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Post by blindpig » Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:54 pm

Venezuelan Campesinos Mobilize as Rural Violence Continues
Hundreds rallied for their rights in western Venezuela amid another campesino assassination.

By Ricardo Vaz
Nov 22nd 2018 at 5.08pm

https://venezuelanalysis.com/NZnQ

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Over 1000 campesinos demonstrated in the border state of Tachira, demanding more government support for food production. (CRBZ)

Pays de Gex, France, November 22, 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Over a thousand campesinos staged a rally in the border state of Tachira on Tuesday, November 20, demanding government support for food production.

The mobilization in the state capital of San Cristobal, led by the Revolutionary Bolivar and Zamora Current (CRBZ), included campesino organizations and communes from Tachira State, as well as from neighboring Apure, Barinas and Merida states.

Orlando Zambrano, one of the CRBZ spokespeople and a member of the National Constituent Assembly, argued that an urgent plan for food production is required.

“It is essential to build a great National Productive Alliance that will link the government and all forms of organizations of campesinos who know how to produce,” he stated.

The demonstration ended at the local offices of the National Land Institute (INTI), with a list of proposals and demands from the campesinos being delivered to state officials.

Aura Gomez, one of the movement’s spokespeople, publicly read this document before authorities.

“The constitution guarantees the incorporation of campesinos in the productive development of the country. We are here to demand that the appropriate conditions in the countryside be created for this guarantee to be fulfilled,” she declared.

Local officials from INTI and from the office of Freddy Bernal, appointed by the national government as “protector” of opposition-controlled Táchira State (1), reportedly received the demands and professed their intention to work together with the campesino organizations. A commission of campesino spokespeople, alongside leaders from the CRBZ, later held a meeting in the local offices of the Ministry for Land and Agriculture to discuss the demands further.

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A list of proposals and demands was delivered to state officials. (CRBZ)

Tuesday’s demonstration came on the heels of fresh episodes of violence against campesinos in the Venezuelan countryside.

On Monday afternoon, November 19, Tomas Ribas “Tomasito,” a campesino organizer from the Izquierda Unida grouping in Apure State, was reportedly shot dead after a violent raid on the disputed Hato Garza plot in Barinas State.

Witnesses have claimed that members of the National Guard were involved in the raid. At the time of writing this has yet to be confirmed, and no official investigation has yet been announced. The Hato Garza plot, in the municipality of Barinas, is reportedly comprised of 14,000 hectares of idle land that campesinos have sought to occupy and produce on, in line with Venezuela’s land reform statutes .

A few days earlier, on Saturday November 17, campesinos from the Comandante Adrian Moncada Commune in Lara State denounced that one of their leaders, Josué Medina, had been seized by FAES, the special forces division of the Bolivarian National Police.

Witnesses at the scene reported that the security agents arrived alongside the former owner of a plot that members of the commune took over ten years ago and made productive. Medina was reportedly released after spending a few hours in custody.

Putting an end to state and paramilitary violence in the countryside has been one of the central demands of campesino organizations in recent months. The landmark Land Law of 2001 grants campesinos a legal base to take over and produce on idle land, but campesino organizations have often complained of a lack of response, or even hostility, from state institutions and security forces when it comes to land disputes.

Targeted killings of Venezuelan campesinos have been on the rise over past months. In one of the latest cases, Luis Fajardo and Javier Aldana, campesino leaders from the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) were gunned down in connection to a land dispute in Sur del Lago, Merida State.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14158

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Post by blindpig » Tue Dec 11, 2018 7:20 pm

Robert Longa of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force and El Panal Commune. (Venezuelanalysis)
The commune and 21st century socialism: A conversation with Robert Longa of El Panal Commune
Posted Nov 29, 2018 by Cira Pascual Marquina

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Originally published: Venezuelanalysis (November 23, 2018) |
The Alexis Vive Patriotic Force collective was born during the fraught months of 2002 in which the right-wing attempted to topple Hugo Chavez through a coup d’etat. Based in the working class 23 de Enero barrio, the young organization considers itself both Leninist and Guevarist. They are committed to carrying out Chavez’s project of building socialism through communes, and as such, have built the El Panal Commune(1), which produces both basic goods and revolutionary culture. This interview with Alexis Vive’sRobert Longa sheds light on that communal project and the organization’s vision of the future.

As part of El Panal Commune, an initiative that aims to reorganize our way of living both politically and economically, could you explain to us how the commune, as a building block for socialism, relates to Chavez’s legacy?

When Chavez emerges on the political scene, he connects with our [Venezuelan] roots and breaks with the Eurocentric notions that the Soviet bloc imposed during the ‘60s and ‘70s: the narrow notions of development that became common on the left during the Cold War. Chavez comes into the public eye talking about the Bolivarian epic and reconnecting with Latin American and Indo-American history: our history of resistance, our culture, and the legacy of our “Liberators.”(2) He also breaks with the model of representative democracy and begins to talk about participatory and protagonist democracy. Heinz Dietrich, an author now separated from the Bolivarian Process but who at one time accompanied it, called Chavez’s project of participatory and protagonist democracy, “the project for new socialism.” Chavez begins there, from this concept of participatory and protagonist democracy, and little by little begins to fill it with content. It becomes a new architecture for the construction of 21st Century Socialism.

We believe that the commune, the project that brings together groups of communal councils–which to a degree are modeled on the Russian Soviets–is the most genuine organizational form that can allow popular power to take shape on a territorial(3) level. Chavez turns this form of organization into a model, the communal model. As an organization, Alexis Vive is completely in agreement with the project of communal organization, that is, bringing the communal project, which recalls the Paris Commune, into our spaces of life and work. Power resides in the people, and they must be the ones to exercise it. The people constitutes power. From there, from that radical conception of power and democracy, we connect with Chavez and what he stands for…the concrete realization of his ideas.

This brings us to a critical encounter with some existing practices that deviate from Chavez’s original concept: his project (and ours) is not one that reinstates the logic of representation under the umbrella of a new legal framework. Also, regarding the commune, it is not about renaming mere neighborhood or condominium associations. The commune is a territorial form for exercising popular power: power by and for the people. Thus, from our point of view, Chavez’s commune is, if not the final model, at least the path for the consolidating of 21st Century Socialism. It is the model developed to transfer power to the people, the model that Chavez outlined so that the people would assume power politically, economically, and socially. That is why we also look to the Paris Commune and other historical expressions of political revolutionary organization as we develop popular power in our territory.

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Direct, participatory democracy is at the core of Chavez’s communal project. Here a “Patriotic Assembly” in El Panal Commune in 23 de Enero, Caracas. (Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive blog)

You have a communal project located here in the 23 de Enero barrio: the commune “El Panal.” But the influence of El Panal reaches far beyond this immediate area. Can you say something about these two levels of work?

Our collective was born here in the central zone of 23 de Enero. This is where the first territorial exercise in communal construction happened. But a commune cannot be an island, and El Panal has since expanded to Valencia, Lara State, to form what we call “El Panal 2021 Communal Hub.” Our sphere of action is not defined by imaginary lines [such as city or state borders]. Instead, it grows out of the work of “Panalitos” [small beehives], which refers go back to the psycho-emotional logic of preparing and working with the people, with the masses. The panalitos are the immediate spaces for mass participation, to use a Marxist category, or the sphere of the multitude, to use Negri’s postmodern notion, or the isthmus of the potentia, to use Enrique Dussel’s term. The masses–the organized people–are the force that moves history. And so we come back to our earlier reflection: we understand that El Panal Commune cannot be an isolated phenomenon in the central zone of 23 de Enero. It is necessary that this communal construction expand to the whole territory with the sole aim of bringing power back to the people…and that is nothing more and nothing less than the Communal Confederation, which will bring the state (as it is now organized) to an end. Thus while Negri talks about abolishing the state and Lenin refers to toppling the bourgeois state, for our part, we say that that project [of abolishing or toppling the state] is the task of the communes.

In the Basque independentist movement, it is sometimes said that popular power should work on three levels: self-government, self-defense and self-determination.

That is a good synthesis of what popular power is. The Bolivarian Process (and Chavez himself) changed and evolved over time. At first, the discourse focused on co-management [cogestión], and then there emerged a fully emancipated conception of popular power that included the commune model. In that model, some state institutions would collaborate with the popular movements following the perspective that Alvaro Garcia Linera theorizes: Linera says that Lenin proposed taking power by assault, but here in the Latin American experiences of 21st Century Socialism, we have come to understand that there is a new subject that comes from the popular movement and enters state institutions, and this subject must participate in the counter-hegemonic struggles within the state. It must participate in the battle against the repressive forces and against the capitalist currents within it.

The truth is that with Chavez there was a comanagement period, but communes can’t stop with mere comanagement; they must advance towards self-management to then move on to self-emancipation. We call this process of separation a process of “seduction,” [and we also talk about] “self-determination” and “proletarization”(4) of the barrios. In other words, the commune must have a profoundly class-centered content to advance in the construction of 21st Century Socialism.

Thus we don’t believe in halfhearted proposals. We are not dogmatic, so we understand that sometimes conversations with the enemy, conversations to reach a truce, are necessary…but the hegemonic core of our project (and that of Chavez) is the commune, be it urban or rural, and that cannot be negotiated. The continuation and radicalization of the revolution depends on the communal project truly becoming the connecting thread in our society. So, again, we don’t deny the possibility of temporary alliances with sectors of the bourgeoisie, if it is merely tactical. Yet the only strategic alliance–if we want to remain true to Chavez–is the alliance with the people as they organize in communes.

When it comes to this issue we go to the root [lat. radices], so we are radical. We go back to Che Guevara who said that you can’t build socialism with the worn-out weapons of capitalism… Or, as Julio Escalona says, you cannot bring your enemy to the table to agree upon prices, if your enemy’s aim is to topple you. The contradictions that we face today are long‐term ones so our strategic alliances must be made in function of the organized masses, and must be subordinated to the project of the commune.

It is no secret that in the current crisis the government has chosen to pigeonhole the communal project. Some government spokespeople argue that, in the face of the crisis, the commune is not efficient in solving people’s problems. However, the grassroots continue to believe in the project. So why is there this disconnect between those above and those below regarding the viability of the project?

For those involved in the commune, there are no ambiguities, no ambivalence. The contradiction may exist for those burdened with ideological inconsistencies and who do not share Chavez’s strategic vision. Those who deny that the commune could be the space for building a new society are simultaneously negating President Chavez’s thought and action. They go against the Chavista praxis and fail to acknowledge the possibility of a human being aware of the “tactical minutes and the strategic hours,” to use the words of General Perez Arcay.(5) In effect, they deny the strategy element of the Chavista philosophy.

Here we must emphasize that, if there have been problems in the Bolivarian Process (and obviously there have), they are due to individual errors. The failures result precisely because there hasn’t been enough support, because there hasn’t been transfer of power [to the communes], and because some individuals haven’t trusted the people. Yes, there is a kind of stagnation of communal construction, but that isn’t because the model is flawed, but rather because some individuals have redirected resources away from the communes.

A case in point is the question of technology. Technology transfer is very important in the building and bolstering of communal production and [what we call] the movement towards the proletarization of the barrios. But the machinery imported by the state, the seeds and other inputs…all that is being channeled away from the communes. If state officials were committed to transferring power to the people, if they were able to take to heart Chavez’s method of the three Rs (“revision, rectification, relaunch”), then we would witness a blooming of the communal project. And the communal project is the only way to guarantee participatory and protagonist democracy.

It is not by chance that in Chavez’s last testament he talks about the need for a change of course. In this speech, he says once again that the soul of the the socialist project is the commune. It is not we who say this, it is Chavez who calls on all of us to carry out the communal project: the crowning idea of his proposal. He did this as the cycle of his political life was coming to a close. His slogan Commune or Nothing is therefore the synthesis of his legacy.

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As part of the effort to build a self‐sustaining commune, El Panal launched its own currency is December 2017. (@Alexisvive2021)

Faced with the grave crisis in Venezuela, what does the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force propose to do? Do you strive for radicalization? A change of course in a leftward direction? Or do you think that we should take a few steps back, to later advance?

Radicalization and deepening [of the process]. In response to a crisis that makes our world tremble, we must respond with radical changes. There’s no other way forward if human integrity is the basis of our project.

Faced with the crisis, we propose “Exclusive Zones of Communal Production,”(6) and we work towards the territorialization of socialism and the proletarization of the barrios. We aim to industrialize the barrios and give a class content to the Bolivarian Revolution. There can be no ambiguities in our actions or in our discourse: we now propose to deepen this revolution by following Chavez’s model as synthesized in the “Strike at the Helm” speech. Beyond that last speech, there is little for us to do in terms of theorization. All we have to do is bring the proposal to life. Lenin said without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary practice. Some may have forgotten it, but the path has been drawn, the theory laid out. We can say, with Silvio Rodriguez, what can we sing if the commander did it, he wrote the poem? Now it is up to us to turn his poetry into action. We have to make a practice out of it. We must make it verb. We have to conceptualize Chavez’s word through our praxis.

Chavez said to Lorenzo Mendoza(7) once: “Don’t make a mistake, Mendoza, or you’ll be left with nothing” (No te equivoques Mendoza, por que te vas a quedar sin el chivo y sin el mecate). And we say: with the Mendozas of the world we cannot come out of the current crisis…so we are against concessions. As barrio dwellers and campesinos, we are the insurgent subject that will make the Bolivarian Revolution flourish…if some do not want this, if some are afraid of Chavez and his radical proposal, all we can say is that for us there are no two ways to go about this.

With Chavez’s death we lost our guiding ideal in terms of ethics, the north star that showed the way. Today, this whole issue of the ethical example has been widely debated in popular Chavismo. I know that preaching with the example has long been important for Alexis Vive. Do you have any reflections on this issue?

One of the main figures who set an ethical and moral example, in addition to Hugo Chavez, is Fidel Castro. He was the helmsmen of Latin America and the bastion of dignity. From him and from the Cuban people we must learn resilience and endurance. But Fidel wasn’t just resilient, he was also a man capable of reflection and self‐criticism. Or, to go back to Chavez and his practice, we remember him as a leader who developed a rich theory, but also as a man who demanded that government cadres engage in self‐criticism…and he himself reflected on his mistakes publically…he taught by example and he was never arrogant with the people.

The truth is that arrogance, detachment from the people and disconnection from territorial realities…turning their backs on us and extending their hands to the historical enemies of the people, that cannot be the path, that won’t set any kind of example!

The emergence of 21st Century Socialism comes in the midst of a crisis of paradigms, a crisis that was resolved by going back to the root of the problem, a crisis that wasn’t solved by pacts or concessions. Thus, we must return to the epic struggle for socialism, to the original battlefield where there was a level ground for advancing towards our strategic goal.

As I said before, I do understand that we might have to dialogue with our historical enemy, but if the great love of our life is the revolution, then we cannot tip the field in favor of the enemy. The leadership must walk with the people, breath the air that the people breath, without forgetting that our people’s emancipation is the goal, socialism is the model, and the commune is the path.

The ethical question is central to constructing the revolutionary subject and setting the example. Integrity is a key part of our love for the revolution, and it has much to do with ideological principles. We cannot accept that our ideas, ideals, principles, and dreams be negotiated.

That is, we can accept dialogue, but our principles cannot be negotiated. The contradiction is longstanding and structural, and we must commit our lives to deepening the revolution…which can only be done casting one’s lot with the people. The ethical and moral example that guides us will grow out of a practice that follows the commune’s orientation, without manipulating Chavez’s legacy. We cannot let Chavez’s physical death be accompanied by the psycho‐emotional death of our affect for Chavez. Remember, the right seeks the peace of the graveyard and has given us ample evidence of this: in the guarimbas(8) they burned people, they decapitated poor motocyclists. They are terrorists and the guarimbas show it.

We are not filled by hatred, but we disagree with “peace moves” such as the release of Lorent Saleh.(9) We oppose the freedom of those class enemies that have killed Venezuelans because they are poor, black, or barrio dwellers. This is a class struggle, and those who disregard that fact are killing the revolution’s morale.

Could we say that in the practice of communal construction–in El Panal Commune, in Negro Primero Commune, in El Maizal Commune–a new ethical example is being set?

We don’t have a “revolutionometer” which would say who is and who isn’t a revolutionary. We cannot say who is a traitor and who is setting the example. But what I’m certain of is that as a popular movement and as a communal movement, we are not going to leave Chavez’s legacy behind. Nor are we going to turn it into a pamphlet…We are not going to make a cliche out of Chavez. We are not going to turn his words into an empty discourse that has no meaning for revolutionary practice. We are going to deepen the revolution, and if from there we come to be seen as an example, only time will tell. The fact is that we take to heart the guevarist principle of the dictatorship of the example…[We must convince people] that the new man and the new woman are not chimeras: overcoming injustices is possible and necessary. We are committed to making Chavez’s paradigm for the construction of socialism into a reality. And we will do so by way of the commune, here and now. The commune is the only path for our emancipation and for building 21st Century Socialism. We won’t let Chavez down!



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Robert Longa and social activists of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force. (@Alexisvive2021)

Notes
↩ Panal means beehive in Spanish, and it is a reference to collective construction and collective defense.
↩ The term “Libertadores” refers to the men and women who led the independence wars against the Spanish colony in the second and third decade of the 19th Century.
↩ In the Chavista discourse, the term “territorial” refers to a popular form of organization that has its roots in a particular area. In other words, it refers to an organization that is not sectorial, such as a union, a student organization or a feminist organization.
↩ The term “proletarization” was coined by Alexis Vive to describe developing productive forces under new social relations, bringing barrio dwellers out of the precarity of the urban jobs available in today’s Venezuela.
↩ Jacinto Perez Arcay is a high‐ranking military officer (retired) and writer who was key to Hugo Chavez’s education.
↩ “Exclusive Zones of Communal Production,” a concept developed by Alexis Vive, is the proposal for a political and legal framework that would prioritize communal development in certain areas of the Caribbean nation.
↩ Lorenzo Mendoza is the largest capitalist in Venezuela, and the owner of the food production enterprise Alimentos Polar. He is an active, if sometimes low‐profile, critic of the Bolivarian Government.
↩ “Guarimbas” are a form of violent street protest employed by the Venezuelan opposition. They frequently involve burning tires and the use of makeshift barricades to block roads.
↩ Lorent Saleh is a Venezuelan opposition activist who was accused in 2014 of organizing paramilitary actions and plotting terrorists attacks. There is ample evidence that he was conspiring with international figures to destabilize the Caribbean nation. On October 2018, Venezuelan authorities released him from jail without explanation. It is commonly believed that his release resulted from secret negotiations.

https://mronline.org/2018/11/29/the-com ... l-commune/

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Post by blindpig » Fri Dec 14, 2018 12:24 pm

Venezuela Denounces US, Colombian Intervention Attempts

Caracas, Dec 13 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan government issued a communiqué on Thursday, in which it ratifies the denunciation made by the President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro, about new intervention attempts orchestrated by the governments of the United States and Colombia.

Through the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Venezuelan authorities repudiated the planning of operations for the assassination of the head of state and other direct actions in Venezuelan military air bases, plans protected by the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton.

The text specifies that among the interventionist objectives is the imposition of a Transitory Government Council through a scheme of direct intervention in Venezuela, once the Government that has been democratically elected by the people is overthrown.

They also reaffirmed that the plan called Eglin Air Force has the direct participation and complicity of the leaders of Colombia who, by action or omission, have allowed their territory to be used for the training of armed groups.

In that sense, the statement exposes how in the New Granada municipality of Tona, of Norte de Santander department, a process of paramilitary training is developed for a group of 734 mercenaries, made up of Colombian and Venezuelan citizens.

'Their purpose is to simulate belonging to units of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to promote false positives and attack military installations of both countries in order to unleash an armed conflict with unpredictable consequences and set a scenario that facilitates a military intervention in Venezuela,' the document review.

Given this scenario, it is contradictory to the Venezuelan Government that Bogota is proud of being respectful of the rules and customs of relations with the world, and instead assumes a surprising and irresponsible anti-diplomatic conduct of silence and isolation from the Bolivarian authorities.

Likewise, they repudiated Colombia for ignoring its obligations as a member state of the international community, in the face of complex and dangerous situations that hover in the extensive Colombian-Venezuelan border.

'The Government of Venezuela reaffirms its firm determination to protect the people against any threat and in response to its international responsibility, makes public this very serious denunciation, in order to guarantee peace and encourage deep reflection in the Colombian military forces,' the communiqué emphasizes.

Finally, it urges president Ivan Duque, not to let himself be dragged 'into an adventure that will not benefit two brotherly peoples, and would only serve the table for perverse geopolitical interests of imperialist powers.'

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Post by blindpig » Fri Dec 28, 2018 8:00 pm

Terror ripens in Latin America

BY JOSÉ GOULÃO
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2018

Mercenaries are undergoing training at the base in Tona, Colombia, to unleash a false attack by Venezuela against Colombian territory that will act as a detonator of a war against Caracas.

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Colombian paramilitaries. Credits / Referential

The year 2019 begins in Latin America under the threat of major conflicts with the aim of concretizing the US slogan of eradicating the "tyranny troika", an expression in which Secretary of State John Bolton added Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela. A group of mercenaries are undergoing training at the Tona base in Colombia 1 to unleash a false attack by Venezuela against Colombian territory that will act as a detonator of a war against Caracas. The provocative group is framed by United States special forces stationed at the bases of Tolemaida (Colombia) and Eglin (Florida).

The inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil and Nicolás Maduro for the second term as president of Venezuela are two moments considered decisive for the type of military aggression idealized by the United States. The outline of the operation had already been advanced in May 2018 by the American general Kurt Tidd, commander-in-chief of SouthCom, the Southern Command of the United States Armed Forces. Subsequently, after the Brazilian elections, Trump's Secretary of State John Bolton 2 , spoke about the constitution of a group composed of Iván Duque, president of Colombia and Jair Bolsonaro, exponents of the new Latin American fascism, which will seat the southern front of the war against Venezuela.

The operative command of the action involving trained mercenaries in Colombia will be assumed by Venezuelan General Oswaldo García Palomo, who fled to Colombian territory after the attempted assassination of President Maduro with a drone on August 4, 2018 . The strategic objective of the first offensive against Venezuelan territory will be to control the military bases of El Libertador 3 (Palo Negro, Maracay), Puerto Cabello and Barcelona.

Everything indicates that the troops involved in the invasion will be Brazilian, Colombian and Guiana. This country became a spearhead of the US projects against Venezuela from 2015, when it reactivated old claims about the insular territory of Venezuela, precisely at the time when important hydrocarbon reserves were detected in the surrounding waters.

By the summer of 2017 there had already been large multinational maneuvers of troop transport simulating the concentration of military means in a position to attack Venezuela.

'Political' scenarios
The election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil was a step that helped to define, with greater precision, the political bases that make it possible to develop this type of operation conducted by the United States.

On several occasions, the pawns of the new Brazilian regime voiced their intention to participate in military operations against Venezuela with the aim of liquidating the Bolivarian popular system.

One of these situations happened in the interview of the vice president-elect, General Hamilton Mourão, to Piauí magazine . Mourão defended the overthrow of Maduro by force and sending a Brazilian "contingent of peace" to Venezuela. Bolsonaro tried to erase the effects of the general's words by saying that sometimes "he talks too much" - although he did not deny the content of the statements.

Another of the "political" assumptions on which the Washington-based scenario is based is that several Latin American heads of state did not recognize, under US pressure, Maduro's election for the second term, calling into question the "legitimacy 'Of the electoral act. This situation would "facilitate" the involvement of several countries of the region in the operation to change the regime in Caracas.

Permanent conspiracy
The environment has been prepared for many years through a permanent conspiracy against Venezuela.

In this context, the coup attempts 4and assassination of presidents Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro, manipulation of the international oil price situation across Saudi Arabia - which also undermines the main Venezuelan sources of revenue - attacks against the Venezuelan currency, driven from Washington, riots violent, popular demonstrations organized by the opposition directly linked to the Pentagon and the US State Department. In this context, there are also incentives for the emigration of tens of thousands of Venezuelans to neighboring countries, with promises of better living conditions that have proven to be false. Most of these manipulated citizens have returned to their country;

All the conspiratorial procedures have been involved by permanent actions of propaganda and dissemination of fake news , mainly through the mainstream global communication . The idea is essentially to spread the image that an irreversible environment of violence, oppression and ungovernability renders the living conditions in Venezuela and Nicaragua unbearable, transformed into failed and failed states.

It is not difficult to perceive the purpose of these converging and large-scale operations: to make military aggression against Venezuela and Nicaragua, and consequent replacement of their political regimes, not only a 'democratic necessity' but also a 'humanitarian cause' capable of mobilize the so-called 'international community' and its 'benefactor' branches - armed or not.

The year 2019 seems to be that of maturing and harvesting the results of the cultivated conspiracy. It may happen, however, that developments in the international relationship of forces are no longer compatible with the primacy of arbitrariness which has made possible dramas such as those in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Syria.

1. Tona is a municipality in the department of Santander ( see map ), on the border of Colombia and Venezuela. The zone is a privileged place of penetration ( see map ) in the strategic Andean region of Venezuela , that crosses the territory towards the sea, with peaks between 4 thousand and 5 thousand meters of altitude.
2. According to YVKE World Radio , Nicolás Maduro denounced Bolton - who in the corridors of the White House calls him "Mr. President, "for stating that he" can decide on his own account everything he has to decide "- as saying that" he is the one who is going to overthrow the government "of Venezuela. Maduro blamed Bolton for raising the amount of $ 20 to $ 120 million for bribes by Venezuelan officials, accusing him of "maintaining contact and communications with the Venezuelan right-wing coup" and "turning Colombia into a base of operations for their plans » coup.
3. The El Libertador military base in Palo Negro, near the border with Colombia, is the largest Venezuelan air base .
4. This week, on December 26, 2018, the Venezuelan justice system condemned nine military officers involved in a plot to overthrow the Venezuelan president in 2014, the Latin American Summary reported . Major General Oswaldo Hernández and Colonel Jose Delgado, seven more Aviation, Army and Army officers were sentenced to between 5 and 8 years' imprisonment for "preparing the insurrectionary movement known as Operation Jericho, against the government of the president Nicolás Maduro » .

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Post by blindpig » Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:41 pm

US Secretary of State Pompeo Enlists Allies to 'Return Democracy' to Venezuela
US allies Brazil and Colombia have repeatedly voiced support for regime change efforts.

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Colombian President Ivan Duque hosted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Cartagena this week. (Colombian Presidency)

By Ricardo Vaz
Jan 3rd 2019 at 6.27pm

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Pays de Gex, France, January 3, 2019 (venezuelanalysis.com) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with allies in a tour of Latin America this week, in which he talked about stepping up US-led efforts against Venezuela.

The Trump administration has been increasingly hostile towards the Caribbean nation, escalating sanctions and even threatening a military “option.”

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is due to start his second term on January 10, having won re-election on May 20, but Washington and several right-wing regional governments have refused to recognize the election and may look to further isolate Caracas in coming days. For its part, Venezuela has repeatedly denounced what it terms US-led destabilization efforts.

Tensions have likewise heightened with some of Venezuela’s Latin American neighbors, especially Brazil and Colombia, with flashpoints surrounding Venezuelan migration and an increased military presence along the shared borders.

Pompeo’s tour, which was also meant to address concerns about China’s growing presence in the region, started in Peru. Following a meeting with Peruvian Foreign Minister Nestor Bardales, the former CIA director stressed the need to “increase pressure” on the Venezuelan government.

Pompeo then flew to Brasilia for the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro. In meetings with Brazil’s new president and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, he discussed joint efforts against the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Pompeo later told press that he and his Brazilian allies shared a “deep desire to return democracy” to Venezuela.

A former army captain during Brazil’s military dictatorship, ultra-right Bolsonaro took office on January 1 following his election victory in October. In his first speech as president he vowed to “value Judeo-Christian traditions” and that Brazil would be free from “socialism, a giant state and political correctness.”

Venezuela featured prominently in Bolsonaro’s electoral campaign, in which the politician repeatedly accused the center-left Workers Party of seeking to bring “Venezuela-style socialism” to Brazil. Most recently, Bolsonaro’s vice-president, retired general Hamilton Mourao, commented in December that a coup would take place in Venezuela and that Brazil would lead a “force for peace.”

Pompeo’s latest stop was the Colombian city of Cartagena, where he held a meeting and joint press conference with Colombian President Ivan Duque.

The US official stated that the discussions had centered on how to collaborate in order to help Venezuelans “recover their democratic heritage,” while adding that Colombia was a “natural leader” in these efforts.

For his part, Duque stated that “all countries that defend democracy should unite to reject Venezuela’s dictatorship,” adding that humanitarian assistance was required to deal with Venezuelans arriving in Colombia. According to UN figures, 2.6 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2015, with over 1 million heading to Colombia.

A protegé of former president Alvaro Uribe, Duque has repeatedly met with US officials to discuss efforts to increase pressure on Venezuela. Venezuela and Colombia do not have diplomatic relations since Duque refused to appoint an ambassador to Caracas after being elected in June 2018.

In addition, Bolsonaro and Duque reportedly held a phone conversation in which one of the topics was the need to cooperate in search of “solutions” to the Venezuela crisis.

In response, the Venezuelan government blasted Pompeo’s tour as another instance of US meddling in its internal affairs. In a Foreign Ministry communiqué released on Wednesday, the Venezuelan executive “categorically rejected Secretary Pompeo’s interventionist attitude.”

Caracas likewise slammed Pompeo’s meeting with Duque, denouncing US efforts to“subjugate the sovereignty and self-determination of the Venezuelan people” and warning against the possible use of Colombian territory to launch an aggression against Venezuela.

Venezuelan authorities also took aim at Duque’s controversial statement thanking the US for their “crucial” support for Colombia’s independence 200 years ago, despite historians having yet to corroborate this alleged historical detail.

President Maduro commented on the current state of Latin American relations during a recent interview with Ignacio Ramonet on state broadcaster VTV. Maduro claimed that right-wing projects in the region are “not viable,” and lamented that Bolsonaro was “handing Brazil over to US transnationals on a silver platter.”

Edited by Lucas Koerner from Philadelphia.

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Post by blindpig » Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:13 pm

Multifaceted Attack Against Venezuela on Eve of Maduro Inauguration
International analysts and members of the solidarity movement Frederick Mills, William Camacaro and Roger Harris examine the "multifaceted war" against Venezuela which is being ramped up ahead of President Maduro's inauguration on January 10.

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President Maduro during a commemoration of the Bolivarian militia on December 18, 2018. (Presidential Press)

By Frederick B. Mills, William Camacaro and Roger D. Harris
Jan 9th 2019 at 9.14am

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for his second term on January 10 is targeted by the US, the allied Lima Group, and the hardline Venezuelan opposition. They have demanded that Maduro refuse inauguration. A multifaceted attack aimed at regime change is underway using sanctions, military threats, and a campaign of delegitimization to replace the democratically elected president.

Since President Hugo Chávez began his first term as president in 1999, the Bolivarian Republic has promoted regional integration and independence, resisted neoliberalism, opposed “free trade” agreements that would compromise national autonomy, and supported the emergence of a multipolar world. On account of these policies, Chávez (1999-2013) and now Maduro, have faced relentless attacks by the colossus to the north. Today the Maduro administration faces the challenges of defending national sovereignty from imperial domination and overcoming crippling US sanctions that have exacerbated a severe economic crisis.

The US has brazenly announced its consideration of a “military option” against Caracas and has assembled a coalition of the willing in Colombia and Brazil to prepare for an eventual “humanitarian” intervention. Most alarming is that the US seems indifferent to the consequences of such an invasion, which could easily become a regional and global conflagration involving Colombia, Brazil, and even Russia and China.

What the US finds particularly infuriating is that Maduro had the temerity to run for re-election in May 2018 after the US demanded he resign. The US State Department had issued warnings four months prior to the election that the process “will be illegitimate” and the results “will not be recognized.” US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley insisted that Maduro abdicate and presidential elections be postponed.

The Venezuelan National Electoral Commission rejected this diktat from Washington. On May 20, 2018, the Venezuelan electorate had the audacity to re-elect Maduro by a 67.84% majority with a participation rate of 46.07% (representing 9,389,056 voters). Two opposition candidates ran for office, Henri Falcón and Javier Bertucci, despite a boycott orchestrated by opposition hardliners and the US.

New phase in the campaign against Venezuela
The campaign to bring about regime change enters a new phase with the inauguration of President Maduro for a second term. With no legal standing or representation inside Venezuela, the Lima Group has now become a major protagonist of a soft coup in Venezuela.

Just five days before the inauguration, at a meeting held in the capital of Peru, 13 out of 14 members of the Lima Group issued a declaration urging Maduro "not to assume the presidency on January 10… and to temporarily transfer the executive power to the National Assembly until a new, democratic presidential poll is held."

The following day, Andres Pastrana, former president of Colombia, a member nation of the Lima Group, tweeted that the new president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, should “now assume the presidency of the government of transition as established in the constitution beginning the 10th of January and as requested by the Lima Group.”

In a speech delivered before the Venezuelan National Assembly on January 5, Guaidó stopped short of claiming executive power, but declared that starting January 10, Maduro ought to be considered an “usurper” and “dictator.” Guaidó also urged convening a transitional government that would hold new elections and “authorize” intervention from abroad.

Although the US is not a formal member of the Lima Group, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, participated in the meeting by teleconference. Pompeo had returned earlier in the week from a visit to Brazil and Colombia, during which, according to a senior State Department official, Maduro’s inauguration was on the agenda:

“There’s a very important date that is coming up, which is the 10th of January, where Maduro will hand over power to himself based on an election that many governments in the region and globally have condemned, including the United States, . . . as illegitimate. So we will be discussing, I’m sure, our joint efforts with Colombia and with the region to address this new era beginning on the 10th of January in Venezuela.”

The US imperial project
US policy towards Venezuela has three strategic objectives: privileged access to Venezuela’s natural resources (e.g., the world’s largest petroleum reserves and second largest gold deposits), restoration of a neoliberal regime obedient to Washington, and limitation of any movement towards regional independence.

These US objectives are conditioned by a continuing adherence to the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America and the Caribbean, the so-called “backyard” of the US empire. The contemporary mutation of the 1823 imperial doctrine entails a new Cold War against Russia and China and hostility to any regional integration independent of US hegemony.

Back in the 1980s-90s during Venezuela’s Fourth Republic, local elites afforded Washington preferential access to Venezuela’s rich natural resources and dutifully imposed a neoliberal economic model on the country. Currently, US policy appears aimed at re-establishing such a client state.

However, to bring about such a return, the US imperial project would have to change not only the Venezuelan leadership but dismantle the institutions and even the symbols of the Bolivarian revolution. The devastating US economic sanctions are designed to increase economic hardship in order to ultimately break the will of the chavista base and fracture the Venezuelan military as well as the civic-military alliance. This breakdown would presumably pave the way for installation of a provisional government.

It is time once again to give peace a chance. But Washington has opted for the collision course set by the Lima Group as well as the Secretary General of the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS) over efforts of the Vatican and former prime minister of Spain, José Luis Zapatero, to broker dialogue between the government and the opposition. The imperial project is abetted by the conservative restoration in Brazil and Argentinaand the electoral victory of uribistas in Colombia.

Multifaceted war against Venezuela and the Bolivarian response
Washington is engaging in a multifaceted war against Venezuela by deploying economic sanctions, backing a campaign to install a transitional government, and preparing proxy military and paramilitary forces for an eventual intervention.

On August 4, 2018, a failed assassination attempt against President Maduro did not draw condemnation from either Washington or the Lima Group. On November 4, according to Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, three Bolivarian National Guard were killed and ten wounded in an attack by Colombian paramilitary forces in the frontier region of Amazonas. On December 5, the Brazilian vice president-elect Hamilton Mourãodeclared: “there will be a coup in Venezuela . . . And the United Nations will have to intervene through a peace force . . . and there is Brazil's role: to lead this peace force.”

On December 12, 2018, President Maduro reported that “734 members of a paramilitary group called G8 was training [in the city of Tona, Colombia] for attacks against military units in the frontier states of Zulia, Tachira, Apure and Amazonas.” This report ought to be taken seriously given the presence of eight US military bases in Colombia, the recent association of Bogotá with NATO, Colombia’s rejection of direct communication with Venezuelan authorities, and its participation in US-led military exercises over the past two years. Last week, US Secretary of State Pompeo visited Colombia and Brazil to shore up joint efforts to “restore democracy” in Venezuela.

In response, Venezuela has been fortifying the civic-military alliance built up over the past two decades. The National Guard, military, and militias (now over 1,600,000 strong) have been able so far to fend off several terrorist attacks against public institutions and government leaders as well as an assassination attempt against President Maduro in August.

Caracas has also been developing close military cooperation with Russia and consolidating ties with China. With the recent visit of a pair of its TU 160 heavy bombers to Venezuela, Russia has demonstrated its ability to transport armaments more than 10,000 kilometers at supersonic speeds should the Caribbean nation come under attack by a foreign power. China has entered into agreements for massive economic cooperation with Venezuela, partially offsetting the punishing US sanctions. Also, the visit of a Chinese navy hospital ship in September subtly signaled Chinese military support of Venezuela.

Shifting geopolitical environment
Although the Lima Group now backs a soft coup in Venezuela, with the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as President of Mexico in December, the group has lost the support of one of its key members. Mexico declined to sign on to the latest Lima Group declaration and warned against “measures that obstruct a dialogue to face the crisis in Venezuela.” Maximiliano Reyes, Mexico’s deputy foreign minister, said: “We call for reflection in the Lima Group about the consequences for Venezuelans of measures that seek to interfere in [their] internal affairs.”

The extreme partisanship of Secretary General of the OAS Luis Almagro against Venezuela has undermined his standing. In September 2018, Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez declared that Uruguay would not support Almagro for a second term as Secretary General of the OAS. Almagro was finally expelled from his own political party in Uruguay, the Frente Amplio, in December 2018, largely for his statements in Colombia about the need to retain a military option against Venezuela.

In December 2018, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) held its 16th meeting in Cuba, declaring its “concern for the aggression and actions against regional peace and security, especially the threats of the use of force against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.” ALBA was founded by Venezuela and Cuba and is now comprised of ten nations.

No other choice but resistance
The Venezuelan people have a long history of resistance to foreign domination and are not likely to view a US-backed "humanitarian" intervention as a liberating force. Nor are the popular sectors likely to support an unelected “transitional government” with a self-appointed Supreme Court in exile which is currently based in Bogotá, Colombia. And if the coalition of the willing includes Colombian paramilitary forces who are notorious for their role in the murder of community activists inside Colombia, their deployment in the event of a “humanitarian” mission would be abhorrent inside Venezuela.

The 1973 US-backed coup in Chile, followed by a lethal cleansing of that nation of leftists, is a cautionary lesson. Add to this the historic memory of the political repression during Venezuela’s discredited Fourth Republic and the Caracazo of 1989, in which the most marginalized and poor were the main victims, and it would be no surprise should the popular sectors have only one thing to offer a provisional government bent on inviting imperial intervention: resistance.

Note: All translations from the Spanish to English are unofficial.

The authors are with the Campaign to End Sanctions Against Venezuela. Frederick B. Mills is a Professor of Philosophy at Bowie State University. William Camacaro is a WBAI Pacifica network producer. Roger D. Harris is with the Task Force on the Americas.

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Post by blindpig » Thu Jan 10, 2019 6:30 pm

Support the Venezuelan People: Support President Maduro! No war for Oil!


2019-01-09On Friday 4th January 2019, the Lima Group of nations, at a conference in which Trump’s Secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, made an appearance by video-link, have issued a declaration that the Venezuelan government is illegitimate, denounced it for human rights violations, questioned its territorial legitimacy, and imposed sanctions on Venezuela.

President Nicolas Maduro has characterised this move as an imperialist-sponsored attack on the constitutional and democratic order of Venezuela, and a move towards Coup d’état and direct military intervention, with the aim of gaining control of the natural resources of the Venezuelan people.

***Support the Venezuelan people: attend the Venezuelan Embassy tomorrow, 10th January, 11am – 3pm, to show your support for the inauguration of President Nicholas Maduro! 1 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2HW***


Who are the Lima Group of nations?

In 2017 The US cobbled together the ‘alliance’ (Maduro refers to them as a cartel) of 11 of the most reactionary, neo-liberal, pro-imperialist governments in the American continent – from Canada and Mexico to Columbia and Chile, supplemented by newly formed right-wing governments in Brazil and Argentina.

These deeply unpopular governments (many, like Honduran and Brazilian governments installed illegally by the US itself) were brought together specifically to attack and isolate the progressive government of Venezuela, and cover the colonial policy of the Monroe Doctrine in apparently indigenous Latin-American form. The Lima group was formed because the official regional body, the Organisation of American States (OAS) no longer follows Washington’s diktat.



Territorial integrity

To demonstrate that this offensive is all about oil, Venezuela’s eastern neighbour, Guyana, has attempted to encroach on the territorial rights of Venezuela – allowing Exxon Mobil to conduct oil exploration in waters of the Orinoco Delta that are an integral part of Venezuelan territorial waters. Guyana’s president David Granger, we note, is himself barely clinging to power in the face of his own parliament’s vote of no confidence in his leadership, which he is seeking to flout unconstitutionally! It is a move reminiscent of Kuwait’s infringement of Iraq’s sovereignty prior to the Gulf War.

Chavez nationalised the Orinoco reserves 10 years ago and the oligarchs of the US oil industry have been plotting their re-conquest ever since. Maduro and the PSUV are continuing and deepening Chavez’s legacy, and the Lima declaration is simply the USA’s latest offensive. As Trump pulls out of Syria, the US military-industrial complex is stepping up its campaign against the Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Venezuela and Cuba are the key links in the chain of the popular democratic resistance to the Hegemonic interests of US finance capital.



Venezuela has chosen its path!

On Thursday 10 January 2019, President Nicholas Maduro Moro, leader of the United Socialist party of Venezuela (PSUV) will be sworn in for his second term as the President of Venezuela, having been duly re-elected by an overwhelming majority in elections held in May 2018, polling more than two thirds of the votes cast.

It is usual diplomatic etiquette to send congratulations on the constitutional inauguration of a nation’s president, but the US is hell-bent on using the occasion to raise diplomatic pressure on Venezuela, with a view to furthering its long-established program of destabilisation and economic attack, thus creating the conditions for military intervention, direct or proxy.



Criminal Destabilisation.

Maduro’s landslide victory was remarkable given the severity of the US and EU blockade, trade and financial sanctions, which prevent Venezuela from entering into equal trade relations, or even dealing with many companies, who face financial penalties for dealing with the Venezuelan government.

Both Obama (in 2014) and Trump (in 2017) declared a “national emergency” in Venezuela, sighting the destabilisation they themselves have maliciously instigated and maintained, as infringing the human rights of Venezuelans – and, perversely, blaming this on the Venezuelan government.

The latest round of sanctions alone have cost Venezuela an estimated $6 billion/year, and prevented Venezuelan citizens buying basic medical supplies including insulin and anti-cancer medication. It is international banking quarantine and industrial sabotage that has caused hyper-inflation in Venezuela, to the huge detriment of the population, not Venezuelan ‘mismanagement’. The truth is that the US channels 100s of millions of dollars to far right groups seeking to overturn Venezuela’s democracy. All of these constitute illegal acts of aggression, and are crimes of mass violence and intimidation directed against the Venezuelan people.



Democracy only ‘valid’ if the US-sponsored candidate wins!

The US-sponsored opposition, staring defeat in the face, despite its year-long campaign of violence and intimidation of the Venezuelan people, attempted to stage a ‘boycott’ of the 2018 presidential elections. Ultimately two opposition candidates did stand, but were roundly defeated. The US and EU have repeatedly stated that the election was invalid – without sighting any evidence, and despite the strong presence of impartial international observers who verified the transparency and integrity of the electoral process.



Why does the US care about Venezuela – and why should you?

Venezuela’s proven oil reserves are recognised as the largest in the world, totalling 297 billion barrels.
In the Orinoco Arc, Venezuela has the 2nd highest gold reserves in the world.
Venezuela is a major producer and exporter of bauxite, coal and iron ore. In 2003 estimated reserves of bauxite totalled 5.2 million tons.
Since Hugo Chavez was elected in 1999, the Bolivarian republic has implemented huge programs of nationalisation of the country’s mineral, agricultural and industrial wealth.
In 2007, Chavez’s government took a majority stake in four oil projects in the vast Orinoco heavy crude belt worth an estimated $30 billion in total.
In 2008, Chavez’s administration implemented a windfall tax of 50 percent for prices over $70 per barrel, and 60 percent on oil over $100.
Venezuela holds huge foreign currency reserves, and is seeking to repatriate $550 million of its own gold currently held in the Bank of England. Declaring the government illegitimate would serve as a pretext for seizing her assets – as they robbed Libya in 2011.


Achievements of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The Venezuelan state, on behalf of the Venezuelan masses, now controls most of the country’s vast mineral reserves.
Nationalisation of much of nation’s wealth has allowed funding of great social projects.
2 million homes were built for the poorest working-class Venezuelans between 2011-2017 and another 2 million homes will be built by 2019.
Venezuela eliminated illiteracy in just 2 years.
Social equality: advances eliminating racism and promoting women’s rights.
Further plans are in place to nationalise factories and industrial units that attempt to sabotage production of essential goods.
Health Programs: Universal medical care has been established, in cooperation with doctors from Cuba.


The US & EU imperialists are hell-bent on sabotaging the right of the Venezuelan masses to enjoy the fruits of their own labour, and the natural resources of their own country.

We realise that freedom is indivisible. When one nation is enslaved, we are all enslaved. When one nation breaks the bonds of slavery and asserts its independence we are all closer to our own freedom of action.

What is at stake are the rights of the billionaire oligarchy of the US and other imperialist nations to impose its will over and above the economic needs and desires, and the political rights of the masses and their chosen leaders – President Maduro, in the case of Venezuela.

The people of Britain, in the process of throwing off the EU bankers, and moving towards asserting our own rights over British city financiers are clear that we stand with the people of Venezuela.



What can we do?

Spread this message to your friends on social media

Show your support at the Venezuelan Embassy today!

Log on here to find out more: http://www.cpgb-ml.org

Demand lifting of sanctions by Britain, EU and the USA!

Demand the dissolution of the illegitimate US-proxy “Lima group”

Insist on respecting the right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination!

Demand non-intervention in the internal affairs of the Venezuelan people!

No war for oil!

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Post by blindpig » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:17 pm

Venezuela Welcomes 2,500 Cuban Doctors Leaving Brazil
Two thousand-five hundred cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and general doctors arrived to Venezuela Friday.

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Over 2,000 Cuban doctors are setting up practice in Venezuela after being kicked out of Brazil by President Jair Bolsonaro, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said this weekend.

Two-thousand-five-hundred cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and general doctors arrived in the South American country Friday to bulk up the medical staff at the Barrio Adentro Mission, a social initiative founded by ex-president Hugo Chavez to provide free, public medical care.

In November, thousands of doctors were forced to leave the Mais Medicos (More Doctors) cooperation program in Brazil after far-right president Bolsonaro criticized the program, saying it was torture for Cuban mothers who were "not allowed" to go with their children and questioning diplomatic ties with the island.

In the last five years, about 20,000 Cuban physicians have participated in the ‘More Doctors Program,’ assisting thousands of Brazilians in rural communities to receive primary health care.

Some 1,462 vacancies, roughly 17.2 percent of those positions left by the Cuban doctors, have not yet been filled, the Brazilian Health Minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, said Friday.

Several states and municipalities inside Brazil pressured the National Government to provide a solution because the Cuban doctors are usually the only medical option in several rural areas of the country.

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jfc, next thing ya know they'll be building airstrips.

Strongly suspect those 1462/17.2% numbers are bullshit, where'd they get get 'em & who pays them to serve the poor? Not fuckin' Bolo, that's for sure.
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Post by blindpig » Thu Jan 17, 2019 6:43 pm

THE MERCENARY DRIFT FROM WASHINGTON TO VENEZUELA
15 Jan 2019 , 12:50 pm .


The proclamation and self-regulation of Juan Guaidó as "Interim President and President of the transition" in Venezuela, using the figure of the National Assembly in contempt and disqualified in its administrative functions, suggests for Venezuela another stage in the plot of destabilization.

Guaidó was also "authorized" to assume the presidency of Venezuela by the body calling itself "Supreme Court of Justice in exile", which months earlier had proclaimed Antonio Ledezma as "President of the transition in Venezuela." By letter signed in Washington, The so-called tribunal, which was created as an instance parallel to the instances in exercise and with legitimacy in Venezuela, authorized Guaidó to take power.

In a framework of total spectrum siege like that suffered by Venezuela, the establishment of parallel, parallel instances, such as supreme courts and parallel presidents, prefixes conditions for the dismemberment of the legitimacy with which President Nicolás Maduro is invested, at least in the face of the international community, which is really the space where these events are demarcated and developed.

An attempt is made to fragment the Venezuelan institutions that, in theory, would legitimize the use of force against the State under the assumption of a "rescue of democracy".

Before the self-proclamation of Guaidó, the reactions were not made wait from Washington through several of its most important spokesmen. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State; the senator from Florida, Marco Rubio; and John Bolton, Trump's security adviser, since January 10 declared Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as "usurper" of the office, and then on January 11 proclaimed Juan Guaidó as a "legitimate" figure who holds the position of "president " from Venezuela.

In context, the delegitimization plot of the authorities is clearly delineated with the position of the White House, which tries to double institutionality and thereby press Nicolás Maduro for a handover of power, in a clear act of attempt to dismantle the State- Venezuelan nation, given Washington's denial of the laws and the absence, to date, of a new agreement that puts Chavismo and the opposition in the process of resolving the internal conflict.

For the opposition, clearly directed and supported by the United States, there is no possible dialogue with Chavez. Therefore, the Venezuelan agenda appears increasingly in the path of shock and convulsion.

The role of Pompeo, Rubio and Bolton has been indispensable to position the Venezuelan issue as a situation of first level in the busy and complex table of American international relations. With several fronts of simultaneous clashes, the White House settles and orders its policy for the region by amalgamating its political readiness in the Lima Group, condensing a lobby of regional political pressure against Venezuela and promoting the diplomatic and economic siege against the oil nation.

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John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley are part of the same plot against Venezuela (Photo: Getty Images)

But, at the same time, the agenda, which involves regular and irregular military actions against Venezuela, seems to escalate to new levels when these officials have called, in the same narrative line of Guaidó, the "armed forces" (FANB), the international community and the civil factors of Venezuelan life, to "make effective" a transitional government chaired by Guaidó. An open signal to the use of force.

The dismantling of "Operation Constitution" , indicated by the US media Bloomberg in mid-2018 and confirming the planning of irregular armed actions in Venezuela through the co-option of military and other security components in the country, as well as the logistical collaboration from Florida (USA) and Colombia, with the probable insertion of mercenary elements in the field, is a relevant and indispensable element to recognize, as it is an important inflow of armed intentions that would not take place without the support of US officials.

Former Colonel Oswaldo García Palomo spoke to Bloomberg in December 2018, explaining the intention of a military uprising in Venezuela, in unison with the continuous pronouncements made by Senator Marco Rubio for the overthrow of Maduro by the FANB.

In mid-December, after his visit to Russia, President Nicolás Maduro filed serious complaints involving US security adviser John Bolton to forge an insertion of regular and irregular US and Colombian forces in Venezuela, which would act under the guise of being regular forces, in the onslaught of a coup d'etat.

This plot of signals and situations that suppose the development of a fluid collaboration between officials and countries, for another "Bay of Pigs" in Venezuela, would undoubtedly have the approval or support of Mike Pompeo, who directs US foreign policy with methods of the CIA, of which he was its director.

The use of irregular and mercenarized roads against Venezuela camouflaged as "national armed forces" is suggested as a serious possibility to bypass the lack of political consensus around the countries of the region, most of them integrated into the Lima Group, on the military option against Venezuela.

The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement recently explaining that situation, since it would settle a conflict of regional proportions that would be technically impossible to effectively encapsulate, sharpening phenomena such as migration from Venezuela abroad and the creation of a focus of instability on a large scale in the South American region and the Caribbean.

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Post by blindpig » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:53 pm

VENEZUELAN ARMED FORCES NEUTRALIZES ATTACK ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN CARACAS
Posted by Wendy Jarquin | Jan 21, 2019

Venezuelan Armed Forces neutralizes attack on military installations in Caracas
The Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela (FANB) neutralized on Monday an attempted attack on military installations in Caracas .

The Ministry of Defense reported that the situation occurred at dawn on January 21.

"A small group of assailants assigned to the zone command No. 43 of the Bolivarian National Guard."

"Betraying his oath of fidelity to the Homeland and its institutions, he submitted Captain Gerson Soto Martínez."

From that post, the assailants moved in two military vehicles.

Then they stormed the headquarters of the urban security detachment located in Petare, Sucre municipality.

Subtracting from there a batch of weapons of war and kidnapping under threat of death, two officers and two national guards of the aforementioned detachment.

He also detailed that the criminals were surrendered and captured at the headquarters of the special Waraira security unit.

The Ministry of Defense explained that during the detention it was possible to recover the stolen weaponry.

In addition, the detainees "are providing information of interest to the intelligence agencies and the military justice system."

In the communiqué it is stated that all the weight of the law will be applied to the assailants.

Rejection of attack

The Bolivian Armed Forces categorically rejected this type of acts.

In this sense, the FANB ratified the Venezuelan population that all its operating units and institutions are functioning normally.

For its part, the president of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), Diosdado Cabello, rejected the theft of military installations.

http://barricada.com.ni/fuerza-armada-de-venezuela/

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