in Guatemala, when the U.S. was backing the army of El Salvador in a series of death squad assassinations and massacres, and when the U.S. was invading Nicaragua with a Contra force that went after what one U.S. general described as ‘soft targets,’ meaning civilians, things like cooperatives.
Abrams later came back during the George W. Bush administration, joined the National Security Council and was a key man in implementing the U.S. policy of backing Israeli attacks against Gaza, when the U.S. refused to accept the results of the Gaza elections, where Hamas defeated Fatah in a vote, and instead Abrams and company backed a war operation to overturn the results of the election, backing the forces of Mohammed Dahlan.
Some commentators have said, 'Well, Abrams is not a Trump guy. He represents traditional, established U.S. foreign policy.’ And that’s true. The problem is that that U.S. policy has been to abet genocide when the U.S. feels it’s necessary.
Journalist Allan Nairn, speaking to Democracy Now! about right-wing hawk Elliott Abrams, who is now the Trump administration’s special envoy to Venezuela as the U.S. government attempts to oust elected Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Watch the full interview here.