With later updates
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Some background reading & videos:
An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela:
Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup
Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup
UN Human Rights Rapporteur, Alfred De Zayas, explains how criminal US sanctions have asphyxiated Venezuela's economy and prevented crucial access to food and medicine, causing the crisis the US empire is using as the pretext for military intervention. The most repeated myths about Venezuela are debunked. Excellent journalism with factual reporting to repudiate the mainstream 'news' propaganda.
Watch the full episode:
Five
Striking things You Didn’t Know About Venezuela
“The US plan
failed to prevent an election, the election was contested and it was fair…”
.
Ted
Snider: “…an election narrative quite different from the one offered
by the Venezuelan opposition and its American allies and repeated by the
mainstream press emerges when some of the unsupported premises are questioned…
No
one seriously claims that Maduro’s opponent, Henri Falcón, won more votes in
the 2018 election. It wasn’t even close… Voter
turnout was low because Maduro’s opposition called on its followers not to
vote…
Maduro
had initiated a series of negotiations with the opposition, during which an
election date was agreed upon… At the last minute before the agreement was to
be signed, the opposition withdrew and refused to sign. But they didn’t do it
because they didn’t agree with the terms. They did it because they wanted to
claim that an election held without them was illegitimate…
Though
that part of the story is sometimes told – though not very often in the
mainstream media – the striking part that is never told is that it was the U.S.
that told the radical opposition to boycott the election to create the
appearance of illegitimacy… then
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the opposition’s spokesperson, Julio
Borges, and instructed him to refuse to sign the agreement…
the
plan was not just an election that was boycotted by the radical opposition, but
an election that was boycotted by every serious opposition candidate, so that
Maduro could win only an uncontested victory… it was also meant to get Falcón
to boycott the election… But Falcón did not join the boycott…
the
leading opposition contender for Venezuela’s May presidential election, Henri
Falcón, was told by US officials that the Trump administration would consider
financial sanctions against him if he entered the presidential race… the
larger US plan was to hold all opposition candidates back, leaving an
uncontested Maduro looking like the illegitimately anointed dictator of
Venezuela…
the
election was not the uncontested anointing of Maduro that the opposition and
the media portray. Henri Falcón offered the electorate a legitimate alternative
to Maduro…
Maduro
and Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador formally asked the UN to send observers to monitor
the election. Falcón went to New York with the ambassador so that he, too,
could try to persuade the UN to monitor the elections. It was the bloc of
opposition boycotters – and some say the US – who acted as obstructionists and
asked the UN not to send the monitors.
If
they couldn’t present the election as illegitimate because it was uncontested,
then they would attempt to present it as illegitimate because it was
unmonitored…
What
the mainstream media never mentions, though, is that, even under the weight of
opposition obstructionism, the elections were not unmonitored. At least four
different groups of international observers monitored the election… All four
certified the election as fair…
So,
the US plan failed to prevent an election, the election was contested and it
was fair…
…The
Venezuelan opposition is typically presented by the media as a monolithic bloc.
It is not. The coalition represented by Juan Guaidó is an extremist group that
has been largely discredited in Venezuela because of their past illegal
involvement in coups and street violence.
There
is also a more moderate opposition. And that more moderate opposition has not
followed Guaidó down the road of abandoning the electoral arena in favor of
international pressure and coups. They have not even endorsed Guaidó…
Maduro
received the votes of 31% of all eligible voters: more than Trump received in
2016 or Obama in 2012. It is not even obvious that the opposition is united
behind Guaidó.”
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Read the complete article:
Juan Guaidó: The Man Who Would Be President of Venezuela Doesn’t Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
This exposes how US and other governments, such as Australia, which recognize Guaido as "interim president of Venezuela", are acting fraudulently.
As Alfred de Zayas, United Nations independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, tweeted:
“Article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution is inapplicable and cannot be twisted into legitimizing Guaidó’s self-proclamation as interim President. A coup is a coup.”
Roger Harris: “Donald Trump imagines Juan Guaidó is the rightful president of Venezuela. Mr. Guaidó, a man of impeccable illegitimacy, was exposed by Cohen and Blumenthal as “a product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers.”... Here, his constitutional credentials to be interim president of Venezuela are deconstructed…
Although anointed by Trump and company, Guaidó’s Popular Will
Party is not representative of the “Venezuelan opposition,” which is a
fractious bunch whose hatred of Maduro is only matched by their abhorrence of
each other. Leading opposition candidate Henri Falcón, who ran against Maduro
in 2018 on a neo-liberal austerity platform, had been vehemently opposed by
Popular Will who demanded that he join their US-backed boycott of the election…
The Guaidó/Trump cabal does not reflect the democratic consensus
in Venezuela, where polls consistently show super majorities oppose outside
intervention. Popular opinion in Venezuela supports negotiations between the
government and the opposition as proposed by Mexico, Uruguay, and the Vatican.
The Maduro administration has embraced the negotiations as a peaceful solution
to the crisis facing Venezuela.
The US government rejects a negotiated solution, in the words of
Vice President Pence: “This is no time for dialogue; this is time for action.”
This intransigent position is faithfully echoed by Guaidó…
The Guaidó/Trump cabal’s fig leaf for legitimacy is based on the
bogus argument that Article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution gives the
National Assembly the power to declare a national president’s “abandonment” of
the office. In which case, the president of the National Assembly can serve as
an interim national president, until presidential elections are held. The
inconvenient truth is that Maduro has shown no inclination to abandon his post,
and the constitution says no such thing…
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ), which is the separate
supreme court branch of the Venezuelan government has certified Maduro’s
reelection, as have independent international observers. Further, no appeal was
filed by any of the boycotting parties, while all participating parties –
including opposition ones – signed off on the validity of the election after
the polls closed…
As Alfred de Zayas, United Nations independent expert on the
promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, tweeted: “Article
233 of the Venezuelan constitution is inapplicable and cannot be twisted into
legitimizing Guaidó’s self-proclamation as interim President. A coup is a
coup.”
Read the
complete article:
Venezuela Is An Opportunity
For Russia And China To Change The World
Paul Craig Roberts: “Nothing better illustrates Washington’s
opposition to democracy and self-determination than the blatantly public coup
Washington has organized against the properly elected president of Venezuela…
Moon of Alabama’s explanation of Washington’s attack on Venezuela gives you a truer picture that differs completely from the lies voiced by the American and European politicians and presstitute media, a collection of whores who are devoid of all integrity and all morality and lie for their living…
Moon of Alabama’s explanation of Washington’s attack on Venezuela gives you a truer picture that differs completely from the lies voiced by the American and European politicians and presstitute media, a collection of whores who are devoid of all integrity and all morality and lie for their living…
...If Russia and China quickly established a military presence
in Venezuela to protect their loans and oil investments, Venezuela could be
saved, and other countries that would like to be independent would take heart
that, although there is no support for self-determination anywhere in the
Western World, the former authoritarian countries will support it. Other
assertions of independence would arise, and the Empire would collapse.
Venezuela is an opportunity for Russia and China to assume the
leadership of the world, but I doubt the Russian and Chinese governments have
the vision to seize the opportunity and, thereby, fundamentally change the
world. Putin is wasting his breath when he correctly criticizes Washington for
its violations of international law. In Washington’s view, law is what serves
American interest.
Here is Moon of Alabama’s analysis: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51062.htm
Read the
complete article:
Moon of Alabama: “…The U.S. is
using the pretext of 'delivering humanitarian aid' from Columbia to Venezuela
to undermine the government and to establish a supply line for further
operations… The government of Venezuela does not reject aid that comes without
political interference. Last year it accepted modest UN aid which consisted
mostly of medical supplies from which Venezuela had been cut off due to U.S.
sanctions…
The International Red Cross, the Catholic church's aid
organization Caritas and the United Nations rejected U.S. requests to help
deliver the currently planned 'aid' because it is so obviously politicized…
Rejecting aid out of political reasons is not unusual. When the
hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused huge damage along the U.S. gulf coast, a
number of countries offered humanitarian and technical aid. U.S. President Bush
accepted help from some countries, but rejected aid from other ones: An offer
of aid from the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, which included two mobile
hospital units, 120 rescue and first aid experts and 50 tonnes of food, was
rejected, according to the civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson. Mr Jackson said
the offer from the Venezuelan leader…included 10 water purification plants, 18
power generation plants and 20 tonnes of bottled water.
The U.S. intent to establish a 'humanitarian aid' supply line
into Venezuela has a secondary purpose. Such aid is the ideal cover for weapon
supplies. In the 1980s designated 'humanitarian aid' flights for Nicaragua were
filled with weapons. The orders for those flights were given by Elliot Abrams
who is now Trump's special envoy for Venezuela…
Officials in Venezuela have accused the US of sending a cache of
high-powered rifles and ammunition on a commercial cargo flight from Miami so
they would get into the hands of President Nicolás Maduro's opponents… Where
one such weapon transport is caught multiple are likely to go through.
But to run a war against the government pure weapon supplies are
not enough. The U.S. will have to establish a continuous supply line for heavy
and bulky ammunition. That is where 'humanitarian aid' convoys come in…
Under the current government most people in Venezuela are still better
off than under the pre-Chavez governments... The people will not forget that
even when the economic situation will become more difficult. They know who is
pulling the strings behind the Random Guy Guaido who now claims the presidency.
They know well that these rich people are unlikely to better their plight.
U.S. politicians are making the same mistakes with regards to
Venezuela as they made with the regime change wars on Iraq and Syria. They
believe that all people are as corrupt and nihilistic as they are…”
Read the complete article:
Venezuela as the pivot for
New Internationalism?
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Saker interview with Michael Hudson
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.
One of the
most respected independent economists gives an understanding of the state of Venezuela’s
economy when Chavez came to power, the
various reforms and changes that he introduced, the causes of the current economic
crisis in Venezuela, and how to rescue it.
Can China, Russia and Iran help counteract US sabotage, subversion and sanctions?
Can China, Russia and Iran help counteract US sabotage, subversion and sanctions?
Read the complete article:
How Chrystia Freeland
Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela
Eric Zuesse: “…Her active
effort to replace Venezuela’s Government began with her formation of the Lima
Group, nearly two years ago. And she and Trump together chose whom to replace
Venezuela’s President, Nicholas Maduro, by: Juan Guaido. Guaido had secretly
courted other Latin American leaders for this, just as Freeland had already
done, by means of her secretly forming the Lima Group.
On 25 January 2019, the AP bannered “AP Exclusive: Anti-Maduro
coalition grew from secret talks” and reported that the man who now claims to
be Venezuela’s legitimate President (though he had never even run for that
post), Juan Guaido, had secretly visited foreign countries in order to win
their blessings for what he was planning…
Regardless of whether or not the Trump-Freeland-Luna program for
Venezuela succeeds, democracy and human rights won’t be advanced by it; but, if
it succeeds, the fortunes of US-and-allied billionaires will be. It’s part of
their global privatization program…
That’s their dream. They want to monopolize the corruption
everywhere, not to end it, anywhere. And that’s why they distort and blatantly
lie about Venezuela’s democratic constitution now, just as they did about
Ukraine’s democratic constitution in February 2014. It’s, essentially, a
lawless international gang of billionaire thugs. It is the international Deep
State…”
Read the complete article:
Did Venezuela’s President Really ‘Steal’ the 2018 Election from an Unknown Who Didn’t Run?
Joe Emersberger: “…Guaidó
didn’t even run in the 2018 presidential election. Henri Falcón was the opposition
politician who finished a very distant second in that election… Nobody has
shown or even attempted to show that any votes, never mind millions of votes,
were stolen from Falcón… in 2012, Jimmy Carter said the Venezuelan electoral
system was the best in the world…
So why wasn’t Falcón ‘recognized’ by Trump?
What’s the argument for Trump anointing Guaidó?
The US recognizes the 2015 national assembly election won by the
opposition – as it would definitely have recognized the 2018 presidential election
had Falcón won. And part of article 233 of the Venezuelan constitution says
that if the president “abandons” his post, the president of the national
assembly takes over until new elections are held. Guaidó was very recently
named the national assembly president.
Clearly, Maduro did not ‘abandon’ the presidency by soundly beating Henri Falcón in a clean election that was marred, if anything, by murderous US interference…”
Clearly, Maduro did not ‘abandon’ the presidency by soundly beating Henri Falcón in a clean election that was marred, if anything, by murderous US interference…”
Read the complete article:
What Corporate Media Aren't Telling You About Venezuela
"Call this elision what it is: war propaganda."
Gregory Shupak: “The US media chorus supporting a US overthrow of the
Venezuelan government has for years pointed to the country’s economic crisis as
a justification for regime change, while whitewashing the ways in which the US
has strangled the Venezuelan economy…
Thus, the US government acknowledges that it is knowingly,
consciously driving the Venezuelan economy into the ground, but US media make
no such acknowledgment, which sends the message that the problems in Venezuela
are entirely the fault of the government, and that the US is a neutral arbiter
that wants to help Venezuelans. Call this elision what it is: war propaganda.”
Read the complete article:
...“of the 92 elections that we’ve
monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the
world.” Venezuela has developed a fully automated touch-screen voting system,
which now uses thumbprint recognition technology and prints off a receipt to
confirm voters’ choices.
In the context of the Carter Centre’s work monitoring
electoral processes around the globe, Carter also disclosed his opinion that in
the US “we have one of the worst election processes in the world, and it’s
almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money,” he said referring to
lack of controls over private campaign donations…
Read the complete article:
Regime Change for Profit:
m
Chevron, Halliburton Cheer On US Venezuela Coup
m
Chevron, Halliburton Cheer On US Venezuela Coup
If Guaidó comes to power and privatizes PDVSA, U.S. oil
companies — with Chevron and Halliburton leading the pack — stand to make
record profits in the world’s most oil-rich nation, as they did in Iraq
following the privatization of its national oil industry after U.S. intervention.
Whitney Webb: “…the current U.S. effort to topple the government led by Chavista politician Nicolás Maduro has become notable for the openness of the “coup architects” in admitting that putting American corporations – Chevron and Halliburton chief among them — in charge of Venezuelan oil resources is the driving factor behind this aggressive policy… However, the timing of the Trump administration’s regime-change push in Venezuela is key.
While companies like Chevron and Halliburton have been
hemorrhaging profits in recent years, they have so far withstood the fallout
due to the record high production of U.S. shale oil. Yet, the “golden age” of
U.S. shale is quickly disappearing, with top industry insiders like Harold Hamm
along with Halliburton’s rival company, Schlumberger, expecting shale output
growth to slow by as much as 50 percent this year. Hamm is a close confidant of
President Trump.
If this comes to pass, American oil companies will be in a bad
way. Yet, if Guaidó comes to power and privatizes PDVSA, U.S. oil companies —
with Chevron and Halliburton leading the pack — stand to make record profits in
the world’s most oil rich nation, as they did in Iraq following the
privatization of its national oil industry after U.S. intervention.
Worst of all, as the U.S.’ past interventions in Iraq and Libya
and elsewhere have shown, Washington stands willing to kill untold thousands of
innocent people in Venezuela — either through direct military intervention or a
proxy war — to benefit American oil companies.
Will the American people let yet another presidential administration destroy an entire nation for Chevron, Halliburton and other powerful American corporations?...”
Will the American people let yet another presidential administration destroy an entire nation for Chevron, Halliburton and other powerful American corporations?...”
Read the complete article:
Venezuela: The US’s 68th
Regime Change Disaster
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas JS Davies: "...US officials and their corporate sponsors
are looking at an almost irresistible gold mine if they can bring Venezuela to
its knees... But the only things that will force a radical change in US policy
are public outrage, education, and organizing, and international solidarity
with the people of Venezuela."
Read the complete article:
The REAL Reason The U.S.
Wants Regime Change in Venezuela
Watch this short video, take their advice to "fact check
everything", and critically assess the official corporate 'news' media
narrative:
John Perkins - Confessions of an economic hitman.
Watch the video, and draw your own conclusions about what's really happening now in Venezuela, and elsewhere. . .
“Twelve years ago, John Perkins published his book, Confessions
of an Economic Hit Man, and it rapidly rose up The New York Times’ best-seller
list. In it, Perkins describes his career convincing heads of state to adopt
economic policies that impoverished their countries and undermined democratic
institutions. These policies helped to enrich tiny, local elite groups while
padding the pockets of U.S.-based transnational corporations…
If economic pressure and threats didn’t work, Perkins says, the jackals were called to either overthrow or assassinate the non-compliant heads of state. That is, indeed, what happened to Allende, with the backing of the CIA…”
WATCH:
If economic pressure and threats didn’t work, Perkins says, the jackals were called to either overthrow or assassinate the non-compliant heads of state. That is, indeed, what happened to Allende, with the backing of the CIA…”
WATCH:
The Making of Juan Guaido:
How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader
Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by
Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of
democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of
destabilization.
Dan Cohen &
Max Blumenthal: “…While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he
was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US
government’s elite regime change factories… While Guaidó is today sold as the
face of democratic restoration, he spent his career in the most violent faction
of Venezuela’s most radical opposition party, positioning himself at the
forefront of one destabilization campaign after another…
“‘These radical leaders have no more than 20 percent in opinion
polls,” wrote Luis Vicente León, Venezuela’s leading pollster. According to
Leon, Guaidó’s party remains isolated because the majority of the population
“does not want war. ‘What they want is a solution.’”
But this is precisely why he Guaidó was selected by Washington:
he is not expected to lead Venezuela towards democracy, but to collapse a
country that for the past two decades has been a bulwark of resistance to US
hegemony. His unlikely rise signals the culmination of a two-decades-long
project to destroy a robust socialist experiment…”
Read the complete article:
Internal US Gov’t Document
Outlines Program of ‘Economic Warfare’ on Venezuela
An internal government document reveals tactics of “economic
warfare” and “financial weapons” the US is using against Venezuela in the name
of “furthering capitalism.”
Ben Norton: “…President Trump’s ultra-militaristic National Security Adviser John Bolton echoed these priorities in an interview with Fox Business. “We’re in conversation with major American companies now… I think we’re trying to get to the same end result here,” Bolton declared.
“It will make a big difference to the United States economically if we could have American oil companies really invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.”…”
Read the complete article:
“War is a racket”.
It was then; it is now. Why believe the lies about Venezuela
now?
33-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, twice decorated with
the Medal of Honor, America's most decorated soldier became a whistle blower
against the racket of war.
Butler famously confessed to having been a “high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
Butler famously confessed to having been a “high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
“…I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American
oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half
a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record
of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international
banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican
Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras “right”
for American fruit companies in 1903…”
“Economic Warfare” against Venezuela. Illegal
US Sanctions Causing Economic and Humanitarian Crisis according to Former UN
Rapporteur
“A former United Nations rapporteur has criticised the US for
engaging in “economic warfare” against Venezuela which he claimed was the real
reason for the economic and humanitarian crisis facing the country.
Alfred de Zayas, who last year became the first UN rapporteur to
visit Venezuela for 21 years, also suggested in his recently published UN
report, that US sanctions on the country are illegal and could amount to
“crimes against humanity” under international law…
Mr. De Zayas is one of 70 signatories of an open letter, along with with Noam Chomsky and over 70 other academics and experts, who have condemned what they described as a US-backed coup attempt against the Venezuelan government.”
Mr. De Zayas is one of 70 signatories of an open letter, along with with Noam Chomsky and over 70 other academics and experts, who have condemned what they described as a US-backed coup attempt against the Venezuelan government.”
Read the complete article:
Venezuela: Let’s Cut to the
Chase
By Pepe Escobar
Caracas has committed the ultimate cardinal sin in the eyes of Exceptionalistan; oil trading bypassing the US dollar or US-controlled exchanges. Remember Iraq. Remember Libya.
Caracas has committed the ultimate cardinal sin in the eyes of Exceptionalistan; oil trading bypassing the US dollar or US-controlled exchanges. Remember Iraq. Remember Libya.
Read the
complete article:
How US trained Juan Guaido
for Regime Change
Journalist and author Max Blumenthal joins Rick Sanchez to offer
his analysis of Venezuela’s political crisis. He says Juan Guaido’s “real
constituency is in Washington” and that he’s at the forefront of a years-long
destabilization campaign orchestrated by the US.
WATCH the short video (5:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Hc1Bs8OXg&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3tFZFKeFRUtCkNsB_VUumPnfMYSxQt31pu1Y-x6Socs_dZhwrsphnYg6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Hc1Bs8OXg&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3tFZFKeFRUtCkNsB_VUumPnfMYSxQt31pu1Y-x6Socs_dZhwrsphnYg6s
ELLIOTT ABRAMS, TRUMP’S PICK TO BRING
“DEMOCRACY” TO VENEZUELA, HAS SPENT HIS LIFE CRUSHING
DEMOCRACY
Elliott Abrams, America’s special envoy to
Venezuela, participated in many of the most ghastly acts of U.S. foreign policy
from the past 40 years, all the while proclaiming how deeply he cared about the
foreigners he and his friends were murdering, writes Jon Schwarz.
Read the
complete article:
Elliott Abrams
Biography of an imperial warmonger.
The very scary new U.S. Special Envoy for Venezuela.
Read the complete article:
Elliott Abrams: The War Criminal Running US Policy in Venezuela
The Real News Network: US Special Envoy on Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, is back in the halls of power after a career of supporting dictators, violence and genocide around the world.
Watch this short video (6:40)
Sanctions of Mass
Destruction: America’s War on Venezuela
Garikai Chengu: The fact that
for America the issue in Venezuela is oil, not democracy, will surprise only
those who watch the news and ignore history. Venezuela has the world’s largest
oil reserves on the planet.
Read the
complete article:
“Veterans For Peace is outraged at the unfolding coup d’etat in
Venezuela, which is clearly being orchestrated by the U.S. government. Two
hundred years of blatant U.S. intervention in Latin America must come to an
end.
Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985, in part prompted by the
U.S.-backed “contra” war in Nicaragua, and U.S. support for the right wing
government in the bloody civil war in neighboring El Salvador. We did not want
to see another Vietnam War in Central America.
Years of increasingly crippling U.S. sanctions have succeeded in
destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and created great unrest, division and
migration. The U.S. government encouraged Venezuelan opposition parties to
boycott last year’s election. Now they are calling the election fraudulent, and
attempting to install a little-known politician more to their liking. This is
part of a dangerous game that the U.S. continues to play throughout Latin
America…”
Read the complete statement:
Some extra reading and viewing:
THE WAR ON
VENEZUELA IS BUILT ON LIES
John Pilger looks back
over the Chavez years in Venezuela, including his own travels with Hugo Chavez,
and the current US and European campaign to overthrow Nicolas Maduro in a 'coup
by media' and to return Latin America to the 19th and 20th centuries.
Venezuela – US
Attack Imminent?
Peter Koenig is an
economist and geopolitical analyst, after working for over 30 years with the
World Bank
The
U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It
Adam H. Johnson: "...the instinct to alleviate that
suffering is a healthy one. But a craven marketing stunt by far-right Cold
Warriors - without any buy-in from actual aid organizations - cannot be taken
at face value..."
US Media Erase
Years of Chavismo’s Gains
Gregory Shupak: Under President Hugo Chávez, poverty in
Venezuela was cut by more than a third, and extreme poverty by 57 percent. In
2013, the UN included Venezuela in a group of 18 nations that that had cut
their number of hungry people by half. In 2014, the resident UN coordinator for
Venezuela called the country “one of the leading countries in Latin America and
the Caribbean in reducing inequality.” These kinds of social gains have been
almost entirely written out of media coverage of the effort to overthrow the
Venezuelan government.
Facts Refuting
Claims of ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ in Venezuela
“…The “humanitarian crisis” is a category of the International
Humanitarian Law… The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) considers
Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (in all these
crises the U.S. played a direct or indirect role) as countries that qualify for
the category of “humanitarian crisis”… Venezuelans do not face all these issues
and whatever issues are there, are much less intensified… Western media are
only interested in showing the 4.4 percent of extreme poverty… they are turning
a blind eye to the fact that the U.S. sanctions are the main reason for
economic problems in the country along with private companies boycotting
Venezuelan goods… Calling out the fakeness of the humanitarian aid for “hungry”
people of Venezuela, the President said to BBC, “It's very simple if you want
to help Venezuela, release the billions of dollars in resources that belong to
us. So don't come with a cheap show, a show of indignity, of humiliation...”…
Venezuela
Estimates $38B in Losses from US Sanctions
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Estimates-38-Billion-in-Losses-from-U.S.-Sanctions-20190218-0017.html?fbclid=IwAR2YGjuipk4HOfs63iSl2YO-6N9E4uzGlXNtaETNJ8i_trzDg3TXc8-BQlk
The World Today With Tariq Ali - No War in
Venezuela
Tariq spoke at a
public meeting in London, where many attended to express their solidarity with
the people of Venezuela, and to reject the coup attempt by the United States
and their allies.
Who Is Joanna Hausmann?
Why is Joanna Hausmann
(Joanna Hausmann Comedy), whose father is a member of the Central Bank of
Venezuela and chair of the World IMF bank committee, becoming a mainstream
media sensation and talking head on the crisis in Venezuela to push for regime
change and US intervention? Kei Pritsker breaks it down:
Venezuela-Receives-933-Tons-of-Medical-Aid
Starving Venezuela Into Submission
The Crisis and Coup in Venezuela. A Review
US Air Freight Company that Smuggled Weapons
Into Venezuela Linked to CIA “Black Site” Renditions
Why Venezuela Is In Crisis -- Saker interviews
Michael Hudson
Facts Don’t Interfere With Propaganda Blitz
Against Venezuela’s Elected President
Blood for Oil in Venezuela?
Russia Proposes Venezuelan 'Peaceful Measures'
Initiative to UN
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