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Venezuelan Communist Party and the New Popular Revolutionary Alternative (Statement)
September 11, 2020 orinocotribune Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), coronavirus, Lucha de Clases, parliamentary coup, Popular Revolutionary Alternative, PPT, psuv, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Workers’ Parties of the World
By PCV – Sept. 7, 2020

To the national leaderships and militants of Communist and Workers’ Parties of the World

Dear and esteemed Comrades:

First of all, receive a cordial and fraternal greeting from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV). The purpose of this letter is to bring you up to date on the policy drawn up by the Central Committee of our organization in response to the heightened crisis of Venezuelan dependent and rentier capitalism.

This crisis has been accentuated by the multifaceted aggression of US imperialism and the government’s implementation of liberal policies in favour of capital, which make the living conditions of the working class and the working people of the city and the countryside critically poor, especially in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and the upcoming parliamentary elections.

At the beginning of July and August of this year, we held the XVII and XVIII plenary of the Central Committee, respectively, which carried out an analysis of the international and national political context with the aim of adjusting our political tactics to the new conditions of class struggle in Venezuela. Equally, we considered the prospects for the accumulation of forces as part of the upcoming parliamentary elections announced by the National Electoral Council for 6 December 2020.

After a thorough and fruitful discussion, the XVII Plenary of the Central Committee (2 and 3 July 2020) approved the political orientation of “… promoting the construction of a revolutionary, broad, unitary, non-exclusive, patriotic and anti-imperialist Alternative Revolutionary Alliance, which assumes a combative program for a revolutionary way our of the Venezuelan crisis of dependent and rentier capitalism, which transcends the electoral event and expresses the worker-peasant, commune-level and popular revolutionary unity and the broad patriotic and anti-imperialist alliance…”

This decision corresponds to the implementation of the policy approved by the 15th National Congress of the PCV (June 2017) and developed by our 14th National Conference (February 2018) which concluded that: “Building a new correlation of forces, led by a strong worker-peasant, commune-level and popular revolutionary unity is a strategic objective to ensure the implementation of policies, measures and government actions that aim not only to emerge from the crisis of the capitalist system in favour of the working class and the working people of the city and the countryside, but also to achieve the triumph of the proletariat and the popular revolution…”.

It is upon the basis of these formulations of our Congress and National Conference, and the subsequent developments of the Central Committee, which the construction of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR) is based, from the perspective of the PCV.

In the context of the 14th National Conference, our Party approved adding its support to the presidential candidacy of compatriot Nicolás Maduro Moros for the presidential elections of May 2018. For this purpose, on February 26, 2018 Maduro signed “The PSUV-PCV Unitary Framework Agreement to deal with the crisis of Venezuela’s dependent and rentier capitalism with anti-imperialist, patriotic and popular political and socio economic actions.”

In the 30 months since the signing of that document to the XVII plenary session of the CC-PCV, the government of President Nicolás Maduro and the national leadership of the PSUV, despite efforts by the PCV, showed no political will to discuss and let alone fulfil any of the commitments inherent at the national level and contained in the bilateral agreement. Joint initiatives have only been coordinated on the international stage, seeking solidarity with the Venezuelan people and denouncing the aggression of US imperialism and its European allies.

In addition, the contradictions in relations between the PCV and the PSUV government have been exacerbated to the same extent as the implementation of a government economic policy which is increasingly subordinate to the interests of capital and to the detriment of the conquests and rights achieved by workers, peasantry and popular sectors throughout the Bolivarian process and especially during the administration of President Hugo Chavez. The implementation of a liberal, reformist and privatizing economic policy, totally in contrast to the provisions of the PSUV-PCV Framework Unitary Agreement, shape the advancement of a break between the government and the majority of the leadership of the PSUV and the working class and the working people of the city and the countryside. This break comes at the programmatic and practical level which, as can be presumed, undoubtedly places the PCV in the field of popular demands and in defense of the conquests achieved.

This concrete reality is found in the implementation of a regressive wage policy, which results in the abrupt fall in worker’s real incomes, the elimination of contractual rights contained in collective conventions, the evaporation of social savings and benefits, the illegal mass layoffs of public and private sector workers in open complicity with the authorities of the Ministry of Labour.

The fall in wages is exacerbated by the policy of opening up and dollarizing economic activity, the complete subordination to entrepreneurial interests with regard to the pricing of essential goods of the basic food basket and the progressive deterioration of public services which, in some cases, are moving towards their privatization or concession to private sectors with exceptional operating conditions.

The inevitable precariousness of working-class living conditions has generated a combative reaction to the growing setback in labour rights. To this, the Venezuelan state has responded with repression, criminalization and persecution of the legitimate labour-union struggles that stand up against the configuration of these new conditions of exploitation of the labour force in the context of the capitalist crisis.

In the agricultural sector, the interests of the capitalist sectors of agribusiness and landowner re-composition in the countryside have also been imposed. Over the past two years, landowner’s criminal offensive against peasants and agricultural workers has intensified by multiplying the eviction of peasant families, killing peasant leaders and the persecution of peasant leaders. On 31 October 2018, Comrade Luís Fajardo, a member of the PCV’s Central Committee and a peasant leader from the Sur de Lago sector was killed on the orders of landowners, along with popular activist Javier Aldana and, to date, no justice has been applied against either the criminals or in favour of the 300 peasant families in struggle. This is just one case out of thousands.

The PCV: the Broad, Patriotic and Anti-Imperialist Alliance

The implementation of this policy of economic liberalization has accelerated and deepened at a time when imperialist aggression against the people of Venezuela and its legitimate institutions intensify. In the months leading up to 2020 and even in the midst of the expansion of the global pandemic, U.S. imperialism and its European allies have not ceased their political, economic and military pressure to bring about a change of government in Venezuela. The illegal appropriation of Venezuelan assets abroad, unilateral coercive sanctions aimed at blocking Venezuela’s trade operations and sources of financing, and mobilizations of military forces to build a land and maritime fence around Venezuela have increased so far this year. Venezuela is embedded in the global dispute between large transnational corporations, which sharpens interim and inter-capitalist contradictions

In the face of this complex scenario of imperialist siege that jeopardizes the sovereignty and self-determination of the country, the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) stresses the need to build the broadest alliance of democratic, popular, patriotic, progressive, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces that transcends moments and takes shape in a collective direction and a common agenda to defeat imperialist aggression through the revolutionary transformation of Venezuelan society.

For the PCV, the consequential struggle against imperialist siege and in defense of sovereignty is inseparable from the struggle for a revolutionary way out of the capitalist crisis. In this sense, the strengthening of liberal unpopular austerity policies only multiplies the burden of the capitalist crisis and imperialist sanctions on the shoulders of the workers, while weakening the capacities of the labour and popular movement to intervene in the urgent tasks of agricultural and industrial development which is necessary to counter sanctions, the blockade and the sabotage of the national economy. In the PCV we are convinced that that imperialism cannot be overcome through concessions and subordination to the interests of capitalists.

From this perspective and mutual recognition that imperialism is the main enemy of our people, the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR) does not represent a break with the government of President Nicolás Maduro, nor with the Simon Bolivar Great Patriotic Pole (GPPSB), let alone with our construction of a broad patriotic and anti-imperialist alliance to deal with imperialism.

The Communist Party is coherent in its unifying tactics given the current imperialist threats. As such, we will continue to work and insist on the need to conform this unity on the solid bases of the programmatic agreements with the objective of resuming the goals of the national and liberating revolution with its democratic, anti-imperialist, and anti-monopoly nature. Likewise, on the need to construct spaces for debate and the collective construction of policies between the democratic, patriotic, anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces.

In the resolutions of the XVIII Plenary of the Central Committee (August 1, 2020), we express it in this way:

“4. This adjustment of political tactics is not a statement of rupture of the PCV with the government headed by President Nicolás Maduro, whom we consider the legal and legitimate president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, nor with the GPPSB, with whom we agree to confront the aggression of U.S. imperialism and its European allies. It does imply a deepening of the distancing at the level of internal policies: ideologically, politically, agriculturally and, therefore, in the conception of the productive economic development of the country and in the role and character of the democratic and prominence of the masses by exercising direction and social control over the processes of social organization, production and distribution, as well as on the ethical-moral aspects that severely affect society and, in particular, governance administration.

“5. The PCV does not disssociate from the GPPSB, nor do we abandon our relations with the political and social organizations that conform it. We consider it a space that can serve to coordinate, whenever the PSUV-government decides, specific or large-scale actions in the face of imperialist aggression. (…) We don’t withdraw from the government either, because we haven’t been a part of it: no one can leave where they’ve never been or belonged. Much less do we withdraw from the Venezuelan and global revolutionary process, which is a space that goes beyond the government, and of which the PCV has been part since its founding on March 05, 1931.”

The PCV and the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR)

As we explained at the beginning of this letter, the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR) is a unitary effort aimed at building an organic reference point of revolutionary currents in the labour, peasant, at the commune level, communard and popular fields, within the framework of the development of our policy of “confronting, distancing, regrouping and accumulating forces to move forward and succeed in the face of imperialism and privatising reformism”. This is an adjustment in the political tactics of the PCV in the new conditions of imperialist aggression and the sharpening of class struggle generated by the advancement of reformist policies.

The Popular Revolutionary Alternative is a unitary construction project that transcends the electoral situation. Its immediate objective is to advance in the regrouping of revolutionary popular political and social organizations, with whom we agree on the need to build a new correlation of forces to defend the social conquests of the working people, defeat imperialist aggression and conquer a revolutionary way out of the capitalist crisis that opens the way for the socialist revolution.

It is from this strategic perspective that the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), in conjunction with other revolutionary political organizations and social movements, popular currents and the cores of popular-based Chavismo conform the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR). The APR will participate in the parliamentary elections of December 6, 2020, presenting our own independent candidacies on the lists and constituencies throughout the national territory as a true expression of unity through popular revolutionary diversity, built on dynamic consultation from and with the foundations of our organizations.

This legitimate and coherent political decision of the PCV with the interests and objectives of the working class of the city and the countryside, is being disproportionately attacked by sectors of the national leadership of the PSUV and the government, which we assume have an objective dynamic that is an expression of the confronted class interests. The complex picture of the imperialist siege of Venezuela is used to disqualify the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR), trying to deny the set of objectively existing contradictions which call for responses and changes in government policy.

These attacks aim to prevent the setting up of a benchmark of popular and revolutionary forces around which class resistance is organized in the face of the uncommitted course of government policy. These intentions have been confirmed by the recent judgments issued by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), which decided upon the judicial intervention of the Patria Para Todos (PPT) party, a member of the Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist People’s Front (FPAA) together with the PCV and who took on the PCV’s proposal to constitute the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR). Although for other reasons, there was also the intervention of the Tupamaro Revolutionary Movement (MRT), whose main current was stripped of its leadership and incorporated into the APR.

The PCV has expressed its strong repudiation of the judicial intervention of political parties, and we have warned that such procedures violate the exercise of their internal democracy, violate the sovereignty of militancy over its own organization by imposing the leadership of the parties which correspond to the connoting fraction that identifies with the PSUV government and poses a serious danger to the democratic freedoms established in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Despite systematic attacks on the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR), this project is consolidating forces and adding more and more people throughout the national territory. In just under two months, the APR has been constituted in the 24 states of the country and at the moment the Constituent People’s Assemblies are beginning to develop in municipalities and localities throughout the country.

Parliamentary elections will be an important scenario of class struggle where we hope that the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR) through its own labour and popular candidates and programmatic proposals for the revolutionary way out of the capitalist crisis will continue to take steps in the regrouping of forces around this unitary effort and promoting the deep political-ideological debate among the working masses

The essence of contradictions.

As has been demonstrated throughout this letter, the essence of the contradictions that determine the adjustment to the political tactics of the PCV and the momentum of the Popular Revolutionary Alternative (APR) is essentially class based. It is not a bureaucratic issue of “distribution of quotas of power” or “requirement of spaces” to the government or the PSUV to qualify for the National Assembly.

Today these contradictions are clearly manifested in the existence of political projects expressing different class interests. On the one hand, the bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie fractions, with pseudo-socialist phraseology, have appropriated the leadership of the Venezuelan government and have been executing a bourgeois liberal policy (even speaking of creating a “revolutionary bourgeoisie”), of backtracking on the conquests of the people during the Bolivarian process, whose practical conduct is of a reformist nature. This is its conception of a way out of the country’s general crisis, the product of Venezuela’s exhausted model of dependent and renter capitalism, aggravated by the effects of imperialist aggression and government policy.

On the other hand, we find sectors of the revolutionary popular movement and workers, peasants and fishing people, communards and indigenous, women and young people, professionals and intellectuals, of believers and non-believers, of civilians and military patriots, and a diversity of organized expressions of our people, that we assume, as we have mentioned above, that the consequent struggle against the imperialist siege and in defence of sovereignty, is inseparable from the struggle for a revolutionary way out of the capitalist crisis and we are convinced that it is not through the way of concessions and subordination to the interests of capitalists that this can be achieved.

It is from these premises that in the various conversations held with representatives of the government and the leadership of the PSUV (in person with Jorge Rodríguez on July 30; video conferences with Jorge Arreaza on August 20 and Diosdado Cabello – Aristobulo Istúriz on August 21, 2020), we have proposed to discuss the policy. We propose wide reaching changes in national economic and productive development policy labour-wage and trade union policy, responding to the struggles and demands of workers, peasants and commoners, the reversal of privatizations and landowner re-composition in the Venezuelan countryside, of thoroughly fighting against the mafias, against corruption and impunity, among many other topics. Even in these exchanges at this level, there was no response.

It has not been possible to open this dialogue, to build the spaces for debate, self-critical and critical analysis, of the exercise of collective construction of politics. And we understand that there could be no other answer, because they are projects that express different class interests. At the same time, the government has been able to sit down, dialogue, and agree with important sectors of the bourgeois opposition because there is a coincidence of class interests and, in addition, they have internal strength that coincide with interference and external pressure. This is the point dear comrades.

The PCV’s request to our sister organizations.

The purpose of this communication is not to require pronouncements of solidarity with the PCV or questioning the Government – PSUV from you. Its sole purpose is to keep you informed about the political line developed by the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as sister organizations that find ourselves in coincidental or divergent debate in the diversity of what we now call the International Communist Movement.

We recognize and appreciate the immense solidarity with the working class and the Venezuelan working people of the city and the countryside, with their resistance and struggles in the face of imperialist and Zionist aggression, and in the face of the policies of reformism that affect us. We are convinced that this internationalist and proletarian solidarity will remain, as has always been the responsibility of the Communist and Workers’ Parties of the world in the face of the just causes of our peoples, in combat for conquering national liberation and true socialism-communism.

We appreciate your attention and are at your disposal for any exchanges, questions of information or opinions, clarifications or interviews that you deem relevant.

Fraternal and supportive greetings.

Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!

Oscar Figuera, Secretary-General, Central Committee, Communist Party of Venezuela

Carolus Wimmer, Secretary for International Relations, PCV

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Re: Venezuela

Post by blindpig » Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:58 pm

The strategic aspects of the Great AgroVenezuela Mission
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Sep 14 · 9 min read

By Clara Sánchez

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Andean researchers, academics and families work on strategies to re-peasant food options. Photo: Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology

"... on the agricultural issue, which is of high national interest, we have been fighting a tough battle since the very beginning of the Revolution."
Hugo Chavez. Delivery of Memory and Account before the Venezuelan National Assembly (2012)
The Great AgroVenezuela Mission was born on January 25, 2011 under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez, whose launch was carried out, from the Unit of Agricultural Social Property "La Productora", in the Ospino municipality of the Portuguese state, in order to promote the country's food security and sovereignty.

A highly mobilizing Mission

Since its creation, this Great Mission has become a highly mobilizing call, “ a new impulse, (…) a re-impulse, the three R's squared ” of the Bolivarian Revolution, and which began with the “registration of all and all Venezuelan women with the possibility of producing food, "which among other things, displayed 347" tricolor points "throughout the national territory.
In the celebration of its first year, it already reached 682 thousand 125 registered (586 thousand 789 agro-Venezuelans registered in the first phase -May, June, July, August 2011- and 95 thousand 336 in the second phase -September, October, November and December 2011-), of those, 4 thousand 028 became delegates and of them, 1 thousand 007 main, elected in 1,030 assemblies, already held, when the President announced the launch of the second year of the Great Mission Agrovenezuela, at the beginning of 2012 , stating that, "we are committed to raising agricultural production, livestock production, agricultural production (...) the mainstay of the new development model, the productive economy, the socialist economy", with in order to give a "qualitative and quantitative leap in agricultural production ”, for which it created the Higher Body, which would allow greater coordination between all State entities for its conceptualization, objectives and goals.
With modest achievements
Earlier, on January 13, 2012, during the Report and Account before the National Assembly, President Hugo Chávez commented :
“On the agricultural issue, which is of high national interest, we have been fighting a tough battle since the very beginning of the Revolution, (…) this effort and these modest achievements, we have to use them as a basis to ask for a national effort and so that we let us make more efforts every day, work more efficiently to continue raising, but more vigorously, the national production ".
And in this sense, regarding the modest achievements, he announced that, of the 47 agricultural items, in 39 there was growth in area and production, compared to 2010:
Rice production grew 6%, 17% in beans, 219% in cotton, 2% in coffee, 9% in cocoa, 23% in sunflower, 7% in milk, 8% in chicken, 26% in pork, 26% in eggs and 6% in beef, as signs of progress; even in corn, he recognized a 17% decrease, although the sown area had increased by 397% due to the abundant rains, which had severely affected the harvest.
Among other results, we can highlight the birth of the urban agriculture program, whose initial name was AgroCiudad, which evidently gave way, to what is today, the Ministry of Popular Power for Urban Agriculture.
Highly strategic
From this space ( Food and Power ) we have consequently proposed that in Venezuela the agri-food system should be considered highly strategic, and we celebrate the constitutionalization proposal of the Great AgroVenezuela Mission, but what does it mean in the concrete highly strategic?
President Chávez in 2012 shed light on what he, as head of state, understood : "It is a critical area for national sovereignty, for national independence."

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In 2011, President Hugo Chávez launched the Great AgroVenezuela Mission. Photo: Archive

Strategic is to ensure a vital interest for the nation, which for Venezuela means "achieving food sovereignty to guarantee the sacred right to food of the people", as described in the Plan of the Homeland 2019-2025 , within the first Great Objective Historic, National Independence.
Therefore, it is to safeguard that the country moves in the direction of its objectives, nullifying or reducing the negative consequences, derived from the existence of opposing wills (the fall in oil prices, or oil production, but particularly from the blockade and the unilateral coercive measures, imposed by the United States and its allies), with actions necessary to channel the development and constitution of national power, which for the Bolivarian Revolution would be the alternative model of socialist development, which guarantees its population to live well .
This, taking into consideration that, as of 2014, when the open conflict with the United States is unmasked, which escalates and de-scales at different levels, since it began, it is necessary to incorporate forceful and permanent measures related to the national agri-food system, that is, to harness all the potential in times of peace, if this situation of siege, of unconventional war, can be called peace, to specify a national policy in order to anticipate or face the times crisis, even war, which before this year were not conceived in society as something that could really happen in Venezuela.
I am referring to the blockade against the nation, with the constant threat of military intervention by the first world power, and in which food also becomes a vital national interest, because the very existence of the nation depends on its preservation. population, and population is the most important power factor to protect in a nation.
As this is so, the Plan de la Patria is constituted in the general planning, and the Great AgroVenezuela Mission in the form of execution to achieve National Objective 1.4. of the same. It is here where all the forces must coordinate in the defense policy that allows solving an element of strategic importance, the vulnerability of the Bolivarian Revolution to feed self-sufficiently or, at least, sufficiently to its entire population, and although in this sense it is made extensive efforts from 2000 to 2014, and some sectors deny that the best results of raising the population's nutrition indicators and national production to historical levels has occurred in this period, the concrete reality is that it was carried out under a scenario completely different from the current one,
And from there, the beginning of sanctions by the United States against the Venezuelan nation; as a consequence, the challenge of the domination scheme historically imposed by the North American country.
The objective: the preservation of the population
With the announcement by President Nicolás Maduro about the relaunch of the Great AgroVenezuela Mission , and the implementation of a process that contributes to collective construction for its re-impulse, we consider from this space that the incorporation of the entire agri-food system is necessary.
To explain it more clearly, to "all the tangible and intangible factors or components that involve the people and the government, as well as the public and the private," or paraphrasing Chávez, the communal or direct, the state or indirect, or the mixed, which is State - Private, but it is also State - Communal Power, in favor of the constitution of national power, whose ultimate goal cannot be to strengthen national food production.
Its objective is to preserve the population factor, especially that which is reached every day by food insufficiency, in the midst of the blockade and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Because the blockade and unilateral coercive measures not only made it difficult to obtain the amount of fertilizer required for sowing, or were an instrument for the dispossession of Colombian-Venezuelan Monomers, or the decrease in the production of Pequiven; The greatest damage is falling on the Venezuelan population, who want to starve, even if it causes a period of greater suffering, in terms of months or years, as a way to achieve the change of government promoted by the US.
And it is that, at present, food insufficiency reaches 31.4% of the Venezuelan population, whose increase has been proportional to the number of unilateral coercive measures or actions carried out by the US and its allies with the blockade on the nation , its assets, its goods, its resources, its people, in order to achieve its objective, and where food has become an ammunition of war.
For this reason, it is affirmed that it would be useless to increase national production as a purely economic impulse if the transversal objective is not to feed primarily the entire Venezuelan population, which would translate into reducing vulnerability and obtaining greater freedom of action, hand in hand with development of the productive forces, which subtracts the constant attacks on the nation from the outside.

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President Nicolás Maduro relaunched the Great AgroVenezuela Mission within the framework of the US blockade against Venezuela. Photo: Archive

On the one hand, in order to “kill the population of hunger”, which detonates an outbreak against the National Government, and on the other, to constantly accuse the Bolivarian Revolution at the international level as solely responsible for the increase in the food insufficiency, while access to world trade for the acquisition of food, inputs or raw materials is prevented thanks to the blockade or other conditions.
Take the example of Argentina, which "produces food for 400 million people", has been called the "granary of the world", recently the "supermarket of the world", and its population suffers from limitations in access to food due to lack of economic resources or of another type, whose increase in recent years has been vertiginous, currently encompassing 35.8% of the population, or what is the same, approximately 15.8 million people who suffer from moderate and severe food insecurity , existing in these times of pandemic11 million people who eat in soup kitchens and picnic areas; 3.5 million of them are children; no sanctions, no blockade, no siege; But with an agri-food system, mostly controlled by the world's large food and agribusiness transnationals, for which food is only a commodity and only those who can pay for it have access, and whose employer cannot and should not allow its viability in the construction of a new production model within Bolivarian Socialism.
Therefore, all the actors and circuits of the Venezuelan agri-food system must be included in the Great Mission AgroVenezuela, at all levels of articulation, but also of control and responsibility, including giving importance to consumption patterns as a way to raise a higher level, which was the Great AgroVenezuela Mission in its beginnings in 2011.

Final thoughts

In summary, as the agri-food system is a component of national power, because it is through this that agri-food self-sufficiency is achieved, which for the Bolivarian Revolution is food sovereignty, increasing food production means expanding availability, but policies are also required to timely and permanent access to the population, especially that which, in the immediate term, is affected by food insufficiency, and for this, indeed, it is necessary to take firm steps with the Great Mission AgroVenezuela, which breaks the status quo of the configuration in relation of dependency from a subordinate peripheral position of the Venezuelan agri-food system to the world, to the transnational, and highly oligopolized condition, avoiding, among other things, the cycle of privatization, denationalization, oligopolization and transnationalization, in which can even fall to the exploitation of arable land.
Therefore, the rational use of natural resources (land, water, oil, gas and biodiversity) must be taken into account, aware of the scenario that exists, of international competition for them, where Venezuela is a desirable source for large corporations.
And in relation to other factors already considered, such as science and technology, it is deeply necessary, but in all circuits and levels, it is not only in the field of genetics: it is also, for example, in innovation, for plants and spare parts, agricultural machinery and implements, national food formulas, or fertilizers, through ancestral recognition and popular knowledge, without neglecting geography, territory, military, and the primary element, the population, which in the geopolitics is of strategic importance.
Because it is this, in quantity and quality, in addition, with its character and the elevation of morale or its remoralization that will enhance its human capacities to continue fighting, living and reproducing for work, the development of intelligence and exceed higher levels of education that cover the scientific-technological demands that will lead to the achievement of the objectives of the Bolivarian Revolution, Bolivarian Socialism, National Independence, Agrifood Sovereignty, under a new alternative development model.

Clara Sánchez is a researcher, agronomist and Master in Strategy and Politics. He maintains the website Alimentos y Poder , where he publishes research and analysis articles on the food world and all the relationships that derive from it.

This article was originally published on September 11 in Food and Power.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:30 pm

Against the wind, suffocation and tide
Mission Truth
Sep 17 · 5 min read

By Carola Chávez

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The next December 6 will be the legislative elections in Venezuela. Photo: Archive

Calling elections under the fierce and criminal attack that the blockade imposed on us by the White House is an act of courage and democratic conviction.
From the US they calculated that if they suffocated us, desperate, we Venezuelans would surrender, we would give up in our effort to be free and sovereign, our stubborn will to want to live on our feet, to make our own decisions, to invent the way that serves us would be broken. U.S; contrary to what they want to impose on us, the one who serves another, the one who plunders us. They squeezed, squeezed, squeezed ... and we go to elections, because our Constitution commands us.
Elections no! –Claim the “defenders of democracy” from the North, “as if they had a candle in this funeral, which is precisely the funeral of their macabre plans against us Venezuelans. Rare Democrats, those who impose presidents by hand, who support coups, who are terrified of the popular vote ... even when they suffocate us, they continue to fear us.
All their calculations are wrong: five years ago they reached the National Assembly and calculated six months to end Chavismo. The image of Ramos Allup gone mad, Wilfrido, crossing, from side to side with his index finger and his skinny throat, announcing the death that he wanted and planned for us. The maneuvers begin to hand over the legislative power to a foreign power, to attack our country as they have done. Incapable of representing the people who voted for them, because they represent the State Department. The faces of worthy deputies, table faces, approving - without a quorum, what does it matter! - step by step, as they were dictated, the looting of our wealth; paved the way, salivatingly wishing a military intervention that will fill our lives with smoke, terror and blood,
Six months that were a year; Julio Borges arrived and crawling around the world in the name of the AN, so that they would please block us, that they would pursue our oil, our gold, our bank accounts, everything. And not because the nauseating Borges had the power to ask any government for such actions, but because the gringos, his bosses, sent him, as a “legal” facade, to ask for them. A push from then-Major Lugo, in the name of the dignity of Venezuelans, made things very clear. The gringos or their errands don't rule here.
Borges went the way he came and ended up hiding at full speed in Bogotá. The suffocation is felt and Lorenzo is at war, my friend. The inertia of the planned suffocation continues to tighten. Asphyxiation that tastes of scarcity, bachaqueros, anguish. Quarters full of Venezuelan bills appear in Paraguay, Brazil, even in Romania! The conspiracy is not noticeable, you know . Nor is it noted that from that Assembly not a word comes out that is not to favor the attack, that in any case the anti-Chavista deputies only served to announce, without being able to hide their enthusiasm, the attacks that were coming and coming. And they said very happy, we told them!, And they patted each other on the back, and they wagged the tail of the owner who was always dissatisfied because time passed and his useless and very expensive dogs did not achieve anything.
The years passed and the presidents of the Assembly, each with his trail of failures, which not because they were failures stopped doing us all much harm.
They promoted sanctions, mixed them with psychological and media campaigns to present this country, which lives in peace, as a country at war, as a threat to the region. A country of freedoms, sometimes even excessive, like an atrocious dictatorship; to a government that does the impossible to mitigate the effect of the blockade on the people, as the culprit of the crime that another committed.
Thus, while the suffocation was pressing, they rode on it, denouncing the "exodus of millions fleeing from the dictatorship that was starving them." While they coordinated with foreign governments and enemies so that not a grain of rice entered Venezuela. Not an aspirin, not a screw. Nothing, so that the country breaks down and falls apart "culpeMaduro."
An annual parade of AN presidents, each one more nefarious than the other, none more nefarious than Juan Guaidó, none more criminal, none more cynical. None more supported by the gringo power, none more failed.
The more Guaidó fails, the more they have to punish us to see if we loosen up. More, more blocking, more persecution. They steal the gold we need to fight the pandemic, the Southern Command moves to the Caribbean to block our coasts. "The sanctions that only affect Maduro" explode in the faces of those who applauded them from the street, believing those who have been lying to them for 20 years.
It is an election year and gasoline is running out on the pseudo-legal parapet of imposing on us a jerk from Washington. They run out of gasoline and they take our gasoline, and they are going to take the light from us, as they have tried to take away our food. And removing and removing, they take off, in their desperation, the masks and Guaidó promises that if we do him the favor of knocking down Maduro, he will bring gasoline and everything else in 15 days. "If you give me the wallet, I won't shoot you."
And so, under the most brutal siege that any country on this continent has ever experienced, under the threat of the most murderous military power of all, under the most twisted international media campaign, under a constant mercenary conspiracy, in the midst of a fierce war not President Maduro, being able to argue that the extortion implied by the blockade affects the freedom to decide of the Venezuelan people, being able to ask that the election be delayed or canceled, that the constitutional mandate be obviated because the circumstances imposed by the blockade They are extraordinary, being able to take refuge in the image of a dictator that the enemy has created for him and now, he does not do so, but rather insists on the electoral path mandated by the Constitution. What a dictatorship this!
Thus, on December 6, many of us will vote for the government, others will vote for the opposition; But all, all, all, we will be voting against the criminal blockade that has caused us so much damage and pain, and that was managed from the National Assembly by some criminals who used the vote to try to sell our country. The National Assembly has to go back to being a Venezuelan institution, not the arm of the State Department that these wretches who passed through there turned it into.
On December 6, against wind, suffocation and tide, we Venezuelans will vote for independence, sovereignty and peace.
We, all of us, will win!

This article was taken from the Ciudad CCS website , published on September 17, 2020.

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Download the report "The truth of Venezuela against infamy: Data and testimonies of a country under siege"
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This Thursday, September 24, from the Miraflores Palace, President Nicolás Maduro made the official presentation of the report "The truth of Venezuela against infamy: Data and testimonies of a country under siege" before the national and international public opinion.
The report was received by Maduro from the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, in an institutional act that brought together the main executive and human rights authorities of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
The document was signed by Tarek William Saab; the ombudsman, Alfredo Ruiz; the Minister of Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza; and the executive secretary of the National Human Rights Council, Larry Devoe.
"The truth of Venezuela" is a forceful report in response to the one presented by the "Independent" Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela in recent days, politically oriented towards the criminalization of the Venezuelan State but also the cover-up of the systematic armed, economic attacks and politicians that the country has suffered at the hands of opposition leaders linked to Washington's "regime change" agenda.
During the presentation, President Nicolás Maduro highlighted that the report shows the human rights violations that have resulted from situations of violence promoted by opposition actors and factors.
Likewise, he asserted that in Venezuela there is a solid system of guarantees of human rights, and once again offered his cooperation as head of state to deepen and strengthen said system.
Maduro has asked that "La Truth de Venezuela" be as widely publicized as possible in order to prevent the biased and biased report of the "Independent" Mission from imposing itself as a monopolistic version of the Venezuelan reality.

You can then download the report in PDF format by clicking here .
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HUMANITY OR CAPITAL. THE REAL CHALLENGE OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Jorge Arreaza Montserrat

5 Oct 2020 , 12:06 am .

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Where is the world headed? What is the sense of the value of humanity in terms of community and recognition of the sufferings of the other? 2020 is a golden opportunity to reflect and establish new principles for common life, to seek to close the gap between those who have more and those who need the most throughout the globe. But there is a significant obstacle to this: the blind and voracious selfishness that dictates the logic of capitalism.

Raising our voice against this is not a novelty for the Bolivarian Revolution: Commander Hugo Chávez always incorporated it into any space for multilateral participation. We remember the words of his speech in 2009 before the UN General Assembly, when he took stock of the moment of splendor of the Latin American peoples who recovered their dignity from the hand of governments with an unbending popular sense, and were projected as a saving revolution of the human species: “That revolution, some, sisters and brothers, have not realized, is the beginning of the road to the salvation of this planet, to the salvation of the human species threatened by capitalism, by imperialism, by the war, for hunger. It is the necessary revolution ” .

We recognize the spirit that mobilizes the United Nations System, in its interpretation of the needs of humanity, to maintain peace and security in an unequal world, in the midst of innumerable efforts to dominate. The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the way to reach a more just world, with possibilities of sustainability in the long term. If humanity can meet the goals in 2030, we would be in the presence of a global Revolution. But we have to call attention to the feasibility of this plan. Let us not fool ourselves and let us not be fooled: these goals cannot be achieved within the framework of capitalism.

It is naive to think that the owners of power, those addicted to accumulation, those who believe in the strange theses of Social Darwinism and think that the death of the poor is a natural process of the metabolism of humanity, will facilitate the drastic actions that must be taken. continue to be able to meet all together , at least, the first four SDGs: end of poverty, zero hunger, health and well-being and quality education. To achieve the 2030 Agenda, it would be a severe blow to profit and the undue and speculative expansion of capital.

His Holiness, Pope Francis, in a heartfelt reflection on what these times of pandemic have left behind, pointed out bluntly: “ when the obsession to possess and dominate excludes millions of people from primary goods; when economic and technological inequality is such that it lacerates the social fabric; and when dependence on unlimited material progress threatens the common home, then we cannot just stare . " We agree. They are not just words or slogans, it is the empirical verification of what is happening in the world.

Capitalism and its form of corporate democracy brag much about its ability to generate "equal opportunities." It is all a propaganda fiction. In order for some system of social organization to eventually produce equal opportunities for individuals and groups, the precondition sine qua non is to guarantee equality of conditions in a general and universal way. That which the Liberator Simón Bolívar elevated to the categories of “ established and practiced equality”. The equality established in the dead letter of the laws, restricted by the system of accumulation and domination, is not only insufficient, it is fictitious, unrealizable, it is a fraud.

The UN 2030 Agenda, with its Sustainable Development Goals and its goals, means in practice a great effort to advance in the generation of equal conditions. That is to say, by its very nature, it is unfeasible under the bonds of capitalism. If interpreted rigorously, it could be considered an anti-capitalist instrument. Of course, it is not convenient for the UN bureaucracy to present it that way. In the strange dialectic of our Organization, they try to achieve objectives to change the world, but they fear it and live from the system that determines the world.

It is, in any case, a challenge to achieve that, once again with Bolívar, the United Nations can help build that system of multilateral interrelation that brings the greatest amount of happiness to the peoples.

Let's try to substantiate the above statements with current data and from sources not close. Let's review the most recent report prepared by the Oxfam organization, which, although it has prestige for its altruistic nature, is not known for being anti-system. Let's start with the distribution of dividends that large companies have made since the end of last year. Although we could limit that this could be part of the natural economic and financial dynamics of the business world, what is less justifiable is that this movement has continued during 2020, when all the indices presage the constriction of production and markets as a result of the impact of the global pandemic:

<< The beginning of the COVID-19 crisis did not end the boom times for shareholders. According to reports from the companies themselves, Microsoft and Google have distributed more than $ 21 billion and $ 15 billion to shareholders, respectively, since January of this year. Likewise, despite the fact that the demand for its products has been reduced during the pandemic, since January of this year the automaker Toyota has distributed more than 200% of the profits obtained in this period to its investors. BASF, the German chemical giant, has paid its shareholders more than 400% of its revenue in the last six months. The American pharmaceutical giant AbbVie has already distributed 184% of its net income to its shareholders during the first two quarters of 2020. On the other hand,

But not only profitable companies have continued to pay their shareholders. The six largest oil companies in the world (Exxon Mobil, Total, Shell, Petrobras, Chevron and BP) have accumulated losses of $ 6.17 billion between January and July 2020 and yet they have managed to spread their shareholders dividends worth $ 31 billion in that period. Seplat Petroleum, the largest oil company in Nigeria, distributed 132% of the profits obtained during the first six months of 2020 to its shareholders, despite the fact that the country is at risk of entering an economic collapse
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How many challenges and needs could be addressed and solved with a small part of these resources that go to the four stomachs of the global corporate sacred cows? The world turned upside down, capital with its back to the reality of human suffering. That is why we ratify the urgent need to amplify the voice of the peoples and their deficiencies. We must condemn the voracious pettiness of capitalism in times when, as the teacher Simón Rodríguez said, it is up to each other to help us . The Oxfam report deepens, with unappealable figures, the deviation of the system that only obeys the ambition and appetite of a small group of people and condemns the great majority to the hardships of scarcity, hunger and death.

Collecting lucrative benefits in the midst of a crisis like the one the world is experiencing today is, at the very least, an affront to humanity and its urgent needs. It is the nonsense of the dominant system. Commander Hugo Chávez already said it at the United Nations with his diaphanous voice of thunder in his speech in 2009: “We need that, a new historical form. They have been talking about the new order for years, and what we have is the dying old order. We need the new order to be born, the new historical form, a new political form, a new world form. Yesterday Gaddafi said it here, a new institutionality, a new economy, a new society; but truly new, a new world, well ”.

From the bitter experience of COVID19, the United Nations must have learned the lesson: we must rescue the capacity of the National States to direct the economy and resources for the good of the majority. Neoliberalism, deregulation in favor of private interests, has proven to be a dismal failure. Capitalism is contrary to humanity! He denies her, infects her, destroys her, kills her. There is no way to revive that rotten zombie that leaves a trail of death and desolation.

This is the great challenge that corresponds to us as an international system, to give our Organization real power of action, based on the real national capacities of its member states. President Nicolás Maduro, in his address to the General Assembly this year 2020, made a call in this direction: “ Venezuela recognizes that the United Nations Organization in these 75 years has made great contributions to humanity; however, we demand more will and efforts to preserve the achievements, to advance in new objectives ”.

We have just affirmed that capitalism and humanity repel each other, they are exclusive. Consequently, although the United Nations rests on tolerance and diversity, it is in turn the multilateral organization that humanity gave itself to avoid unnecessary wars, tragedies and conflicts. To prevent the inhuman from imposing itself on the human. Consequently, when analyzing this simple syllogism, if the UN exists so that humanity can live safely, with integral justice and in peace, and capitalism is contrary to humanity.

Consequently, it is easy to conclude that the UN will only be able to fulfill its role in a reliable and complete way when they put a stop to the cancer of capital as the master and lord of the destinies of the peoples. For this reason, we vindicate the nobility and humanity of the 2030 Agenda and reject the obstacles to its achievement and any scavenging action of capitalism to take advantage of it and obtain profits. We do not at all deny the role of the private sectors in the construction of a just humanity, but they are not the ones who can take the reins of the political and economic decisions of the nation states.

The government of the public over the economy, so that wealth and profits are primarily oriented to guarantee the social rights of the peoples (the SDGs), must be assumed as the only formula for the happiness of the peoples in a post-capitalist world.

This is not the time to look out for particular interests, only together, and truly united we will be able to overcome difficulties and lay the foundations for a relaunch of the values ​​of solidarity and brotherhood on which the United Nations was founded. President Nicolás Maduro also offered an important reflection on this matter in his speech on the occasion of the celebration of the 75 years of the organization: “We always remember the emergence of the United Nations System in the heat of victory against fascism, against Nazism . The most horrific expressions of capitalism and the extreme right that humanity has known and that led to a war that united humanity.

This call made by the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution leads us to the danger that the imperialist vocation of the United States represents at this crucial moment. It is the reissue of a spirit that denies human diversity, the multiplicity of voices: if you are not with me, you are against me, it is its slogan. A thought and action that goes against the constitutive principles of the United Nations Charter and Public International Law. The bizarre intemperance of the Donald Trump administration translates its need for control and power into wars, threats and illegal coercive measures against the peoples. It seeks to suffocate their economies, it does not pay attention to the difficulties of the pandemic crisis; its sole purpose is to subdue sovereign thought, original thought.

Donald Trump behaves like that rich kid from the neighborhood who owns the ball and who, when the heat of the game doesn't respond to his capricious appetites, he simply takes it home and leaves the rest of the neighborhood looking up at the sky. Either win, or snatch. Capitalism under Trump is the clearest example of the Barbarism to which Rosa Luxemburg was referring, when opposing socialism.

Our people demonstrate their dimension by facing with dignity the resistance struggle in the face of the systematic and implacable attack of the elite that governs the United States. Nothing has stopped us. Despite the increasingly suffocating siege, despite threats to try to violate the will of the Venezuelan people, despite the greater difficulties posed by the COVID19 pandemic, we remain standing.

This year there will be elections in Venezuela to renew the legislative power, always attached to the mandate of our National Constitution. To advance in this democratic path for the resolution of internal political controversies, President Nicolás Maduro intensified the dialogue with the Venezuelan opposition, advanced in concrete acts in good faith - such as the pardon of more than 100 people who were involved in acts that they attacked the institutional stability of the country.

The Bolivarian Revolution advances in the reconstruction of the national institutionality as a constant exercise of sovereignty and self-determination. These tangible results created chaos and confusion in the hegemonic centers, which, in turn, deepened their agenda of aggression against the national democratic system in a clear interventionist exercise.

As every year, we once again demand emphatically that the blockade against our Cuban brothers cease. Enough of suffering. Enough of illegal and anachronistic mechanisms that have no site. Enough of the arrogance of other times, of a world that has already transmuted. During the speeches of the celebration of the 50 years of the United Nations System, Fidel Castro, that unmistakable benchmark of Latin American dignity, preconfigured the necessary world, the one that the United Nations should promote:

“We want a world without hegemony; without nuclear weapons; without interventionism; no racism; without national or religious hatred; without outrages to the sovereignty of any country; with respect to the independence and self-determination of the peoples; without universal models, which do not consider the traditions and culture of all components of humanity at all; without cruel blockades that kill men, women and children, young and old, like silent atomic bombs. We want a world of peace, justice and dignity in which everyone, without exception, has the right to well-being and life ”.

His words still echo, for what is true and current. The new world must condemn the nonsense of these appetites. After 75 years of the United Nations System, we must consolidate the foundations of multilateral institutions so as not to fall into the hands of the reissue of the imperialist intemperance that summoned us in the first place. This was clearly stated by President Nicolás Maduro when he closed his speech during the anniversary of the United Nations:

“If the world defeated fascism 75 years ago, the world will be able to defeat, at this stage, those who want to impose themselves as the dominant hegemon. It will be able to defeat imperialist ideas and it will be able to defeat neo-fascism. We are sure of it. The united world will be able to advance on a new path. We are full of hope and dreams. Count on Venezuela. 75 years of the United Nations System and Venezuela standing up tells the world: count on us for the construction of that new world, without empires, without hegemon, of the peoples. The 21st century belongs to the peoples ”.

Thus, for our Organization to have the real power to guarantee that, indeed, the “nations are united”, it must finally get ready to release its long pants and dedicate itself, without the distractions of corporate capital, to making more human to humanity, opposing once and for all to hegemonic pride and putting all its structure, policies, coordination and strengths at the service of peoples and their supreme right to happiness.

In a true world democracy, the people rule the world, including private corporations, never the other way around. We cannot miss this train for changes, if we do not get on, the whole of humanity will derail and fall into the final cliff. Let's act together, let's live with equality, in Peace.


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Post by blindpig » Fri Oct 09, 2020 12:54 pm

THE BLOCKADE AGAINST VENEZUELA AS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
8 Oct 2020 , 10:01 am .

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The application of Unilateral Coercive Measures (MCU) against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela since the end of 2014 have resulted in an economic, financial and commercial blockade that has permeated and affected all sensitive and strategic areas of the Venezuelan economy, but mainly its population.

The Government of the United States, first during the Obama administration and more recently with that of Donald Trump, has been the main architect and responsible for the application of these pressure measures, implemented with the aim of overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro, destroying the Bolivarian Revolution and propitiate the conditions to place a puppet government favorable to the interests of the United States.

The use of the blockade as an instrument for the coup in Venezuela has represented a brutal attack against the civilian population, deteriorating their access to basic goods and services such as food, medicine, electricity, water, gas, among others, causing a forced decline in the quality of life of the Venezuelan people.

In this sense, the impact of the blockade deployed by the United States Government is equivalent to a bombing or a campaign of conventional military aggression, inasmuch as its objective consists of deteriorating and immobilizing the basic infrastructure of the Venezuelan State.

The blockade is an unconventional weapon of war. It replaces the bombs, missiles, tanks and troops, traditionally used as material factors in a war campaign, by Executive Orders, oil and commercial embargoes, official designations from the United States Department of the Treasury and other "legal" instruments that cover up the continuous acts of war against the Venezuelan population.

AS AN UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPON OF WAR, THE BLOCKADE IS EVEN MORE DANGEROUS AND FORCEFUL FOR THE LIVES OF THE POPULATION THAN A TRADITIONAL ARMED CONFLICT

In a traditional armed conflict, there is a set of international regulations that, in theory, protect the civilian population and national strategic services from armed attacks. These regulations, for example, seek to protect hospitals, strategic services and settlements of the civilian population.

However, the lock operates on a different logic. As it does not represent a conventional military operation, there are few international regulations that protect the population and basic services of the attacked country.

In this sense, the use of the blockade against the oil industry, the importation of food, medicine, supplies and basic spare parts, erodes the hospital system, the value of currency and wages, and the supply of fuel, food and medicine in a way indirect and without resorting to a bombardment. Those responsible for the aggression avoid exposing themselves to international law that condemns war crimes.

THE STATUTE OF ROME

This is the case of Venezuela. A country intensely bombarded by the blockade of the United States Government, where the civilian population has been the main target of attack. The escalation of the blockade against national sources of income, mainly PDVSA, and against the funds and assets of the Republic abroad, have caused a severe fall in national reserves and income, preventing the injection of resources necessary to sustain basic services and distribute food and medicine at non-speculative prices.

In short, the US blockade implies a crime as it erodes the population's ability to access vital inputs for its material existence. But it is not just any crime, but one against humanity, according to what is established in article 7 of the Rome Statute (legal basis of the International Criminal Court), which states that any conscious action can be considered as a crime against humanity. generalized that persecutes the extermination, the murder or the cruel treatment against a population for its political, ethnic or religious orientation.

The US blockade fits this definition perfectly, since, while representing a generalized attack against the Venezuelan civilian population, it is mobilized by conscious and planned political interests to pursue the extermination of a population for taking certain political decisions, such as for example, the election of Nicolás Maduro as President of the Republic on May 20, 2018.

REPORTS AND RADIOGRAPHY OF THE IMPACTS OF THE BLOCKADE

The criminal impacts caused by the US government blockade have been widely documented by institutions and independent figures with broad international support.

For example, in May 2019 the American research center Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) published a report , by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, in May 2019. In the research, CEPR determined that the The blockade has caused some 40 thousand deaths in Venezuela between 2017 and 2018, due to the obstacles generated to the importation of medicines and other vital supplies for the life of the population.

THE CEPR DETERMINED THAT THE BLOCKADE HAS CAUSED SOME 40 THOUSAND DEATHS IN VENEZUELA BETWEEN 2017 AND 2018

The report also highlights that as a result of the sanctions, the shortage of medicines increased, between 2017 and 2018, to 85%. In the same time frame, imports were reduced by 80% compared to 2012. This collapse has permeated the operation of the oil industry, but also the operation of the most basic public services.

In August 2018, the UN independent expert, Alfred de Zayas, published a report that records the impact of the blockade on the Venezuelan population, indicating that such actions could represent crimes against humanity.

De Zayas affirms that the MCUs applied against Venezuela have delayed the acquisition of medicines for people with risky and difficult-to-treat diseases, causing many deaths due to the delay in the arrival of treatments.

The expert also documented how the closure of international accounts of the Venezuelan State has blocked the importation of food and medicine, which is added to the international credit restrictions that have emptied the foreign exchange reserves of Venezuelan institutions to face the crisis.

The most prominent conclusions by De Zayas in his report were:

"The effects of the sanctions imposed by Presidents Obama and Trump and the unilateral measures of Canada and the European Union have directly and indirectly aggravated the shortage of medicines."
"Economic sanctions have caused delays in the distribution (of food, medicine and basic necessities) and have contributed to many deaths (...) Economic sanctions kill."
"They have greatly aggravated the shortage of food and medicine, caused serious delays in distribution and triggered the phenomenon of mass emigration to neighboring countries."
"Economic sanctions that affect innocent populations contravene the spirit and letter of the United Nations Charter."
Both the report by the independent expert De Zayas and that of the CEPR institute constitute two compelling investigations that reaffirm how the MCU have led to deaths, growing obstacles to the right to life of the population and the collective and generalized suffering of the Venezuelan nation, notable impacts which constitute a crime against humanity.

ACCURACIES

The blockade has eroded the quality of life of the Venezuelan people since its first application in December 2014, when the US Congress's "Human Rights Act" was issued. This temporary milestone dismantles the anti-Chavista narrative about the start of the blockade in 2019, deployed to hold the Venezuelan Government responsible for the economic crisis of previous years, when the MCUs were already operating.

The impact of the blockade falls on the general population. It does not discriminate based on political identities or ideological affiliations. It affects Chavistas, as well as opponents and independents. It affects all Venezuelans because it is their name. The blockade, as a weapon of war, kills.

International institutions and UN experts have confirmed that the US blockade has caused the death of innocent Venezuelans by obstructing food and medicine imports. These arguments that condemn the blockade do not come from Chavista spokespersons, but from highly prestigious experts and research institutes.

The blockade implies a massive violation of the elementary human rights of the Venezuelan population and the breaking of current international agreements.

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LATEST NEWS ON CITGO IN THE FACE OF THE DISASTER LEFT BY GUAIDÓ & CÍA
15 Oct 2020 , 9:30 am .

Once again, the fate of Citgo Petroleum, a subsidiary of PDVSA in the United States, has been in a state of uncertainty for a few more months, after the Donald Trump government announced on October 6 the extension of the ban on touching the assets of the company until January 19, 2021, one day before the inauguration of the president who is elected in the presidential elections to be held in that country next November.

This is the fifth time that the Trump Administration, through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has extended the restriction measure to General License No. 5 , a document issued in October 2019 that authorizes the holders of the PDVSA 2020 Bond to carry out transactions with Venezuelan assets beyond the unilateral US coercive measures, including the execution of the guarantee on 50.1% of Citgo shares, if it defaults on the bond payments .

It should be remembered that the other 49.9% of the shares were put as collateral for a loan granted by Rosneft to Venezuela, before OFAC blocked the Venezuelan assets. With the extension it issued, the US is also postponing the threat that a Russian state company could execute the credit of Citgo properties on US soil.

The insolvency of the company has given holders, in particular the London fund Ashmore Group Plc, which is the largest holder of the PDVSA 2020 bonds, to tear up Citgo's assets and distribute them among the vulture funds that roam around.

Citgo is the main Venezuelan political and economic asset that Washington managed to repress after the apparatus set up with the false government of Juan Guaidó. Therefore, its intervention to "save" it from the bondholders is fundamentally due to the inability of its Venezuelan operators to keep the company's situation under control.

In the immediate term, the Trump Administration's decision is also related to the November elections, becoming another presidential campaign action to guarantee the votes of the Venezuelan community in the state of Florida, an issue that Republicans must assure with greater suspicion, as polls raise expectations for Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

But it is not the only threat looming over the PDVSA subsidiary abroad. In the Delaware courts there are several cases brought by transnational corporations that dispute the loot of Citgo. The most famous cases, that of the Canadian mining company Crystallex and the US oil company Conoco Phillips, stand out for having favorable projections in their attempt to dismember Citgo to pay supposed debts of the Venezuelan State.

Appeals by the Venezuelan opposition in US courts to try to quash the multiple lawsuits against Citgo have not yielded positive results.

On the contrary, if the participation of the Venezuelan lawyer José Ignacio Hernández is reviewed, who supposedly was appointed by Guaidó to "protect" the interests of the country, it is possible to identify how under the ropes he has legally reinforced the claims of foreign companies and has agreed with them to deliver the Venezuelan resources.

Hérnandez resigned from his false position in the middle of the year. Other illegitimately appointed figures under the aegis of the US government have also ceased their functions in the false government. For example, Luis Pacheco resigned from PDVSA's ad hoc board in September, declaring his inability to defend Citgo.

More recent was the announcement of Luisa Palacios, who will leave the position of the ad hoc presidency of Citgo on October 30 of this year, although she will not leave the board. Palacios plans to concentrate his activities on the Simón Bolívar Foundation, a Citgo social responsibility organization that in recent months has been exploited by the anti-Chavismo to transfer large sums of money to NGOs linked to their political interests, covering them up with the well-used resource of " help to overcome the humanitarian crisis "in Venezuela, but that in no case are they intended to solve the economic problems caused by the US siege on the Caribbean basin.

GUAIDÓ'S TEAM THICKENS ITS FILE OF CORRUPTION
The members of Guaidó's team are deserting amid scandalous cases of corruption that are revealed by factions of anti-Chavez itself, who have deepened their political crisis as a result of the internal dispute over the distribution of the profits obtained from the looting of state resources Venezuelan.

In the latter case, the names of José Ignacio Hernández and Luis Pacheco came up along with those of Fernando Blasi-Blanchard, Magín Blasi-Blanchard and Javier Troconis. Fernando Blasi operates as Carlos Vecchio's charge d'affaires in Washington and Guaidó appointed him by Troconis as commissioner for "Asset Management and Recovery."

This group was negotiating the collection of a commission of $ 750,000 to authorize the Caribbean Recovery Assets (CRA) consortium in its attempt to illegally appropriate Venezuelan assets and accounts receivable in countries that are part of Petrocaribe.

The Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office, which opened an investigation against these characters and against Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar, actors behind the CRA, detailed that the representatives of the fake Guaidó government had agreed to appropriate 18% of all the assets that were captured.

THE MANEUVERS FROM VENEZUELA
The Bolivarian Government finds its hands tied in this great corrupt plot that exists around Citgo, as its actions are rendered useless, as a result of the blockade that the White House has imposed against its legitimate representation.

However, it has not stopped international complaints to make visible the crimes committed by Guaidó and his operators, in the same way that it makes diplomatic pressure to demand the lifting of unilateral US coercive measures.

As an example we have that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Minister in Charge of Economy and Finance, notified the holders of the PDVSA 2020 bond about a plan to renegotiate the Venezuelan foreign debt, which includes said bond. The main condition for this debt restructuring is that creditors must recognize the authorities of the Venezuelan State, which is facing the disaster managed by Guaidó's team.

Now more than ever it has been evident that in the anti-Chavismo there is no disposition to defend national interests, since they are not even capable of maintaining the pose in this mock government that they have mounted since 2019.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Oct 23, 2020 1:47 pm

The left keyboard warriors farandulera strikes back! (Photo: Juan Díaz)
REVOLUTIONARIES WITHOUT PEDIGREE
Carola Chavez

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The left keyboard warriors farandulera strikes back! (Photo: Juan Díaz)

21 Oct 2020 , 5:18 pm .

It has been nine years since Gaddafi was assassinated in Sirte. It was a horrendous October 20 in which the world saw, live and direct via streaming , the lynching of a great man. The level of hatred with which his murderers acted, the detailed torture schedule, provided a long and cruel agony, for us to learn, yes, and for Hillary Clinton to laugh a lot.

Months earlier, in March of the same year, left-wing intellectuals were deliberating on the fate of Libya, when the route that the US and NATO would take was already clear. It was incredible that the issue had to be debated to try to reach an agreement (which was not reached) to sign a statement of solidarity of those that they usually sign and that are then shelved.

There was nothing to debate: Libya was under gringo siege and war was sworn. The entire Libyan people were at such a horrible risk that the most macabre of imaginers could not even half imagine. There you just had to stand up and reject everything that came from the gringos and NATO, directly, without going through Go, but no; a certain and not a small number of intellectuals on the left, who go to congresses of intellectuals to talk about intellectual things, were convinced that Gaddafi was an evil dictator of the right and that, although NATO is the death apparatus of capitalism, it could be used As a springboard to fish in a troubled river, letting the Marines separate Gaddafi and once he was the Colonel, the exquisite left would try to promote a true left revolution, at the point of signed declarations, from some five-star convention center.

That's how it went. There floats that nefarious document signed by the best of the left intelligentsia against the evil Colonel who made Libya the country with the highest development index in Africa.

At that time, I participated in some of those discussions, as a colleague of honor. And the more Gaddafi was pointed out, the more I thought of my Chávez, his pragmatism, his chavismo with a crucifix, sickle, hammer, Bolívar, Christ, Maisanta, Marx and Perón. I imagined that intelligentsia that came together to defend humanity, discussing one day whether they would save our lives with a declaration or not, according to the (non-existent) Marxist purity of our president: a soldier with rusty hair who challenged the Empire, but that did not finish nationalizing the bank, nor to shoot the parasitic oligarchy that always wanted to overthrow him ... He was thinking about the opportunistic (and unfeasible) discussion of letting the marines do their thing to see if from the rubble of the Venezuelan neighborhoods perhaps a revolution could be made in a booklet and with depleted uranium. I understood there what they were for. I knew not at all.

Years passed, and Chávez - whom they respected because Fidel warned them that he was the Man that they and his dusty books would not let them see - left Nicolás Maduro to lead this fight that we are waging. The attack on Venezuela intensified in the midst of a continental turn, between lukewarmness and betrayal, to the right. Venezuela became the leprosy of the world, the kryptonite of progress, and there was no politician aspiring to something that did not sweep the floor with our country. "We are not Venezuela," they said with giggles, from the right to the left. Naming us only served to climb a step of deception.

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Hugo Chávez was also despised by the pedigree left (Photo: AFP)

To the rentier sector of that left-wing intelligentsia - which did not fight a congress in Caracas, which more than congresses were tournaments of egos, with signatures and pushes to take a portrait with Chávez, and later with Maduro - when things tightened, they got amnesia and The grimace and, then, Maduro, the president who challenges the owners of the world - wow! - is not a Marxist. And here there is no blockade but bad administration, corruption and a turn to the right and blah, blah, blah, blah ...

Some of these characters, who by the way were chasing me with direct messages on Twitter, believing that I could place it in some relevant place, this week did analytical pirouettes to show that the victory of MAS in Bolivia was not the Bolivians', but the government of which I suppose today sucks, or pretends to suck. He spoke all adorned with a great progressive axis that would save humanity where neither Caracas, nor Havana, nor Managua appeared because of that. There he and his ways ...

And this is one of those who speak, and look at that they speak and write and dictate infallible recipes, but then there are those who are silent and look the other way. And the worst: those who say that Maduro must let himself be brought down so that the heroic people, after being massacred, can vote for the return of Chavismo and everything remains like a film, which will be filmed by one of these thinkers, with government funds, at the Villa del Cine.

Then one realizes that there are people who see the villages as experiments, as something that is there to test their theories: What did it matter if they destroyed Libya? What did the thousands of dead, the orphans, the mutilated, the slaves for sale in the squares matter if from there, perhaps, a "true leftist revolution" could (and could not) germinate? What do the massacres matter in Bolivia? What does it matter that, in a supposedly denied, we Chavistas are exterminated as the right wing promises in writing and under contract, if at the end, only at the end, on a mountain of corpses, can the word of Marx rise?

I never believed that intellectuals, neither from the left nor from the right, could save humanity. Although they had signed hundreds of declarations in favor of Gaddafi and the Libyan people, Libya's fate seemed to be sealed. A statement with a few names of people who read a lot and write books does not stop a war. I know that. The problem is that they don't seem to know.

For my part, what I am is Chavista and we Chavistas know that only the people save the people, without signatures, without travel expenses, without egos. And from here, enduring a sadistic and criminal blockade, we remain convinced, clearly, standing up fighting and winning, without the need for pedigree certificates.

We will win!

This article was originally published on the Con el Mazo Dando website on October 21, 2020.

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Re: Venezuela

Post by blindpig » Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:01 am

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The International Criminal Court is located in The Hague, the Netherlands (Photo: AP Photo)

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
Ana Cristina Bracho

26 Oct 2020 , 9:34 am .

Over the past few years, we have heard incessantly about crimes against humanity. A concept born in international law and based on the Rome Statute, the document on which the International Criminal Court (ICC) is based.

This concept is the latest figure to be incorporated into international criminal law and it had a more complex evolution than war crimes or genocide, while some considered it to be too broad a notion.

The concept is a denomination composed first by the term "leso", which means aggrieved or offended. Then by "humanity", because it is understood that these acts, due to their cruelty, involve an injury not only to the specific victims but to Humanity as a whole.

Now, in the present we are going to observe this idea, born from the thought of a Russian and similar to previous concepts that had been used in our American Law, be manipulated to serve as justification for doctrines such as the Responsibility to Protect (R2P).

There has been an interesting twist on this, since the Bolivarian Government denounces that the coercive acts and attacks that have affected the main infrastructures, such as the national electricity system, are crimes against humanity against the Venezuelan people, demanding that the International Criminal Court to be tried in this way.

THE HISTORY OF A CONCEPT
According to Servín Rodríguez, "the term crimes against humanity was used for the first time in the statement issued jointly by France, England and Russia on May 28, 1915, on the occasion of the massacre of more than one million Armenians in Turkey during the First World War ", although he identifies that" the deepest roots of the definition "lie in the Martens Clause of the 1907 Hague Convention.

This norm, recognized as a contribution to International Law by the Russian jurist Friedrich Fromhold Martens, affirmed that, even in the course of a war, populations remain under the guarantees and regime of the principles of the Law of Nations and the laws of the humanity.

According to the Red Cross , despite the fact that jurists have extensively debated this provision, a broad interpretation holds that, given that few international treaties relating to the law of armed conflict are complete, according to this clause it should be understood that what it is not explicitly prohibited by a treaty; it cannot be understood that it is permitted.

During the 20th century, the issue of crime against humanity was discussed and relegated in various documents. In part, due to the unfavorable position of the US delegations that criticized the concept that, unlike "the laws and customs of war [which] are true standards, which can be found in authorized books and in the practice of States. The laws and principles of humanity vary with each individual. "

After the Second World War, at the time of writing the Statute of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the US position had changed and this type of crime was included as the third type of facts that this instance could hear.

In this document, the crime against humanity is in principle a crime known by Criminal Law (murder, extermination, subjection to slavery and others) but that is committed in the context of war or with an intention that exceeds the of common crime, insofar as its commission impacts not only the victim but all of humanity.

Thus, with its variations and requirements that it has had in the different documents (relating to war, wanting to do great harm, etc.), the crime against humanity appears in Nuremberg as a criminal violation of international law, which casts individual responsibility .

THE TOPICALITY OF THE CONCEPT
The first fact to point out, from a positivist viewpoint, is that the crime against humanity is the crime provided for in article 7 of the Rome Statute, which lists a series of actions that acquire this status when "it is committed as part of an attack. widespread or systematic targeting of a civilian population and with knowledge of said attack. "

Observing that in its current dimension the Rome Statute took up some elements of the documents that used the category in the 90s ( ICTY and ICTR statutes ) but differs from both. Well, what characterizes crime, as we have seen, is that prohibited behaviors are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack.

Regarding when we are facing a crime against humanity, the answer must be sought by reading Article 7 of the Rome Statute, but also taking into account a long (and non-linear) body of jurisprudence, from which we extract:

Whoever commits it must have had the intention of committing the underlying crime for which he is accused, and must have been aware "that there is an attack against a civilian population, and that their acts were part of that attack, or at least [who assumed] the risk that his actions were part of the attack. "
Whoever commits it must have the knowledge on the part of the accused that an attack is being carried out against the civilian population and that his act is part of the attack.
For inhuman acts to be characterized as crimes against humanity, it is sufficient that one of the conditions [namely, generalized or systematic] is satisfied. However, it remains true that, in practice, these two criteria are difficult to separate since a generalized attack against a large number of victims is usually based on some kind of planning or organization.
It suffices to show that a certain number of individuals were attacked in the course of the attack, or that the individuals were attacked in such a way that it can be inferred that the attack was, in fact, directed against a civilian "population", plus than against a small number of individuals chosen at random.
In the Venezuelan claim that the International Criminal Court judicially determine that unilateral coercive measures are a crime, these elements are gathered that were synthesized to be presented to the public , stating:

"In the document introduced before the ICC, Venezuela lists a group of cases and events that have impacted the Venezuelan population, such as the increase in infant and adult mortality, the increase in diseases, the reduction in caloric intake, the contraction in food imports, the impact on public services such as education, drinking water service, electricity service, and transportation, attributable to unilateral coercive measures and other threats imposed on Venezuela.

"Venezuela denounces the cases of deaths of patients in Venezuela and abroad, subjected to high-cost treatments that could not be paid by the Government of Venezuela due to the blocking of bank accounts and resources in the international financial system, such as patient treatments kidney, bone marrow transplant and liver transplant.

"The strong impacts on public finances and in particular the reduction of the country's income due to the restrictions applied by the international financial system are exposed, a phenomenon that has significantly reduced the capacity of the State to devote resources to addressing social problems.

"Finally, the reference relates the impacts of the blockade and the expropriation of oil assets on the international trade of Venezuelan oil."

With these elements in hand, we can see that the Venezuelan claim that unilateral coercive actions be classified as crimes against humanity is plausible insofar as these actions meet the aforementioned characteristics.

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Re: Venezuela

Post by blindpig » Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:29 pm

ANTI-CHAVISTAS IN "EXILE": INEFFECTIVENESS, TERRORISM, CORRUPTION AND LUXURIES
28 Oct 2020 , 8:17 am .

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Leopoldo López joins the crowd of Venezuelan operators abroad (Photo: Bertrand Guay / AFP)

The escape of Leopoldo López gives rise to analyze the role of the "exiles" in the recent Venezuelan political process. The leadership that in its time headed the opposition sector decided to go into subversion as of 2013, after the death of reelected president Hugo Chávez.

With the election of Nicolás Maduro as constitutional president, the "regime change" operation in Venezuela intensified and, from violent escalations such as "La Salida" in 2014, several of its leaders ventured into criminalized crimes in the country such as trafficking of weapons, involvement in coups d'état and assassination, incitement to hatred, betrayal of the fatherland, contempt for the Judiciary in view of the obligation to guarantee freedom of movement for citizens, among others.

Hence, many of the characters who committed these crimes linked to political parties such as Primero Justicia (PJ) and Voluntad Popular (VP) decided to leave the country rather than face justice. The reason argued is the alleged lack of balance in public powers, even though the National Assembly, with an anti-Chavista majority and in contempt since 2015, has shown little will in terms of achieving balance.

There are many illicit activities carried out by these "exiles" instead of seeking solutions to the problems of Venezuelans, so much so that even their co-religionists denounce their outrages with astonishment and indignation.

Furthermore, "exile" has been another of the many forms of parasitism that anti-Chavez and its partners have found to appropriate state income. There are innumerable evidences of the living standards they lead while the government they aspire to represent imposes harsh and illegal "sanctions" against the Venezuelan population.

The ineffectiveness of this political class, which in turn represents the inequality that its neoliberal postulates try to impose, has reached criminal levels. Their triumphant speeches on leaving Venezuela, in which they say they will fight for it, come undone when they pay tribute to surrender agendas and piracy.

There are no certainties about the limitations they may have in assuming the reins of Venezuela, nor are there doubts.

Here are some of his most notable "accomplishments".

HUMANITARIAN STEWS MADE TO ORDER, SCANDALS EVERYWHERE
One of the favorite activities of the anti-Chavista exile has been riding on the narrative of the "humanitarian crisis" (induced by the Obama Decree) to benefit economically from the donated resources, while the true recipients, both inside and outside of Venezuela, endure deprivation and mistreatment.

On February 23, 2019, US Senator and mentor of the "Guaidó plan", Marco Rubio, tweeted that VP Deputy Freddy Superlano along with his cousin and assistant Carlos Salinas had been poisoned at breakfast. However, later versions affirmed that they had been drugged with scopolamine by two women at the Penélope Motel, on the International Highway that connects Cúcuta with San Antonio de Táchira. This ruled out the version of the alleged poisoning.


According to the Colombian magazine Semana , Superlano shared a room with Salinas and two women during the night prior to the " Venezuela Aid Live " concert and the operation to enter the trucks with "help" at the border. The motel employees saw the women leave the room. When they realized that their companions did not go out with them, they decided to enter, they found both of them stripped of valuables and in poor health. They were taken to a hospital and Salinas died of cardiac arrest as a result of poisoning before arriving.

After several countries allied to the deputy Juan Guaidó, just recently self-proclaimed, sent an alleged "humanitarian aid", the only thing that was known about it were acts of corruption in the administration of food and medicine.

According to PanamPost , a media aligned with the transnational right, the network included an endless number of VP members that includes deputies José Manuel Olivares and Gaby Arellano, who would lead the operational part related to the entry of aid to Cúcuta, Colombia.

These were separated by Guaidó himself to authorize Rossana Barrera and Kevin Rojas, also VP activists, to attend to "the situation of Venezuelan citizens, civilians and military, who enter Colombian territory."

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The true achievement of the supposed entry of "humanitarian aid" to Venezuela were serial scandals of corruption and waste by the anti-Chavista "exile" (Photo: AFP)

The rest is history: bills of doubtful veracity that showed excessive expenses and overpricing in hotels, discos, drinks, meals, expensive clothes both in Bogotá and Cúcuta. In addition, forged emails in the name of the "ambassador" appointed by Guaidó and accepted by Colombian President Iván Duque, Humberto Calderón Berti, who ended up uncovering the entire network.

Although they were removed from office, Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó showed extreme defense of Barrera and Rojas while another "exile", Luis Florido, advocated for Barrera.

Another of those accused of corruption is the VP leader Lester Toledo, whom the journalist Darwin Chávez denounced for the alleged waste of 25 thousand dollars of the supposed "humanitarian aid" of the United States for Venezuela.

According to Chávez, the American businessman Marvin Autry, in charge of an NGO, said that Toledo and the interim government of Juan Guaidó had the money and the burden of "humanitarian aid" valued at 500 thousand dollars, but none of that reached Venezuela.

All this was exposed by the anti-Chavista journalist, also "exile", Patricia Poleo last July through her program broadcast from Florida, United States.

FAKES AND BOND PAPER TO SURRENDER SOVEREIGNTY
A more recent case is the network of corruption and extortion that includes officials of the fake government of Guaidó in the United States headed by Carlos Vecchio (VP), also deputies Marco Aurelio Quiñones, Elías Matta from Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), Jorge Millán (PJ), Luis Carlos Padilla from Acción Democrática (AD), Luis Florido (VP), Freddy Superlano (VP), Sergio Vergara (VP), Luis Aquiles Moreno (AD) and Enrique Márquez (UNT).

Patricia Poleo also published an article last September called "The blackmail of the Bond Paper: testimonies and evidence of the corruption of key Guaidó officials in the US" in which he denounces that the self-proclaimed government failed to "recover" assets from Venezuela blocked by the "sanctions" against the Bolivarian Government, located in countries that today are satellites of the United States and that were part of Petrocaribe.

The cause was that its operators, in particular Javier Troconis, assigned to "asset management", demanded commissions and bribes to sign an agreement with the company that would carry out the maneuvers, the Caribbean Recovery Assets Consortium (CRA) made up of LockinCapital companies. and Global Risk Management, whose directors are Jorge Reyes and Pedro Antar.

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The forced purchase of 49% of the shares that PDVSA owns in Refidomsa (Dominican Republic), through Petrocaribe, did not materialize due to the bribes demanded of the "exiles" of VP (Photo: Invertix.com.do)

On the other hand, Vecchio is one of the actors involved in fraudulent operations to seize the assets of the Venezuelan State, and has come out in defense of José Ignacio Hernández , a Venezuelan lawyer who worked representing Empresas Polar at the law firm Grau, García Hernández & Monaco and had Crystallex as a client in the legal process against the Republic of Venezuela in 2017.

In that year, Hernández was hired as a "legal expert" with the aim of linking the Venezuelan State with the Citgo company. To do this, he presented the argument that PDVSA was "an alter ego of the Venezuelan government", with which the imputation of the mining company would be authorized and would force payment directly with Citgo assets. Hernández's interpretation was what allowed the Canadian company to win a lawsuit against Venezuela during 2018 in Delaware.

Vecchio, accused of arson, damage to property, criminal association and public instigation for the attack on the headquarters of the Public Ministry in 2014, assumed the international spokesman for his party acting as a sounding board for the narrative of a failed state that has been instructed against Venezuela.

Sponsor the former Crystallex legal expert and former fake pseudo -attorney for Guaidó's interests, who according to La Tabla represented not a mining company but the New York firm Tenor Capital Management, a vulture fund that, taking advantage of the context of pressure against Venezuelan resources and the provision of US judicial platforms, tried to get a substantial return on the claim.

ACCUSED FOR THINKING DIFFERENTLY OR FOR ATTEMPTING AGAINST LIFE?
More serious accusations weigh on other "exiles": they have to do with alleged participation in attempts on life, such is the case of the already named journalist Patricia Poleo.

In 2006, after two years of investigations, the then Attorney General of the Republic, Isaías Rodríguez, declared that he had sufficient evidence to include her among the alleged intellectual authors of the murder of prosecutor Danilo Anderson.

Rodríguez clarified that "Patricia Poleo is presumed responsible and supposedly implicated in the participation of the facts under investigation"; He also confirmed the material authorship of Johan Peña and Pedro Lander.

In 2014, a video was presented on Venezolana de Televisión that linked the former fugitive metropolitan mayor in Spain, Antonio Ledezma, with Lorent Gómez Saleh's plans to carry out terrorist actions in some cities of Venezuela. The audiovisual material revealed the cooperation mechanisms of the anti-Chavista leader for the development of destabilizing acts in Caracas.

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Both Saleh and Ledezma left the country citing health problems and today they are asking for "sanctions" and intervention against Venezuela from Spain (Photo: RCN)

Saleh, who was expelled from Colombia for attempting against "national security, public order, public health, social tranquility," detailed Ledezma's interest in "resisting" with terrorist actions.

"Ledezma is key (…) he is an old fox, experience is neither bought nor sold (…) the politician who has supported the most is Ledezma, that is why he was our presidential candidate," he says in the video.

It also confirmed the support they have always received from Ledezma to maintain the youth camps who participated in the guarimbas, led by Ronny Navarro, alias "Guerrilla", and which were dismantled in Caracas by the Venezuelan state authorities that year.

Since his exile in the privileged Salamanca neighborhood in Spain, the experienced politician, accused of human rights violations during the 90s, has kept requesting any form of aggression against Venezuela, not without calling her a "humanitarian". Ledezma recently approached US President Donald Trump to say that "it is essential" to achieve a humanitarian intervention in Venezuela. The tycoon's response is unknown.


While he refused to sign a dialogue agreement with the national government in 2018 and made several tours calling for "sanctions" against "officials", which have clearly resulted in damage to the population, Julio Borges directed the assassination plan against President Nicolás Maduro on August 4, 2018 on Avenida Bolívar in Caracas.

This was confessed by the head of the Communications Directorate of the Presidential Honor Guard, Ovidio Carrasco Mosqueda, who worked in one of the security circles closest to the head of State for four and a half years inside the Miraflores Palace and confessed that it was the token infiltrated by Julio Borges to carry out the plan and a coup.


Borges, who gave confusing versions of an accident that involved the death of a minor, declared that "Venezuelans do not really receive orders from either the United States or Cuba," but he has focused his energy on making the United States intensify its battery of measures against the income of all Venezuelans.

The fake government , of which he is "chancellor," loots and delivers Venezuelan assets abroad.

Other anti-Chavez leaders such as Fernando Albán, María Corina Machado and Henrique Capriles participated in the conspiracy. Also former State and Executive officials such as the former fugitive prosecutor from the Venezuelan justice Luisa Ortega Díaz and her husband Germán Ferrer, also wanted for crimes of corruption, extortion, treason, among others.

They are pointed out in the coup plan together with the former Minister of Oil and President of PDVSA, Rafael Ramírez; the former director of Sebin and former Minister of Internal Relations and Justice, Miguel Rodríguez Torres; the former Minister for Water and Air Transportation, and also former Minister of Food and a fugitive from the Venezuelan justice, Hebert García Plaza; retired Major General Hugo Carvajal; retired general Cliver Alcalá Cordones, among others.

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