What Nikki Haley Just Said Will Go Down In History As Day Obama Was Wiped Off The Political Map
it really is great to be with all of you today I first want to thank Susan Segal
and Eric Farnsworth with the council of Americas and of course I want to thank
my esteemed predecessor ambassador John Negroponte I'm here today because the
Trump administration places a high priority on the Western Hemisphere its
security its prosperity and its freedom and we recognize that the United States
must reassert our leadership in the hemisphere I have seen time and time
again at the United Nations that when the
United States fails to lead we suffer and the world suffers this is even more
true in our relationships with other nations there is no substitute for
strong US leadership based on our values of political and economic freedom and
respect for human rights I will start this afternoon by stating something that
should be clear to everyone here today the prosperity of the United States is
critically tied to the prosperity of the hemisphere our future is bound up with
our neighbors among other things we are each other's largest and best trading
partners the United States sells more goods and services to our neighbors in
the Western Hemisphere then we do to China Japan and India combined while a
lot of attention is placed on issues of trade with China we should keep in mind
that we trade nearly three times as much with the Western Hemisphere as we do
with China we are also dependent on each other for security stopping drugs gangs
and terrorists from crossing our borders begins with deterring threats before
they reach the border and the principle that ties it all together is something
else the United States has in common with most of our neighbors
in the hemisphere a commitment to freedom when he spoke to the summit of
the Americas in Peru last month and again at the Organization of American
States yesterday vice-president pence called the Western Hemisphere the
hemisphere of freedom that's a great description of the Americas the Western
Hemisphere is increasingly dominated by countries that share our political and
economic principles the great human rights activists Natanz Sharansky had a
test for evaluating the freedom of societies that he called the town square
test according to Sharansky if someone can walk into a town square and express
his or her views without being arrested thrown in prison or beaten then they
lived in a free society if not they lived in what he called a fear society
as we look across the Americas it's pretty easy to tell the free societies
from the fear societies it's a testament to the people of Latin America and the
love of freedom and dignity that exists in the human heart that most of the
hemisphere is free as we know it has not always been that way several major
countries in Latin America will hold free and open elections this year this
is a good and precious thing a real reason for us to celebrate in the United
States not because we will always agree with these governments but because
democracies respect the rule of law and the rights of their people and these are
the preconditions for economic growth and hemispheric security poverty
corruption and violence continue to be challenges that all countries face the
difference is how or if a government addresses those issues
across Latin America the good news is that these challenges are increasingly
dealt with through a commitment to the rule of law and democratic institutions
the region is far from perfection but the progress is unmistakable there is
one other country having what it calls an election in just a couple of weeks
but unlike the other elections I mentioned the quote-unquote voting in
Venezuela on May 20th is being done only to provide a phony cover for a dictator
not to determine the country's legitimate leadership Venezuela's
economy and civil society has seen a cataclysmic decline under Chavez and
Maduro we have all seen the tragic suffering of the Venezuelan people in a
region where 31% of the people are for a stunning 87 percent of Venezuelans live
below the poverty line a full 90 percent say they don't know where their next
meal is coming from Venezuelans live in conditions today
that they haven't experienced in over a hundred years children are dying of
malnutrition hospitals are without medicine and supplies once eradicated
diseases are now reappearing and the currency is next to worthless with the
inflation rates of up to an unbelievable 18000 percent the Venezuelan people no
longer have a government they are the unwilling victims of a criminal narco
state and it was only a matter of time before the Venezuelan crisis became a
regional crisis now the instability that began with the
Chavez regime denying the economic and human rights of its people has spilled
over Venice sporters today the Maduro regime
threatens the peace and security of the entire region
what has been described as the largest displacement of people in the region's
history is now taking place in Latin America since 2014 the United Nations
estimates that one and a half million people have fled the poverty and
violence in Venezuela these desperate people are being received by neighboring
countries but they are straining city and state resources in Colombia Brazil
Peru and elsewhere this is a crisis that demands the attention of the entire
world the last few years of European history
have shown the potential for uncontrolled migratory flows to create
political instability even relatively wealthy countries have experienced
political and social backlash from trying to absorb large numbers of
migrants and Venezuelans neighbors are not wealthy Colombia has taken in more
than 600,000 Venezuelan migrants thousands more arrive each day further
straining a country that is struggling to implement its own peace agreement the
Venezuelan crisis has created an immediate need for food shelter and
medical assistance the United States is helping more countries must do so as
well but Venezuelan migrants like those from
Syria and other countries want more than anything else to be able to go home and
that makes the real core regional problem not a lack of resources but the
continued rule of the Maduro regime as long as Maduro keeps the stores empty
the streets dangerous and the government unaccountable Venezuelans will not
return home an instability in the region will grow the implosion of Venezuela has
also exposed a another serious concern in Latin America
the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua for a long time the Ortega
government has looked less like a democracy and more like a dictatorship
the Maduro regime propped up Ortega with subsidized oil and other aid Venezuela's
self-destruction has ended that lifeline and in the process it has exposed the
rot at the core of the Nicaraguan government like his patron in Caracas
and his mentor's in Havana the Ortega government has stayed in power by
rigging elections intimidating critics and censoring the media in just the last
month the Nicaraguan people have found their voice after many years of
corruption and misrule it is the most serious threat to the Ortega government
in a decade it began when students and others took to the streets to first
protest protest the poor response to massive fires it grew larger as protests
against changes to the Social Security system but it has become much more than
that protesting the very legitimacy of the
oppressive government itself police and pro-government mobs responded with
lethal force the government shut down independent radio and television
stations over 60 people were killed or are still missing and hundreds were
injured the images of the violence are horrific one journalist was killed shot
in the head while broadcasting live on Facebook another group of journalists
described masked men breaking down the doors of their radio station and dousing
the studio with gasoline the thugs then fired into the gas and ignited the whole
building hundreds of thousands have demonstrated in response demanding
democratic reforms and calling for a Tagus resignation
for the first time in many people's lives Nicaraguans
are unafraid to openly express their desire for a real choice in determining
their future despite the very real threat of violence the United States
calls on the Ortega government to make good on its offer to engage in a
national dialogue all sectors of Nicaraguan civil society the business
community the students in the Catholic Church to name a few
must be included but talking is not enough the real test will be whether the
Ortega government will meet the people's demands for democratic reforms and
transparency as in a time Sharansky might say Nicaragua is a fear society
that yearns to be a free society the United States stands unequivocally with
the people of Nicaragua in their demands for the same freedoms enjoyed by most of
the rest of our Hemisphere the people of Venezuela also hunger for the right to
control their own destiny but the time for talking the time for urging the
Maduro regime to open up the voices of the people is long passed in Venezuela
the so called elections that are scheduled to occur in twelve days are
sham Maduro will not change and to prove it he's holding rigged elections to give
his reign of terror the veneer of democracy but he's not fooling anyone
we cannot allow Maduro to portray his quote unquote victory on May 20th as a
validation of his rule it will be nothing of the sort
as long as Maduro stops a credible independent observer mission we know the
results will be fraudulent the systematic oppression of the Venezuelan
people has become an active threat to the entire region for the safety and the
security of all peoples in Latin America it is time for Maduro to go
when I traveled to Guatemala and Honduras earlier this year I made a
point of meeting with ordinary citizens particularly women and girls I do this
in most countries I travel to I find that it's one of the best ways to get
the measure of a country the people I met were proud and hopeful and no less
deserving than you or me for the right to freedom and dignity Guatemala and
Honduras face real challenges but they're on the right track this is
what's at stake in the Americas today at one point in time there was a contest of
ideas about forms of government in the Western Hemisphere today that contest is
over the Cuban Venezuela and Nicaragua model of socialism dictatorship
corruption and gross human rights violations has proved to be a complete
and total failure it has caused the suffering of millions of people the
freedom model of democracy economic growth and human rights is improving the
lives of millions throughout the region there is much work left to do but so
much progress has been made so many people have sacrificed so much we cannot
allow the last few surviving authoritarians
to drag down the hemisphere as neighbors the United States and all the nations of
Latin America are bound together in this journey if we stay true to our
principles I have no doubt we will succeed and we will help ensure that the
Western Hemisphere remains the hemisphere of freedom thank
you
thank you god bless you and God bless america
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