Re: Venezuela
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 4:33 pm
The political theses on Venezuela that failed along with the mercenary expedition
Mission Truth
May 8 · 9 min read
By William Serafino
Registration of new tests of the last hours
In the last hours, the Venezuelan state has announced new captures in the framework of the failed "Operation Gideon".
Groups of mercenaries in the state of Zulia , in the coastal town of Puerto Maya and on the El Junquito-Carayaca highway, have been neutralized by the security forces as part of "Operation Black First Crushing the Enemy," activated by the FANB in civic-military unit to protect national sovereignty at this time of alert.
In total, 23 involved in the failed armed expedition along the maritime coasts have already placed themselves under the command of Venezuelan justice in total, as indicated.
Among the arrests are Luke Denman and Airan Berry, two former US military recruited by Juan Guaidó and the United States through the Silvercorp mercenary company to carry out a coup in Venezuela.
Denman's confession on May 6, and Berry's a few hours ago, reveal that the intention of the mercenary raid by La Guaira was to capture and assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The general political and military objectives of the operation were the headquarters of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic (Miraflores), the SEBIN intelligence service and the Maiquetía airport in La Guaira.
The plan was simple on paper: militarily control the airport (that's why they tried to disembark Macuto, a few kilometers away), kidnap Maduro in a heavily armed command unit led by aliases "Pantera" and Antonio Sequea, and then mount the Venezuelan president. on a plane bound for the United States or kill him when he was caught.
Berry confirms that the plane would come from the United States and that controlling Maiquetía was key, as Denman did in his testimony. For this, the artillery vans, heavy weapons and combat logistics that failed to land in Macuto, in theory would allow a rapid and surprising advance towards Miraflores, guaranteeing the return to La Guaira.
While the mercenaries revealed the seriousness of the objectives, Juan Guaidó's adviser , the Colombian JJ Rendón linked to a drug trafficking plot a few years ago, confirmed the veracity of the contract signed with Silvercorp.
In the United States, some Democratic senators have asked the Trump Administration to reveal the information they had about this failed coup, in clear violation of the legislation that regulates the state of war and that is controlled by Congress in both houses.
The irrefutable evidence on the participation of Guaidó and Washington is agglomerating, shaping all the pieces of the operation with an ever-increasing level of clarity.
Some ideas also ran aground
Although the frustrated aggression did not achieve its objectives, the act itself has come to demonstrate the flaws of certain premises and political theses that dispute the ideological orientation of the country.
Not only did a mercenary incursion led by the United States run aground on the Venezuelan coast, but so did a diverse set (although only in appearance) of political currents that have positioned their hypotheses as the only measure of concrete reality.
The operation took place in a climate of political debate marked by ideological extremes, by intellectual disorientation, and came to demonstrate a new fracture of the political theses of certain ideological tendencies.
There is a common consensus on the impulse given by the United States to the assassination operation, but the ideas that could explain the reasons for its failure can do little to draw a coherent account of the political situation.
With the events in Macuto, the ideas built to respond to the complicated resolution of the Venezuelan conflict have failed.
The theory of "break" marks María Corina Machado
The flag bearer of the Venezuelan far-right sector has maintained, in recent years, that the initiatives for dialogue promoted by Chavismo and moderate sectors of the opposition represent a waste of time.
That speech, although it does not have its copyright , has shaped the thinking of promoters of the coup d'état such as Luis Almagro, Marco Rubio and Juan Guaidó himself.
This current that links Mayan elements, Creole and Spanish fascism (the case of VOX) and the White House itself, has a rather limited political, organizational and electoral presence in Venezuelan territory.
Its political apparatus covers only some angry areas of the country, which has been demonstrated in the low parliamentary representation achieved in the last elections of 2015.
Juan Guaidó and María Corina Machado, one more to the right than the other. Photo: Archive
Due to this weakness, they have used the media such as the PanAm Post , far-right intellectuals, some think tanks and influencers on social networks to spread their message and influence public opinion.
Their altered spokesmen maintain that the conflict is no longer political, but of "security"; that is, it must be solved with lead and not with dialogue.
They are victims of a delusional plot where Russians, Hezbollah militants and mysterious delegates of the Communist Party of China conspire in the dark to keep Venezuela subdued as if it were a tropical colony.
They propose as a “resolution” formula to the conflict the combination of a “credible threat” with a surgical intervention to end the “Maduro regime”. They have propagated the idea that if Washington teaches its attributes of strength, that would be enough for Chavismo to fall.
In recent days, the approach of this formula has been partially fulfilled with the expedition by Macuto, demonstrating its failure of origin. The false belief that brute force is sufficient to overthrow the Venezuelan government has been exposed.
And it is that the opposite of what has been theorized has occurred: in the face of the military aggression commanded by Silvercorp, Chavismo has strengthened the general consensus of defense and national dignity, reducing the political and narrative space of the premise of "bankruptcy" by armed means .
The hypothesis of "betrayal of Chávez's legacy"
On the opposite sidewalk, and also representing a minority in political and electoral terms, some angry sectors of the Venezuelan "left" have spread the narrative that Maduro has "delivered" the legacy of Chávez, in the framework of a conspiracy with tendencies Reformists and businessmen who have demolished the conquests of the Chavista process.
According to this perspective, supported by a rosary of complexes, confusing claims and scarce data on material reality, Maduro is leading a large-scale "betrayal" with the aim of handing over the country to capitalists, bureaucrats and landowners.
This premise does not stop to reflect on the complex budgetary panorama of the Republic as a result of the economic blockade of Washington and the kidnapping of national assets that have prevented the country from recovering its economy and attending to the Covid-19 pandemic. For them, this terrible material picture in which the country is located would be in the background, since the fundamental thing is that Maduro, and the Venezuelan government in general, seem to have decided that this is the situation that best suits us, as if our concrete reality was the by-product of a maneuver charged with evil and sadism.
Former General Clíver Alcalá, linked to recent coup attempts against Venezuela, has been a figure affiliated with the narrative of the "betrayal of the legacy" by President Nicolás Maduro. Photo: Infobae
But if this theory were true, the most logical thing would be for Washington and the armed wing of anti-Chavism to suspend their permanent attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government, now recently with armed intervention.
After all, if Maduro is day by day handing over the country to his enemies, what could be expected is that the United States and even Guaidó himself, his main enemies, would celebrate the actions of the president or view him with good eyes.
And it is paradoxical and confusing. As the "handover of the legacy" increases, the greater the conspiracy to end the Revolution "from within", the attempted bloodthirsty coup by Washington is escalating in danger.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? In other words, shouldn't “treason to the legacy” be the satisfaction of Guaidó and the White House? Why would they be interested in overthrowing a neoliberal and ultra-capitalist government that, according to them, by their own decision, maintains the population subsisting on a salary of $ 4? Why would they want to forcibly end a government that shares their interests?
A premise that has no coherence or meaning.
The armed incursion by La Guaira came to demonstrate that the political thesis of Maduro's "betrayal" starts from an erroneous material and ideological basis, since it nullifies a key factor: the forceful overthrow of Maduro implies overthrowing Chavismo and the Venezuelan nation. . They refuse to understand something so obvious.
The premise of "the two sides"
Except for the ideological delusions that both ends add as nuances, an idea has emerged that the conflict in Venezuela is a kind of battle between two political sectors. A ring is simulated where we are made to believe that it is a 12-round fight between Maduro and Guaidó.
Seeing the situation as a conflict "between the politicians" detached from reality is part of the neoliberal and technocratic thought that was imposed several decades ago to legitimize the role of businessmen and financial yuppies at the forefront of government, state and society affairs. .
This appreciation has largely permeated our collective psychology, our political language as a society, leaving as a result a partial and misleading vision where "both sectors" represent "the same". Seen this way, all politicians would be bad people pursuing particular benefits, so it would be better to place experts, bankers and technocrats at the leading points of society.
The Bolivarian National Militia has been key in neutralizing the last mercenary operation against Venezuela. Photo: Infobae
As a result, the neoliberal economy has crushed politics. The only filter to make sense of our reality comes from the numbers, the figures and the parameters invented by capitalism.
The failed assassination plan revealed that Venezuela is not a country of spectators in the face of a draining fight between "two sides."
This is confirmed by the fact that the alert to the threat of intervention generated an enormous social mobilization in all layers of society, including the military, police and the general population organized under the militia. Once again, Chavismo's organizational capacity from below was demonstrated, but also how its instruments of social organization are the only ones that the country has to defend itself against the intensification of the war.
In a matter of a few hours, the battle between "politicians" disappeared from the panorama and made it visible that the Bolivarian Republic and national dignity is maintained by hundreds of thousands of arms that, organized under a territorial defense plan, manage much of the national geography the economic and social tensions that this moment presents us.
None of the political theses that attempt to explain the Venezuelan reality can offer a coherent opinion on the reasons that have prevented the Bolivarian Republic from falling apart due to the escalation of the aggressions.
They seem to be blind to the reality in front of them: Chavismo has not fallen because there are hundreds of thousands of them working anonymously so that this does not happen.
As a political balance, the failure of "Operation Gideon" has left us a coalition of anti-Chavista tendencies that have had to resort to hiring mercenaries in the absence of a political strategy based on the social and territorial organization of its militants.
It has also made visible that Chavismo is not only the constitutional government of Venezuela, but an organized political and territorial force, which works on concrete and specific goals and responds to a general common objective that incorporates millions of people, promoting their mobilization in moments of high danger.
For this reason, the objective of the operation was surgical: to capture and assassinate the Venezuelan President as a shortcut to end Chavismo. The problem is that they do not calculate or have a strategy to manage the day after, and Chavismo does.
Years preparing for the worst is an organizational advantage and an effective political thesis to respond to a reality marked by conflict. That thesis is the only one that can organize our ideas in a moment as complicated as this.
https://medium.com/@misionverdad2012/la ... 6466e108e2
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Mission Truth
May 8 · 9 min read
By William Serafino
Registration of new tests of the last hours
In the last hours, the Venezuelan state has announced new captures in the framework of the failed "Operation Gideon".
Groups of mercenaries in the state of Zulia , in the coastal town of Puerto Maya and on the El Junquito-Carayaca highway, have been neutralized by the security forces as part of "Operation Black First Crushing the Enemy," activated by the FANB in civic-military unit to protect national sovereignty at this time of alert.
In total, 23 involved in the failed armed expedition along the maritime coasts have already placed themselves under the command of Venezuelan justice in total, as indicated.
Among the arrests are Luke Denman and Airan Berry, two former US military recruited by Juan Guaidó and the United States through the Silvercorp mercenary company to carry out a coup in Venezuela.
Denman's confession on May 6, and Berry's a few hours ago, reveal that the intention of the mercenary raid by La Guaira was to capture and assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The general political and military objectives of the operation were the headquarters of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic (Miraflores), the SEBIN intelligence service and the Maiquetía airport in La Guaira.
The plan was simple on paper: militarily control the airport (that's why they tried to disembark Macuto, a few kilometers away), kidnap Maduro in a heavily armed command unit led by aliases "Pantera" and Antonio Sequea, and then mount the Venezuelan president. on a plane bound for the United States or kill him when he was caught.
Berry confirms that the plane would come from the United States and that controlling Maiquetía was key, as Denman did in his testimony. For this, the artillery vans, heavy weapons and combat logistics that failed to land in Macuto, in theory would allow a rapid and surprising advance towards Miraflores, guaranteeing the return to La Guaira.
While the mercenaries revealed the seriousness of the objectives, Juan Guaidó's adviser , the Colombian JJ Rendón linked to a drug trafficking plot a few years ago, confirmed the veracity of the contract signed with Silvercorp.
In the United States, some Democratic senators have asked the Trump Administration to reveal the information they had about this failed coup, in clear violation of the legislation that regulates the state of war and that is controlled by Congress in both houses.
The irrefutable evidence on the participation of Guaidó and Washington is agglomerating, shaping all the pieces of the operation with an ever-increasing level of clarity.
Some ideas also ran aground
Although the frustrated aggression did not achieve its objectives, the act itself has come to demonstrate the flaws of certain premises and political theses that dispute the ideological orientation of the country.
Not only did a mercenary incursion led by the United States run aground on the Venezuelan coast, but so did a diverse set (although only in appearance) of political currents that have positioned their hypotheses as the only measure of concrete reality.
The operation took place in a climate of political debate marked by ideological extremes, by intellectual disorientation, and came to demonstrate a new fracture of the political theses of certain ideological tendencies.
There is a common consensus on the impulse given by the United States to the assassination operation, but the ideas that could explain the reasons for its failure can do little to draw a coherent account of the political situation.
With the events in Macuto, the ideas built to respond to the complicated resolution of the Venezuelan conflict have failed.
The theory of "break" marks María Corina Machado
The flag bearer of the Venezuelan far-right sector has maintained, in recent years, that the initiatives for dialogue promoted by Chavismo and moderate sectors of the opposition represent a waste of time.
That speech, although it does not have its copyright , has shaped the thinking of promoters of the coup d'état such as Luis Almagro, Marco Rubio and Juan Guaidó himself.
This current that links Mayan elements, Creole and Spanish fascism (the case of VOX) and the White House itself, has a rather limited political, organizational and electoral presence in Venezuelan territory.
Its political apparatus covers only some angry areas of the country, which has been demonstrated in the low parliamentary representation achieved in the last elections of 2015.
Juan Guaidó and María Corina Machado, one more to the right than the other. Photo: Archive
Due to this weakness, they have used the media such as the PanAm Post , far-right intellectuals, some think tanks and influencers on social networks to spread their message and influence public opinion.
Their altered spokesmen maintain that the conflict is no longer political, but of "security"; that is, it must be solved with lead and not with dialogue.
They are victims of a delusional plot where Russians, Hezbollah militants and mysterious delegates of the Communist Party of China conspire in the dark to keep Venezuela subdued as if it were a tropical colony.
They propose as a “resolution” formula to the conflict the combination of a “credible threat” with a surgical intervention to end the “Maduro regime”. They have propagated the idea that if Washington teaches its attributes of strength, that would be enough for Chavismo to fall.
In recent days, the approach of this formula has been partially fulfilled with the expedition by Macuto, demonstrating its failure of origin. The false belief that brute force is sufficient to overthrow the Venezuelan government has been exposed.
And it is that the opposite of what has been theorized has occurred: in the face of the military aggression commanded by Silvercorp, Chavismo has strengthened the general consensus of defense and national dignity, reducing the political and narrative space of the premise of "bankruptcy" by armed means .
The hypothesis of "betrayal of Chávez's legacy"
On the opposite sidewalk, and also representing a minority in political and electoral terms, some angry sectors of the Venezuelan "left" have spread the narrative that Maduro has "delivered" the legacy of Chávez, in the framework of a conspiracy with tendencies Reformists and businessmen who have demolished the conquests of the Chavista process.
According to this perspective, supported by a rosary of complexes, confusing claims and scarce data on material reality, Maduro is leading a large-scale "betrayal" with the aim of handing over the country to capitalists, bureaucrats and landowners.
This premise does not stop to reflect on the complex budgetary panorama of the Republic as a result of the economic blockade of Washington and the kidnapping of national assets that have prevented the country from recovering its economy and attending to the Covid-19 pandemic. For them, this terrible material picture in which the country is located would be in the background, since the fundamental thing is that Maduro, and the Venezuelan government in general, seem to have decided that this is the situation that best suits us, as if our concrete reality was the by-product of a maneuver charged with evil and sadism.
Former General Clíver Alcalá, linked to recent coup attempts against Venezuela, has been a figure affiliated with the narrative of the "betrayal of the legacy" by President Nicolás Maduro. Photo: Infobae
But if this theory were true, the most logical thing would be for Washington and the armed wing of anti-Chavism to suspend their permanent attempts to overthrow the Venezuelan government, now recently with armed intervention.
After all, if Maduro is day by day handing over the country to his enemies, what could be expected is that the United States and even Guaidó himself, his main enemies, would celebrate the actions of the president or view him with good eyes.
And it is paradoxical and confusing. As the "handover of the legacy" increases, the greater the conspiracy to end the Revolution "from within", the attempted bloodthirsty coup by Washington is escalating in danger.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? In other words, shouldn't “treason to the legacy” be the satisfaction of Guaidó and the White House? Why would they be interested in overthrowing a neoliberal and ultra-capitalist government that, according to them, by their own decision, maintains the population subsisting on a salary of $ 4? Why would they want to forcibly end a government that shares their interests?
A premise that has no coherence or meaning.
The armed incursion by La Guaira came to demonstrate that the political thesis of Maduro's "betrayal" starts from an erroneous material and ideological basis, since it nullifies a key factor: the forceful overthrow of Maduro implies overthrowing Chavismo and the Venezuelan nation. . They refuse to understand something so obvious.
The premise of "the two sides"
Except for the ideological delusions that both ends add as nuances, an idea has emerged that the conflict in Venezuela is a kind of battle between two political sectors. A ring is simulated where we are made to believe that it is a 12-round fight between Maduro and Guaidó.
Seeing the situation as a conflict "between the politicians" detached from reality is part of the neoliberal and technocratic thought that was imposed several decades ago to legitimize the role of businessmen and financial yuppies at the forefront of government, state and society affairs. .
This appreciation has largely permeated our collective psychology, our political language as a society, leaving as a result a partial and misleading vision where "both sectors" represent "the same". Seen this way, all politicians would be bad people pursuing particular benefits, so it would be better to place experts, bankers and technocrats at the leading points of society.
The Bolivarian National Militia has been key in neutralizing the last mercenary operation against Venezuela. Photo: Infobae
As a result, the neoliberal economy has crushed politics. The only filter to make sense of our reality comes from the numbers, the figures and the parameters invented by capitalism.
The failed assassination plan revealed that Venezuela is not a country of spectators in the face of a draining fight between "two sides."
This is confirmed by the fact that the alert to the threat of intervention generated an enormous social mobilization in all layers of society, including the military, police and the general population organized under the militia. Once again, Chavismo's organizational capacity from below was demonstrated, but also how its instruments of social organization are the only ones that the country has to defend itself against the intensification of the war.
In a matter of a few hours, the battle between "politicians" disappeared from the panorama and made it visible that the Bolivarian Republic and national dignity is maintained by hundreds of thousands of arms that, organized under a territorial defense plan, manage much of the national geography the economic and social tensions that this moment presents us.
None of the political theses that attempt to explain the Venezuelan reality can offer a coherent opinion on the reasons that have prevented the Bolivarian Republic from falling apart due to the escalation of the aggressions.
They seem to be blind to the reality in front of them: Chavismo has not fallen because there are hundreds of thousands of them working anonymously so that this does not happen.
As a political balance, the failure of "Operation Gideon" has left us a coalition of anti-Chavista tendencies that have had to resort to hiring mercenaries in the absence of a political strategy based on the social and territorial organization of its militants.
It has also made visible that Chavismo is not only the constitutional government of Venezuela, but an organized political and territorial force, which works on concrete and specific goals and responds to a general common objective that incorporates millions of people, promoting their mobilization in moments of high danger.
For this reason, the objective of the operation was surgical: to capture and assassinate the Venezuelan President as a shortcut to end Chavismo. The problem is that they do not calculate or have a strategy to manage the day after, and Chavismo does.
Years preparing for the worst is an organizational advantage and an effective political thesis to respond to a reality marked by conflict. That thesis is the only one that can organize our ideas in a moment as complicated as this.
https://medium.com/@misionverdad2012/la ... 6466e108e2
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