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Post by blindpig » Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:52 pm

LIAR SUMMARY
Carola Chavez

7 Apr 2021 , 7:12 pm .

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Last weekend, a thug from the El Coqui gang took a dip in the pool of a police club. I saw it with my own eyes: a guy on the edge of the pool, throwing himself with a banana, as if nothing had happened and a review that said who it was. "We do not believe in policemen, or in anyone" - they said dead with laughter and chupulún! -.

The dip was a trend all weekend and even today, despite the fact that one of the most efficient amplifying means of fake news tweeters made the denial, yes, with a single and timid tweet about the false note that it helped to maintain in the first place of the trends during days at the tip of convulsive tweets and thousands and thousands of robotic retweets.

The trail is already done. With the clarification they wash their hands and pretend a decency that their readers do not care. After washing their hands, they go back to their work, which is no other than to smear them again, pretending to smear the truth.

While Coqui and his henchmen splashed in the fake pool, the Bello Monte morgue was dawning with a pile of corpses in black bags scattered on the street. According to the Mayan infomercenary that spread the terrifying photo, COVID and the evil government had led us to this. The long-awaited day finally arrived, when, mature culprit, the dead overflowed through the windows of the hospitals, dripping down the streets until they piled up in front of the morgue that could no longer be used. Be afraid, sir. Be very afraid, ma'am! That if the COVID does not take them, the Coqui takes them. Retweet, retweet, and also pass it on WhatsApp, that your anguish and anxiety is our business.

Once the impudent liar Mayamero has been denied, he ducks and evades inventing another lie, as it should be, and accuses the denier of "Chavista" that he now has to deny, not once, but many times, because he is not a Chavista.

Lies on all fronts, and what better front to lie than a war front. In Apure, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces are fighting Colombian irregular forces, a kind of tropical Al Qaeda that Duque's sub-government, by order of his gringo master, tries to implant here as the germ of the war that they want us –and cannot– impose. There is no better scenario for lies to fester than a war scenario and more so in these times, when the truth has to be carefully excavated from among a million lies and half-truths, which are also lies.

This is how in Apure the paramilitaries are now industrious and peaceful peasants who do not plant corn, but antipersonnel mines, of course, but that does not matter if the lying USAID NGOs are there to launder everything. That the bad guys are the Venezuelan soldiers who try to liberate their own territory from Colombian narco-paramilitaries. That the evil army imprisoned a journalist who illegally crossed the border and "tortured" him, protecting him from the shooting and serving him an evil lunch. That Venezuela is the country that worries UNHCR, which is forced to run to the Colombian side of the conflict to put up a lot of tents for displaced Venezuelans, which according to German TV DWOnly from the town of La Victoria 5 thousand of its 3,500 inhabitants have crossed into Colombia fleeing from the Madurista violence… Colombia! Where no one has seen the camps of the very concerned UNHCR to protect the almost 8 million internally displaced people from the eternal war from there that they want to bring us here.

And Duque rises to the stage and begins to project his own miseries on Venezuela, the miseries that the oligarchy, and now the Colombian drug oligarchy, has imposed since the beginning of time and forever and ever on the Colombian people. And their false positives are echoed in the mainstream media, monopolies of the lie that is already so grotesque that nobody believes it, but it does not matter, because this is the era of cynicism.

And as if reality were no longer complex enough, for several weeks a new version of that unsuccessful campaign of fear of the hair-stealing piranhas has been running, which now mutated men who steal entire women, or at least they try without much success because they end up being saved cinematically by anonymous heroes who help them get home so they can tell everything on social media, but never with the police. Terrifying campaign that did not catch on and that finally gained strength in the news trends, courtesy of Caraota Digital, which, in a few days, timidly, will be denied.

And to make the tangle of lies more liar, Guaidó announces that he has COVID 19 and blames Maduro for I don't know what and three days later he announces that he has been cured and blames Maduro for I don't know what else. And when it comes to lying, he says he was working and he can't lie anymore.

Lies caught on the fly in just five days. Unbridled lies that announce and accompany a new and desperate attempt to overthrow the truth of Venezuela. Lies that are the weapons of those who are not right. Lies that they have not been able to and, as always, they will not be able to.

We will win!

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Re: Venezuela

Post by blindpig » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:43 pm

The People of the Colombian-Venezuelan Borders Fear War
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on APRIL 20, 2021
María Fernanda Barreto

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FANB deployments on the border with Colombia in the state of Apure (Photo: Archivo)

Since the events in Apure, a number of incidents on the Colombia-Venezuela border have been reported in the international media, hinting at a military conflict in the making during this pre-electoral year, which is expected to be the end of Uribism’s term in the Colombian presidency, at least through the electoral process.

FROM WHAT IS PUBLISHED TO WHAT REALLY MATTERS

The first and most publicized incident was the flight of a US Boeing 135 W aircraft, which allegedly was the most advanced signals intelligence platform of the US Air Force.

The aircraft would have departed from Nebraska (United States) to the Colombian Arauca to carry out intelligence gathering for four hours, according to WebInfoMil, presumably on “the electronic order of battle of the Venezuelan armed forces (sic) and their tactical and strategic disposition on the ground, following the massive military deployment that has taken place in the last fifteen days in the border region. Likewise, thanks to the great espionage capabilities of this sophisticated aircraft, the U.S. operators were able to analyze the entire electromagnetic spectrum of the region, gathering information from radars, communications, air defense systems, cellular signals, electronic warfare systems and clandestine radio stations”.

Although this maneuver was presented as something extraordinary that demonstrates the perception of Venezuela as a growing threat against Colombia, namely, against US interests in the region, its disproportionate publicity in at least 20 of the media traditionally involved in the media war against the Bolivarian Revolution indicates more of a psychological warfare and dissuasion operation than an intelligence one.

It should also be added that this action was not covert and, according to the first media reports, the information was obtained through open sources and programs that register the position of the aircrafts through the ADS-B system.

This is also not the first time that maneuvers of this type of aircraft have been known on Venezuelan borders: since 2019 Venezuela has reported these flights in the Caribbean region near its borders, and in October 2019 the Venezuelan Comprehensive Defense Aerospace Command reported the unauthorized incursion of an aircraft of this type in Venezuela’s flight information system at the “Simón Bolívar” International Airport of Maiquetía. The media reports at least three more flights of this type in the last two years along the Venezuelan borders.

There are countless mechanisms by which the United States illegally collects information in the world; the radar system located in the Caribbean islands and in Colombia itself have been part of this for many years.

Colombian media also say that this flight over Colombian territory is unprecedented and that it would signify an increase in the “support” of the United States. Some question what this means for Colombian sovereignty -a question that certainly persists in some sectors of the Military Forces-, but the reality is that the little sovereignty that Colombia could preserve was lost when it joined NATO as a “global partner” in 2016.

In this regard it is worth noting that NATO has been making deterrent military moves around the world since Biden came to power to threaten China and Russia, to which both powers have responded with unusual military deployments, without any real military conflict breaking out so far.

The new administration in Washington seems eager to make its permanent surveillance power felt again around the world to regain its fractured strategy of full-spectrum dominance, and while it remains the most militarily powerful nation on the planet, emerging powers and non-subordinate countries are making inroads here as well.

Meanwhile, for the diminished uribista government, the war of distraction with Venezuela is a tool that may be useful to prevent its electoral debacle in August 2022.

More precisely, the second event that took place in recent days at the binational border happened in a municipality called Distracción in Colombia’s La Guajira, at the Buenavista military base where the Colombian Minister of Defense summoned the media this weekend for a small artillery exhibition and, of course, took the opportunity to harangue against the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to continue heating up the atmosphere.

But what was really important was under publicized. In the first days of April, one of Colombia’s largest newspapers published an article on the arrival of new paramilitary contingents in Cúcuta and their alleged alliance with the Army. These paramilitaries of the group known as the AGC (in support of the denunciation of the crime of “memoricide” denounced by Gloria Gaitan before the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal last March, we refuse to name this group of narco-paramilitary terrorists by the name they have given themselves and choose to refer to them only by their initials) arrived in groups of 40 in small planes from the Urabá region of Antioquia to support the Los Rastrojos paramilitary organization after, according to the journalist, they were expelled from Venezuela and were defeated in Colombia by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Catatumbo and the rural area of Cúcuta.

This guerrilla organization provided more details on its web page this week and warned that it would be a battalion composed of 400 paramilitaries that would be placed under the orders of the Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) that arrived in Colombia in May 2020 and that, contrary to the initial announcements of the Colombian government, is still in the Vulcano Joint Task Force located in Tibú.

Among its objectives is the return of these Colombian paramilitary groups to Catatumbo, a river of strategic value that originates in northeastern Colombia and flows into Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela and the state of Táchira.

FEAR OF THE PEOPLE IN ARMS MAKING HEADLINES

The defeat and expulsion of the paramilitary groups in Catatumbo and Táchira was a product of the operations in defense of Venezuelan sovereignty carried out jointly by the FANB, the political leadership of regional authorities such as Freddy Bernal and Omar Prieto and, of course, the organized communities of the border, and which deepened after the victory of the Battle of the Bridges (February 2019) until reaching the success that they are threatening to reverse today.

Judging by the reactions, it is these people who have surprised them the most and whom they most fear. In part because they actually believe their own lies about “the Venezuelan dictatorship” and contradict themselves by showing that there is a popular power with the will to confront its regular and irregular incursions.

So, although the reinforcement of the Venezuelan armored vehicles also occupied the attention of the Colombian media, even highlighting the land power of the Venezuelan Army, the biggest international scandal in the global media corporations was caused by the order given by President Nicolás Maduro to the Bolivarian Militia, on its anniversary week, to send a thousand militia men and women to the state of Apure.

France24, DW, BBC, are some of the major networks that reported this fact as the most important event of the week in the binational border.

Apparently they are unaware that the Bolivarian Militia has a chain of command, uniform, internal regulations and, ultimately, is a special component of the FANB in accordance with the Law. They attempt to caricaturize it and even equate it with paramilitary organizations, but they are struggling between underestimating it or describing it as a fearsome monster. The only thing that is clear in all the reviews about this decision of President Maduro is that it scares them.

They are well aware that this contingent will come mainly to support the popular organization, but they are also aware that the social fabric on the border is the strongest barrier to defend the sovereignty they would like to violate.

The Prolonged People’s War laid the foundations to build the China that today disputes the world leadership of the United States. The People’s War ordered by President Maduro and that media are trying to portray as obsolete inflicted an unforgettable defeat on them at the Bay of Pigs.

The undeniable experience of the Colombian Public Force in irregular warfare that today is at the service of NATO against Venezuela has an extensive record of crimes and violence against the Colombian people, but to tell the truth, it does not have any important military victory to boast about, which is why they are well aware of what they should be afraid of.

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Re: Venezuela

Post by blindpig » Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:39 pm

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Libertador Simón Bolívar Petrochemical Complex located in Barranquilla, Colombia (Photo: AFP)

EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION AND DRUG TRAFFICKING: THE TRACES OF GUAIDÓ IN THE OLD AN
27 Apr 2021 , 11:19 am .

The damage in human, economic and social terms that unilateral coercive measures (UCM) have caused to Venezuela are incalculable. Several months after the new National Assembly was installed, constitutionally elected in December of last year, details of the greatest plot of corruption and blood loss against the nation, endorsed and promoted by the previous legislative period, still come to light.

Although this public power during the five years had an opposition to the government of Nicolás Maduro, and in other cases a complacent attitude to the designs of the United States, it was the period presided over by former deputy Juan Guaidó that endorsed the looting of assets by part of the imperial powers.

And it is that his self-appointment as President of the Republic constituted the legal element that was missing to specify the dispossession, blocking of accounts abroad and even the attempted invasion of our territory by foreign military forces.

Local, hemispheric and imperial interests were those that were combined to take advantage of our wealth through the attempt to fracture the Venezuelan State. In some cases, these plans were implemented, especially with financial resources and companies that, because they were outside the country, were far from the scope of the protection of the Bolivarian Revolution.

In this intersection of local and foreign interests, the intellectual and material authors did not think about the devastating consequences for the population, especially the most vulnerable, those who depend mostly on public health and food services, among others.

The new National Assembly and its commissions have been unraveling new corruption schemes that add to the criminal record of the entire scaffolding of the fake presidency installed by Washington. In an interview made by Últimas Noticias (ÚN) with José Brito , who chairs the Special Commission appointed to investigate the Legislative Power corresponding to the 2016-2021 period, new details were revealed that show the direction taken by some companies managed by the Guaidó clan.

The NA during the period under investigation had various levels of pressure against the Bolivarian Government. What in the first stage was treated as a maneuver to remove President Nicolás Maduro from the Legislative Branch and generate chaos between public powers, escalated until the attempt to build a parallel government.

Although this context was marked by internal and external economic warfare, the government was able to circumvent the crisis with some effective policies such as the development of the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP). However, the US intervention became more and more present and the application of MCU began to dent the response capacity of the government.

The hardest hit was received by the country when local and foreign robbery settled on Venezuelan assets outside the territory, a terrain that was being paid since 2017 when Julio Borges from his authority as head of parliament undertook a tour to promote the economic and financial siege , the immediate antecedent of the "sanctions" of Washington.

With the endorsement of the "interim presidency" and the appointment of ad hoc jousts, the hunt for Citgo Petroleum, a PDVSA subsidiary in the United States, and Monómeros, the second most important Venezuelan asset abroad, located in Colombia, begins. Theft from the nation has direct implications in the countries where these resources are located.

In the case of the neighboring country, their most evident participation was when immigration officials did not allow the entry of Ronald Ramírez, appointed by President Maduro to direct the PDVSA subsidiary company, to Colombia, claiming that he was a collaborator of a "dictatorship." This decision by the government of Iván Duque came a few days after Guaidó proclaimed himself president, which demonstrated the ongoing plan. This action occurs even before the United States decided to take sides on Citgo.

WHY IS MONÓMEROS SO COVETED?
Venezuela's main petrochemical industry, Pequiven, in 2006 acquired 100% of the shares of the Monómeros company, which was previously managed by a consortium of Colombian public and private companies. This company that produces fertilizers necessary for the agricultural sector has the capacity to produce 1.3 million tons of organic and inorganic substances for large-scale planting, the equivalent of "46% of the distribution of fertilizers in Colombia and the coverage of more than 70% of the demand for agrochemicals ", according to RT .

It also produces nitric acid, sulfuric acid, sodium sulfate, cyclohexanone, gypsum, sodium carbonate, sulfur, caustic soda, phosphoric acid, ammonia, methanol, among other essential products for the food, health, paper, detergent, soft drink sectors, cement and paint.

The Libertador Simón Bolívar Petrochemical Complex occupies an area of ​​52 hectares near the mouth of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena, which gives it autonomy and its own ports to distribute what it produces in 50 countries around the world. This enormous operation places Monómeros among the main companies in the country and the region.

José Brito, former militant of Primero Justicia and now in the ranks of Primero Venezuela, refers that the losses for the nation are monstrous and that from the different reports of universities and other organizations, they calculate that what the country would stop perceiving due to the blockade rises to 190 billion dollars.

Directive ad hoc of Guaidó, by Jon Bilbao Baroja , he dismissed later explained that at the end of last year would receive earnings per 6 million, resources that obviously will go to Venezuela.

NGOS AND THEIR COMPLICITY WITH THEFT
Regarding other elements that also take advantage of the blockade situation, Brito points out that they will also investigate the NGOs for being "necessary accomplices for the misappropriation of humanitarian aid money from foreign resources as well as the Venezuelan State's own resources." The figure of the "implementer" is one of the first to be investigated, who keeps the 30% destined for migrants.

Regarding the destination of these funds, it indicates:

"They created a fund called Venezuela Investment Fund, Fivendev with accounts in South Africa that we have been able to determine through research, where donations from these implementers would go. It is a fund created by two people, one of them cousin- brother of Juan Gerardo Guaidó Márquez. It was created to be able to justify before international banks these resources that come from the exercise of making this movement, in quotation marks, an opponent in Venezuela, a great business. That money ended up in different hands from what it has to see with humanitarian aid ".

Under the screen of humanitarian aid, money has been collected in different parts of the world for Venezuelans. Given this, he points out that there is no organic structure or official fund to channel these resources.

"That was a parapet to get money that was for humanitarian aid or activities related to the political future in Venezuela. The last information we handle by account statements is that they practically scraped that fund and there is no money there."

The parliamentarian details that, for example, of the 500 million euros collected in Spain, no one knows the whereabouts. But none of this would be possible without the apparatus supported by the Guaidó administration and the parties involved in this grand scheme of corruption. On this, he mentions that, according to the investigations, whoever sold the crude to be refined through Citgo was a person linked to Henry Ramos Allup.

MONOMERS AS A PART OF THE COLOMBIAN NARCO-STATE
Following this logic of complicity to take advantage of the situation, Brito mentions that regarding the Monómeros case, in the coming days they will reveal a "very shameful" plot of corruption.

"We are going to present to the country situations such as that of a Monomers fertilizer company, which is being used as a platform for Colombian criminal groups. I do not want to give more details so as not to cloud the investigation. How were Monomers distributed? This is yours, this is mine, this is the fee for Primero Justicia, this is the fee for AD, for Un Nuevo Tiempo, for Popular Will. "

The first indication of corruption in the company came to light a few months after the board appointed by the fake government took office. "The 'president' of the Pequiven ad hoc board of the Guaidó project, Diana Bracho, presented the Monómeros management report with a rude accounting makeup to try to hide the losses of about seven million dollars (25 thousand 792 million 704 thousand pesos ) in 2019, " La Tabla said at the time.

In addition to confessing that the money had not been delivered to Pequiven, but that the fictitious board of directors kept it, the reality is that "the $ US 20 million of 2018 earnings, investment reserves and accumulated results of previous years".

The journalist Patricia Poleo also questions how it is that having everything in favor the company registers losses.

"Why is a company with the operating capacity at the same level, without imposed sanctions, with the support of the Colombian government and its institutions, giving a negligible profit margin with respect to the balance sheets of the years prior to 2018?"

There were many factors that added to the collapse of the apparatus built to deprive Venezuela of its assets outside the territory, facts that were unsustainable even for the opposition itself.

"When the time came to appoint the Board of Directors, Leopoldo López asked me to draw up a list; I am not a petrochemist, I am an oilman, so I consulted with my colleagues from Petróleos de Venezuela - some of whom are petrochemicals - and they gave me a list that was the one that I passed. The only thing that was worth to integrate that list were the professional merits and the moral and ethical trajectory. I gave it to Leopoldo. Then the dark hand came and they put people there for political reasons ", he confessed Calderón Berti in an interview with PanAm Post .

The entire scaffolding began to crack when Humberto Calderón Berti, who was appointed as an ambassador by Guaidó, denounced the undeniable acts of corruption on the part of the clan that appointed him as a diplomat.

Basically, the false diplomat exposes that partisan economic interests were above the unity that was tried to be projected.

On the dismissal of Bilbao as president of Monómeros, Calderón Berti says:

"It must be that he did not lend himself to what some wanted. What I do know - he can confirm it - is that before they formally appointed him, there were meetings in Caracas making demands on him. They were at the Amazonia restaurant. Two meetings in Amazonia and another meeting here at the Marriott Hotel making demands on him, ask him to see who they were. Ask for the list of those who have gone through Monomers asking for things. That they publish that list, of all, without exception. "

As for those who asked "things", the fake diplomat says that they were deputies to the National Assembly (outgoing).

Regarding the interviewer's question about whether it was a question of contracts that those deputies were looking for, he says:

"Whatever it was." It seems that urea is very palatable, people who wanted to sell urea. Buy raw materials, be intermediaries in negotiations.

"Urea works for cocaine production, doesn't it?" Asks the interviewer.

"It's a precursor, but I'm not saying that, I don't want to go into those depths." But it is a delicate subject that must be seen ... Why so much interest?

—A deputy from Acción Democrática has asked for urea contracts.

"Ask Bilbao." He has to know, I hope he has the strength and courage to tell the truth.


In this counterpoint of questions and answers, the production of urea-cocaine already acquires relevance.

More than a year later, the opposition deputy who leads the commission that investigates the acts of corruption of the previous legislative administration says that there are indications that Monómeros increased the production of urea, a raw material for making cocaine.

And this holding company would be selling urea to the Ochoa cartel and the cartel that alias Doble Rueda manages, said to be the one that ran the camps during Operation Gideon. In other words, the real business of Monómeros is to supply urea to the Colombian drug cartels. "

Urea, due to its versatility, can have several uses in the production of cocaine. One of them is that it can be used to produce ammonia clandestinely, since it is restricted due to its illicit use in the production of narcotic drugs. Urea is also used for the crystallization process of coca paste, in fact it is one of the classic "precursors" for the manufacture of cocaine.

Seen from the outside, it is not surprising that a criminal triad with different interests is combined against Venezuela. On the one hand, the underlying interests on the part of Colombia and the United States as major producers and consumers of cocaine, and, on the other, the theft of a company of great value from the oil country to maintain the drug business and remove a strong enemy of the road.

As has been seen in recent years, and especially in recent days, the Bolivarian Revolution fights against territorial forces that include the governments of the United States and Colombia and other outsourced factors, but with large interests in the border dispute, such as the narco-paramilitary gangs that operate under the complicit gaze of the aforementioned governments, even though they have established policies to "end drug production."

That is why it is not surprising that drug trafficking has direct implications in the attempted regime change in Venezuela and that Juan Guaidó was escorted by Los Rastrojos to reach Colombia when an attempt was made to enter the country with alleged humanitarian aid in 2019.

If the Bolivarian Government constitutes a stumbling block for drug-imperial interests, it is because it has not allowed itself to impose said agenda. It is enough to see the route through which the drug travels between Colombia and the United States (the Pacific) to know that Venezuela is not on that path. On the other hand, it has never been proven that cocaine is produced or sown in this territory and the severe blows that drug trafficking has received from the FANB are evident.

The nonsense of the Guaidó period, the darkest for the Republic, undermined the unity of destiny that the opposition drew for itself when it was the majority in the 2015 elections. The fracture was so great that the most rational sector of anti-Chavismo organized itself against the leadership of the G4 (Democratic Action, First Justice, A New Time and Popular Will) and the so-called "substitute rebellion" emerged in 2019.

The year 2020 was inaugurated with a new directive in the AN more folded to national interests while Guaidó swore himself in as president for life maintaining a painful image sustained by social networks with the support of the United States and some satellite countries.

"The AN, with an opposition majority, and with a pro-coup vocation, has starred in many of the actions that have led us to the present. It managed and supported a scenario that most Venezuelans suffer today," says Brito.

His mission from the commission he leads is to find if there are elements of conviction that indicate that "patrimonial damage was incurred to the nation, then it will be plenary, once we present the final report, which will determine the political responsibility on these persons. Regarding the penal and administrative sanctions that may arise, it will be through the corresponding instances that will act on the matter ".

With the rescue of the Legislative Power, the stability of the nation is sought, put in suspense by the imperial agenda. Although the damage is profound, the unity of the Venezuelan State serves to continue to be a stumbling block for those who try to fracture the country and the region.

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A CONFESSION OF PART, RELAY OF EVIDENCE: USAID AND THE TRACES OF THE INTERVENTION
30 Apr 2021 , 1:19 pm .

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USAID directly joined the regime change agenda promoted by the US government (Photo: EFE)

Recently, a report by the inspector general of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reveals that the "humanitarian aid" that was attempted to enter Venezuela in February 2019 "was motivated by the US attempt to provoke a regime change rather than a technical analysis of the needs and the best way to help the Venezuelans who needed it. "

The curious thing about this report, which took more than two years to prepare, is that it reaches conclusions that we all already knew: that the US agencies constitute an arm of intervention through non-violent means and that the attempt to enter the "aid" into Venezuela formed part of a regime change agenda with very bad calculations.

The report's conclusions were finally published on April 16 and offers some details on the management of the resources that were originally destined for Venezuela.

"As part of that effort, USAID spent $ 2 million between January and April 2019 to move 368 tons of emergency supplies to the Caribbean island of Curaçao and to the border between Colombia and Venezuela," says a ChicagoTribune note .

It is assumed that "humanitarian aid" would enter the country in a messianic way and symbolically with it the figure of Juan Guaidó directly to take power in Miraflores: neither of them crossed the bridge that connects Venezuela with Colombia.

And the miscalculation mentioned above by the Trump administration and its satellite countries was in believing that support for Guaidó and his recognition as "interim president" would be enough for the country's institutions to automatically accept him.

All this would not have been possible without an unprecedented media operation in which all the media aligned with the American consensus were activated, whose narrative revolved around two main themes: on the one hand, the support of the figure of Juan Guaidó as president and , on the other, a supposed famine that Venezuela was experiencing, which justified the support of the interim as something necessary and the urgent intervention to end the catastrophe.

A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE FALSE FLAG OPERATION

On February 22, 2019, the Venezuela Aid Live concert was held, organized by billionaire Richard Branson, to collect funds that would be destined for those displaced by the Venezuelan "crisis." The total amount collected and the destination of these resources are currently unknown.

This concert was joined by many figures from the world of music, entertainment and entertainment internationally who in the previous days announced their participation through social networks with the enthusiasm of those great events to raise funds after catastrophes. Some even offered large amounts of money to "shovel the famine situation in Venezuela."

This event was supposed to be the preamble for the humanitarian aid authorized by Guaidó to enter through the border with Colombia. Much of this assistance was provided by USAID.

As a measure to protect the country, President Maduro made the sovereign decision to close the borders and with this the epic that was intended to be sold in the media was demolished.

Subsequently, a journalistic investigation by PanAm Post revealed that those in charge of Guaidó to manage humanitarian aid from USAID and other governments in the region had misappropriated the funds, reports RT .

Both the United States and the fake government of Guaidó used the border events to calibrate their power of social convocation that the interim office had. As time passed, the parallel government was deflated, but the intentions had already been exposed.

Regardless of the underlying intention of the humanitarian aid, the projection was excessive because in the end the 380 tons in mathematical terms would not have great scope in terms of distribution. Anyone who lives in Venezuela knows that greater amounts of food are distributed monthly by CLAPs in a state or neighborhood of the capital.

Once the plan fell through, the ChicagoTribune note details, "supplies were unnecessarily shipped on huge Air Force C-17 cargo planes instead of cheaper commercial options that were available. Ready-to-eat food for combat child malnutrition were also sent despite the fact that USAID's own experts had determined that the nutritional condition of children in Venezuela did not merit their use at that time, the researchers said, "which shows that the great operation of those days was plus an act of propaganda and that help was the least of it.

According to the outlet, the belated report was prepared to address the challenges and "risks of fraud" in USAID's response to the Venezuelan crisis. It also suggests "recommendations to improve coordination among the expanding agency - the main vehicle for US aid abroad - and tighten controls to avoid politicizing humanitarian measures."

A representative of the US office said that the agency welcomed the report's conclusions, which they are already implementing to improve the effectiveness of USAID's work, and stating that "many of the decisions were made by the office of the then administrator. Mark Green "make it clear that the issue of responsibilities is relegated to a question of" the past administration. "

An official from the outgoing administration of the Trump administration, who requested anonymity on condition of speaking about internal decision-making, refuted some of the report's conclusions and defended himself, arguing that the decisions to send the supplies on military aircraft were taken. by the White House and the State Department "despite USAID objections."

For his part, Green expressed in a statement his pride in the work of the organization he led "in helping Venezuelans who urgently need it, with the bipartisan support of the US Congress."

"The Venezuelan crisis is one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world under the most difficult conditions in which the illegitimate Maduro regime continues to put up obstacles that prevent the Venezuelan people from meeting their basic needs," Green was quoted as saying by ChicagoTribune.

THE FRONTAL ATTITUDE AGAINST VENEZUELA

Clearly, USAID is part of the US interventionist apparatus; However, with the Trump administration, he did not keep the forms and had a frontal attitude against the Venezuelan government, thus leaving his usual screen of a neutral institution that only wants to "help" the countries that need it.

Faithful to the principles of intervention, the United States Agency for Development has been in tune with political events inside and outside Venezuela.

The institution claims to remain neutral in the face of the Venezuelan political conflict; However, he praised his link with the opposition National Assembly (AN) and referred to Nicolás Maduro as the former president of the Republic, clear signs of political partiality.

Since the self-proclamation of the president of the National Assembly as head of state in January 2019, USAID began to recognize Juan Guaidó as "president in charge", contributing to the worsening of the political crisis in the country.

After the resounding failure of the entry of "humanitarian aid" and verifying that the fake president had no power to wield in Venezuela, USAID began to work quietly behind the scenes with United Nations agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other organizations to channel assistance resources to Venezuela, organizations that by the way recognize Maduro as the legitimate President of the Republic.

The US media note says that "such efforts have continued under the government of President Joe Biden" and again use as context that "more than 5.1 million Venezuelans have fled their country since 2014" and "since 2017, the United States The United States has provided more than 500 million dollars in humanitarian and development aid to respond to the crisis, "thereby seeking to continue to justify the United States'" concern "for Venezuela.

Behind the altruistic action and the sale of the narrative of the miracle of USAID humanitarian aid there are always, frontally or not, hidden imperial interests. It is enough to review the long history of interference in the sovereignty of nations that do not align with US foreign policy to show it.

It is only enough for a government to try to be autonomous for this agency to increase its presence in that country and begin to directly support the opposition and the NGOs incorporated in its area of ​​influence, a fact that has been recognized by the agency's own authorities.

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Post by blindpig » Sat May 15, 2021 1:35 pm

THE FAILURE OF THE "MAXIMUM PRESSURE" ENDS IN A NEW POLITICAL TURN
May 13 , 2021 , 11:50 am .

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Juan Guaidó is isolated before the new political scenarios in Venezuela (Photo: Leo Álvarez)

The internal political picture in Venezuela has moved with special particularity. President Nicolás Maduro said that "for a long time" opposition factors, beyond those who have done so openly in the National Dialogue Table, have been "dialoguing" with Chavismo and now the situation is projected towards a favorable change. of the environment, for now.

Events have turned particularly since the National Assembly (AN) proclaimed the new authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

What happened and how did we get here?

THE ELECTION OF THE NEW CNE AS A TURNING POINT
Recently, when the new CNE was announced, several opposition actors called it a body "with the right to doubt" due to the presence of irrefutable anti-Chavistas among its members, opening the range of possibilities and reactions.

This CNE would have been proposed not only by opponents in the AN, but also by members of "civil society" and abstentionist opponents in behind-the-scenes rapprochement with Chavismo.

The reactions were varied in the internal opposition, but the different nuances with which the announcement was dealt with on the external front of Venezuela have been more interesting and have been key to define how the previous positions have settled.

Namely, the European Union (EU) described the election of the electoral body as "a first step" .

Meanwhile, the US government, through a minor spokesperson, in an evident care for its usual positions and forceful footing, did not reject the CNE. He declared that " Venezuelans will decide whether the new CNE will provide a comprehensive solution to the political crisis," like Poncio Pilatos, but without refuting that the electoral body has been elected by an AN whose actions would be unknown by the US government, as stated. in the Trump Administration. This last one important exception.

The Organization of American States (OAS), or rather its Secretary General, who now appears to personify said body by issuing statements without consultations to the Permanent Council, declared the appointment due to "nullity" of the acts of the current parliament.

What is appreciable, both in the Venezuelan opposition and in the actors of the external front, is a clear absence of cohesion of positions. It is appreciated in the tones. However, apart from the OAS, it is evident for the Americans and for the Europeans that the maintenance of the "maximum pressure" strategy has not yielded expected results. The alleged stagnation promoted in Venezuelan politics has not been such and, ultimately, all consensus around the phrases "cessation of usurpation" and "transitional government" have weakened, which have disappeared from the jargon about Venezuela.

It is evident that not all sectors of the opposition bowed to the abstentionist immobility that the US government proposed as a strategy. The aspiration to regional offices has stimulated that several parties meet behind the scenes with Chavismo aspiring to a leveling of conditions that allows them to return to the political arena. The abstentionist trap contravenes their aspirations in favor of the benefit (political and economic) of small groups of an opposition made diaspora.

With this scenario, the weakening of the so-called G4 is consolidated as the main instance in the operation of dismantling the formal channels of national politics and its de facto rupture, since this is the basis of "legitimacy" on which the fake government of Guaidó.

In light of the weakening of the US strategy in Venezuela, and the fact that the blockade measures did not remove Chavismo from its center of political gravity and, on the contrary, it has managed to consolidate despite them, the method has had to change. Now it is the "political and negotiated solutions" that return to the ring.

All this has been generated from the CNE as a turning point. Institutionalism in Venezuela is advancing with or without Washington's favorite factors.

THE MOVEMENTS OF PIECES IN INTERNAL POLITICS
The new CNE has planned to review the situation of disqualified parties and new awnings for this year's elections. The electoral body declared itself in permanent session to define the date of the elections of governors, mayors, regional legislators and councilors. The elections go.

The president of the CNE, Pedro Calzadilla, explained that they will review with the competent bodies the disqualifications, in addition to the registration and renewal of the list of parties already registered, they will also carry out a registration and update day in the REP and proposals for the electoral schedule.

At a meeting in Caracas, members of the Democratic Action (AD) faction led by Henry Ramos Allup decided to participate in the elections for governors and mayors, promoting the de facto breakdown of the G4.

President Nicolás Maduro, in a brief description of the evolution of this political cadre, indicated that these agreements were part of negotiations with broad opposition sectors, "except with the extremist opposition," in reference to Guaidó.

Maduro reported that Freddy Guevara, from Voluntad Popular (VP), and a former emissary of Leopoldo López in the country, requested a meeting with Deputy Francisco Torrealba, from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), interested in having his awning participate in the choice. Then Guevara confirmed that the approach to Torrealba was true, claiming: "We will do all the proposals that we have to do to unblock this game."

The movements indicate the creation of conditions to go to a massive election of regional and municipal offices. However, this initial agenda for now does not exclude more possibilities and demands by the anti-Chavistas.

GUAIDÓ IN THE LABYRINTH
Upon learning of the opposition movements dialoguing and announcing their electoral aspirations, Juan Guaidó decided to speak "on behalf of the entire Venezuelan opposition" and proposed a new political mantra: a "National Salvation Agreement" based on a new dialogue, with him including, together with other demands, among them the untimely holding of presidential and parliamentary elections.

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Even Freddy Guevara implicitly recognizes the new CNE, asking to participate at the wrong time (Photo: File)

Basically, Guaidó publicly requests a dialogue, but at the same time he initiates and patents it in his name and according to new impositions, even offering the de-escalation of economic-financial-commercial blockade measures against the country as part of a political incentive.

The late entry of Guaidó, in clear incongruity with the events in the realm of reality, as we have already indicated, is preceded by a clear sedimentation of the consensus that sustained his fake presidency . Even for Americans and Europeans his "interim presidency" is not a credible route now, and neither is it for the other parties that accompanied him.

On this, the virtual "ambassador" of the United States in Venezuela, but based in Colombia, Jimmy Story, indicated that they endorsed Guaidó's call for a "National Salvation Agreement", signing each of the items proposed by Guaidó. Regarding the new CNE, without ignoring it, Story claimed that this "is not enough."

Regarding Guaidó's pronouncement, President Maduro pointed out that "those who refused to dialogue and remained outside, isolated and defeated, are now asking for dialogue" with the intention of participating in this year's regional elections. He added that "he comes out today to say that he wants dialogue because he was left out of everything, isolated and defeated. Nobody consults him at all, while the course of the country is already set towards a great mega-election."

He then stated that "if he wants to join the dialogues that are already underway, developing on all issues, welcome to join the dialogues that already exist and that it is not believed that he is the chief and supreme leader of a country that does not recognize it. "

Maduro finished:

"If you want dialogue, here we are ready for dialogue on the subject you want, whenever you want. We are hardened and well versed in political, diplomatic and sovereign dialogue between Venezuelans and Venezuelans, in dialogue for peace, in dialogue so that they can stand up. the sanctions against Venezuela, in that of reconciliation among Venezuelans. We are people of dialogue, we are warriors of the Homeland, forged in democracy, freedom and dialogue. "

Regarding the evolution in the Venezuelan political scene, Leopoldo López joined the proposal made public by Guaidó and considered the relevance of "negotiating" with Chavismo.

THE FAILURE OF FOUR YEARS OF STRATEGY TO DISMANTLE CHAVISMO
The four-year cycle of "maximum pressure" against Venezuela seems to be subsiding in the terms we have known. This with the exception that the economic and political pressures continue against the country, they remain intact. The pressure continues, but must be recalibrated. The new US administration has not escalated in new announcements of measures against Venezuela.

The dismantling of the main points of the "maximum pressure" agenda is evident. The "cessation of usurpation" and "the transitional government" have been erased from the equation. The tacit and open acceptance of the United States and the EU respectively of the new CNE imply a recognition, also tacit and open, of the new NA elected in the country, which overturns the alleged perpetual continuity of the NA elected in 2015 over which Guaidó still claims to establish. The fierce and simultaneous blockades have not achieved their intended objectives and that is an undeniable reality.

The disablement of Guaidó has been established by means of fact, as much as it always was by means of law. They overlap on his figure Henrique Capriles, Henry Ramos Allup and Freddy Guevara as credible political interlocutors against Chavismo, all while Maduro offers him space at a dialogue table already in development over which he can little maneuver.

Guaidó seems sent by external factors to negotiate now with Chavismo to try to achieve what they can best, under conditions of disadvantage, together with opponents divided among themselves and with a political balance of accumulated failures in tow.

On the external front of Venezuela, which is where the re-signification of the conversations with Chavismo concurs, now through a change in strategy, there is the recognition that the Bolivarian Republic has become a point of grounding for them. The situation has been one of stagnation after reaping failures in Chavismo's destitute agenda.

The prolongation of the cycle of the opposition "in diaspora" showing off denunciations and external lobbies without this translating into a real change in the situation in Venezuela, while another opposition in the political field gained space and the Venezuelan institutions continued to advance , it became unsustainable for Americans. The Biden Administration does not seem willing to hold on to damaging balances in Venezuela, especially as the midterm elections approach .

Doubts now loom over the possibility that the factors that now call for dialogue and that recognize that it is necessary to negotiate are factors reinserted into politics through mechanisms of infiltration and sabotage of the dialogues to perpetuate the destitute agendas, sieges and blockades, starting from of other precedents and modalities. The obstruction is also a pressure weapon focused inward and from within.

There is a risk that, by making unfeasible proposals for now, these groups intend to implode the political possibilities in the country.

However, in view of the possibility of mega-elections at municipal and regional levels, it should be considered as a first step in the complex process of overcoming the preceding four-year cycle. Everything remains to be seen.

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Post by blindpig » Wed May 19, 2021 1:06 pm

THE MYTH OF CORRUPTION (REDDISH RED)
Heathcliff Cedeño

May 18 , 2021 , 8:40 am .

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The Temptations of Saint Anthony (1650) (Photo: Joos Van Craesbeeck)


Every time an act of corruption is uncovered, and especially when it comes to government officials and the military wing, the joker returns of pointing to the Bolivarian Government as a company that promotes crime, even when the person who points out and prosecutes the act is the own state.

This automatic gesture of those who rub their hands waiting for a corrupt Chavista to "fall" is a classic of those who argue that the administration of a country should be in the hands of a well-educated professional class "trained" for such tasks.

Last week, the Public Ministry unveiled a corruption plot that involved the directors of Lácteos Los Andes, a strategic company for the country since it produces high-value food for the Venezuelan population. After intelligence work by the security agencies, the unions and the order of President Maduro, the arrest of Colonel Luis Augusto Piligra Jiménez, who had been serving as president of the dairy company since August 2019, was achieved.


After this news, the corruptio , which according to the oldest word according to the Roman language means the action and effect of corrupting (depraving, spoiling, and so on), was put on the table. Some treated it as an individual matter and others as a logic of Chavismo, as if corruption were a state policy.

The truth is that the case of the president of Lácteos Los Andes corresponds more to a logic of criminal accumulation of the local bourgeoisie that was already installed in the country before the arrival of Chavismo, and that finally constitutes the formula of rentier capitalism.

Alleged commission of intentional embezzlement, an official's agreement with a contractor, evasion of bidding procedures, having a dairy product's own brand and using the raw material of the public company for its elaboration are part of the crimes that are imputed to the colonel and his partner, Amelys Aracely Cabrera Gómez, procedures that will surely be found throughout the 20th century when the parasitic culture of the Venezuelan business community emerged.

It is important to mention that Piligra owns a herd in Apure, which bears the same name as Villa La Estancia, the brand of its dairy product; an agricultural farm that works within the herd, named MALUGA, CA; and a restaurant still life in the Chacao municipality of Miranda state called La Esquinita Gourmet. Building an emporium product of corruption and seeking to position itself in an area of ​​eastern Caracas corresponds more to bourgeois aspirations than to Chavismo and its historical origin.

And about the myth that this country should be governed by the "decent and prepared" class that is not corrupt because it does not need to "steal", it is necessary to remember how Venezuelan businessmen amassed great fortunes with the complicity of the political class that ruled in Venezuela. before the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution, an alliance that led this country to poverty levels that led to the emergence of Chavismo.

It is enough to remember that the Mendoza family, from Empresas Polar, acted as the great contractor for the Acción Democrática and Copei parties, thus amassing the large base capital for the large conglomerate of companies that currently has a net worth of 7.67 billion of dollars.

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Another of the many cases from the time of the Fourth Republic is that of The Twelve Apostles, a group of Venezuelan businessmen close to President Carlos Andrés Pérez who, after supporting him in the elections of 73, appeared in the most lucrative contracts granted during his term of government. , including the Guri Dam, the Pentacom petrochemical project, the construction of the Central Park Urban Complex (the largest commercial and office complex in South America at that time), among others.

What is remarkable about all this is that corruption in Venezuela has a private component that underlies the very metabolism of capitalism and its desire to accumulate wealth. The myth of the immaculate businessman and unquestionable morality before this century is untenable by history.

And with this, it is not intended to point the other way and affirm that the corruption there is worse than that of here because finally it is only one and responds to the same thing. It is natural that we feel a chill when justice falls on someone who mismanaged a company, ministry or any body whose purpose is to benefit many, especially at a time when the country is besieged with a criminal blockade and threats of all kinds.

Moments like these are used to chant "military to barracks" because their primary function is defense and they cannot fulfill other tasks, which responds to the logic prior to the arrival of the Revolution that despises other forms of organization. That officials of different ranks or occupation in the public administration are brought to justice is part of the fight against this scourge within the State.

Corruption is a complex issue and it has many edges. In many cases, it is used as a vertex of intervention by those who project themselves with moral authority to judge. Such is the case of the United States, whose flag to attack Venezuela has been to end this crime by Chavismo, even when they supported the fake government of Juan Guaidó and the largest corruption plot after the dispossession of our assets in the Exterior.


Other major crimes of corruption are committed by multinationals, but due to their invisible nature they are not tried, facts that are even covered up by global institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which imposes the rules and the dominant discourse on financial matters. The natural thing is that the multinationals loot the countries and the States load with the debt in the public expense and the consequences that derive from the social debts in the matter of claims. In this case, it is easier to judge an individual rather than a company that can disappear from a country at any time.

But the operation of multinationals can be even more macabre if one takes into account that before their arrival in the countries they generate favorable conditions for the exploitation of material and human resources in complicity with the organizations in charge of approving large loans. Of course, there are local corrupt who lend themselves to these plays, but their profit is minimal when compared to the extraction of resources of an entire nation and the great corrupt will never be judged.

Not wanting to justify some kind of corruption, some argue that if there are conditions for an illegal act to occur, it will pass. As a daughter of this system, it is an inevitable phenomenon where there is someone who can use the power he has to generate resources for himself or those around him. In which country where the capitalist system reigns there are no acts of corruption?

To a greater or lesser extent, they will occur because this crime is an integral part of capitalism (the greatest crime against the world) and, therefore, permeates all sectors and layers of society, especially the private sector, whose fetishism that uses "their own resources" and they do with "their money" whatever they want is unsustainable in Venezuela, dependent on the petro-state.

It is a good exercise to stop and think if there are more corrupt than before, or if they are more noticeable because there are fewer resources and the few are disputed for more in a barbarism caused by war. The spoiler is that cases like those of Colonel Piligra Jiménez will continue to come to light: because the revolution is made up of individuals and everyone is susceptible to being corrupted and betraying its fragile principles; In addition, history is full of traitors and corrupt people who at some point even pointed out others.

This makes the fight against corruption a constant process, therefore, although it is affirmed that it is inevitable, the institutions of justice must continue to be strengthened to continue with the ethical commitment to fight against this monster, to punish the unforgivable crimes.

However, the task as a Bolivarian Revolution is to think and design our socialism, a new system that involves all of us and we assume that corruption is unacceptable and even unthinkable because precisely we all participate in the construction of a new model of society and undermine it. common benefit.

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Post by blindpig » Tue May 25, 2021 11:26 am

OPERATION BEHIND THE CLAPS
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May 24 , 2021 , 1:03 pm .

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FROM ALEX SAAB TO MARADONA

In 2014, in a book that collects the declassified documents available from various areas of the US government, it was publicly disclosed how the State Department operated in Chile between 1969 and 1973, thus acknowledging its participation in the coup d'état. perpetrated against Salvador Allende. But, in addition, the story of Jack Devine , an undercover CIA agent , became known , telling, forty years later, his functions with the media account, among them mainly the relationship with El Mercurio .

Newspaper to which the CIA gave "around two million dollars, over two years, which allowed them to continue publishing" the stories about nationalization, violent actions and the economic crisis of that time that promoted political destabilization in the country.

Not only that, Devine was also involved in political turmoil, acknowledging the CIA's involvement in this field. This is how it captured middle-class women among its sources. He gave one of them hundreds of dollars to organize demonstrations with empty pots to protest the lack of food. Considered at first "a good idea that at least justified a small investment", eventually becoming the first "March of the Cacerolas" against the Popular Unity.

In the case of Venezuela, it will not be necessary for the United States to declassify documents 40 years later to be able to recognize its participation in the policy of siege against the country, in order to promote "regime change" against President Nicolás Maduro, as well as the evident participation of internal and external actors involved in it.

Here you can identify operators, such as El Mercurio or middle-class women in Chile, particularly on the agri-food system and, therefore, on the population, both constituents of national power, to violate it, or what is equal to reduce or reduce it , in order to collapse the government, generate paralysis and thereby achieve the goal of the United States.

FROM THE "MARCH OF THE EMPTY POTS" TO "THE LAST QUEUE"

And if there is a component for which these operators have constantly attacked Venezuela, it is in relation to the issue of food, whose agenda began to be installed in 2014, when it was wanted to replicate in the country, in the midst of the "guarimbas" violent, "the march of the empty pots" without any justification, because in that year the Venezuelan population still enjoyed food indicators at the highest level.

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Indicators that were maintained in 2015, even in the midst of the economic war , induced shortages, long lines to buy basic food and even the phenomenon of "bachaqueo" of these, mainly towards Colombia. Reality that was recorded by the BBC that year: "Whoever looks from the outside may think that, due to a shortage of basic necessities, the Venezuelan is going hungry (...) But you will be surprised when you see that, in most homes Rich or poor, many of these products are in the refrigerators, cupboards and food plates. "

In that year, " the last tail " was the slogan used by the opposition to the Venezuelan government to conquer the National Assembly, from where the application of the United States "sanctions" against the country between 2016 and 2020 was subsequently endorsed.

This National Assembly became immediately and until its last days the executing arm of United States policies against Venezuela, inside and outside the national territory. And from that space, the attack on the subsidized food program at home, known as Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP), created in 2016, was structured.

And it is that the queues to acquire basic foods, on which the media was ridden to keep Venezuela on the international agenda, and the opposition National Assembly (2016-2020) was positioned, began to disappear as the CLAPs were spreading to the length and breadth of the country and food products literally arriving at the doors of the Venezuelan families' homes. The chaos began to fade and it was imperative for the United States, it still is, to prevent the National Government from obtaining greater freedom of action on this issue.

For this, a combination of economic and media terrorism has been operated in conjunction with "economic sanctions."

Economic terrorism, because national and foreign businessmen have been persecuted in one way or another, including their involved companies, in the supply of CLAPs to Venezuela. Supplying the country with an essential good has become a crime not openly declared at first, to generate a dispersed, disguised punishment, whose hunt really hangs over the food program, seeking its discredit, to sow rejection in the population to whom it is addressed, and beyond, on anyone who dares to supply food goods to the country.

To do this, from the National Assembly a network of actors, politicians, media and strategists was woven that constantly prowl over the CLAP, as is done to date with any movement that is executed or smells of food purchases by the government Venezuelan. The excuse, always supported in "dark businesses" that continue to hang on assumptions and presumptions, or like the most recent, "should" or "probably", which are imputed to Maradona, El Diez.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (2016-2020), EXECUTING ARM OF THE US IN VENEZUELA

In 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic, it was known that the Mexican companies Libre Abordo and Schlager Business Group, as well as their owners, were "sanctioned" by the United States , accused of exchanging oil for food with Venezuela.

However, it was not the first case. Since 2017, the hunt for the CLAPs has intensified in the media and politically, through the figure of businessman Samark López. In fact, it constituted its first complaint for the National Assembly, the executing arm of the United States in Venezuela, after having rejected its launch in 2016.

The businessman was accused of having sold food to Venezuela from Mexico for the overpriced food program; at the same time that he was accused of being the front man of the then vice president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami; the latter, also accused of profiting from food, before the United States accused him of having " alleged ties to drug trafficking " and of evading the "sanctions" of the Treasury Department, and on whom the White House ended up imposing a reward of $ 10 million for its "location." Both were "sanctioned" in early 2017.

In 2020, the United States priced López's head at $ 5 million. A month after it became known that the informant for whom both had been accused had lied and stolen from the US federals 140 thousand dollars that was transporting them, putting the case at risk, and leaving evidence that, from the North American country, it was incurring on bogus charges to pursue his goal of "regime change" in Venezuela.

The truth is that in 2017 they began to be singled out for acquiring food from the CLAP for the country during 2016, and ended up simply accusing them of evading the "sanctions" imposed by the United States, and for which they would have to be prosecuted "to protect the US citizens of the illegitimate Maduro regime ": you read that right," to protect US citizens from Nicolás Maduro, "according to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.


THE ILLEGAL ARREST OF ALEX SAAB: BETWEEN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE "INDEPENDENT PRESS"

Another case that has perhaps been better known can be read in Alex Saab and the food blockade of Venezuela . Among the actors involved that have exploited this case is, of course, the National Assembly (2016-2020), the same "independent press" financed by NED, USAID and Foreign & Commonwealth Office, among others, and some other person, such as the outrageous participation of Luisa Ortega Díaz, former attorney general of the Republic, recently dismissed at that time, who amid journalists in Brazil clumsily read a piece of paper that was sent to her with the name of a company to point out, this time, to the President Nicolás Maduro himself to profit directly from the CLAP. And that, at present, is accused in the United States of briberyof a million dollars to a Venezuelan businessman.

All these in a bid to obtain the recognition of the United States, which is pressing for the extradition of Alex Saab to Cape Verde. Once detained during 2020 illegally in that country, by justifying a non-existent red alert from Interpol, and even more so, with a diplomatic designation of Special Envoy since 2018, violating his immunity, as documented by the Foreign Ministry. Venezuelan. While making a technical stop, in the middle of a trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran on behalf of Venezuela, where he was traveling to carry out "steps aimed at guaranteeing the humanitarian procurement of supplies of great need for the country, in the context of the pandemic. by the Covid-19 (…) in addition to the usual ones, for the procurement of food and medicine ",

The "independent press" has devoted long reports to Saab since 2017, so much so that it has become the protagonist of the story, and of course, if the United States has paid special attention to its publications.

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The accusation and journalistic sentence against Saab also began for supplying food for the CLAP; However, it is a year and a half later, in October 2018, that the Trump administration announces the start of an investigation against this businessman, who since April of that same year, and not by chance, had been accredited as Special Envoy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, so that "with broad powers it carries out (ra) steps (...) in the search for practical solutions to the complex situations that affect the Republic (...) as a consequence of the commercial and financial blockade to which it has been submitted since 2015 ".

In July 2019, he was "sanctioned" by the Treasury Department, the same day he was formally charged in the Southern District of Florida in the United States for alleged money laundering events that occurred between 2011 and 2015, but it turns out that the accusations , the "sanctions" and the US communiqués only refer to their relationship with President Nicolás Maduro and the CLAP, even in September of that same year the United States announced the increase in pressure on him for the same reasons.


In February 2021, still illegally detained, the Biden administration recognized the people involved in the investigations and the spokespersons who helped unveil what the North American country describes as "the Maduro regime's corrupt use of the subsidized food program. in Venezuela ", and of course, it recognizes the work carried out by the opposition National Assembly a month before the Swiss prosecutor's office announced the closure of the investigation opened since 2018 against Alex Saab for the alleged money laundering, based on the lack of evidence to continue the cause from December 2020.


Of course, something that cannot be hidden in the media and statements by the United States spokesmen is that Alex Saab helped, and apparently continues to help, to evade the "sanctions" that the White House imposes on Venezuela, that is, to evade the blocking.

Although these are three cases, they are not unique, there are several accused, especially in the media by the "independent press" of supplying food to Venezuela. Among these, other Mexican companies that have been exposed to public derision as a form of pressure to put an end to the food supply to Venezuela since 2018.

LIMA GROUP AND UNHCR AGAINST CLAP

In October 2018, an operation was carried out from Mexico during the last days of the Peña Nieto government, more media and political than otherwise.

From the Aztec country the "dismantling of a network that profited from Venezuelan pantries" was announced, which was nothing other than with the CLAPs. No other information was known about the act after that day, until the so-called "independent journalism" appeared again.

The highlight of the matter is that Lira Salas, former deputy attorney general of the Mexican Republic, who made the announcement, affirmed that the CLAP products were finally resold to the Venezuelan population with 112% higher than the real cost of what they were acquired in Mexico, omitting that these were part of a subsidized program that even today families receive at a ridiculous price, compared to the food on supermarket shelves in Venezuela and the inflation that the country is still experiencing.

On the other hand, it concealed the names of the Mexican companies involved in the alleged network, attributing the commitment of a "reparatory agreement" so that they were not sanctioned. The first of the demands was to deliver $ 3 million to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filipo Grandi, who in those days had made a tour of Peru, Colombia and Ecuador to attend to the situation of Venezuelan migrants in these countries.

The second element was more categorical. The Mexican companies not mentioned were required to agree not to directly or indirectly carry out new commercial transactions with the Venezuelan government or third parties through the CLAP program. Even for the acquisition of medicines.

And finally, both the former deputy attorney and the former undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Mexican Foreign Ministry, Luis Alfonso De Alva, made it clear that this example against the "crime" was part of a combined action of information crossing, mainly with Colombia, following the then commitment of Mexico to the Lima Group.

The following year, at the beginning of 2019, journalists from Mexico who claim to have documented the alleged fraud in the CLAP program, acknowledged that there were no further reports of the case by the Mexican authorities.

Until 2020, the same journalists, in another report , according to information provided by the Financial Intelligence Unit of Mexico, admitted that the Attorney General's Office of Peña Nieto had made an "illegal pact with CLAP providers" in 2018, whose fine imposed should have been deposited in the Treasury and not delivered directly to UNHCR.

In fact, they stated that the businessmen of El Sardinero assured them, in this case to the Excelsior portal , that together with Armando.info all the reports on CLAP are awarded, that they complied with the "reparatory agreement", "they paid their part "At that time, 750 thousand dollars," they stopped their business with Venezuela "and handed over the food that was confiscated to the Chancellery of the Peña Nieto administration.

But it was not only El Sardinero; with her, three other companies. And later more were added. All with fines payable to UNHCR.

In this case, it was not only Mexico that took action against CLAP and subsidized food for the Venezuelan population, it was a joint operation of the Lima Group, the National Assembly (2016-2020) and "independent journalism" in a combined action pressure on those who supplied food to Venezuela in 2018.

The ultimate goal: to limit shipments and trade with Venezuela, although no one is interested in knowing whether or not UNHCR received the fine that the companies illegally paid.

THE "INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM" ON THE CLAP

Since 2017, "independent journalism" has constantly done its work against the CLAP, from which a list of businessmen and their companies, officials and even the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has not escaped.

The common thread always starts from an "independent investigation", journalistic, which the mass media later disseminate internationally through reports and opinion articles written by the same journalists, without any distinction in the New York Times , El País , Excelsior , Semana , Infobae or any other, in order to establish post-truth and even dictate a sentence of the alleged guilt of those involved.

Subsequently, the defunct National Assembly comes into play, denounces, and the United States applies terrorism and economic "sanctions," thus beginning the hunt for those named.

Data articulates this action. For example, three days before the action that Mexico took, actually against its own food-producing companies in 2018, the New York Times could read an opinion article on hunger in Venezuela and "the corruption plot" in the CLAPs. , whose highest point was materialized by the media on the international agenda, when the Peña Nieto government acted by the Lima Group exploiting the stage set up only for the National Assembly to assume its role .

Another example, where "independent journalism" returned to the ring, was in 2019, again against the same Mexican companies that had been the object of the "reparatory agreement" in Mexico, in 2018.

On this occasion, from El País , these same "independent journalists" published the names of El Sardinero, Rice & Beans and La Cosmopolitana, accusing them of "taking advantage of the sale of the pantries to Venezuela" three months after the United States announced that it would apply " sanctions "(May 22, 2019) against all those involved in the CLAP food program.

Online, particularly the El Sardinero company, the Nuevo Herald was accused of "helping the Maduro regime," and it was even published in the media that the company was "under observation by the US authorities for its alleged participation in the corruption scheme linked to the Venezuelan food import program known as CLAP ".

Adding that the US government had activated "sanctions" prohibiting its companies, but also foreign companies, from doing business with Venezuela, and although the purchase of food was supposedly excluded, this prohibition put suppliers at risk if they participated in the CLAP , in which El Sardinero was "among a handful of Mexican suppliers."

And, of course, in this publication by Nuevo Herald , citing the research published by El País de España a few days before, not only was the El Sardinero company accused of trading food with Venezuela, of which it was generally the only one Sin, the companies that it had used to supply CLAP food were also pointed out: La Costeña, Aurrerá, Maseca, Minsa, La Merced, Abeto, La Ribereña, Clemente Jacques and Arroz Morelos.

In response to this attack, on September 26, 2019, El Sardinero sent a letter to the Nuevo Herald clarifying that its participation "in the manufacture of pantries for a company that, in turn, had the government of Venezuela as a client, was carried out in strict adherence to Mexican laws and complying at all times with the highest quality standards ". However, post-truth was already underway.

In addition, he added that "El Sardinero was not a manufacturer of the products and was not in charge of the transportation of the pantries, he only acted as the person in charge of buying and assembling the so-called CLAP boxes, which included products from the most prestigious manufacturers in the country. ".

For this publication in El País , of August 2019, the journalists of Armando.info and Excelsior , the portals that, in addition, claim to have dismantled the alleged corruption plot "Behind the CLAP" since 2017, were awarded prizes by Tecnológico de Monterrey and FEMSA. As a sign that this food program in Venezuela is of high interest to various actors in the world.

On this occasion, the report against the three Mexican companies was awarded the "Voces de América Latina" award for digital journalism, which was awarded for the first time, resulting in "Los CLAP" the "winning investigation" , including its journalists, and whose award was granted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies, who had signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2018 "with the aim of generating opportunities academic to professionalize the work of human rights defenders and journalists. "

In any case, with the award granted, they also obtained a scholarship for the diploma in "Freedom of expression and the Defense of Human Rights," as part of the online program offered by Tecnológico de Monterrey in collaboration with USAID.

Beyond the award, what needs to be highlighted in this case is the role that USAID has played and plays in the world when the United States considers another country "politically unstable"; Imagine declaring it "an unusual and extraordinary threat" to your national security like to Venezuela.

An example is the years of the Cold War, when USAID enlisted in it , particularly in Vietnam, seeking "stabilization and development" through joint operations between the US military and the Agency's farmers, which since 1967 carried out through the civilian military counterinsurgency program known as CORDS. Where most of its employees stood out until that date.

Once in the hamlets and rural towns, these USAID workers (farmers) offered training and counseling techniques to farm families in their communities, aimed at trying to neutralize the appeal of the VietCong; even the promotion of Agrarian Reform in South Vietnam, as a government initiative based on field research and technical assistance, was funded by USAID, seeking to undermine VietCong recruitment.

Regarding these facts, publicly recognized by the agency, he stated : "It came too late to change the course of the war." However, this "promotion" model applied in Vietnam continues to be a strategy used by USAID to "help" other countries considered "politically unstable" in the world.

ON MARADONA AND "THE SECRET THINGS" TO SUPPLY FOOD TO VENEZUELA
Going back to 2020. After Alex Saab's illegal arrest in Cape Verde, the "independent press" made it clear that he had done his job, and it was time for justice, according to an article published in the New York Times . It seemed from afar the end of the hunt, because with this fact they supposed "a severe blow to President Nicolás Maduro", and finally "the possibility" of the regime change that the United States promotes so much.

However, to the surprise of the world, at the end of the year the death of Diego Armando Maradona, El Diez, El Diego was known, the same as since 2018, in relation to those who criticized him for his resounding support for the Bolivarian Revolution He stated: "They speak from home and have a full plate of food every day. And we are fighting in Venezuela to make that plate fill." And he added: "I have a very big back to hold everything they want to say."

President Nicolás Maduro, in the middle of a small tribute he paid to Diego after his death, commented : "He helped us with some secret things to bring food for the people of Venezuela," and even that he could only say that for now.

That comment was enough for the "independent press" to recharge their batteries against Maradona, to whom they had already dedicated a report in June 2019, although the award was obtained two months later for attacking the three Mexican companies from El País de España . Because it is valid to remember that from May to September of that year, the United States was announcing "sanctions" to everything that smelled of CLAP, while reports on the food program emanated.

In this first opportunity, they were not able to directly accuse Maradona, nor to the businessmen involved, whose sin was to "take advantage" of the friendship with the soccer star to sell food to Venezuela and who "had practically monopolized the corn supplies." to the country, and "word spread" of the payment of sales with Venezuelan gold .

Since January 2021, to the Maradona who is no longer there to hold his big back with everything they want to say, again the "independent press", articulated between Bogotá and Buenos Aires, appears to accuse him of "commission agent" and "lobbyist".

This time it was not that businessmen took advantage of the friendship with El Diego, no; now Diego was part of "a new dark business" of the Bolivarian Revolution for the purchase of food and, therefore, it is necessary to reveal " what Maradona took from Venezuela " under estimates and calculations made in the reports that, according to them , "they reveal the millionaire commissions that the player received".

Behind everything, always far from credibility, Maradona "should have" ended up receiving his commission. They cannot even assure "if it was in gold or in money", but they "should" have received it for the sale of the food and, of course, they cannot stop accusing the National Government of signing food contracts by someone recommended by Maradona "without to know if the contracts were convenient for the country and if the prices at which the food was bought from that company were adequate "and, of course, we must be aware because" probably their heirs will end up benefiting from these businesses with Venezuela. "

And although there is finally talk of audios that confirm Maradona's "shady" business with food for Venezuela, what there really is evidence is that Maradona helped supply food to the country in the midst of the siege, because "the payment method entered into crisis from the blocking of bank accounts by the United States and several European countries, "with which" all accounts (were) blocked "and made" the issue of the blockade very complicated. "

FINAL THOUGHTS

In short, for the "independent press", the National Assembly 2016-2020 and the United States, anyone who sells food to Venezuela, in the midst of the economic, financial and commercial blockade to which it is subjected, only has a supposed shady business, and beyond, it is always profiting from the hunger of the population, to which it is better, above all, not to provide food to allow Nicolás Maduro to remain in power.

And it is that there is an invariable relationship around the CLAP since 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, in which always, behind the media action, political action is unleashed, which finally the United States translates into "sanctions", of course , protected by their "justice", and these are not just these examples.

At the moment, the only thing missing is for the United States to impose "sanctions" on Maradona, but as it is not, it will be on his heirs, who according to the "independent press" will "probably" continue to benefit from their "business" in Venezuela, because, in Ultimately, food is not a humanitarian issue, it is a matter of war.

What the United States will confirm in a few years is whether the operation behind the CLAPs was considered, as in Chile, "a good idea that at least justified a small investment" by USAID and others (according to the proposals of Yrcia Romero , resident of the community of the Nuevo Mundo Communal Council, located in the El Guarataro Sector, San Juan Parish, Caracas), with which this new form of food distribution in Venezuela could be hindered, in the middle of the economic war, where to kill to the Venezuelan population from hunger, and to eat again if and only if the United States achieved its regime change, was a small collateral damage.

Internally, the objective of negatively impacting the CLAP to generate their rejection and cause greater suffering in the Venezuelan population ended, on the contrary, generating "greater social and political organization in the communities" that receive it, aware that "in this economic war situation, it is a hope for all families "and that even" they hope to produce according to their spaces, to solve any eventuality that may arise "(Yrcia Romero dixit ), because if there is something that unleashed the United States blockade it was the need to bet on internal production. That includes the food of the program, and it is no small thing, because it means rebuilding national power.

This research was originally published on the Food and Power website on May 24, 2021 .

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Post by blindpig » Wed May 26, 2021 1:01 pm

WHY DO SOME NGOS SEEK TO HIDE THEIR FUNDING?
May 25 , 2021 , 5:52 pm .

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NGOs such as Provea, Foro Penal and Transparencia Venezuela have intimate connections with the United States and Great Britain (Photo: Alexey Kuzma)

During the last weeks there has been a media orchestration on a national and international scale around the "threats" that the government of Nicolás Maduro supposedly projects on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Venezuela. They have enthroned the discourse around "repression" and the "closure of civic space" for authoritarian purposes on non-state actors in society, specifically as a result of Administrative Ruling No. ONCDOFT001-2021 published in Official Gazette No. 42,098 .

In the aforementioned text it is read that the National Office Against Organized Crime and Terrorism Financing requires the registration of so-called "Obligated Subjects", a point that some media and private organizations have taken as an excuse to accuse the Bolivarian Government and that it is the narrative core of the propaganda of the enemy.

In reality, said administrative ruling dictates a regulation that seeks to register the financial origin of natural and legal persons applicable within the framework of the Organic Law Against Organized Crime and Terrorism Financing. It is an administrative update for regulatory purposes to the financing of non-state actors or entities, a governmental measure that exists in many countries.

A LOOK AT THE LEGAL TEXTS
In the Organic Law Against Organized Crime and Terrorism Financing we find the definition of "Obliged Subjects", corresponding to Article 9:

1.Natural and legal persons, whose activity is regulated by the law that governs the banking sector.
2.Natural and legal persons, whose activity is regulated by the law that governs the insurance sector.
3.Natural and legal persons, whose activity is regulated by the law that governs the securities sector.
4.Natural and legal persons, whose activity is regulated by the law that governs the bingo and casino sector.
5.Hotels, companies and tourism centers authorized to carry out currency exchange operations.
6.Foundations, civil associations and other non-profit organizations.
7.Organizations with political ends, groups of voters, groups of citizens and people who run on their own initiative for popularly elected positions.
8.Subaltern offices of public records and public notaries.
9.Lawyers, lawyers, administrators, administrators, economists and accountants in the free exercise of the profession, when they carry out transactions for a client with respect to the following activities:

a. sale of real estate;

b. management of the client's money, securities and other assets;

c. management of bank, savings or securities accounts;

d. organization of contributions for the creation, operation or administration of companies;

and. creation, operation or administration of legal persons or legal structures, and purchase and sale of commercial entities.

10.Natural and legal persons, whose economic activity is:

a. sale of real estate;

b. construction of buildings (shopping centers, homes, offices, among others);

c. trade in precious metals and stones;

d. trade in objects of art or archeology;

and. merchant navy;

F. leasing and custody of safe deposit boxes, transportation of values ​​and transfer or sending of funds;

g. advisory service in matters of investments, placements and other financial businesses to clients, whatever their residence or nationality;

h. companies for the purchase and sale of ships, aircraft and land motor vehicles;

i. establishments for the purchase and sale of spare parts and used vehicles;

j. establishments for the purchase, sale, marketing and services of new and used cell phones.
Finally, the Organic Law mentions that "the category of obligated subject may be extended by law or decree, to other actors for whose purposes the obligations, burdens and duties that are pertinent to their economic activity will be established and the control body will be determined, supervision, inspection and respective surveillance ".

We cite extensively the legislative text in order to know who the Administrative Ruling refers to when it comes to "Obliged Subjects", which in summary are those who have the ability to accumulate income, mobilize capital and money in high amounts in the market. These must be registered with the governing body, be it a commercial company, a non-profit organization or some compliance officer.

What the Venezuelan State requires is transparency of these people, not restricting their activities.

Likewise, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs started the Special Automated Registry of Non-Governmental Non-Resident Organizations (REGONG) , which "derives from joint resolutions 082 and 320 of the Ministries of Popular Power for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, and for Foreign Relations, respectively, published in the Official Gazette in October 2020 ", notes the Foreign Ministry in a press release .

Indeed, in the Official Gazette of October 27, 2020 (from page 5) you can read the special rules that govern international NGOs that want to live in Venezuela. In this way they must register and normalize their operations; In this way, they would be promoting transparency in the exercise of their functions and facilitating coordination with the State and other involved actors (for example, other NGOs) for the fulfillment of the programs and projects envisaged, in accordance with the legal framework of national institutions. and international provisions.

Operations as simple as the requirement of transparency annoy the NGOs that have made the regulation and investigation of their financing an uproar in the media and on social networks that seek to divert attention to the "Chavista dictatorship" file so as not to focus on their interests.

MONEY SAYS (ALMOST) EVERYTHING
The interest in criminalizing the requests of the State for the transparency of its finances perhaps has a lot to do with the support received by the governments and the main propaganda conglomerates of the United States and Europe to certain sectors of them and little with the moral clothing with which they are they tend to dress before the public scene under the discursive cloak of liberal humanitarianism.

In their own opinion, NGOs should not have any obligation to the State since this directly criminalizes them, carrying out "control and supervision" measures that "constitute unconstitutional acts, of legal excesses and serious violation of international norms for the protection of human rights. human rights and fundamental freedoms that are mandatory for the Venezuelan State, "according to a joint statement of 326" civil society organizations "published recently.

Although it is a requirement applied in many countries, these NGOs allege that the Bolivarian Government has "the intention" to use all the provisions, regulations and laws "to intimidate, criminalize, persecute and close the work of the organizations and the space civic in Venezuela ".

In the last two decades, these private organizations have proliferated in our country, partly in response to the needs of certain sectors of Venezuelan society in different areas, in accordance with global governance models, partly as a consequence of foreign financial stimuli and compromises. policies.

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At Misión Verdad, we have investigated and reported the conducting threads of the financing of the main protagonists or blacks and their political motivations. Provea, Foro Penal , Transparency Venezuela, but also Human Rights Watch, Transparency International and Amnesty International, are political operators disguised as institutions dedicated to the protection of human rights.

This is proven, not only by clearing up the doubts about its highest financiers such as the governments of the United States and Great Britain , not only by its political friends as the directive of the previous management of the National Assembly nucleated in Juan Guaidó, not only by his intimate international connections with promoters of "regime change" such as Luis Almagro (who does not hesitate to certify every month the list of "political prisoners" of Foro Penal, son of Freedom House .

It can also be verified through their incriminating conduct against anyone who dares to differ from the anti-Chavista Oenegera version. The testimony of Alfred de Zayas, once an independent expert of the United Nations (UN) who wrote a report on human rights in Venezuela, shows that the operators known as NGOs that generally take root in the criminalization of the Venezuelan State and Chavismo in general does not seek real solutions to specific problems in Venezuelan society, but rather to influence the political scene and contribute to the strategy of "regime change" promoted mainly by the United States.


But it doesn't go there. The NGOs, as well as the briefcase companies regarding the Cadivi embezzlement, have effectively served to launder capital and even steal money from the Bolivarian Republic to be transferred to private pockets. According to an interview in Últimas Noticias with opposition deputy José Brito , president of the Special Commission for Investigation of Actions Perpetrated against the Republic by the Directive of the National Assembly (AN) in the period 2016-2021, NGOs have had an impact on the damage done to the country as a result of the US strategy of "regime change". Brito says:

-A group of NGOs ended up becoming the necessary accomplices for the misappropriation of money from humanitarian aid from foreign resources as well as from the Venezuelan State's own resources.

-Are there any examples of that?

-For example, each resource that was downloaded through non-governmental organizations, required what they called the implementers. They were the ones who developed ... it's like an NGO to bring migrants and treat them with blankets and medicines. So they say "well, the implementer is so-and-so; then that implementer of that program charges 30%." In other words, the big business is the implementers who end up with 30%.

-And where is that money?

-They created a fund called the Venezuelan Investment Fund, Fivendev, with accounts in South Africa that we have been able to determine through research, where donations from these implementers would go. It is a fund created by two people, one of them cousin-brother of Juan Gerardo Guaidó Marquez. It was created to be able to justify before the international banks these resources that come from the exercise of making this movement, in quotation marks, an opponent in Venezuela, a great business. That money ended up in different hands than what has to do with humanitarian aid. That is very sad to have to say. In addition, the very marked tutelage of the United States over some actors of national politics.


Although the panorama is yet to be clarified with the results of said Special Commission of the current AN, it is well known that there is a circuit of these political (non-governmental) operators that is very close to the anti-Chavez committed to the interests of the United States.

Taking into account that there are already cases of foreign interference by delegation through NGOs, either through financing or direct and indirect tutelage, which have embarked on coup operations and criminalization campaigns against the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro It should not be surprising that the State decides to legislate on the monetary origin of its actions.

However, there are many cases in which these entities have done the work of humanitarian and social assistance that they preach, and of which there is no suspicion of colluding with the anti-democratic anti-Chavez in destabilizing agendas, such as the Red Cross that works in collaboration with the state in an area of ​​high belligerence such as the Apure state at the moment.

A popular saying dictates that "he who does not owe it does not fear it." So what are NGOs afraid of? Why do they seek to hide their financing? Are they afraid that the money will say everything about its overtly anti-Chavez implications? We'll see.

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Post by blindpig » Sat May 29, 2021 11:40 am

DICTATORIAL ELECTIONS (OOOOTHER TIME)
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May 28 , 2021 , 3:15 pm .

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Although despite the most extreme anti-Chavez, Venezuela will have elections again (Photo: EFE)

Oooother time we talk about elections and oooother time they are disqualifying them long before they happen. This story repeated so many times, with the ending that we all know: We voted, we won and we are a dictatorship.

From the beginning it was very silly to say that a dictatorship holds elections, that is why the centers of global power coined the term neo dictatorship , which is nothing more than an evil dictatorship that makes elections so as not to seem so much. "Neo dictatorship, neo dictatorship," repeated the media speakers around the world. "Neo dictatorship, neo dictatorship," hypnotized those who believe that media corporations are information media.

And of course, all the leaders of the non-submissive countries are neo dictators, those who do not have, nor do they seek, the blessing of the gringo government, its European dogs and the most important of all, that of the Wall Street stock market. They are horrible dictators whose people they detested, but every time they call for elections they win by beating, one, another and another time.

They are not "free" elections, they explain on CNN . Because the reader should know that in insubordinate countries like ours it is not enough to make elections, ours must be free. Which we cannot do because CNN already said that we are a dictatorship.

Now, learn little dictatorial children: for the "international community" free elections can be like the Colombian ones, where the paramilitaries buy at the point of terror and death the vote of the candidate favorable to the interests of the United States. Elections so free that if the electoral ballots run out in your center, you can make a photocopy of anybody, don't worry, nobody will count those ballots, that they will appear thrown in any ravine, next to any of the common graves where people annoying for "free" democracy no longer bother.

And we here in Venezuela, with so many scruples and not a million public audits, not hundreds of international observers, not the Carter Center, and nothing could enforce the majority vote, because "close that center so that people do not vote. more ", because" the witness Betsy did not appear ", because it is not no!

THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN HOW TO WIN THE VOTES OR DO POLITICS, NOT EVEN FOR THEIR VOTERS

Likewise, we continue voting, and the opposition participating and winning in key municipalities and governorates, and even winning the majority in the National Assembly. And every time they won, they disqualified themselves, doing the chorus to CNN that said that there was cheating, that the elections were not only not free but they were not fair, because justice is that Chávez loses, now Maduro, in the Election, whatever it may be, even if it is for councilors, let them go now!… Thus the elections would be free and fair and something else: they would be "credible", but that does not happen.

"Credible" elections, that is the latest fashion in elections. If you want to give more subjectivity to something mathematical that does not suit you, say, an election, leave its final result at the mercy of the will to believe (or not) of an outside actor who will give his verdict according to his convenience. That is democracy!

Attaching the term "credible" to electoral events and setting oneself up as judges of credibility is one of the great ideas of a perverse system that, without having any way to hide its rottenness, ends up being an idiot. It is a colonialist marvel, they believe, because you no longer even have to wait for the results of the elections, but they disqualify them as "not very credible" months before they happen. It is like the child who covers his face and believes that the world has disappeared. Then they don't understand how their plans all fail.

Defeated over and over and over again, they invent increasingly twisted, increasingly absurd twists and turns to snatch victories from us that we do not allow ourselves to be snatched away. Thus, from "credible" elections they jump to self-proclaimed interim presidents on any corner, stammering morons, that if the usurpation ceases, that there is a transitional government, that if "free" elections ... And there they go again ...

Oooo again on the electoral road, skipping the part of the "cessation of usurpation and transitional government." Chronically defeated, who return without knowing how to return, hidden, with hoods, to meetings that say they did not exist, that they were not ... They return without wanting to return, they return because their master sends them, who no longer knows what to do with so much failure. They go back to the beginning of everything: an election that always ends in failure because they have not known how to win the votes, because they have not known how to do politics, not even for their voters. Without any other remedy, they return to elections, hoping that the final result will not be the one dictated by the popular vote, but the one that the puppeteer who moves them from the North tries to impose and again the tantrum and "unload there his anger" ...

They come back and we wait for them in the electoral low, as always. And as always, whether they want to believe it or not, we will win.

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Post by blindpig » Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:46 am

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Even The New York Times now Admits that it’s US Sanctions, not Socialism, that’s Destroying Venezuela
June 7, 2021
By Peter Bolton – Jun 5, 2021

The facile right-wing talking point that the economic crisis facing Venezuela “proves” that “socialism always ends in failure” has become so hackneyed by overuse that it has attained its own tongue-in-cheek name. The ad Venezuelum, as it has come to be known, has slowly developed into such a tedious and predictable right-wing tactic that it seems to now serve as an all-purpose retort to try to discredit even the most modest of left-of-center proposals. In October 2018, for instance, then-President Trump responded to a plan by progressive Democrats in congress to introduce a bill to establish a system of universal public healthcare – something which every industrialized country other than the US already has – by stating: “It’s going to be a disaster for our country. It will turn our country into a Venezuela.”

Analysts on the left have long toiled against the ad Venezuelum by pointing out the myriad genuine explanations behind the economic crisis that has been roiling the country since around 2014. Caleb Maupin, for instance, has argued that falling oil prices were a key factor in the collapse of Venezuela’s economy. This is hardly a controversial point given that Venezuela’s dependence on oil, which was first discovered in the 1920s, has led to a highly unstable economy featuring regular bouts of economic chaos caused by a sudden drop in the price of crude. In the early 1980s, during the government of Luis Herrera (of the right-wing COPEI party), for example, there was a huge economic crisis with many of the same features as the one confronting the country today. Needless to say, no one at the time tried to pass this off as proof that capitalism doesn’t work.

Ryan Mallet-Outtrim, who himself lived in Venezuela for several years, has argued that the government’s monetary policy has been one of the main factors behind the crisis. In particular, he pointed out that the fixed exchange rate, which of course is hardly socialistic in nature, had an unintended effect on demand for currency that in turn led to an inflationary spiral. He is not alone is his criticism of the fixed exchange rate; economist Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), who like Mallet-Outtrim is broadly sympathetic to the Chavista government, has argued for years that Venezuela should drop it in favor of a floating exchange rate.

I myself argued in a 2016 essay for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs that an economic war waged by a domestic societal elite, and abetted by the United States, has been a major cause of the crisis. Though dismissed by critics of Chavismo as a conspiracy theory, there is, in fact, ample evidence of an economic war against the Venezuelan government ever since Hugo Chavez was first elected in 1998. The so-called oil strike, for instance, (in reality a management-led lockout) was a transparent attempt to bring about regime change by crippling the economy. Cases of hoarding goods and deliberately disrupting supply chains on the part of the opposition-friendly private business sector, meanwhile, have been well-documented.

All of these explanations have undoubtedly formed part of the rich tapestry of causation behind Venezuela’s economic woes. But what is equally undeniable is that US-imposed sanctions have augmented these factors as well as compounded the suffering felt by ordinary Venezuelans. As Roger Harris pointed out in a May 4 essay for CounterPunch, even a US government-authored report admits that “sanctions, particularly on the state oil company in 2019, likely contributed to the steeper decline of the Venezuelan economy.” Now, in addition to the US government itself, one its major organs of interventionist propaganda has conceded this exact same point.

In a May 30 article in The New York Times about how organized crime groups have stepped in to provide services in certain Caracas neighborhoods, Isayen Herrera and Anatoly Kurmanaev seem to almost inadvertently acknowledge that Venezuela is “disintegrat[ing] under the weight of Mr. Maduro’s corrupt leadership and American [sic] sanctions.” This is quite an admission from a publication that has been at the cutting edge of disseminating the ad Venezuelum as well as propagandizing for the US-orchestrated coup led by so-called ‘interim president’ Juan Guaidó and for US interventionism more broadly.

Outside the Alice in Wonderland world of the US corporate-owned media, however, this claim is uncontroversial. In addition to the aforementioned US government report that openly admits that US sanctions have exacerbated the crisis, a 2019 CEPR study authored by Weisbrot and development economist Jeffrey Sachs found the number of deaths caused by these sanctions to have stood at 40,000 between 2017 and 2018 (that is, before the coup had even begun). In early 2020, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur for Venezuela, Alfred de Zayas, estimated civilian deaths caused by sanctions to stand at around 100,000. This would almost certainly need to be revised up significantly as of June 2021 – not least because Venezuela, like the rest of Latin America, has been particularly hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

The US government’s intention behind the sanctions, meanwhile, is straightforward. Its goal is to goad the country’s populace into turning against its government via a brutal form of collective punishment – something which is illegal according to international law. Since the 1960s, successive US administrations in Washington have honed this tactic via the so-called trade embargo against Cuba. This crippling form of non-military warfare, more accurately described as an economic blockade, has led to roughly $130 billion in damage to Cuba’s economy according to UN figures and has inflicted severe suffering on Cuba’s civilian population according to mainstream human rights organizations and academic research.

The Times’ other claim that corruption is a major factor in the economic crisis facing Venezuela also discredits the ad Venezuelum. As international relations scholars point out, corruption is often endemic to resource rich countries, especially those in the developing world, and irrespective of the ideological stripe of their governments. Perhaps due to its indispensable importance for modern economies, of all the natural resources, oil seems to be the worst in its corrupting effects on a country in which it exists in abundance. Indeed, corruption hardly began in Venezuela upon Chavez’s election, but rather has been a recurring feature of its history that has debilitated the country’s economy under governments of both the left and the right.

There is a degree of irony to the Times’ reference to corruption as well. Because academic studies have demonstrated that sanctions actually lead to increases in corruption and organized criminal activity in the countries they target. Writing in Quartz, political scientist Bryan R. Early of the University of Albany, SUNY, points out that: “Not only are sanctions… frequently ineffective, they also can be counterproductive… [because they] encourage government corruption and the development of transnational organized crime.” So, apparently the Times authors are oblivious to the fact that US sanctions are ipso facto partly to blame for the phenomenon they describe in their article. Early adds: “Recent studies have shown… that sanctioned governments tend to become less democratic and are more likely to engage in human rights abuses, restrict women’s rights, and curb media freedoms.”

Note the cruel irony that these are some of the very alleged pathologies on which Washington bases its sanctions against Venezuela in the first place. And this shines a light on the fundamental duplicity and dishonesty that lies behind the US’s entire sanctions regime, whether it be against Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba or any other US adversary. Concerns about alleged corruption, alleged organized criminal activity, alleged human rights abuses, alleged deficits in media freedom or women’s rights, or, indeed, alleged breakdowns in democracy are not, and never have been, the factors on which Washington bases its decision to place sanctions on another country. If they were, then how come it not only issues no punitive measures whatsoever against the brutal Saudi dictatorship or the murderous narco-state in Honduras, but rather enters into lucrative arms deals with the former and lavishes the latter with generous funding for its state security forces?

Rather, Washington bases its decision to impose sanctions on a very simple criterion – whether or not a country is obediently serving its economic and geostrategic interests and accommodating its preferred neoliberal economic system. All of the aforementioned publicly proclaimed motivations are just post-hoc bogus justifications to give a veneer of credibility to (and manufacture consent for) its global campaign of naked coercion. We will surely never hear the likes of The New York Times point that out. But its admission that sanctions and corruption, rather than the purported inherent failures of socialism, are amongst the major causal factors of Venezuela’s economic crisis is surely a step in the right direction.


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